Selected papers

 On collective vulnerability, conflict and human rights:

Elcheroth, G., & Spini, D. (forthcoming). Beyond collective denial: Public reactions to human rights violations and the struggle over the moral continuity of communities. In D. Spini, G., Elcheroth, & D. Corkalo.  (eds.). War and Community: Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia. Berlin & New York: Springer.

Elcheroth, G., & Spini, D. (2009).Public support for the prosecution of human rights violations in the former Yugoslavia.Peace and Conflict : Journal of Peace Psychology, 15(2), 189-214

Spini D., Elcheroth G. & Fasel R. (2008).The impact of group norms and generalization of risks across groups on judgments of war behavior.Political Psychology29(6), 919-941.

Elcheroth, G. (2006). Individual-level and community-level effects of war trauma on social representations related to humanitarian law. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 907-930.

Spini, D., &Doise, W. (2005). Universal human rights and duties as normative social representations. In N. J. Finkel& F. Moghaddam (Eds.), The psychology of human rights and duties : Empirical contributions and normative commentaries (pp. 21-48). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Doise, W., Spini, D., &Clémence, A. (1999). Human rights studied as social representations in a cross-national context. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 1-30.

Spini, D., &Doise, W. (1998). Organizing principles of involvement in human rights and their social anchoring in value priorities.European Journal of Social psychology, 28, 603-622.

On collective values, social stability and change:

Morselli, D., &Passini, S. (in press). Disobedience and support for democracy: Research on the World Values Survey. Social Science Journal.

Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (in press). The triadic legitimacy model: Understanding the dynamics between social change and social stability. New Ideas in Psychology.

Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2010). Obedience to an Illegitimate Demand: The Effect of Perceived Democracy, Political Psychology, 31(3), 315-328.

Devos, T., Spini, D., & Schwartz, S. H. (2002). Conflicts among human values and trust in institutions.British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 481-494.

On political nationalism and ethnic violence:

Penic, S., CorkaloBiruski, D. & Elcheroth, G. (forthcoming) Threatened powers.When blaming “the others” grows out of internal instability and protest.In D. Spini, G., Elcheroth, & D. Corkalo.  (eds.). War and Community: Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia. Berlin & New York: Springer.

Elcheroth, G. & Spini, D. (2011).Political violence, intergroup conflict, and ethnic categories. In D. Bar-Tal (ed.), Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: A social psychological perspective (pp.175-194). New York: Psychology Press.

On collective resistance and disobedience:

Elcheroth, G., &Reicher, S. (in revision). ‘Not our war, not our country’: A contextual analysis of Scottisch political rhetoric and popular understandings during the invasion of Iraq.

Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2011). In the name of democracy: Disobedience and value-oriented citizenship. Journal of Community and Social Psychology, 21, 255–267.

Morselli, D., &Passini, S. (2010). Avoiding crime s of obedience: a comparative study of the autobiographies of M.K. Gandhi, N. Mandela & M.L. King.Peace & Conflict.Journal of Peace Psychology, 16 (3), 231-255.

On shared beliefs and community resilience:

Fasel, R. & Spini, D. (forthcoming). Shattered beliefs: How to cope when the world is not a just place? In Spini, D., Elcheroth, G. &CorkaloBiruski, D. (eds), War and community: Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia. New York: Springer, Peace Psychology Book Series.

Morselli, D., &Passini, S. (in press). Ethnic diversity and ethnic tolerance: reconstructing multi-cultural communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Spini, D., Elcheroth, G. &CorkaloBiruski, D. (eds), War and community: Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia. New York: Springer, Peace Psychology Book Series.

Fasel, R. & Spini, D. (2010).Effects of victimization on the belief in a just world in four ex-Yugoslavian countries.Social Justice Research 23(1), 17-36: 

On the combination of micro- and macro-level approaches:

Elcheroth, G., Penic, S., Fasel, R., Giudici, F., Glaeser, S., Joye,D., Le Goff, J-M., Morselli, D., & Spini, D. (in revision). Spatially weighted context data and their application to collective war experiences.

Penic, S., Fasel, R., Giudici, F., Glaeser, S., Joye,D., Le Goff, J-M., Morselli, D., & Spini, D. (in revision). Spatially weighted context data and their application to collective war experiences.

Elcheroth, G. (2006). Individual-level and community-level effects of war trauma on social representations related to humanitarian law. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 907-930.

Elcheroth, G. Doise, W., & Reicher, S. (2011). On the Knowledge of politics and the politics of knowledge: How a social represations approach helps us rethink the subject of political psychology. Political Psychology, 32 (5) 729-758.