Andrew Livingstone&refresh | Psychology

Dr. Andrew Livingstone

Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology

A.Livingstone@exeter.ac.uk

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+44 (0)1392 724618

Washington Singer 112

Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, Perry Road, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK

Overview

My research interests centre on social identity, emotion, group processes and intergroup relations. Specific topics include:

Collective action and social change
The relationship between emotion and social identity
The strategic characterisation of ‘conflict’ by group members
The role of social identity processes in alcohol consumption
Crowd psychology
The role of social identity content and norms in intergroup relations.

I am also involved in research on bullying as an intergroup behaviour, and gender bias in sports refereeing.

Office Hours for Term 2 in 2022/23 are:

Tuesday 11:30-12:30
Wednesday 10:30-11:30

Qualifications

MA (St. Andrews) MSc; PhD (Exeter)

Career

2010-2013 Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Stirling
2009-2010 Lecturer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2008-2009 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2005-2008 Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Cardiff University

Research group links

Social, Environmental and Organisational

Research

Research interests

My research interests centre on social identity, emotion, group processes and intergroup relations. Specific topics include:

Collective action and social change
The relationship between emotion and social identity
The strategic characterisation of �conflict� by group members
The role of social identity processes in alcohol consumption
Crowd psychology
The role of social identity content and norms in intergroup relations.

I am also involved in research on bullying as an intergroup behaviour, and gender bias in sports refereeing.

Grants/Funding:

2019: £9,810 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small grant on Felt understanding: promoting positive intergroup relations in Northern Ireland. (with Shelley McKeown Jones, Bristol)

2016: £262,500 International co-investigator on Chilean National Funding for Scientific and Technological Research grant: Psychological consequences of collective actions.

2015: $1,190 Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence Small Grant: “They don’t understand what we think”: Exploring the role of meta-meta beliefs in predicting intergroup reconciliation.

2014: £3,830 GW4 Initiator Fund Award: Emotion and non-verbal communication in social and economic interactions.

2012: £2,200 Carnegie Research Grant : A test of competing distinctiveness concerns among members of minority groups.

2011: £7,483 British Academy small grant on Implicit attitudes as barriers to registration as an organ donor (with Ronan O�Carroll, U. of Stirling).

2010: £3,500 International Collaboration Award, Cardiff University � to fund a visit to U. of Connecticut in June/July 2010.

2009: £11,013 from the British Academy in support of a medium-sized meeting on collective action and social change (with Nicole Tausch, Martijn van Zomeren, and Aarti Iyer).

2008: €6000 from EASP in support of a medium-sized meeting on collective action and social change (with Martijn van Zomeren, Nicole Tausch, and Aarti Iyer).

2007: £42,000 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

Publications

Journal articles

Wilkins DJ, Levine M, Livingstone A (In Press). All click, no action? Online action, efficacy perceptions, and prior experience combine to affect future collective action. Computers in Human Behavior

Kellezi B, Wakefield JRH, Bowe M, Livingstone AG, Guxholi A (In Press). Communities as conduits of harm: a Social Identity analysis of appraisal, coping and justice-seeking in response to historic collective victimisation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Leach CW, Livingstone AG (In Press). Contesting the meaning of inter-group disadvantage: Towards a psychology of resistance. Journal of Social Issues

Du X, Livingstone A, Adlam A (In Press). Felt understanding as a bridge between social identity and wellbeing among international university students. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology Abstract.

Jung J, Hogg MA, Livingstone A, Choi H-S (In Press). From Uncertain Boundaries to Uncertain Identity: Effects of Entitativity Threat on Identity-Uncertainty and Emigration. Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Wilkins D, Livingstone A, Levine M (In Press). Whose tweets? the rhetorical functions of social media use in developing the Black Lives Matter movement. British Journal of Social Psychology

Livingstone AG, Shepherd L, Spears R, Manstead ASR (In Press). “Fury, us”: Anger as a basis for new group self-categories. Cognition and Emotion

Livingstone AG, Bedford SL, Afyouni A, Vu N, Kapantai I, Makanju D, Chayinska M, González R, Carozzi P, Contreras C, et al (2024). You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(2), 262-281.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR, Makanju D, Sweetman J (2023). Dilemmas of resistance: How concerns for cultural aspects of identity shape and constrain resistance among minority groups. European Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), 45-87.

