Publications

Publications – The psychology of political behavior

Renström, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2024). Exclusion and radicalization: The role of individual differences in the relation between exclusion and radicalization (pp. 27-50). In M. Pfundmair, A. H. Hales & K. D. Williams (Eds.). Exclusion and Extremism: A Psychological Perspective. Cambridge University Press.

Agneman, G., Henriks, S., Bäck, H., & Renström, E. A. (2024). Intergenerational Altruism and Climate Policy Preferences. PNAS Nexus (forthcoming).

Agneman, G., Henriks, S., Bäck, H., & Renström, E. A. (2024). On the Nexus Between Material and Ideological Determinants of Climate Policy Support. Ecological Economics (forthcoming).

Remsö, A., & Renström, E. A. (2023).  Ideological Predictors of Anti-science Attitudes: Exploring the Impact of Group-Based Dominance and Populism in North America and Western Europe. Frontiers in Social Psychology.

Bäck, H., Carroll, R., Knapton, H., & Renström, E. A. (2023). Threat, voting and candidate support. The impact of mortality salience. Frontiers in Political Science.

Bäck, H., Carroll, R., Renström, E. A., & Ryan, A. (2023). Elite communication and affective polarization among voters. Electoral Studies (forthcoming).

Renström, E. A., Bäck, H., & Carroll, R. (2023). Threat, emotions, and affective polarization. Political Psychology (forthcoming).

Renström, E. A. (2023). Exploring the role of entitlement, Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing authoritarianism, and the moderating role of being single on misogynistic attitudes. Nordic Psychology.

Knapton, H. M., Renström, E. A., & Lindén, M. (2022). The Abortion Divide: Exploring The Role of Exclusion, Loss of Significance and Identity in the Radicalization Process. Frontiers in Psychology.

Renström, E. A., Bäck, H., & Carroll, R. (2022). Protecting the ingroup? Authoritarianism, immigration attitudes, and affective polarization. Frontiers in Political Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.919236.

Knapton, H. M., Renström, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2022). Outgroup Exclusion, Identity and Collective Action in the Brexit Context. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52, 912-927.

Renström, E. A. & Bäck, H. (2022). Political Psychology, (pp. 152-166). In M. Grasso & M. Giugni (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. Oxford University Press: UK.

Renström, E. A., Bäck, H., Carroll, R. (2021). Affective polarization in a multiparty system. Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Schmeisser, Y., Renström, E. A., & Bäck, H. Who follows the rules during a crisis? Frontiers in Political Science.

Renström, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2021). Anxiety, Compassion and Pride. How emotions elicited by the Government’s handling of Covid-19 influences health-promoting behaviors. Psychologica Belgica. 

Renström, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2021). Polariserad demokrati. Hur uppfattade hot påverkar främlingsfientlighet och spänningar mellan olika grupper i samhället. Delmi Policy Brief 2021:9.

Renström, E. A. & Bäck, H. (2021). Political Psychology. In M. Grasso & M. Giugni (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. 

Renström, E. A. & Bäck, H. (2021). Emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic: Fear, anxiety and anger as mediators between threats and policy support and political actions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Bäck, H., Fredén, A., & Renström, E. A. (2021). Legalize cannabis? Effects of ingroup bias and confirmation bias in attitudes to a controversial policy proposal. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Renström, E. A., Knapton, H. M., & Bäck, H. (2020). Exploring a pathway to radicalization: The effects of social exclusion and rejection sensitivity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23, 1204-1229.

Renström, E. A., Bäck, H., & Schmeisser, Y. (2020). Vi ogillar olika. Om affektiv polarisering bland svenska väljare. I. U. Andersson, A. Carlander & P. Öhberg (Red.). Regntunga skyar. SOM-institutet.

Renström, E. A., Aspernäs, J.. & Bäck. H. (2020). The Young Protester. The Impact of Age and Belongingness Needs on Political Participation. Journal of Youth Studies (forthcoming).

Bäck, H., Renström E. A. & Sivén, D. (2020). The social network. Friends and belonging in political activity through social media. Policy and Internet (forthcoming). 

Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., Altermark, N., & Knapton, H. M. (2018). The quest for significance: Attitude adaption to a radical group following social exclusion. International Journal of Developmental Science, 12, 25-36

Bäck, E. A.,Knapton, H. M., & Bäck, H. (2018). Conforming to Collective Action: The Impact of Rejection, Personality and Norms on Participation in Protest Activity. Social Psychological Bulletin13, 1-17

Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., Fredén, A., & Gustafsson, N. (2018). A Social Safety Net? Rejection sensitivity and political opinion sharing among young people in social media. New Media & Society 21, 298-316.

Altermark, N., & Nilsson, H., (2018). Crafting the "well-rounded citizen": Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization. International Political Sociology.

Bäck, E. A., Gustafsson-Sendén, M., Bäck, H., & Sikström, S. (2018). From I to We: Group formation and linguistic conformity in an online xenophobic forum. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6. 

Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H. & Sivén, D. (2018). Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and efficacy in protest participation. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40, 49-59.

Bäck, E. A. & Bäck, H. (2017). Radikaliseringens politiska psykologi – Betydelsen av hot och polarisering. In C. Edling & A. Rostami (Eds.), Våldsbejakande extremism. En forskarantologi. Governmental Public Investigations 2017:67. 

