Where To From Here for the Psychology of Social Change? Future Directions for Theory and Practice

Political Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-74

  Subašić, Emina ^a   Reynolds, Katherine J ^a   Reicher, Stephen D ^b   Klandermans, Bert ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Influence; Leadership; Mobilization; Power; Social change; Social identity; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857441353     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00864.x     Document Type: Article

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