Livingstone AG (2023). Felt understanding in intergroup relations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 51, 101587-101587.

Brik T, Livingstone AG, Chayinska M, Bliznyuk E (2023). How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine. Social Psychological and Personality Science Abstract.

Makanju D, Livingstone AG, Sweetman J (2023). How Group Members Appraise Collective History: Appraisal Dimensions of Collective History and Their Role in In-Group Engagement. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11(1), 229-246.

Carvacho H, González R, Cheyre M, Rocha C, Cornejo M, Jiménez-Moya G, Manzi J, Álvarez-Dezerega C, Álvarez B, Castro D, et al (2023). When social movements fail or succeed: social psychological consequences of a collective action’s outcome. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Sweetman J, Haslam SA (2021). Conflict, what conflict? Evidence that playing down “conflict” can be a weapon of choice for high‐status groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(4-5), 659-674. Abstract.

Wilkins DJ, Livingstone AG, Levine M (2021). One of us or one of them? How “peripheral” adverts on social media affect the social categorization of sociopolitical message givers. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(3), 372-381.

Cornejo M, Rocha C, Castro D, Varela M, Manzi J, González R, Jiménez-Moya G, Carvacho H, Álvarez B, Valdenegro D, et al (2021). The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: the role of conversation and political practices in the family. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60(1), 29-49. Abstract.

Livingstone AG (2021). What social identities can tell us about violence in social movements, and vice versa: a social-Psychological Response to “violence, social movements, and black freedom struggles: Ten theses toward a research agenda for scholars of contention today”. Contention, 9(1), 142-148.

Livingstone AG, Fernández Rodríguez L, Rothers A (2020). "They just don't understand us": the role of felt understanding in intergroup relations. J Pers Soc Psychol, 119(3), 633-656. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Windeatt S, Nesbitt L, Kerry J, Barr SA, Ashman L, Ayers R, Bibby H, Boswell E, Brown J, et al (2020). Do you get us? a multi-experiment, meta-analytic test of the effect of felt understanding in intergroup relations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91 Abstract.

Makanju D, Livingstone AG, Sweetman J (2020). Testing the effect of historical representations on collective identity and action. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0231051-e0231051.

Susanto Y, Livingstone AG, Ng BC, Cambria E (2020). The Hourglass Model Revisited. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 35(5), 96-102. Abstract.

González R, Alvarez B, Manzi J, Varela M, Frigolett C, Livingstone AG, Louis W, Carvacho H, Castro D, Cheyre M, et al (2020). The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action. Social Psychological and Personality Science, n/a, n/a-n/a. Abstract.

Smith LGE, Livingstone AG, Thomas EF (2019). Advancing the social psychology of rapid societal change. Br J Soc Psychol, 58(1), 33-44. Abstract. Author URL.

Sweetman J, Maio G, Spears R, Manstead A, Livingstone A (2019). Attitude toward protest uniquely predicts (normative and nonnormative) political action by (advantaged and disadvantaged) group members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 82, 115-128.

Thomas E, McGarty C, Spears R, Livingstone A, Platow MJ, Lala G, Mavor K (2019). ‘That's not funny!’ Standing up against disparaging humor. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Abstract.

Souchon N, Livingstone AG, Bardin B, Rascle O, Cabagno G, Maio GR (2016). Influence of competition level on referees’ decision-making in handball. Social Influence, 11(4), 246-258. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, McCafferty S (2015). Explaining reactions to normative information about alcohol consumption: a test of an extended social identity model. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26, 388-395.

