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ID12318
NAMEP Castro
GIVEN NAMESP
FAMILY NAMECastro
SIGNATURECASTRO P
AFFILIATIONSIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
ORCID0000-0002-7396-7373
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS105
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6
  • The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press

    Open Access•Nuno Monteiro Ramos, P Castro•ARTICLE•Public Understanding of Science•2025

    Today, the dominant climate change discourses affirm its anthropogenic nature and the urgency for policies. However, minority discourses remain active in the worldwide debate, refining arguments beyond simple denial—as shown regarding formal/official discourses of the United States and European far-right parties. This makes it necessary to examine the public understanding of climate change in everyday, informal minority discourses, looking at how…

  • Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of (Environmental) Activists and Their Discourses: When and How are They Penalized for Seeking Change

    P Castro, Miriam Rosa•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2023

    Activists are often negatively stereotyped and appraised, yet they can also influence the change they seek. This suggests that the dimensions and processes involved in their stereotyping and their influence are still unclear, as are the impacts of their argumentative style and the level of social consensus about the cause they defend. We focus on clarifying through an experimental study (n = 226): (1) how the argumentative style – radical or mode…

  • Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

    Open Access•Tânia R Santos, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Political…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …

  • Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal

    Tânia R Santos, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2023•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…

  • Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship

    Alice Fonseca, P Castro•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2022

    Considering the impact of Greta Thunberg on the contemporary climate debate and activism, this article seeks to understand the meaning-making patterns that structure her message. An interdisciplinary approach is used, integrating socio-psychological perspectives with the environmental citizenship literature, to develop a systematic analysis of 25 of Thunberg’s public speeches, exploring: (1) the oppositional meaning-categories (themata) she choos…

  • (De)humanizing Metaphors of People in Pain and Their Association with the Perceived Quality of nurse-patient Relationship

    Eva Diniz, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Metaphor and Symbol•2022

    Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nurses’ use for making sense of their …

  • Can regenerated inner‐city areas remain sites of public‐place sociability? Psycho‐social processes predicting public sociability in a changing neighbourhood

    Open Access•Leonor Bettencourt, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    The processes of urban regeneration of long‐disinvested inner‐city neighbourhoods today happening in many European cities sometimes dramatically transform residents' traditional uses of their public places. Focusing on a neighbourhood renowned for its traditional public place sociability – Mouraria, in Lisbon – this study explored the psychosocial processes that may shape the maintenance of that sociability in the face of increasing social divers…

  • Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions

    Open Access•P Castro, Tânia R Santos•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …

  • Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

    Open Access•Valentina Rizzoli, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 61

    The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…

  • ‘Imagining ourselves’ as participating publics: An example from biodiversity conservation

    Open Access•P Castro, Carla Mouro•ARTICLE•Public Understanding of Science•2016

    This article examines how residents in Natura 2000 sites in Southern Portugal ‘imagine themselves’ as publics participating in biodiversity conservation. Through nine focus groups ( n = 49) it seeks to understand whether and how these self-imaginations reproduce and/or resist experts’ highly shared, hegemonic, representations across two dimensions: the epistemic and the normative. Analysis of the groups’ discussions shows that (1) reproduction is…

  • Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 43

    Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…

  • Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2016

    In the article cited above, on page 739, an error was made in Figure 2. The text “SRT” (in blue box) should have read as “SPT.” The correct figure is provided below

  • Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action: Arguing About Scientific Consensus, Representing Science-Society Relations

    Open Access•Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Marcin Lewiński et al.•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …

  • Self–Other Relations in Biodiversity Conservation in the Community: Representational Processes and Adjustment to New Actions

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    This research explores the simultaneous role of two Self–Other relations in the elaboration of representations at the micro‐ and ontogenetic levels, assuming that it can result in acceptance and/or resistance to new laws. Drawing on the Theory of Social Representations, it concretely looks at how individuals elaborate new representations relevant for biodiversity conservation in the context of their relations with their local community (an intera…

  • Exploitation of faunal resources by marine hunter–gatherer groups during the Middle Holocene at the Copaca 1 site, Atacama Desert coast

    Open Access•Laura Olguín, V Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Quaternary International•2015

  • Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press: Coverage Trends and Meaning Dimensions in the First Attention Cycle

    Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, P Castro•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…

  • The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press

    Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, P Castro•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2014

    This study aims to explore how the Turkish press represents the discourse of climate change scientists. This is achieved by analyzing climate change-related articles that quote scientists, directly and indirectly, in two Turkish mainstream newspapers (N = 132, 7 years). The Turkish case illustrates how scientific rhetoric is used for presenting climate change as a matter of concern in an industrializing country. The analysis suggests that climate…

  • Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third‐party Members

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Within social psychology, it has been proposed that to understand how collective action creates social change, it is relevant to examine the role that other members of society can have on it. However, few studies have empirically examined that. We argue that for that task, it is useful, first, and as some authors have already argued, to go beyond the sole analysis of the two‐sided inter‐group relations creating collective action; and second, to a…

