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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Méndez, D., Lois, D., & Vázquez, A. (2021). Los efectos del sexo y del autoritarismo en la legitimación de los abusos policiales. Anuario de Psicología Jurídica. https://doi.org/10.5093/apj2021a18 Download
Chinchilla, J., Vázquez, A. & Gómez, Á. (2021). Identity fusion predicts violent pro-group behavior when it is morally justifiable. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.1948813 Download
Cuadrado, I., Ordóñez-Carrasco, J., López-Rodríguez, L., Vázquez, A., & Brambilla, M. (2021). Tolerance towards difference: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of a new measure of tolerance and sex-moderated relations with prejudice. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, 220–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.005 Download
Gómez, Á., Bélanger, J. J., Chinchilla, J., Vázquez, A., Schumpe, B. M.,, Nisa, C. F., & Chiclana, S. (2021). Admiration for Islamist groups encourages self-sacrifice through identity fusion. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8,54. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00734-9 Download
Gómez, Á., Martínez, M., Martel, F.A., López-Rodríguez, L., Vázquez, A., Chinchilla, J., Paredes, B., Hettiarachchi, M., Hamid, N. & Swann, W.B. (2021). Why People Enter and Embrace Violent Groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 614657. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.614657 Download
Han, Q., Zheng, B., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Reitsema, A. M., van Breen, J. A., PsyCorona Collaboration & Leander, N. P. (2021). Associations of risk perception of COVID-19 with emotion and mental health during the pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders, 284, 247-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.049 Download
Han, Q., Zheng, B., Cristea, M., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Güzkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Leander, N. P., & PsyCorona Collaboration (2021). Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721001306 Download
Lang, M., Xygalatas, D., Kavanagh, C. M., Boccardi, N., Halberstadt, J., Jackson, C., Martínez, M., Reddish, P., Tong, E. M. W., Vázquez, A., Whitehouse, H., Yamamoto, M. E., Yuki, M., & Gómez, A. (2021). Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211016961 Download
Martel, F. A., Buhrmester, M., Gómez, A., Vázquez, A., & Swann, W.B. Jr. (2021). Why True Believers Make the Ultimate Sacrifice: Sacred Values, Moral Convictions, or Identity Fusion? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 779129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779120 Download
Romano, A., Spadaro, G., Joireman, J., Jin, S., Van Lisa, C., Balliet, D., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gutzkow, B., Kreiekamp, J., & PsyCorona Collaboration (2021). Cooperation and trust across societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(7), 622-642. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120988913 Download
Vázquez, A., & Lois, D. (2020). Prejudice against members of a ridiculed working class group. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 992-1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12373 Download
Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Martínez, M., Atran, S., & Gómez, Á. (2020). Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(10), 1461–1475. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220907466 Download
Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak, P.,…, & Zimmerman, J. L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 921–942. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2694 Download
Gómez, A., Chinchilla, J., Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Paredes, B., & Martínez, M. (2020). Recent advances, misconceptions, untested assumptions and future research agenda for identity fusion theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14(6), e12531. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12531 Download
López-Rodríguez, L., Vázquez, A., Cuadrado, I., Brambilla, M., Rodrigo, M., & Dovidio, J. F. (2020). Immigration: an invasion or an opportunity to the country. The effect of real news frames of immigration on ethnic attitudes. International Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 452–491. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1783834 Download
Vázquez, A., & Lois, D. (2019). More than Ideology: Perceived unfairness differentiates supporters of a new Anti-austerity party from supporters of traditional left-wing parties. Revista de Psicología Social/International Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 26–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2018.1537651 Download
Vázquez, A., Ordoñana, J. R., Whitehouse, H., & Gómez, A. (2019). Why die for my sibling? The positive association between identity fusion and imagined loss with endorsement of self-sacrifice (¿Por qué morir por un hermano? La asociación positiva entre la fusión de la identidad y la pérdida imaginada con la disposición al autosacrificio). International Journal of Social Psychology, 34(3), 413-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2019.1639343 Download
Besta, T., Akbas, G., Renström, E. A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., & Vázquez, A. (2019). Liking low-status? Contextual and individual differences in attributional biases of low-status outgroup members. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 192–212. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.951 Download
Gómez, A., Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Talaifar, S., Martínez, M., Buhrmester, M. D. & Swann, W. B. Jr. (2019). Why people abandon groups: Degrading relational vs. collective ties uniquely impacts identity fusion and identification. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103853. Download
Vázquez, A., Gómez, A., & Swann, W. B. (2018). You just don’t get us! Positive, but non-verifying, evaluations foster prejudice and discrimination. Social Psychology 49(4), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000346 Download