Livingstone AG, Sweetman J, Bracht EM, Haslam SA (2015). “We have no quarrel with you”: Effects of group status on characterizations of “conflict” with an outgroup. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 16-26.

Jones SE, Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2014). Bullying and Belonging: Teachers’ Reports of School Aggression. Frontline Learning Research(3), 64-77.

Livingstone AG (2014). Why the psychology of collective action requires qualitative transformation as well as quantitative change. Contemporary Social Science, 9(1), 121-134. Abstract.

Sweetman J, Spears R, Livingstone AG, Manstead ASR (2013). Admiration regulates social hierarchy: Antecedents, dispositions, and effects on intergroup behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(3), 534-542. Abstract.

Souchon N, Fontayne P, Livingstone A, Maio GR, Mellac N, Genolini C (2013). External Influences on Referees' Decisions in Judo: the Effects of Coaches' Exclamations During Throw Situations. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY, 25(2), 223-233. Author URL.

Blackwood L, Livingstone AG, Leach CW (2013). Regarding societal change. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 1(1), 105-111.

Souchon N, Livingstone AG, Maio GR (2013). The influence of referees’ expertise, gender, motivation, and time-constraints on decisional bias against women. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 35, 585-599.

Jones SE, Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2012). Fair-Weather or Foul-Weather Friends? Group Identification and Children's Responses to Bullying. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(4), 414-420. Abstract.

Bernardes D, Wright J, Livingstone AG (2012). Researching the mental health status of asylum seekers: Reflections and suggestions for practice. Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, 9(3), 201-208. Abstract.

Cambria E, Livingstone A, Hussain A (2012). The hourglass of emotions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7403 LNCS, 144-157. Abstract.

Jones SE, Bombieri L, Livingstone AG, Manstead ASR (2012). The influence of norms and social identities on children's responses to bullying. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 241-256. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Haslam SA, Postmes T, Jetten J (2011). "We Are, Therefore We Should": Evidence That In-Group Identification Mediates the Acquisition of In-Group Norms. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 41(8), 1857-1876. Author URL.

Livingstone AG, Young H, Manstead ASR (2011). "We drink, therefore we are": the role of group identification and norms in sustaining and challenging heavy drinking "culture". Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14(5), 637-649. Abstract.

Jones SE, Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2011). Ganging up or sticking together? Group processes and children's responses to text-message bullying. British Journal of Psychology, 102(1), 71-96. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Manstead ASR, Spears R, Bowen D (2011). The language barrier? Context, identity, and support for political goals in minority ethnolinguistic groups. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50(4), 747-768. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR, Bruder M (2011). The more, the merrier? Numerical strength versus subgroup distinctiveness in minority groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(4), 786-793. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR, Bruder M, Shepherd L (2011). We Feel, Therefore We Are: Emotion as a Basis for Self-Categorization and Social Action. Emotion, 11(4), 754-767. Abstract.

Bernardes D, Wright J, Edwards C, Tomkins H, Dlfoz D, Livingstone AG (2010). Asylum seekers' perspectives on their mental health and views on health and social services: Contributions for service provision using a mixed-methods approach. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 6(4), 3-19. Abstract.

Souchon N, Cabagno G, Traclet A, Dosseville F, Livingstone A, Jones M, Maio GR (2010). Referees' decision-making and player gender: the moderating role of the type of situation. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 22(1), 1-16. Abstract.

Jones SE, Manstead ASR, Livingstone A (2009). Birds of a feather bully together: Group processes and children's responses to bullying. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27(4), 853-873. Abstract.

Jones SE, Manstead ASR, Livingstone A (2009). Birds of a feather bully together: group processes and children's responses to bullying. Br J Dev Psychol, 27(Pt 4), 853-873. Abstract. Author URL.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR, Bruder M (2009). Illegitimacy and identity threat in (inter)action: Predicting intergroup orientations among minority group members. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48(4), 755-775. Abstract.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR (2009). The language of change? Characterizations of in-group social position, threat, and the deployment of 'distinctive' group attributes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48(2), 295-311. Abstract.

