Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen
PUBLICATIONS
54. Power, S.A., & Roest, S., Ronan, E., Vange, S., Vangkilde, L., Vangkilde, S., & Morton, T. (revise & resubmit). Being ordinary in an extraordinary world: Experiences of crowd events during the Danish cultural reopening. Qualitative Psychology.
53. Karstoft, K.I., Korchakova, N., Koushede, V., Morton, T., Pedersen, A.A., Power, S.A., Thøgersen, M.A. (revised & resubmitted). Complex PTSD in Ukrainian refugees: prevalence and association with acts of war in the Danish refugee cohort (DARECO). Journal of Affective Disorders.
52. Power, S.A. & Velez, G. (in press). Critical Thinking in contemporary and future societies. In Robert J. Sternberg and Weihua Niu (Eds.). A Multidisciplinary Approach to Critical Thinking. Palgrave-Macmillan.
51. Power, S.A. & Moghaddam, F. (in press). From Direct to Imagined Violence: How Governments Shape Social Movements. In Carriere, K. (Eds.). The International Handbook of Cultural Political Psychology.
50. Madsen, T., Morton, T. & Power, S.A. (in press). Resisting dystopian visions of urban policy: A dialogical analysis of speeches from Danish anti-ghetto-law protests. Possibilities Studies & Society.
49. Coenen, A.C. & Power, S.A. (in press). Temporal Perspectives: Understanding the Psychological Appeal of Violent Extremism. In Jonas R. Kunst and Milan Obaidi (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Extremism. Cambridge University Press.
48. Botelho, F., Bogdan, L., & Power, S.A. (in press). Polygyny in Denmark: A study of the instrumentalization of cultural differences in immigration policies. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
47. Sternberg, R.A., Dashtaki, A.S., & Power, S.A. (2024). The Wonderland Model of Toxic Creativity in Leadership: When the “Never Again” impossible becomes not only possible but actual. Possibility Studies & Society. Online First.
46. Bogdan, L. & Botelho, F. & Power, S.A. (2024). Polygamy on Trial: Analyzing Anti-Polygamy Acts and court Rulings in 19th Century United States. Law, Culture, & Humanities. Online First.
45. Van Cong, B-T., Power, S.A., & Morton, T. (2024). Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces. British Journal of Social Psychology. Online First.
44. Velez, G. & Power, S.A. (2024). Manywheres: In Pursuit of Social Justice in Developmental Science. Human Development. Online First.
43. Coenen, A.C., Jüttemeier, M., Obaidi, M. Power, S.A., & Kunst, J. (2024). The role of temporal and contextual analogies in collective movements. European Journal of Social Psychology. Online First.
42. Velez, G. & Power, S.A. (2023). Teaching Field Social Psychology: An Action Orientation to Pedagogy of Integrated Methods. Qualitative Psychology. Online First.
41. Madsen, T., Morton, T., & Power, S.A. (2023). An investigation of Danish politicians’ responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: the case of the ‘parallel society’ agreement. British Journal of Social Psychology. Online First.
40. Wagoner, B., Awad, S., & Power, S.A. (2023). Protest crowds through the lens of distributed cognition. Social Research: An International Quarterly. 90 (2), 293-314.
39. Morton, T.A., & Power, S.A. (2023). Is it safe to be together again? Identity, trust, and perceived risk in the “post-corona” crowd. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Online First.
38. Power, S.A., Schaeffer, M., Heisig, J., Udsen, R., Ordóñez-Bueso, L., & Morton, T. (2023). Imagining life beyond a crisis: A four quadrant model to conceptualize possible futures. Culture & Psychology. Online First.
37. Power, S.A., Schaeffer, M., Heisig, J.P., Udsen, R., & Morton, T. (2023). Why trust? A mixed-method investigation of the origin and meaning of trust during the Covid-19 lockdown in Denmark. British Journal of Social Psychology. Online First.
36. Power, S.A., Zittoun, T., Akkerman, S., Wagoner, B., Cabra, M., Cornish, F., Hawlina, H., Heasman, B., Mahendran, K., Psaltis, C., Rajala, A., Veale, A., & Gillespie, A. (2023). Social Psychology of and for World-Making. Personality & Social Psychology Review. Online First.
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35. Power, S.A., & Jindra, M. (2022). The Equality – Difference Paradox: National policies on pluralism. In Fathali M. Moghaddam and Margaret J. Hendricks (Eds). Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions. APA Press.
34. Botelho, F., & Bogdan, L. Power, S.A., (2022). Re-engaging cultural differences: Culture, morality, trauma & the integration of non-western migrants. Current Opinion in Psychology. [Joint first authors].
33. Velez, G. Taylor, G., & Power, S.A. (2022). Developing in a Dynamic World: Harnessing Psychology to Support the COVID-19 Generation. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation.
32. Morton, T.A. & Power, S.A. (2021). Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-corona crowd? Social Science & Medicine. 293, 114649.
31. Wagoner, B. & Power, S.A. (in press). Social Change. In Vlad Glaveanu (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave. London.
