Monica Alzate

Monica Alzate
  • PhD in Psychology
  • Lecturer at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

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Current institution
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Current position
  • Lecturer
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July 2003 - July 2015
University of Santiago de Compostela
Position
  • Lecturer
Education
September 2000 - March 2009
University of Santiago de Compostela
Field of study
  • Social Psychology

Publications

Publications (65)
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The main goal of the present work is to highlight the problems surrounding the current definition of political extremism and the misuse of this and other related terms like radicalism and radicalization. It is argued that these issues generate confusion and obscure research efforts regarding these phenomena. We identify four major problems regardin...
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Background: : Political extremism is one of the main threats to democratic societies and it has been related to socioeconomic threats like COVID-19. We argue that socioeconomic threat perceptions increase Monopoly on Truth (MoT), a tendency to conceive personal values as undeniable truths that are worthy of being imposed. MoT will then prompt a ris...
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En un contexto permeado por varios procesos de justicia transicional y aún afectado por dinámicas de violencia, este artículo analiza dimensiones psicosociales vinculadas al perdón y a la memoria en experiencias de integrantes de organizaciones sociales víctimas del conflicto armado colombiano, para conocer y explorar procesos cognitivos, emocional...
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Political extremism represents a collective threat to open and democratic societies, a hazard that has grown in recent times. The main goal of the present research is to test one novel construct, the Monopoly on Truth (MoT), by examining its association with illegal and violent extremist acts in a cross-cultural setting. Thus, the association betwe...
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The dataset presented in this paper were collected for testing a perceptive-axiological model of recycled water acceptance for low and high contact uses. Participants were selected by proportional random sampling by sex and age the two Spanish communities with the most extreme values of water stress (Galicia, the rainiest region and Murcia, the dri...
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Water scarcity is a major problem that affects a greater number of countries every year. A possible solution is using recycled water systems. However, to implement the use of recycled water, public acceptance is needed. In this study, we propose a perceptive-axiological model (PAM) to understand the reasons for public acceptance or rejection of rec...
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According to a report by the World Economic Forum, the water crisis is the fourth most serious global risk to society. The apparent limitations of the hydraulic paradigm to solving this crisis are leading to a change in water management approaches. Recently, decentralized wastewater treatment systems have re-emerged as a partial solution to this pr...
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Engagement in collective action is essential in the scenario of a secessionist struggle. In this scenario, two groups contend for an incompatible goal and one of them is favoured by the current status quo. Therefore, this context represents an excellent opportunity to compare the motives for participation among two groups whose situation and object...
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O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o discurso do presidente Bolsonaro em relação à pandemia da COVID-19, para discutir o diagrama das suas práticas governamentais. Realizamos uma cartografia das reportagens sobre as falas de Bolsonaro publicadas na mídia no período de 26/02/2020 a 20/06/2020. Elaboramos três eixos de análise: Discurso negacionista...
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This study explores whether there are differences in several environmental dimensions, when the European Region and Generation cohort are considered. In doing so, this study compares millennials in North and South Europe with members of Generation X in three environmental dimensions: attitudes, personal norms, and behavior. Using data from the Euro...
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Metaphors provide easy-to-understand explanations for threatening and unexpected events and can guide behaviour. Some groups have used the metaphor of war in the current pandemic. However, this metaphor is inadvisable because it omits fundamental factors such as mutual care or empathy and causes breakdowns in both social behaviour and the democrati...
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Este capítulo, busca articular reflexiones hechas desde la política y la economía, bajo la perspectiva y el marco de la psicología, en especial en torno a su incidencia en los derechos humanos. Se hace un análisis de los 15 puntos de la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre temas de derechos humanos en el marco de la crisis provocada por la pand...
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La psicología social tiene como objeto de estudio abordar precisamente este tipo de situaciones, en las que los hechos sociales y la psicología están estrechamente unidos. Por eso,hemos solicitado a diez especialistas de nuestro ámbito que realizaran una pequeña reflexión sobre lo que, desde su campo de investigación, nuestra disciplina podría apor...
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En este monográfico se presentan 10 propuestas teóricas sobre la forma en que la Psicología Social puede —potencialmente— ayudar a afrontar la pandemia del COVID-19. En concreto, en estas propuestas se discute: a) cómo se podrían utilizar distintos modelos teóricos para entender mejor la pandemia, sus consecuencias y cómo afrontarlas; b) la importa...
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En este monográfico se presentan 10 propuestas teóricas sobre la forma en que la Psicología Social puede —potencialmente— ayudar a afrontar la pandemia del COVID-19. En concreto, en estas propuestas se discute: a) cómo se podrían utilizar distintos modelos teóricos para entender mejor la pandemia, sus consecuencias y cómo afrontarlas; b) la importa...
