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Professor Winnifred Louis
Professor Winnifred Louis, Professor in Psychology
University of Queensland
Contact
w.louis@psy.uq.edu.auInstitution
University of Queensland
Research Areas
IdentityDecision-makingSocial influenceGroup norms(De)radicalisation.
Winnifred R. Louis (PhD McGill, 2001) is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Queensland. She has published over 140 scholarly publications, and her research examines how identity and norms influence social decision-making. She has studied this broad topic in contexts from political violence and terrorism to health to environmental choices.
Key Publications
Journal Articles
| The criminalization of climate change protest (2023) | Gulliver, R.E., Banks, R., Fielding, K.S., and Louis, W. R. |
| Bystanders, protesters, journalists: A qualitative examination of different stakeholders’ motivations to participate in collective action (2023) | Gulliver, R., Chan, C.S., Chan, W. W. L., Tam, K.Y.Y., & Louis, W.R. |
| Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in collective action: A mixed-methods study (2023) | Gulliver, R., Chan, C.S., Tam, K.Y.Y., Lau, I.S.K., Hong, Y.Y., & Louis, W.R. |
| The digital augmentation of extremism: Reviewing and guiding online extremism research from a sociotechnical perspective (2023) | Risius, M., Blasiak, K.M., Wibisono, S., & Louis, W. R. |
| Normative and non-normative collective action facing repression in a democratic context: a mixed study in a Chilean social movement (2023) | Zúñiga, C., Asún, R., & Louis, W. R. |
| Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence mobilization via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions (2022) | Lizzio-Wilson, M., Thomas, E., Louis, W., Amiot, C., Bury, S., Molenberghs, P., Decety, J., & Crane, M. |
| Willingness to engage in religious collective action: The role of group identification and identity fusion (2022) | Wibisono, S., Louis, W. R., & Jetten, J. |
| MOBILISE: A higher-order integration of collective action to address global challenges (2022) | Thomas, E., Duncan, L., McGarty, C., Louis, W., & Smith, L. |
| The Psychology of Effective Activism (2021) | Gulliver, R., Wibisono, S., Fielding, K., & Louis, W. R. |
| How collective action failure shapes group heterogeneity and engagement in conventional and radical action over time (2021) | Lizzio-Wilson, M., Thomas, E. F., Louis, W. R., Wilcockson, B., Amiot, C. E., Moghaddam, F. M., McGarty, C. |
| Failure leads protest movements to support more radical tactics (2021) | Louis, W. R., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Cibich, M., McGarty, C.E., Thomas, E.F., Amiot, C.E., Weber, N., Rhee, J. J., Davies, G., Rach, T., Goh, S., McMaster, Z., Muldoon, O. T., Howe, N. M., & Moghaddam, F. |
Grants and Projects
| ‘The effect of unconventional advocates on public support for climate policy’Australian Research Council, 2022 | $432,467 | Dr Rebecca Colvin; Professor Winnifred Louis; Professor Kelly Fielding |
| ‘The psychology of gridlock: Compromise, coalitions, and radicalisation’Australian Research Council, 2022 | $407,915 | Professor Winnifred Louis; Professor Matthew Hornsey; Professor Kelly Fielding; Professor Emma Thomas; Professor Catherine Amiot; Professor Fathali Moghaddam |
| ‘Practitioners learning palliative killing: The role of norms and empathy’Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2019 – 2021 | A$402k | Winnifred R. Louis, Pascal Molenberghs, Monique Crane, Emma Thomas, Jean Decety, & Catherine E. Amiot |
| ‘Outcomes of collective action: After the blockade, what next?’Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2016 – 2018 | A$330k | Winnifred R. Louis, Emma Thomas, Craig McGarty, Catherine E. Amiot, & Fathali M. Moghaddam |
| ‘Internalisation of discriminatory norms and impact on well-being: The role of social identity processes’Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Program, 2014 – 2018 | C$190k | Catherine E. Amiot, Winnifred R. Louis, & Emma Thomas |