  • “I feel recycling matters… sometimes”: The negative influence of ambivalence on waste separation among teenagers

    Raquel Barata, P Castro•ARTICLE•The Social Science Journal•2013

    This study uses the theory of reasoned action to examine how measures of subjective and indirect ambivalence affect the separation of paper and packaging for recycling. The relationships between recycling beliefs and recycling attitudes and between recycling intention and behavior are stronger for lower levels of subjective ambivalence. Indirect ambivalence moderates the relationship between ecological self-identity and recycling behavior in the …

  • Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature

    Arjen Buijs, Tasos Hovardas et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2012•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about the human-nature interaction. Through a focus on the complexity of social thought and confrontations between social groups, the theory of social representations may provide a useful addition to conventional approaches. However, environmental issues have so far not been amo…

  • The Conservation of Biodiversity in Protected Areas: Comparing the Presentation of Legal Innovations in the National and the Regional Press

    P Castro, Carla Mouro et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    Legal innovation is responsible for major transformations in societies. Taking the press as a mediator between the national and local levels, this article addresses the role it plays in the presentation of new laws governing protected areas. A content analysis comparing the representation in the national and the regional presses of both the Natura 2000 laws and the conservation of the Iberian lynx shows two distinct and pragmatic reconstructions …

  • Local communities responding to ecological challenges—A psycho‐social approach to the Natura 2000 Network

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    The institutionalization of biodiversity conservation through legal instruments has led to mixed reactions at both the individual and community levels, with conflict and resistance co‐existing with support. The overall purpose of this paper is to describe how rural communities living in areas included in the Natura 2000 Network of protected sites, where local practices of land use are regulated by new legal directives, receive biodiversity conser…

  • Applying social psychology to the study of environmental concern and environmental worldviews: Contributions from the social representations approach

    Open Access•P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2006•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Recently some social psychological approaches have intensified their contributions to research in the environmental domain, helping it to focus more consistently on the shared aspects of all environment related experiences. The goal of this paper is that of joining these efforts, exploring the contributions of the social representations approach to research on environmental concern and environmental thought, as another area for applying social ps…

  • Applying social psychology to the study of environmental concern and environmental worldviews: Contributions from the social representations approach

    Open Access•P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2006•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Recently some social psychological approaches have intensified their contributions to research in the environmental domain, helping it to focus more consistently on the shared aspects of all environment related experiences. The goal of this paper is that of joining these efforts, exploring the contributions of the social representations approach to research on environmental concern and environmental thought, as another area for applying social ps…

  • Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature

    Arjen Buijs, Tasos Hovardas et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2012•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about the human-nature interaction. Through a focus on the complexity of social thought and confrontations between social groups, the theory of social representations may provide a useful addition to conventional approaches. However, environmental issues have so far not been amo…

  • Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 43

    Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…

  • Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third‐party Members

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Within social psychology, it has been proposed that to understand how collective action creates social change, it is relevant to examine the role that other members of society can have on it. However, few studies have empirically examined that. We argue that for that task, it is useful, first, and as some authors have already argued, to go beyond the sole analysis of the two‐sided inter‐group relations creating collective action; and second, to a…

  • Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions

    Open Access•P Castro, Tânia R Santos•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …

  • Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press: Coverage Trends and Meaning Dimensions in the First Attention Cycle

    Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, P Castro•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…

  • Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal

    Tânia R Santos, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2023•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…

  • The Conservation of Biodiversity in Protected Areas: Comparing the Presentation of Legal Innovations in the National and the Regional Press

    P Castro, Carla Mouro et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    Legal innovation is responsible for major transformations in societies. Taking the press as a mediator between the national and local levels, this article addresses the role it plays in the presentation of new laws governing protected areas. A content analysis comparing the representation in the national and the regional presses of both the Natura 2000 laws and the conservation of the Iberian lynx shows two distinct and pragmatic reconstructions …

  • Local communities responding to ecological challenges—A psycho‐social approach to the Natura 2000 Network

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    The institutionalization of biodiversity conservation through legal instruments has led to mixed reactions at both the individual and community levels, with conflict and resistance co‐existing with support. The overall purpose of this paper is to describe how rural communities living in areas included in the Natura 2000 Network of protected sites, where local practices of land use are regulated by new legal directives, receive biodiversity conser…

  • Can regenerated inner‐city areas remain sites of public‐place sociability? Psycho‐social processes predicting public sociability in a changing neighbourhood

    Open Access•Leonor Bettencourt, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    The processes of urban regeneration of long‐disinvested inner‐city neighbourhoods today happening in many European cities sometimes dramatically transform residents' traditional uses of their public places. Focusing on a neighbourhood renowned for its traditional public place sociability – Mouraria, in Lisbon – this study explored the psychosocial processes that may shape the maintenance of that sociability in the face of increasing social divers…

  • Self–Other Relations in Biodiversity Conservation in the Community: Representational Processes and Adjustment to New Actions

