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Obradović, Sandra; Martinez, Nuria; Dhanda, Nandita; Bode, Sidney; Ntontis, Evangelos; Bowe, Mhairi; Reicher, Stephen; Jurstakova, Klara; Kane, Jazmin and Vestergren, Sara (2025). Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (Re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II’s death. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(1), article no. e12807.

Ntontis, Evangelos; Monkhouse, Jennifer; Stokes‐Guizani, Natalie; Malovic, Aida and Saavedra, Patricio (2025). “It's that feeling that you can't get away”: Motherhood, gender inequality and the stress process during extreme events. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), article no. e12856.

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Jurstakova, Klara; Ntontis, Evangelos and Nigbur, Dennis (2024). The Dynamics of Leadership and Resistance in Repressive Regimes: The Cases of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and Polish People’s Republic. In: Zeineddine, Fouad Bou and Vollhardt, Johanna Ray eds. Resistance to Repression and Violence: Global Psychological Perspectives. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, pp. 262–281.

Jurstakova, Klara; Ntontis, Evangelos and Reicher, Stephen (2024). Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(1) pp. 153–169.

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Jurstakova, Klara; Neville, Fergus; Haslam, S. Alexander and Reicher, Stephen (2024). A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(1) pp. 3–19.

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Ntontis, Evangelos (2024). How do people respond to climate change? In: McGrath, Laura and Turner, Jim eds. D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing. Walton Hall, Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp. 427–476.

Williams, Richard; Ntontis, Evangelos; Drury, John; Alfadhli, Khalifah and Amlôt, Richard (2024). Primary and Secondary Stressors: The Ways in Which Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters, Disease Outbreaks, and Conflicts Are Stressful. In: Williams, Richard; Kemp, Verity; Porter, Keith; Healing, Tim and Drury, John eds. Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health: The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 42–48.

Ntontis, Evangelos and Zhang, Meng Logan (2024). Collective Psychosocial Resilience as a Group Process Following Flooding: How It Arises and How Groups Can Sustain It. In: Williams, Richard; Kemp, Verity; Porter, Keith; Healing, Tim and Drury, John eds. Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health: The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 160–165.

Drury, John; Ntontis, Evangelos; Fernandes-Jesus, Maria and Mao, Guanlan (2024). Facilitating the Public Response to COVID-19: Group Processes and Mutual Aid. In: Williams, Richard; Kemp, Verity; Porter, Keith; Healing, Tim and Drury, John eds. Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health: The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 166–172.

Drury, John; Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Mao, Guanlan; Ntontis, Evangelos; Perach, Rotem and Miranda, Daniel (2023). How can Covid Mutual Aid Groups be Sustained Over Time? The UK Experience. In: O'Dwyer, Emma and Silva Souza, Luiz Gustavo eds. Psychosocial Perspectives on Community Responses to Covid-19: Networks of Trust and Social Change. Routledge, pp. 79–90.

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Cocking, Chris; Ntontis, Evangelos; Vestergren, Sara and Luzynska, Katarzyna (2023). Collective Resilience and the COVID-19 Experience. In: Miller, Monika K. ed. The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for Researchers. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 272–283.

Perach, Rotem; Fernandes‐Jesus, Maria; Miranda, Daniel; Mao, Guanlan; Ntontis, Evangelos; Cocking, Chris; McTague, Michael; Semlyen, Joanna and Drury, John (2023). Can group‐based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid and community support groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(11) pp. 1059–1075.

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Bozatzis, Nikos and Kokkini, Vasiliki (2023). Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(4) pp. 1839–1855.

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Atkinson, Mark; Ntontis, Evangelos; Neville, Fergus and Reicher, Stephen (2023). “I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(10), article no. e12837.

Blackburn, Angélique M.; Han, Hyemin; Gelpí, Rebekah A.; Stöckli, Sabrina; Jeftić, Alma; Ch'ng, Brendan; Koszałkowska, Karolina; Lacko, David; Milfont, Taciano L.; Lee, Yookyung; COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium and Vestergren, Sara (2023). Mediation analysis of conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiments on vaccine willingness. Health Psychology, 42(4) pp. 235–246.

Ntontis, Evangelos; Blackburn, Angélique M.; Han, Hyemin; Stöckli, Sabrina; Milfont, Taciano L.; Tuominen, Jarno; Griffin, Siobhán M.; Ikizer, Gözde; Jeftic, Alma; Chrona, Stavroula; Nasheedha, Aishath; Liutsko, Liudmila and Vestergren, Sara (2023). The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, article no. 102007.

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Cocking, Chris; Vestergren, Sara; Ntontis, Evangelos and Luzynska, Katarzyna (2023). ‘All together now’: Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown. PLOS ONE, 18(4), article no. e0283080.

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Atkinson, Mark; Neville, Fergus; Ntontis, Evangelos and Reicher, Stephen (2023). Social identification and risk dynamics: How perceptions of (inter)personal and collective risk impact the adoption of COVID‐19 preventative behaviors. Risk Analysis, 44(2) pp. 322–332.

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Ntontis, Evangelos (2023). Groups, identity and behaviour. In: McGrath, Laura and Turner, Jim eds. D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing. Walton Hall, Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp. 227–267.

Ntontis, Evangelos (2023). Attitudes, rhetoric and persuasion. In: McGrath, Laura and Turner, Jim eds. D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing. Walton Hall, Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp. 183–225.

Ntontis, Evangelos; Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Mao, Guanlan; Dines, Tom; Kane, Jazmin; Karakaya, Joshua; Perach, Rotem; Cocking, Chris; McTague, Michael; Schwarz, Anna; Semlyen, Joanna and Drury, John (2022). Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 76, article no. 103043.