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Current predictive models of collective action have devoted little attention to personal values, such as morals or ideology. The present research addresses this issue by incorporating a new axiological path in a novel predictive model of collective action, named AICAM. The axiological path is formed by two constructs: ideology and moral obligation....
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La Psicología Política Latinoamericana (PPL) es un campo reciente, instituido en la década de 1980. Su emergencia enfatiza su carácter político y compromiso social, que denominamos como el “Giro político” de la PPL. De este modo, este artículo tiene como objetivo investigar la producción académica de la PPL para discutir este giro político y sus ef...
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The objective of this article is to analyze the psycho-metric adjustment of two scales for a Disposition for Social Reconciliation (DRS) in the context of Colombia. Two studies were carried out, based on samplings from the inhabitants of Barranquilla (387 victimized persons and 387 members of general population) and Medellín (384 members of the gen...
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Background: Extreme political attitudes have been on the rise since the economic and political crisis of 2008. This surge of extremism constitutes a real threat, as attitudes like these are dangerous for the peaceful, democratic functioning of society. A new cognitive style, Monopoly on Truth has been proposed, based mainly on the concept of naïve...
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Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio descriptivo correlacional que investiga la evaluación personal de las condiciones que caracterizan la habitabilidad del espacio público en 11 ciudades de 7 países de Amé- rica Latina: México, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, Brasil, Chile y Argentina. En la investigación participaron un total de 1823 pe...
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Collective action and protest have become a normalized political behavior that in many cases defines the political agenda. The reasons why people take to the streets constitute a central subject within the study of social psychology. In the literature, three precedents of protest that have been established as central to the study of this phenomenon...
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Colombia es reconocida internacionalmente dentro de la lista de países en conflicto armando, es el segundo conflicto más antiguo del planeta [1]. La larga duración de este conflicto y su intensidad han dejado cerca de un 20% de la población en condiciones de victimización[2]; se estima que la inversión del país para contener la violencia correspond...
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La reconciliación social ha sido propuesta como una de las estrategias que permite la transformación de los conflictos y el restablecimiento de las relaciones intergrupales pacíficas. El objetivo de este trabajo es hacer una revisión sistemática de la reconciliación, las variables con las que se asocia y los instrumentos para medirla. La búsqueda s...
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In times of crisis, political mobilizations increase. Many of them compete to impose a determined diagnosis of the situation. This work analyses this issue, taking into consideration two of the movements that have had a greater incidence during the crisis in Spain: The Catalonian National Assembly and the Marches for dignity. The objective is to kn...
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The recent economic crisis shaped a new wave of protest in Europe mobilising thousands of people. Austerity measures brought not only the ‘usual suspects’ onto the streets, they also awoke less frequent demonstrators. What brought all these people to the streets? Are their motivations the same for participation in all demonstrations? We compare par...
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This paper explores the motives leading to the participation in pacific resistance actions under the conditions of armed violence. Based within the framework of collective action, the roles of identity, grief, anger, hope-moral satisfaction, and efficacy were analyzed on their implications on the actions of pacific resistance. The participants were...
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ORIGINAL El papel de la identidad, la eficacia y las emociones positivas en las acciones colectivas de resistencia pacífica en contextos violentos Recibido el 9 de noviembre de 2014; aceptado el 30 de septiembre de 2015 Disponible en Internet el 5 de junio de 2016 PALABRAS CLAVE Agravio; Ira; Eficacia; Identidad; Esperanza; Satisfacción moral; Acci...
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Recently, many mobilisations have emerged all around the world and their impact on social change has been noteworthy. In this paper we shall review the evolution of the latest models of collective action in order to better understand current challenges in the field of political protest. Scholars have suggested that identity, grievances, efficacy, a...
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Este trabajo explora los motivos que conducen a la participación en acciones de resistencia pacífica bajo condiciones de violencia armada. Fundamentados en los marcos de acción colectiva, se analizó el papel que ejercen la identidad, el agravio, la ira, la esperanza, la satisfacción moral y la eficacia sobre la implicación en acciones de resistenci...
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Resumen Recientemente han surgido muchas movilizaciones por todo el mundo y su impacto a la hora de produ-cir el cambio social es de destacar. En este artículo haremos una revisión de cómo han evolucionado los últimos modelos de acción colectiva para poder en-tender mejor los retos contemporáneos en el campo de la protesta política. Los motivos más...
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This chapter presents an analysis of the eight large action areas proposed by the United Nations for the development of a culture of peace and their corresponding indicators applied to Colombia, during the first term of President Alvaro Uribe (20022006), whose government was characterised by a “Democratic Security Policy”. Based on the description...
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Background: The concept of Reconciliation as applied to inter-group conflict has come into use only recently. Throughout the history of Psychology, Reconciliation was mostly understood at the individual and inter-personal level. Method: In the present study we shall analyse the roles played by trust, negotiating attitude, legitimacy and ethnocen...
