Dr. Felicity Turner-Zwinkels

Onderzoeker
Sociale, Gezondheids- en Organisatiepsychologie

Current research focus

I am currently working on a project with a team at the Universtiy of Utrecht (Marieke Vermue, Félice van Nunspeet, Naomi Ellemers) and the Social Cultural planning beurau (Roel Willems, Anne Roeter) where we aim to promote evidence informed policy, by more closely integrating social scientific insights with policy making.

 

General research interests

I am a political psychologist, broadly interested in the study of identity, beleif systems, group processes, and societal engagement. My key research goal is to understand how the content and structure of belief systems provide people with meaning and influence the way that groups in society relate to each other. Through my research I hope to gain more insight into the cognitive processes that shape networks of beliefs about the self and about politics, and how these beliefs in turn shape people’s behaviour, including political engagement and intra/intergroup relations. Through this I hope to learn more about why people make certain political choices (e.g., who votes for who, who becomes an activist) and how people relate to others with similar or different political attitudes to their own (e.g., political polarization).