Michelle Blaya Burgo

Claremont Graduate University · Department of Psychology

Radicalization, spurred by early-2000s terrorist attacks, has intensified research interest. Scholars increasingly explore Social Identity Theory (SIT) to understand identity's role in this societal concern. This paper examines the intellectual structure, development, and emerging trends in SIT and radicalization research utilizing bibliometric ana...

Climate change is currently one of humanity’s greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries (collected between July 2022 and July 2023). In a between-subjects design, we tested 11 interventions designed to promote climate chan...

Radicalization is a global societal threat. After the early 2000s, there has been extensive research attention to comprehend its various manifestations, highlighting the importance of understanding its processes for effective prevention strategies. Interdisciplinary in nature, this field integrates insights from various disciplines, with the field...

Radicalization has emerged as a significant societal threat, attracting increased research attention, particularly in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe during the early 2000s. Social Identity Theory (SIT), a well-established framework used to explain (inter)group processes, has gained attraction among profession...

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and a...

Effectively reducing climate change requires dramatic, global behavior change. Yet it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an e...

Preventive approaches have gained weight with regard to violent extremism. However, although the number of interventions aimed at prevention has increased, many of them do not have a solid theoretical basis and very few have been evaluated, so we do not know the real impact of these interventions. Based on these limitations, a sport-based intervent...

The SPEY project combines sports practice and transversal skills with the aim of reducing the risk factors that can contribute to the process of youth radicalization. In addition, it seeks to improve the channels of integration of young people at risk of exclusion and maintains the gender perspective across the entire project. Taking a scientific a...

This research examines how social networks contribute to the process of radicalization, building on work showing that obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion for a cause is linked to greater support for political violence. Study 1 (N = 331) shows that obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion is related to affiliating with radical (vs. moderate) social network...