Dr Mete Sefa Uysal
Lecturer
M.Uysal@exeter.ac.uk
Washington Singer Room 218
Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, Perry Road, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK
Overview
I earned my master's degree in 2016 and my PhD in 2021 in Turkey. I conducted my postdoctoral research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and the University of Sussex between 2021 and 2024. I was honoured with the British Academy Newton International Fellowship in 2021 and the APA Peace Psychology Ed Cairns Early Career Award in 2023. I am currently serving as the co-editor-in-chief at the Journal of Global Environmental Psychology and as the professional development coordinator at the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) Early Career Committee. My research specialises in:
- Collective action and protests
- Crowd behaviours and social movements
- Intergroup relations, conflict, violence, and solidarity
- Social identity, identity formation, transformation, and politicisation
- Populism, radical right-wing populist movement, and support for populist leaders
- Political leadership and followership
- Culture, honour, and cultural variation of violence justification.
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Journal articles
Uysal MS, Saavedra P, Drury J (2024). Beyond normative and non-normative: a systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action. Br J Soc Psychol Abstract. Author URL.
Yastıbaş-Kaçar C, Uysal MS, Güngör D (2024). Mental health outcomes of physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner violence among women in Turkey: a latent class study. Aggress Behav, 50(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Uysal MS, Hoerst C, Stathi S, Kessler T (2024). Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(1), 70-79. Abstract.
Uysal MS, Vestergren S, Varela M, Lindner C (2024). “System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action. Global Environmental Psychology, 2 Abstract.
Salali GD, Uysal MS (2023). Effective incentives for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Psychol Med, 53(7), 3242-3244. Abstract. Author URL.
Uluğ ÖM, Uysal MS (2023). The role of ethnic identification, allyship, and conflict narratives in supporting pro-minority policies among majority and minority groups. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol, 29(2), 172-183. Abstract. Author URL.
Uysal MS, Jurstakova K, Uluşahin Y (2022). An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(12). Abstract.
Uysal MS (2022). Barriers of emergent psychological groupness predict stockpiling during the pandemic: Lack of trust, media exposure, and anxiety. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22(1), 168-182. Abstract.
Salali GD, Uysal MS, Bozyel G, Akpinar E, Aksu A (2022). Does social influence affect COVID-19 vaccination intention among the unvaccinated?. Evol Hum Sci, 4 Abstract. Author URL.
Uysal MS, Akfırat SA (2022). Formation of an emergent protestor identity: Applying the EMSICA to the Gezi Park protests. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25(2), 527-539. Abstract.
Uysal MS (2022). Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro-refugee policies. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22(1), 253-267. Abstract.
Pavlović T, Azevedo F, De K, Riaño-Moreno JC, Maglić M, Gkinopoulos T, Donnelly-Kehoe PA, Payán-Gómez C, Huang G, Kantorowicz J, et al (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1(3). Abstract. Author URL.
Akfırat S, Üzümçeker E, Uysal MS, Yurtbakan T, Ergiyen T, Görüryılmaz T (2022). The roles of national and global identities and leaders in the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries (Los roles de las identidades y los líderes nacionales y globales en la aceptación de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 desarrolladas por diferentes países). Revista de Psicologia Social, 37(2), 334-361. Abstract.
Uysal MS, Akfırat SA, Cakal H (2022). The social identity perspective of social media leadership in collective action participation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 32(6), 1001-1015. Abstract.
Uysal MS, Uluğ ÖM, Kanık B, Aydemir A (2022). “The liberation of LGBTQ+ will also liberate heterosexuals”: Heterosexual feminist women's participation in solidarity-based collective action for LGBTQ+ rights. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(2), 377-390. Abstract.
Salali GD, Uysal MS, Bevan A (2021). Adaptive function and correlates of anxiety during a pandemic. Evol Med Public Health, 9(1), 393-405. Abstract. Author URL.
Tropp LR, Uluğ ÖM, Uysal MS (2021). How intergroup contact and communication about group differences predict collective action intentions among advantaged groups. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 80, 7-16. Abstract.
Akfirat S, Uysal MS, Bayrak F, Ergiyen T, Üzümçeker E, Yurtbakan T, Özkan ÖS (2021). Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age: a Meta-analysis. Cyberpsychology, 15(4). Abstract.
Uysal MS, Üzümçeker E, Boyacıoğlu İ (2021). Supporting capital punishment for rape offenders as a collective retaliation against honour threat. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 31(3), 354-366. Abstract.
Salali GD, Uysal MS (2020). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with beliefs on the origin of the novel coronavirus in the UK and Turkey. Psychol Med, 1-3. Abstract. Author URL.
Boyacioglu I, Uysal MS, Erdugan C (2020). Measuring Psychological Violence: the Adaptation of the Profile of Psychological Abuse and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory into Turkish. STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY-PSIKOLOJI CALISMALARI DERGISI, 40(1), 19-55. Author URL.