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"En este trabajo queremos estudiar hasta qué punto el contexto influye en las variables explicativas que determinan la participación en la protesta. En concreto, comprobamos si los motivos expresivos e instrumentales, la eficacia, la ira y la identidad tienen el mismo peso explicativo sobre la participación política en diferentes contextos. Para e...
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In this study, two questions are analyzed: (1) what the emotions provoked by the Spanish government's declaration of its intention to negotiate a peace process with the terrorist group ETA are; (2) how these emotions relate to different attitudes to this negotiation. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of 263 university students. A confirmatory...
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Having overcome the prejudice that equated emotion with irrationality, collective action theories are beginning to incorporate emotional variables. Nonetheless, these are restricted to negative ones, fundamentally anger. This is due to the fact that collective action is associated exclusively with protest, when this does not necessarily have to be...
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Studies into sport leadership are focused, mostly, in the formal leadership of the coach, in which Chelladurai's Multidimensional Model of Leadership is the principal theoretical reference. However, another kind of informal leadership can be observed in sport teams: peer leadership. Research on peer leadership is not as advanced as research on the...
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Este estudio busca identificar creencias legitimadoras y deslegitimadoras difundidas por la prensa española con el propósito de minimizar o maximizar el impacto emocional que genera el asesinato político. Para ello, los esfuerzos estratégicos se orientan a fortalecer la identificación grupal con el perpetrador o con la víctima según los intereses y...
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En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la identidad y la acción política. Frente a los conceptos de identidad colectiva e identidad colectiva politizada que han sido utilizados habitualmente para explicar ese tipo de comportamiento, se plantea un nuevo tipo de identidad, la colectiva movilizada, que está asociada a la acción política. En la...
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Resumen La teoría de los marcos de acción colectiva postula que la identificación de una situación social como problemática es un aspecto fundamental para la comprensión de ideas colectivas que orientan la acción; por esta razón, otorga especial énfasis a la construcción social de la protesta, formulando tres variables para su análisis: percepción...
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The theory of collective action frameworks states that identifying a social problem, is a key to understanding the ideas that guide the collective action, therefore, gives special emphasis to the social construction of protest, using three variables for analysis: perceptions of injustice, social identity and perception of efficacy. These variables...
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The goal of this study is to explore a set of psychosocial variables that may contribute to the constructive transformation of a violent sociopolitical conflict. Based upon several authors in Social and Political Psychology, we propose an analysis of the conflict through thirteen variables. These variables are stated from the perspective of the non...
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El objetivo de este estudio es comprobar, en un contexto político real, si el paso de una situación de violencia política a un proceso de paz real exige el cambio de las creencias que hasta ese momento estaban al servicio del enfrentamiento. Se plantean dos hipótesis: a) si esas creencias no se modifican será difícil alcanzar un clima de confianza...
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The paper presents a piece of research into the intradiscursive process in which a specific social object, denoted by the expression "civil society", has been constructed and mobilized by a particular discourse of a Mexican rebel organization, at a definite moment, from January 1994 to September 1996. The analysis of this discourse enables the desc...
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El objetivo de este estudio es explorar un conjunto de variables psicosociales que podrían contribuir a la transformación constructiva de un conflicto sociopolítico violento. Basados en diversos autores de la psicología social y política, proponemos un análisis del conflicto a través de trece variables. Dichas variables se plantean desde la perspec...
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En este artículo se presenta parte de una investigación en torno al proceso intra-discursivo por el que un objeto social específico, el designado por la expresión de "sociedad civil", ha sido construido y movilizado por un discurso particular, el de un grupo guerrillero mexicano, en un momento preciso, entre enero de 1994 y septiembre de 1996. El d...
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Basándonos en los trabajos de Fishbein y Ajzen (1975, 1980), Ajzen y Madden, (1986), Ajzen, (2002), este trabajo propone una extensión del modelo de la Teoría de la Conducta Planificada (TCP) para poder explicar mejor el comportamiento pro-ambiental. La pretensión fundamental de este trabajo es explorar la importancia de las normas de obligación pe...
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Based on Fishbein and Ajzen (1975, 1980) and Ajzen and Madden (1986, 2002) proposal, this paper puts forward an extension of "Planned Behavior Theory" (PBT) for the understanding of the pro-ecological behavior. The main aim of this article is to explore the importance of emotional aspects as a contribution for the comprehension of the "low vehicle...
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On November 13, 2002, the Prestige tanker, loaded with about 77,000 tonnes of fuel-oil, had an accident in front of Fisterra (Galicia, NW Spain), sinking six days later with 60,000 tonnes of fuel in the tanks and provoking the longest and most extensive, in affected area, black tide on the Spanish coast. According to official data, the Prestige rel...
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Basándonos en los trabajos de Fishbein y Ajzen (1975, 1980), Ajzen y Madden, (1986), Ajzen, (2002), este trabajo propone una extensión del modelo de la Teoría de la Conducta Planificada (TCP) para poder explicar mejor el comportamiento pro-ambiental. El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es explorar la importancia de los aspectos emocionales a la...

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