Stott C, Livingstone A, Hoggett J (2008). Policing football crowds in England and Wales: a model of 'good practice'?. POLICING & SOCIETY, 18(3), 258-281. Author URL.

Stott C, Adang O, Livingstone A, Schreiber M (2008). TACKLING FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM: a Quantitative Study of Public Order, Policing and Crowd Psychology. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 14(2), 115-141. Abstract.

Livingstone A, Haslam SA (2008). The importance of social identity content in a setting of chronic social conflict: understanding intergroup relations in Northern Ireland. Br J Soc Psychol, 47(Pt 1), 1-21. Abstract. Author URL.

Reicher S, Stott C, Drury J, Adang O, Cronin P, Livingstone A (2007). Knowledge-Based Public Order Policing: Principles and Practice. Policing a Journal of Policy and Practice, 1(4), 403-415.

Stott C, Adang O, Livingstone A, Schreiber M (2007). Variability in the collective behaviour of England fans at Euro2004: 'Hooliganism', public order policing and social change. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37(1), 75-100. Abstract.

Chapters

Livingstone AG, Manstead ASR (2023). Forschungsmethoden in der Sozialpsychologie. In (Ed) Sozialpsychologie, Springer Nature, 31-71.

Jones SE, Livingstone AG, Manstead ASR (2017). Bullying and Belonging. In (Ed) Self and Social Identity in Educational Contexts, Taylor & Francis, 70-90.

Smith JR, Louis WR, Tarrant M (2016). University students’ social identity and health behaviours. In Mavor KI, Platow M, Bizumic B (Eds.) The self, social identity, and education, Psychology Press.

Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2015). Research methods in Social Psychology. In Hewstone M, Stroebe W, Jonas K (Eds.) Introduction to Social Psychology: a European perspective, Oxford: Wiley, 25-54.

Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2014). Forschungsmethoden in der Sozialpsychologie. In (Ed) Sozialpsychologie, Springer Nature, 29-64.

Manstead ASR, Livingstone AG (2012). Research methods in Social Psychology. In Hewstone M, Stroebe W, Jonas K (Eds.) Introduction to Social Psychology: a European perspective, Oxford: Blackwell, 25-54.

Livingstone AG, Spears R, Manstead ASR, Bruder M (2009). Defining common goals without speaking the same language: Social identity and social action in Wales. In Wetherell M (Ed) Theorizing identities and social action, London: Palgrave, 238-255.

External Engagement and Impact

Administrative responsibilities

Group lead for the Social, Organisational, and Environmental Research Group (SEORG)

Committee/panel activities

Member of the ESRC peer review college
Project evaluator for the Bulgarian Science Fund
Ad-hoc grant reviewer for the Leverhulme Trust
Ad-hoc grant reviewer for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

- Ad-hoc grant reviewer for the Leverhulme Trust

Editorial responsibilities

2019-present: Associate editor of Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

2019: Guest editor: British Journal of Social Psychology - special section on 'Rapid Societal Change'

2012 - 2016: Associate editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.

2013: Guest editor: Journal of Social and Political Psychology - special section on 'Societal Change'

From 2014: Editorial consultant for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Other

My research on national identity in Wales formed part of the evidence drawn on by Margaret Wetherell in a briefing given to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for his December 2006 speech on multiculturalism and extremism (see http://csp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/3/299). This research also formed part of a submission to the UK Commission on Integration and Cohesion.

I have also collaborated in past research on crowd behaviour which has had a major practical impact on public order policing in the UK and in other European countries (e.g., Stott et al., 2007; 2008). Several outputs from this research were cited in a report to the UK Cabinet Office as part of the 'Understanding Crowd Behaviour' research report series (see http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/228115/supportingevidence1.pdf). The research has also influenced recommended 'best practice' for policing crowds and protests in the UK (see http://www.hmic.gov.uk/media/adapting-to-protest-nurturing-the-british-model-of-policing-20091125.pdf).