Welcome to our ISPP ECC Newsletter!! For Issue 2, 2022, we continued with our previous format. Rather than having the full newsletter sent to your email (which can be rather long), you can now click to read more for each of the contributions, and you’ll be directed to the full…

Welcome to our brand new ISPP ECC Newsletter!! For Issue 1, 2022, we’ve made a few changes to try to streamline the Newsletter. Rather than having the full newsletter sent to your email (which can be rather long), you can now click to read more for each of the contributions…

National Narcissism and In-group Sacrifice in the COVID-19 Pandemic — History has witnessed countless examples of self-proclaimed patriots who claim to love their country, but yet support decisions that may inflict severe harm to their own communities. People sometimes support hopeless wars and refuse external aid with the aim of defending the nation’s honour or to spite an adversary, but…

By Jocelyn Chalmers (University of Kent) Feminists are frequently stereotyped as both humourless and man-hating. How much truth is there to these characterizations, and can we expose feminists to humour that disparages both men and women to find out? Humour plays an integral role in our everyday lives. It can…

By Ammaarah Nilafdeen (University of Delhi) Despite the fact that South Asia is perceived as a developing region, it continues to grapple with challenges of its own. The region is no stranger to ethno-religious conflicts, border disputes, poverty, political instability and corruption. The initiatives to obtain an insight into the…

By Rongbo Jin (University of Arizona) and Frank J. Gonzalez (University of Arizona) In the 1999 hit movie, The Matrix, the character named Morpheus at one point describes the allure of the computer program called “the matrix,” which humans have been loaded into so that they experience a virtual fantasy…

By Vera Maren Straßburger (University of Dundee), Caoimhe Ryan (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) Historically, sexual and gender minorities have faced surveillance practices which, it has been argued, were used to oppress the group in hetero- and cis-normative societies (Conrad, 2009). For instance, individuals with…

By Yann Rees (Bielefeld University & Münster University) and Sebastian Kurtenbach (Münster University) During the so called ‘summer of migration’ from 2015–2017 Germany made a name for itself as a welcoming nation becoming a home for about 1 Mio refugees from various countries around the world. Crowds applauding arriving refugees…

By Kostas Papaioannou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)and Myrto Pantazi (University of Oxford) “In an ever-changing incomprehensible world, the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true” — Hannah Arendt (1951) On January 6…