30. Power, S.A. and Velez, G. (2021). Field Social Psychology. American Psychologist. Online First.
29. Power, S.A. (2021). Revisiting the crowd: Peaceful assembly in Irish water protests. Culture & Psychology. Online First.
28. Haugestad, C., Skauge, A., Kunst, J., & Power, S.A. (2021). Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protest. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Online First.
(Winner of the U.N. Sustainability Award from the University of Oslo. Also winner of the best PhD student paper in 2021 at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo).
27. Power, S.A., Mandalaywala, T. and Kay, A. (2021). An investigation of perceptions of (un)just systems: Tests of rationalization in the context of Irish austerity measures. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Vol 21 (1), 49 – 57.
26. Rao, N. & Power, S.A. (2021). “Communities change when individuals change:” The sustainability of system challenging collective action. European Journal of Social Psychology.
25. Schmidt, D. & Power, S.A. (2020). World Offline: The internet as social infrastructure among the unconnected in quasi-rural Illinois. Integrative Psychology & Behavioral Science . Online First.
(Winner of the Richard P. Taub Thesis Award in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago).
24. Power, S.A. (2020). The psychology of social change: Rallies, Riots, & Revolutions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, v-x.
23. Power, S.A., Madsen, T. & Morton, T. (2020). Relative Deprivation & Revolt: Current and Future Directions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, 119 – 124.
22. Obradovic, S., Power, S.A., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2020). Understanding the psychological appeal of populism. Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, 125 – 131.
21. Velez, G. & Power, S.A. (2020). Teaching students how to think, not what to think: Pedagogy and political psychology. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 8(1), 388-403.
20. Power, S.A. and Velez, G. (2020). The MOVE Framework: Meanings, Observations, Viewpoints, and Experiences in processes of social change. Review of General Psychology. Online First.
19. Power S.A. (2020). Why a richer world will have more civic discontent: The Infinity Theory of Social Movements. Review of General Psychology. Online First.
18. Power, S.A. (2018). Expanding the Deprivation – Protest Paradox: The tipping point theory of civic unrest [response]. Current Anthropology. 59, (6), 783 – 789.
17. Power, S.A. (2018). The Deprivation – Protest Paradox: How the perception of unfair economic inequality leads to civic unrest [Lead article with commentaries]. Current Anthropology. 59, (6), 765 - 782.
16. Power, S.A. (2018). Actual Democracy and a United Europe of States: A case study of Austerity and Protest in the Republic of Ireland. In Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó, and Vlad Glaveanu (Eds). The Road to Actualized Democracy: A Psychological Perspective (pp. 147 – 164). Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
15. Power, S.A. (2018). Remembering and Imagining in Human Development: Fairness and Social Movements in Ireland. In Constance de Saint-Laurent, Sandra Obradovic, and Kevin Carriere (Eds). Imagining Collective Futures: Perspectives from Social, Cultural and Political Psychology (pp. 221 – 235). Palgrave Macmillan: UK.
14. Power, S.A. (2018). Economic Inequality and the Rise of Civic Discontent: Remembering and Deprivation in the Republic of Ireland. In Brady Wagoner, Fathali Moghaddam and Jaan Valsiner (Eds). The Psychology of Radical Social Change: From Rage to Revolution (pp. 29 – 53). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Power, S.A., Velez, G., Qadafi, A. and Tennant, J. (2018). The SAGE Model of Social Psychological Research. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Vol. 13 (3) 359-372.
12. Power, S.A. (2017). From the elites to the streets: The psychology of democracy and economic inequality. University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
11. Power, S. A. (2016). A Violent Past but a Peaceful Present: The Cultural Psychology of an Irish Recession. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 22 (1), 60 – 66.
10. Power, S.A. (2015). To Understand the Eurozone Crisis, Consider Culture. Chicago Booth Review. (p.63- 65).
9. Warren, Z. and Power, S.A. (2015). It’s Contagious: Rethinking a Metaphor Dialogically. Culture & Psychology. Vol. 21 (3), 359 – 379.
8. Power. S. A. (2014). Humans as Objects: Processes, Predictions and Problems. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Vol. 20 (4), 593-594.
7. Power, S.A. (2014). Where I end, where you begin. Science. Vol. 345, (6194), 262.
6. Power, S.A. (2014). Powerful Ideas: Cultural Psychology and the Transformation of Societies. Ethos: Journal for Psychological Anthropology. Vol., 42 (2), E6-E9.
5. Shweder, R.A. and Power, S.A. (2013). Robust Cultural Pluralism: An Interview with Professor Richard A. Shweder. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, Vol. 9 (4), 671-686.
4. Power, S.A. (2013). Continuing the Dialogue. Theory & Psychology, Vol. 23 (1), 140-142.
3. Power, S.A. (2011). Towards a Dialogical Model of Conflict Resolution. Psychology and Society, Vol. 4 (1), 53-66.
2. Power, S.A. and Peterson, L. (2011). Theorizing Propaganda: Extending Kohl (2011). Psychology & Society, Vol. 4 (1), 27-30.
1. Power, S.A. (2011). On Social Psychology and Conflict Resolution. Psychology & Society, Vol. 4 (1), 1-6.