Socio-cognitive elaborations and reactions to economic crisis

This special issue dedicated to the social psychological study of the economic crisis in different European Union Countries of the Mediterranean includes seven empirical papers discussing different aspects of the phenomenon. Five papers are part of a larger project that started in 2011-2012 aiming to compare the social representations of the economic crisis in Greece, Italy, Portugal and France. Starting from the study of the social representations of the causes of the crisis and the measures to overcome it, various social psychological parameters that interfere are examined. Thus, the political, ideological and social positioning and the axiological universe of the participants and their identities are considered as important mediators and moderators in the different papers. The presentation of the outcome of this research project is completed by a paper analysing the way the crisis was depicted in the Italian Press and a paper looking at the impact of the financial threat to political participation in France. The research presented here reveal the ways that social subjects give meaning to a situation of crisis and thus provide social and political insights into social thinking and behaviours with important policy implications for nations and Europe. (image provided with permission from PChryss)

All Items

• Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

  Stamos Papastamou, Xenia Chryssochoou, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Gerasimos Prodromitis, Gabrielle Poeschl, Silvia Mari, Joaquim Pires Valentim, Chiara Volpato, Pascal Marchand, Pierre Ratinaud

  3

• Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from Social Psychology

  Stamos Papastamou, Joaquim Pires Valentim, Silvia Mari, Pascal Marchand

  4

• How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

  Silvia Mari, Chiara Volpato, Stamos Papastamou, Xenia Chryssochoou, Gerasimos Prodromitis, Vassilis Pavlopoulos

  52-67

• Predictors of the Perceived Efficacy of Actions against Austerity Measures

  Gabrielle Poeschl, Joaquim P Valentim, Stamos Papastamou, Xenia Chryssochoou, Gerasimos Prodromitis, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Silvia Mari, Chiara Volpato

  41-51

• Accepting Austerity or Grexit? Predicting Acceptance of Crisis Solution Strategies from People’s image of the Greece-Eu Relationship, their own Position and Norms of Justice

  Gerasimos Prodromitis, Xenia Chryssochoou, Stamos Papastamou

  68-79

• The Crisis Tsunami. Social Representations of the Economic Crisis in the Italian Press

  Valentina Rizzoli, Diego Romaioli, Alberta Contarello

  80-91

• Financial Threat during the Economic Crisis: Connections with the Social Representation of the Economic Crisis and the Willingness to Act

  Jérémy Lemoine, Elisa Darriet, Ruxanda Kmiec, Christine Roland-Lévy

  113-126