Digital markers of the mobilization of violence

Brown, O., Smith, L. G. E., Davidson, B. I., Racek, D., & Joinson, A. (2024). Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241266866

Generative AI

Smith, L.G.E., Owen, R., Cork, A. et al. (2024). How and why psychologists should respond to the harms associated with generative AI. Communications Psycholology, 2, 60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00110-8

Collective Action

Thomas, E.F., Duncan, L., McGarty, C., Louis, W.R. and Smith, L.G.E. (2022), MOBILISE: A Higher-Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges. Political Psychology, 43, 107-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12811

Digital markers of the mobilization of collective action

Smith, L. G. E., Piwek, L., Hinds, J., Brown, O., Chen, C., & Joinson, A. (2023). Digital traces of offline mobilization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(3), 496–518. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000338

Polarization and Collective Action

Smith, L.G.E., Thomas, E.F., Bliuc, AM. et al. (2024). Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement. Communications Psychology, 2, 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00089-2

Social Interaction, Social Identity, and Social Change

Smith, L.G.E., Thomas, E.F. and McGarty, C. (2015), “We Must Be the Change We Want to See in the World”: Integrating Norms and Identities through Social Interaction. Political Psychology, 36, 543-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12180

Neural markers of Social Identity

Hinvest, N. S.,  Ashwin, C.,  Hijazy, M.,  Carter, F.,  Scarampi, C.,  Stothart, G., &  Smith, L. G. E. (2025).  Inter-brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs. British Journal of Psychology,  116,  170–182. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12743

Autism and Social Identity

Cooper, K.,  Smith, L. G. E., and  Russell, A. (2017)  Social identity, self-esteem, and mental health in autism. European Journal of Social Psychology,  47,  844–854. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2297.

Psychosis and Social Identity

Hogg, L. I.,  Smith, L. G. E.,  Kurz, T., &  Morrison, A. P. (2024).  Social identification, identity integration and wellbeing in people who hear voices. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice,  97,  215–233. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12509

A method to model social identity change and radicalization in language

Smith, L. G. E., Wakeford, L., Cribbin, T. F., Barnett, J., & Hou, W. K. (2020). Detecting psychological change through mobilizing interactions and changes in extremist linguistic style. Computers in Human Behavior, 108, 106298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106298

Radicalization and Social Identity

Smith, L. G. E., Blackwood, L., & Thomas, E. F. (2020). The Need to Refocus on the Group as the Site of Radicalization. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(2), 327-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619885870