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... we’ve featured in our pages more than Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews), and I make no apologies ... has no need to apologise for not using PowerPoint, it’s Reicher – combining research and real people with the whiff ... and the state.’...
So appalling, so appealing?
... is the appeal of this man?’ So began Professor Stephen Reicher’s public talk, held at the Royal Society. While ... psychology as the science of the self and the individual, Reicher argued that understanding core psychological concepts ... and what set us apart...
Letters
Taking a lead against evil Alexander S. Haslam and Steve Reicher’s excellent article (‘Questioning the banality of ... near you. I was particularly pleased to read Haslam and Reicher’s emphasis on the role of leadership as a central ... dramatically in the Milgram...
Blaming the victims?
... really to blame for such tragedies? Professor Steve Reicher (St Andrews University) told us that the problem lay ... density of around four people per square metre, Professor Reicher explains, any push or shove results in waves passing ... lies in the way that...
The road to Christchurch: A tale of two leaderships
... Christchurch killer is an ‘engaged follower’ (Haslam, Reicher & Van Bavel, 2019). That is, he is someone who ... and even unawareness of what they are doing (see Reicher, Haslam & Miller, 2014), we argue that such people ... ‘we’ should act to advance...
Why (almost) everything you know about Milgram is wrong
Standing in front of a keen psychology audience, Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) said he felt like he was ... experimenter. How can we understand this variability, Reicher asked, if the agentic state is true? Second, when we ... and ‘you have no other...
Following, listening, or genuinely engaging?
... was vital to winning trust’. Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) gave numerous examples of ... to the public, treat them as an asset not a problem,’ Reicher said, and recognise that ‘resilience is a property ... the ‘right psychology’ –...
Why so negative?
... of the campaigns? We spoke to psychologists Steve Reicher, Dean Burnett and Luciana Carraro for their opinion. Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews) said although the ... who look after themselves to our detriment,’ he added. Reicher...
British Academy Fellowships
... to more than 1000 for the first time. Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) was one of the psychologists who was newly elected as a Fellow. Reicher’s work has focused largely on the relationship ... and the psychology of tyranny. Among his...
Letters
Groups and power REICHER and Haslam argue (‘Tyranny revisited’, March ... say – usually things harden into accepted practice. In Reicher and Haslam’s study a more hardline approach was ... look at minority groups of all kinds. But the message Reicher...
Ferguson, policing and social psychology
... thinking in police forces worldwide? Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews) and his colleagues ... order practices designed to limit conflict. Professor Reicher explained: ‘The four principles are: education, to ... . Regarding the police response...
News: policing tactics and more
... thinking in police forces worldwide? Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews) and his colleagues ... order practices designed to limit conflict. Professor Reicher explained: ‘The four principles are: education, to ... ). Regarding the police response...
A ‘perilous and politicised’ pandemic response?
... in the UK and other countries.’ Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews), a social psychologist and ... your choices, I think it leads to massive inequalities.’ Reicher said the pandemic had shown us the importance of ... to behaviours to help slow...
The cycle-ology of the Tour
... in doping, see Box 1.) Social psychologist Professor Steve Reicher (St Andrews University) says that beliefs about ... the other riders.’ (See Box 2 for more from Professor Reicher on the social psychology of the race). Professor ... is that it fails to...
Media
... that psychologists could be just as interesting, Steve Reicher (St Andrews), Peter Bull (York) and Simon Meyerson ... news conference on the psychology of voting. Steve Reicher discussed the ‘threat discourse’ used throughout ... not against perfection (or...
Debate about ideas, not about personalities
... slip into roles as was once thought. Professor Stephen Reicher, Wardlaw Professor in the School of Psychology and ... Alex Haslam (University of Queensland) and Professor Reicher, whose BBC Prison Study also considered how ordinary ... a debate about ideas into...
The Riots: a comment special
... the escalation into Tottenham High Road and beyond (Reicher & Stott, 2011). Taking this into account it should be ... – Nurturing the British model of policing. London: HMIC. Reicher, S. & Stott, C. (2011). Mad mobs and Englishmen: ... something when...
Annual Conference 2018 – the postgraduate perspective
... which can act as barriers to sharing. Professor Stephen Reicher gave a fascinating talk on the classic Milgram ... I consider the highlight of the conference to be Stephen Reicher’s keynote speech about the reinterpretation of ... came back into the limelight...
Society
... Teaching of Psychology David Groome, Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher It is through the teaching of psychology that new ... Alex Haslam (University of Exeter) and Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews). Dr David Groome was put ... went jointly to...
‘They were all obsesssed with a single question’
The social psychologist Steve Reicher, a contributor to your upcoming episode of Archive on ...
My shelfie… Emily Hutchinson
... wonderful thing. Alex Haslam, Michael J. Platow, and Steve Reicher: The New Psychology of Leadership There is an ...
‘There are no good options’
... in that way.’ Open to uncertainties Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews), a member of SAGE and ... science, and public perception of psychology, Reicher said there are numerous challenges – not least ... apply new criteria such as the...
Letters
... their outcomes in the affected regions and elsewhere. Reicher and Haslam, for example, have eloquently offered ... risks on their lives. Nor is it a direct challenge to Reicher and Haslam, whose work I much enjoy reading. It is ...
From openings to the power of music
... common? This was the question posed by Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) in a captivating talk ... Enemies of Trump are presented as enemies of the people. Reicher said that in the online ISIS magazine Dabiq , the ... the hands of the West,...
My shelfie… Michelle K. Ryan
... John C. Turner, Michael Hogg, Penelope J. Oakes, Steve Reicher & Margaret Wetherell I was lucky enough to have been ...