OWNERS is a 5-year research project (2017-2022) funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded to Dr. Borja Martinović at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The project examines collective psychological ownership (CPO) - a sense that a territory belongs to one's ethnic group.
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Ownership claims in Western Europe
Ownership claims in settler societies
Ownership claims in conflict regionsWho we are
We are a group of researchers at Utrecht University, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, working on the OWNERS project. The core research team consists of Borja Martinović (Principal Investigator), Tom Nijs (PhD student working on Project 1), Wybren Nooitgedagt (PhD student working on Project 2), and Nora Storz (PhD student working on Project 3). Our research interests are in the field of migration and intergroup relations and we are all part of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). The wider team includes collaborators in the nine countries that are covered by the OWNERS project.
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News
New publication in Social Justice Research
The article entitled “Autochthony and making amends to indigenous peoples: The mediating role of collective moral emotions”, written by Wybren […]
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Interview in Dutch newspaper Trouw
Tom Nijs and Borja Martinovic were interviewed by Dutch newspaper Trouw about the OWNERS research project, and more specifically, about […]
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New publication in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
The article entitled “‘Losing what is OURS: The intergroup consequences of collective ownership threat”, written by Tom Nijs, Maykel Verkuyten, […]
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Invited talk at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Borja Martinović presented the recent findings from the Owners project at the brown bag seminar of the Department of Applied […]
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2020 EASP Summer School
Nora Storz and Wybren Nooitgedagt participated in the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Summer School. The summer school was […]
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A symposium on collective psychological ownership at the 2020 ISPP Annual Meeting
Borja Martinovic organized and chaired a symposium entitled “‘Our country’ or ‘their country’? Ownership claims and intergroup relations” at the […]
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New publication in Journal of Social and Political Psychology
The article entitled “Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts”, written by Nora Storz, Borja Martinovic, Maykel Verkuyten, Iris […]
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A conference talk at the European Consortium for Sociological Research conference
Tom Nijs presented a draft version of his paper entitled ”We were here first’: Autochthony belief as a driver of […]
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Blog on collective psychological ownership on Stuk Rood Vlees
Tom Nijs wrote a blog post on the Dutch political science blog Stuk Rood Vlees about his paper on collective […]
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New publication in British Journal of Social Psychology
The article entitled “‘This Country is OURS’: The Exclusionary Potential of Collective Psychological Ownership”, written by Tom Nijs, Borja Martinovic, […]
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