Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research overview
I am a social and political psychologist with expertise in social identity and intergroup relations. Much of my work has focussed on racism and the politics of immigration. My most current interests are in the psychology of religion, especially in relation to Buddhism. I am currently carrying out a project on resistance in Tibet which includes analysis of archival oral histories and primary data collection in Tibetan exile communities in India.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- BQ Buddhism
- Buddhist ethics
- Tibetan Buddhism
- BF Psychology
- social identity
- crowd psychology
- prejudice
- intergroup relations
- collective action
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Dalit activists promote social change differently: challenges and opportunities of digital activism and social change in Indian society
Fatima, I., Pehrson, S. D. & Jogdand, Y., 18 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 35, 2, 14 p., e70079.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the misrecognition of identity: Muslims’ everyday experiences in Scotland
Ryan, C., Hopkins, N., Ahluwalia-McMeddes, A., Dobai, A., Pehrson, S. & Reicher, S., 1 Aug 2023, In: Political Psychology. 44, 4, p. 769-787 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Social identity enactment in a pandemic: Scottish Muslims’ experiences of restricted access to communal spaces
Hopkins, N., Ryan, C., Portice, J. S., Strassburger, V. M., Ahluwalia-McMeddes, A., Dobai, A., Pehrson, S. D. & Reicher, S. D., 1 Jul 2023, In: British Journal of Social Psychology. 62, 3, p. 1141-1157 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Power to the people: disidentification with the government and support for populism
Urbanska, K., Pehrson, S. & Guimond, S., 18 May 2021, In: Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology. 5, 2, p. 79-89Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants
Gheorghiu, M., Pehrson, S. & Christ, O., 28 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Social Psychology. Early View, 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Data underpinning Mengxiao Zhou's thesis
Zhou, M. (Creator), Pehrson, S. D. (Supervisor) & Cross, C. P. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 16 Aug 2025
DOI: 10.17630/50f91c4e-c77a-4890-a224-057f18180705, https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/587
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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Authority fairness for all? Intergroup status and expectations of procedural justice and resource distribution (dataset)
Urbanska, K. (Creator), Pehrson, S. D. (Creator) & Turner, R. (Creator), OSF, 2019
Dataset
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Crowds and power:: Crowds and power: Dynamics of resistance and empowerment in the 2008 protests in Tibet
Pehrson, S. D. (PI)
3/05/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Standard
Activities
- 1 Editor of research journal
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British Journal of Social Psychology (Journal)
Samuel David Pehrson (Member of editorial board)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal