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An article has been accepted for publication

Published on: August 2021

Our article entitled “Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo”, […]

Conference talks on collective psychological ownership at the AASP conference 2021

Published on: August 2021

Wybren Nooitgedagt presented a paper on ingroup and outgroup ownership perceptions of New Zealand and the relation with intentions for […]

A symposium on territorial ownership and ownership threat at the 2021 ISPP Annual Meeting

Published on: July 2021

Borja Martinovic organized and chaired a symposium entitled “‘Territorial ownership and intergroup relations: the role of entitlement, responsibility, and ownership […]

A conference talk at Dag van de Sociologie 2021

Published on: June 2021

Tom Nijs presented his paper entitled ‘The different faces of collective psychological ownership: Rights, responsibilities, and behavioral intentions’ to a […]

Intellectual exchange ESSO group at the University of Helsinki

Published on: March 2021

The OWNERS team (Borja Martinovic, Tom Nijs, Nora Storz, and Wybren Nooitgedagt) presented their work to the ESSO group (Etnisten […]

Interview with Norwegian NRK

Published on: March 2021

Tom Nijs was interviewed about right-wing populism in The Netherlands by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. You can find the broadcast […]

Talk at Sociëtas Groningen

Published on: March 2021

Tom Nijs discussed his research on collective psychological ownership in Western Europe as part of the ‘Huiskamercolleges’ [living room lectures] […]

New publication in Social Justice Research

Published on: February 2021

The article entitled “Autochthony and making amends to indigenous peoples: The mediating role of collective moral emotions”, written by Wybren […]

Interview in Dutch newspaper Trouw

Published on: February 2021

Tom Nijs and Borja Martinovic were interviewed by Dutch newspaper Trouw about the OWNERS research project, and more specifically, about […]

New publication in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Published on: February 2021

The article entitled “‘Losing what is OURS: The intergroup consequences of collective ownership threat”, written by Tom Nijs, Maykel Verkuyten, […]

Invited talk at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Published on: December 2020

Borja Martinović presented the recent findings from the Owners project at the brown bag seminar of the Department of Applied […]

2020 EASP Summer School

Published on: September 2020

Nora Storz and Wybren Nooitgedagt participated in the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Summer School. The summer school was […]

A symposium on collective psychological ownership at the 2020 ISPP Annual Meeting

Published on: September 2020

Borja Martinovic organized and chaired a symposium entitled “‘Our country’ or ‘their country’? Ownership claims and intergroup relations” at the […]

New publication in Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Published on: July 2020

The article entitled “Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts”, written by Nora Storz, Borja Martinovic, Maykel Verkuyten, Iris […]

A conference talk at the European Consortium for Sociological Research conference

Published on: July 2020

Tom Nijs presented a draft version of his paper entitled ”We were here first’: Autochthony belief as a driver of […]

Blog on collective psychological ownership on Stuk Rood Vlees

Published on: July 2020

Tom Nijs wrote a blog post on the Dutch political science blog Stuk Rood Vlees about his paper on collective […]

New publication in British Journal of Social Psychology

Published on: June 2020

The article entitled “‘This Country is OURS’: The Exclusionary Potential of Collective Psychological Ownership”, written by Tom Nijs, Borja Martinovic, […]

Presentation at the Democracy & Elections Seminar at the University of Manchester

Published on: February 2020

Tom Nijs gave a talk about collective psychological ownership in Western Europe in the Democracy & Elections seminar of the […]

Research visit at the University of Manchester

Published on: January 2020

Tom Nijs has visited the Politics Department at the University of Manchester to work together with Professor Rob Ford for […]

Panel debate

Published on: November 2019

Borja Martinović was a panelist in a session titled “Engraved in our memory” (27 November 2018) organized by Studium Generale […]

Research visit at New York University

Published on: November 2019

Nora Storz visited the department of Applied Psychology at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to work […]

New publication

Published on: October 2019

The first publication of the Owners project has appeared in the European Journal of Social Psychology, entitled “Support for collective […]

Two research master’s students joined the Owners team

Published on: September 2019

Lianne Straver and Mischa Hoffer joined the Owners team to work on their master’s theses. Lianne will focus on Western countries […]

A symposium on autochthony at the ISPP meeting in Lisbon

Published on: July 2019

Borja Martinović organized and chaired a symposium entitled “Are first (autochthonous) inhabitants more entitled to a territory? Evidence from five […]

A symposium on managing ethnic diversity at CICA Lisbon

Published on: July 2019

Wybren and Nora presented their research at a symposium at the CICA – Conflict and political psychology. The symposium addressed […]

A conference talk at Dag van de Sociologie in Amsterdam

Published on: June 2019

Tom Nijs presented a draft version of his paper entitled ”This country is OURS’: The exclusionary potential of collective psychological […]

Panel debate on populism at Festival Europa at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

Published on: May 2019

Tom Nijs was member of a panel on populism at Festival Europa (18 may 2019). He talked about populism and […]

Presentations at ICS Famous Foreigner Masterclass in Nijmegen

Published on: May 2019

Wybren, Nora, and Tom presented drafts of their papers to other PhD candidates of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory […]

Invited talks at Universidad Mayor, Diego Portales University, and the Pontifical University of Chile in Santiago de Chile.

Published on: April 2019

Wybren Nooitgedagt presented on his disseration on collective ownership in settler societies at the Psychology department at the Pontifical University […]