Dr Samuel Pehrson

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2035

Email

sdp21@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

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.

PhD supervision

• Louise Gyasiwa Arhin
• Samata Shinde

Selected publications

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  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. 79-89

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  Authority fairness for all? Intergroup status and expectations of procedural justice and resource distribution

  Urbanska, K., Pehrson, S. & Turner, R., 14 Oct 2019, In: Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 7, 2, p. 2195-3325

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Express yourself? Ease to express one’s identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health

  Moradi, S., Jang, K., Pehrson, S., Boden, H., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Hunter, J. A., Saleem, N. & Scarf, D., 26 Jun 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. Latest Articles, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Group processes: Dynamics within and between groups

  Brown, R. & Pehrson, S., 1 Jan 2019, Wiley. 329 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Using political sanctions to discourage intergroup attacks: social identity and authority legitimacy

  Urbanska, K. & Pehrson, S., 13 Aug 2019, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42, e143.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

• Open access

  Beyond group engagement: multiple pathways from encounters with the police to cooperation and compliance in Northern Ireland

  Pehrson, S., Devaney, L., Bryan, D. & Blaylock, D. L., 7 Sept 2017, In: PLoS ONE. 12, 9, 20 p., e0184436.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Group differences in the legitimization of inequality: questioning the role of social dominance orientation

  Pehrson, S., Carvacho, H. & Sibley, C. G., Mar 2017, In: British Journal of Social Psychology. 56, 1, p. 28-46 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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