Bäck, E. A. & Altermark, N. (2016). Gemenskap och utstötning: Socialpsykologiska perspektiv på politiskt våld. In C. Edling & A. Rostami (Eds.). Studentlitteratur: Lund

Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., & Knapton, H. M (2015). Group Belongingness and Collective Action: Effects of Need to Belong and Rejection Sensitivity on Willingness to Participate in Protests Activities. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56, 537-544.

Knapton, H. M., Bäck, H., & Bäck, E. A. (2014). The Social Activist: Conformity to the Ingroup Following Rejection as a Predictor of Political Participation. Social Influence 10, 97-108.

Bäck, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2014). Psykologiska förklaringar till politisk aktivism. Psykologtidningen, 7, 26-29.

Knapton, H. M. (2014). The Recruitment and Radicalisation of Western Citizens: Does Ostracism Have a Role in Homegrown Terrorism? Journal of European Psychology Students, 5, 38-48.

Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H. & Garcia Albacete, G. (2013). Protest Activity, Social Incentives, and Rejection Sensitivity: Results from a survey experiment about tuition fees. Contention, 1, 1-15.

Conference presentation

Polarized Democracy. The effect of threat on anti-immigrant sentiments in Western Europe. Emma A. Renström. Presented at the Swedish Research Council Workshop for the National Research Program within Migration and Integration, Gothenburg, 2019. 

Gender stereotypes, compensatory behavior, and legislative speech-making. H. Bäck & E. A. Renström. Presented at ISPP, Lisbon, 2019.

In search of incels. Can social exclusion push sexist men towards misogynistic groups? Z. Loughery, E. A. Renström, H. Knapton, & H. Bäck. Presented at ISPP, Lisbon, 2019. 

Chivalry or chauvinism? The impact of benevolent and hostile sexism in the 2016 US Presidential election. Bäck, H., Carroll, R., Hansen, M. & Bäck, E. A. Nordic Political Science Association, Odense, 2017

Radicalization and the quest for significance. An experimental study using the ostracism online paradigm. Bäck, E. A., Knapton, H. M., & Bäck, H. Nordic Political Science Association, Odense, 2017

Countering Radicalisation: An overview of Swedish municipalities’ prevention strategies. Niklas Altermark, Emma A. Bäck & Hampus Nilsson. Presented at the Nordic Conference on Research on Violent Extremism. Gothenburg, 2017.

A throw from the extreme: Political attitude shift following inclusion in the Cyberball paradigm. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Niklas Altermark & Holly Knapton. Presented at the Nordic Conference on Research on Violent Extremism. Gothenburg, 2017.

Threat and voting for the status quo. An analysis of the Brexit referendum based on a survey experiment and latent semantic analysis. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Annika Fredén, Holly Knapton & Sverker Sikström.Presented at the Mid-West Political Science Association in Chicago, 2017 (presented by A. Fredén).

Threat amplifies voting for the status quo as revealed by statistical semantic analyses of a Brexit experiment. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Annika Fredén, Holly Knapton & Sverker Sikström. Presented at the Southern California Comparative Political Institutions Workshop, Claremont Graduate University, 2017 (presented by A. Fredén).

Brexit and the impact of threat: A survey experiment analyzing emotions, racism and voting in the 2016 British EU referendum. Knapton, H.,Bäck, E. A., & Bäck, H. Work shop on EU integration in Copenhagen, 2017.(Presented by H. Knapton).

A throw from the extreme: Political attitude shift following inclusion by a radical group in the cyberball paradigm.
Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Niklas Altermark & Holly Knapton. Presented at the International Society for Political Psychology conference, Warsaw, 2016.

From ‘I’ to ‘We’ and from emotional to rational: Group formation and content changes in posts in an online xenophobic forum.
Sverker Sikström, Marie Gustafsson-Sendén, Hanna Bäck & Emma A. Bäck. Presented at the International Society for Political Psychology conference, Warsaw, 2016.

Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and incentives on protest ativity.
Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation presented at the Swedish Political Science Association, Lund, 2014.
The social incentives of collective action: Rejection and social support as predictors of protest activity.
Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Holly Knapton. Oral presentation presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Rome, 2014

Who becomes active? The role of personality and selective incentives in electoral and non-electoral participation.
Holly Knapton, Hanna Bäck, & Emma A. Bäck. Oral presentation (by H. Knapton) presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Rome, 2014

The social incentives of collective action: Rejection and social support as predictors of protest activity.
Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation to be presented at the European Consortium for Political Science, Glasgow, 2014

Why engage in collective action? The role of rejection in explaining protest activity.
Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation presented at the Nordic Political Science Association, Gothenburg, 2014

The odd one out: The effect of rejection on collective action participation.
Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation at the European Consortium for Political Research in Bordeaux, France, 2013.

Contextual and individual-level determinants of political protest: The interaction between feelings of discrimination and institutional arrangements. Gema Garcia Albacete, Hanna Bäck, & Emma A. Bäck. Oral presentation at the Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest interdisciplinary conference in Kent, 2012.

Protest Activity, Social Incentives, and Rejection Sensitivity: Results from a survey experiment about tuition fees.
Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Gema Garcia Albacete. Oral presentation at the Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest interdisciplinary conference in Kent, 2012.