Researcher Profile

  • Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland

  • Identity, norms, conflict and decision-making

  • Social psychology; intergroup relations and group processes; identity; norms and social influence; decision-making; conflict; violence; tactics; radicalisation, terrorism, extremism

  • Gulliver, R., Wibisono, S., Fielding, K., & Louis, W. R. (2021). The Psychology of Effective Activism. Cambridge University Press, Elements in Applied Social Psychology series. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975476

    Lizzio-Wilson, M., Thomas, E. F., Louis, W. R., Wilcockson, B., Amiot, C. E., Moghaddam, F. M., McGarty, C. (2021). How collective action failure shapes group heterogeneity and engagement in conventional and radical action over time. Psychological Science. Published online April 2021 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797620970562

    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. (2021). Failure leads protest movements to support more radical tactics. Social Psychology and Personality Science. Published online 7/9/21. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211037296

    Asún, R. A., Rdz-Navarro, K., Zúñiga, C. & Louis, W. (2020). Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests. Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1867093 . Published online 30 December 2020.

    Amiot, C. E., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Louis, W. R., & Thomas, E. F. (2020). Bringing together humanistic and intergroup perspectives to build a model of internalisation of normative social harm-doing. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(3), 485-504. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2659.

    Louis, W. R., Thomas, E. F., McGarty, C., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Amiot, C., & Moghaddam, F. M. (2020). The volatility of collective action: Theoretical analysis and empirical data. Political Psychology. Published online 23 June 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12671?af=R

    Louis, W. R., Amiot, C. E., & Thomas, E. F. (2015). Collective harmdoing: Developing the perspective of the perpetrator. Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(3), 306-312.

    Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. & Louis, W. R. (2014). Social interaction and psychological pathways to political extremism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44 (1), 15 - 22. Doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1988

    Louis, W. R. (2009). If they’re not crazy, then what? The implications of social psychological approaches to terrorism for conflict management. In W. Stritzke, S. Lewandowsky, D. Denemark, F. Morgan, & J. Clare (Eds.), Terrorism and Torture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pp. 125-153. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

    Louis, W. R., & Taylor, D. M. (2002). Understanding the September 11th terrorist attack on America: The role of intergroup theories of normative influence. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2, 87-100. doi:10.1111/j.1530-2415.2002.00029.x

  • Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption; Online Behaviour And Profiling; Social Influence – Micro, Meso And Macro Levels; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism; and Insider Threats


  • Twitter Handle     @wlouisuq
    Email Address w.louis@psy.uq.edu.au

 

Winnifred Louis

Overview

Winnifred R. Louis (PhD McGill, 2001) is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Her research interests focus on the influence of identity and norms on social decision-making. She has studied this broad topic in contexts from violence and terrorism to politics and community activism to health and environmental choices. She is a Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. Some resources and additional details are available online at www.socialchangelab.net