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Vestergren, Sara; Saavedra, Patricio; Neville, Fergus; Jurstakova, Klara; Cocking, Chris; Lay, Siugmin; Drury, John; Stott, Clifford; Reicher, Stephen and Vignoles, Vivian L. (2022). Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 17(2), article no. e0264618.

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Hanvey, Imogen; Malovic, Aida and Ntontis, Evangelos (2022). Glass children: The lived experiences of siblings of people with a disability or chronic illness. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32(5) pp. 936–948.

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Haslam, S. Alexander; Reicher, Stephen D.; Selvanathan, Hema Preya; Gaffney, Amber M.; Steffens, Niklas K.; Packer, Dominic; Van Bavel, Jay J.; Ntontis, Evangelos; Neville, Fergus; Vestergren, Sara; Jurstakova, Klara and Platow, Michael J. (2022). Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(2), article no. 101622.

Blackburn, Angélique M.; Vestergren, Sara and the COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium (2022). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 9(1)

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Luzynska, Katarzyna; Wright, Abigail and Williams, Richard (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on the psychosocial and mental health needs of NHS and social care staff: Final report on literature published between 2021 and 2022. Open University.

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Mao, Guanlan; Drury, John; Fernandes‐Jesus, Maria and Ntontis, Evangelos (2021). How participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid groups affects subjective well‐being and how political identity moderates these effects. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 21(1) pp. 1082–1112.

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Luzynska, Katarzyna and Williams, Richard (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the psychosocial and mental health needs of NHS and social care staff. The final report on literature published to mid-2021. The Open University.

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Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Mao, Guanlan; Ntontis, Evangelos; Cocking, Chris; McTague, Michael; Schwarz, Anna; Semlyen, Joanna and Drury, John (2021). More Than a COVID-19 Response: Sustaining Mutual Aid Groups During and Beyond the Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, article no. 716202.

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Vignoles, Vivian L.; Jaser, Zahira; Taylor, Frankiebo and Ntontis, Evangelos (2021). Harnessing Shared Identities to Mobilize Resilient Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Political Psychology, 42(5) pp. 817–826.

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Williams, Richard; Ntontis, Evangelos; Alfadhli, Khalifah; Drury, John and Amlôt, Richard (2021). A social model of secondary stressors in relation to disasters, major incidents and conflict: Implications for practice. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 63, article no. 102436.

Ntontis, Evangelos; Drury, John; Amlôt, Richard; Rubin, G. James; Williams, Richard and Saavedra, Patricio (2021). Collective resilience in the disaster recovery period: Emergent social identity and observed social support are associated with collective efficacy, well‐being, and the provision of social support. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60(3) pp. 1075–1095.

Mao, Guanlan; Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Ntontis, Evangelos and Drury, John (2021). What have we learned about COVID-19 volunteering in the UK? A rapid review of the literature. BMC Public Health, 21, article no. 1470.

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Ntontis, Evangelos (2020). Antiabortion Rhetoric and the Undermining of Choice: Women's Agency as Causing “Psychological Trauma” Following the Termination of a Pregnancy. Political Psychology, 41(3) pp. 517–532.

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Drury, John; Amlôt, Richard; Rubin, G. James and Williams, Richard (2020). Endurance or decline of emergent groups following a flood disaster: Implications for community resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 45, article no. 101493.

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Drury, John; Carter, Holly; Ntontis, Evangelos and Guven, Selin Tekin (2020). Public behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the role of group processes. BJPsych Open, 7(1)

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Cruwys, Tegan; Norwood, Rebecca; Chachay, Veronique S.; Ntontis, Evangelos and Sheffield, Jeanie (2020). “An Important Part of Who I am”: The Predictors of Dietary Adherence among Weight-Loss, Vegetarian, Vegan, Paleo, and Gluten-Free Dietary Groups. Nutrients, 12(4), article no. 970.

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Ntontis, Evangelos and Rocha, Carolina (2020). Solidarity. In: Jetten, Jolanda; Reicher, Stephen; Haslam, S. Alexander and Cruwys, Tegan eds. Together apart: The psychology of COVID-19. London: Sage Publications Ltd., pp. 102–106.

Drury, John; Carter, Holly; Cocking, Chris; Ntontis, Evangelos; Tekin Guven, Selin and Amlôt, Richard (2019). Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience in the Public in Emergencies: Twelve Recommendations Based on the Social Identity Approach. Frontiers in Public Health, 7

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Ntontis, Evangelos; Drury, John; Amlôt, Richard; Rubin, Gideon James and Williams, Richard (2019). What lies beyond social capital? The role of social psychology in building community resilience to climate change. Traumatology, 26(3) pp. 253–265.

Adrian, Juliane; Bode, Nikolai; Amos, Martyn; Baratchi, Mitra; Beermann, Mira; Boltes, Maik; Corbetta, Alessandro; Dezecache, Guillaume; Drury, John; Fu, Zhijian; Geraerts, Roland; Gwynne, Steve; Hofinger, Gesine; Hunt, Aoife; Kanters, Tinus; Kneidl, Angelika; Konya, Krisztina; Köster, Gerta; Küpper, Mira; Michalareas, Georgios; Neville, Fergus; Ntontis, Evangelos; Reicher, Stephen; Ronchi, Enrico; Schadschneider, Andreas; Seyfried, Armin; Shipman, Alastair; Sieben, Anna; Spearpoint, Michael; Sullivan, Gavin Brent; Templeton, Anne; Toschi, Federico; Yücel, Zeynep; Zanlungo, Francesco; Zuriguel, Iker; Van der Wal, Natalie; van Schadewijk, Frank; von Krüchten, Cornelia and Wijermans, Nanda (2019). A Glossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics. Collective Dynamics, 4 pp. 1–13.