PROFESSOR
Alexandra Vázquez
Alexandra Vázquez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at UNED (Spain). She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from UNED and undergraduate degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests are focused on intergroup and intragroup relations, identity fusion and collective action.
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Gómez, Á., Vázquez, A., Alba, B., Blanco, L., Chinchilla, J., Chiclana, S. & Swann, W. B. (in press). Feeling Understood Fosters Identity Fusion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Download
Vázquez, A., Dovidio, J. F., & Gómez, Á. (2023). Does the union always make the force? Group status and recategorization influence the perceived physical formidability of potential coalition groups. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12668 Download
Vázquez, A., Gómez, Á., López-Rodríguez, L. & Swann, W. B. (2023). Can identity fusion foster social harmony? Strongly fused individuals embrace familiar outgroup members unless threatened. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 107, 104462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104462. Download
Abakoumkin, G., Tseliou, E., McCabe, K. O., Lemay Jr., E. P., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Kutlaca, M., VanDellen, M. R., Abdul Khaiyom, J. H., Ahmedi, V., Akkas, H., Almenara, C. A., Atta, M., Bagci, S. C., Basel, S., Berisha Kida, E., …, & Leander, N. P. (2023). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909. Download
Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., van Lissa, C. J., Stroebe, W., Kreienkamp, J., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Abakoumkin, G., Khaiyom, J. H. A., Ahmedi, V., Akkas, H., Almenara, C. A., Atta, M., Bagci, S. C., Basel, S., Kida, E. B., Bernardo, A. B. I., Buttrick, N. R., ..., & Leander, N. P. (2023). Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53, 1191–1203. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2968. Download
Gómez, A., Vázquez, A. & Atran, S. (2023). Transcultural pathways to the will to fight. PNAS, 120(24):e2303614120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303614120 Download
Gómez, Á., Vázquez, A., Chinchilla, J., Blanco, L., Alba, B., Chiclana, S., & González-Álvarez, J. L. (2023). Why is it so difficult to investigate violent radicalization? Spanish Journal of Psychology, 26, e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2023.2 Download
Varmann, A. H., Kruse, L., Bierwiaczonek, K., Gómez, A., Vázquez, A., & Kunst, J. R. (2023). How Identity Fusion Predicts Extreme Pro-Group Orientations: A Meta-Analysis. European Review of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2190267 Download
Westgate, E., Buttrick, N., Lin, Y., El Helou, G., Agostini, M., Belanger, J., Gutzkow, B., … & Leander, N. P. (2023). Pandemic boredom: Little evidence that lockdown-related boredom affects risky public health behaviors across 116 countries. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001118 Download
Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Gómez, Á., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Verification of ingroup morality promotes willingness to participate in collective action for immigrants’ rights. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(1), 174–192. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220963820 Download
Vázquez, A., Sayans, P., López-Rodríguez, L., & Zagefka, H. (2022). Positive Contact with Working Class People Reduces Personal Contribution to Inequality. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221108936 Download
Zagefka, H., Moftizadeh, N., Lefringhausen, K., López-Rodríguez, L., Urbiola, A., & Vázquez, A. (2022). Blindspots in Acculturation Research: An Agenda for Studying Majority Culture Change. European Review of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2079813 Download
Chinchilla, J., Vázquez, A. & Gómez, Á. (2022). Strongly fused individuals feel viscerally responsible to self-sacrifice. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12526 Download
Gómez, A., Atran, S., Chinchilla, J., Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Paredes, B., Martínez, M., Blanco, L., Alba, B., Bautista, H., Fernández, S., Pozuelo-Rubio, F., González-Álvarez, J.L., Chiclana, S., Valladares-Narganes, H., Alonso, M., Ruíz-Alvarado, A., López-Novo, J.L., & Davis, R. (2022). Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06590-0 Download
Gómez, A., Chiclana, S., Chinchilla, J., Blanco, L., Alba, B., Bautista, H. & Pozuelo-Rubio, F. (2022). The mirage of the jihad. Disenchantment as the pathway to disengagement of female jihadists. A case study about radicalization in Spanish prisons. International Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2022.2096254 Download
López-Rodríguez, L., Halperin, E., Vázquez, A., Cuadrado, I., Navas, M.S. & Gómez, Á. (2022). Awareness of the Psychological Bias of Naïve Realism Can Increase Acceptance of Cultural Differences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(6), 888–900. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211027034 Download
López‐Rodríguez, L., Vázquez, A., Constantin, A. A., Bonafonte, M., & Zagefka, H. (2022). The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12583 Download
Moftizadeh, N., Zagefka, H., López‐Rodríguez, L., Vázquez, A. & Barn, R. (2022). Exploring the intergroup consequences of majority members' perceptions that minority members want majority members to adopt the minority culture. International Journal of Psychology, 57(4), 483–490. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12756 Download
Tossell, D., Gómez, Á., de Visser, E.J., Vázquez, A., Donadio, B.T., Metcalfe, A., Rogan, C., Davis, R. & Atran, S. (2022). Spiritual over physical formidability determines willingness to fight and sacrifice through loyalty in cross-cultural populations. PNAS, 119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113076119. Download
Vázquez, A., Larzabal-Fernández, A., & Lois, D. (2021). Situational materialism increases climate change scepticism in men compared to women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104163
Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Gómez, Á., & Dovidio, J. F. (2021). Ambivalent Effects of Positive Contact between Women and Men on Collective Actions for Women’s Rights. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(9), 1358-1373. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220974162 Download