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    This research explores the simultaneous role of two Self–Other relations in the elaboration of representations at the micro‐ and ontogenetic levels, assuming that it can result in acceptance and/or resistance to new laws. Drawing on the Theory of Social Representations, it concretely looks at how individuals elaborate new representations relevant for biodiversity conservation in the context of their relations with their local community (an intera…

  • Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

    Open Access•Tânia R Santos, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Political…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …

  • Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

    Open Access•Valentina Rizzoli, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 61

    The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…

  • Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action: Arguing About Scientific Consensus, Representing Science-Society Relations

    Open Access•Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Marcin Lewiński et al.•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …

  • Applying social psychology to the study of environmental concern and environmental worldviews: Contributions from the social representations approach

    Open Access•P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2006•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Recently some social psychological approaches have intensified their contributions to research in the environmental domain, helping it to focus more consistently on the shared aspects of all environment related experiences. The goal of this paper is that of joining these efforts, exploring the contributions of the social representations approach to research on environmental concern and environmental thought, as another area for applying social ps…

  • Local communities responding to ecological challenges—A psycho‐social approach to the Natura 2000 Network

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    The institutionalization of biodiversity conservation through legal instruments has led to mixed reactions at both the individual and community levels, with conflict and resistance co‐existing with support. The overall purpose of this paper is to describe how rural communities living in areas included in the Natura 2000 Network of protected sites, where local practices of land use are regulated by new legal directives, receive biodiversity conser…

  • The Conservation of Biodiversity in Protected Areas: Comparing the Presentation of Legal Innovations in the National and the Regional Press

    P Castro, Carla Mouro et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    Legal innovation is responsible for major transformations in societies. Taking the press as a mediator between the national and local levels, this article addresses the role it plays in the presentation of new laws governing protected areas. A content analysis comparing the representation in the national and the regional presses of both the Natura 2000 laws and the conservation of the Iberian lynx shows two distinct and pragmatic reconstructions …

  • Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature

    Arjen Buijs, Tasos Hovardas et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2012•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about the human-nature interaction. Through a focus on the complexity of social thought and confrontations between social groups, the theory of social representations may provide a useful addition to conventional approaches. However, environmental issues have so far not been amo…

  • “I feel recycling matters… sometimes”: The negative influence of ambivalence on waste separation among teenagers

    Raquel Barata, P Castro•ARTICLE•The Social Science Journal•2013

    This study uses the theory of reasoned action to examine how measures of subjective and indirect ambivalence affect the separation of paper and packaging for recycling. The relationships between recycling beliefs and recycling attitudes and between recycling intention and behavior are stronger for lower levels of subjective ambivalence. Indirect ambivalence moderates the relationship between ecological self-identity and recycling behavior in the …

  • The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press

    Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, P Castro•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2014

    This study aims to explore how the Turkish press represents the discourse of climate change scientists. This is achieved by analyzing climate change-related articles that quote scientists, directly and indirectly, in two Turkish mainstream newspapers (N = 132, 7 years). The Turkish case illustrates how scientific rhetoric is used for presenting climate change as a matter of concern in an industrializing country. The analysis suggests that climate…

  • Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third‐party Members

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Within social psychology, it has been proposed that to understand how collective action creates social change, it is relevant to examine the role that other members of society can have on it. However, few studies have empirically examined that. We argue that for that task, it is useful, first, and as some authors have already argued, to go beyond the sole analysis of the two‐sided inter‐group relations creating collective action; and second, to a…

  • Exploitation of faunal resources by marine hunter–gatherer groups during the Middle Holocene at the Copaca 1 site, Atacama Desert coast

    Open Access•Laura Olguín, V Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Quaternary International•2015

  • Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press: Coverage Trends and Meaning Dimensions in the First Attention Cycle

    Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, P Castro•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…

  • ‘Imagining ourselves’ as participating publics: An example from biodiversity conservation

    Open Access•P Castro, Carla Mouro•ARTICLE•Public Understanding of Science•2016

    This article examines how residents in Natura 2000 sites in Southern Portugal ‘imagine themselves’ as publics participating in biodiversity conservation. Through nine focus groups ( n = 49) it seeks to understand whether and how these self-imaginations reproduce and/or resist experts’ highly shared, hegemonic, representations across two dimensions: the epistemic and the normative. Analysis of the groups’ discussions shows that (1) reproduction is…

  • Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 43

    Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…

  • Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

    Open Access•Susana Batel, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2016

    In the article cited above, on page 739, an error was made in Figure 2. The text “SRT” (in blue box) should have read as “SPT.” The correct figure is provided below

  • Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action: Arguing About Scientific Consensus, Representing Science-Society Relations

    Open Access•Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Marcin Lewiński et al.•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …

  • Self–Other Relations in Biodiversity Conservation in the Community: Representational Processes and Adjustment to New Actions

    Open Access•Carla Mouro, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    This research explores the simultaneous role of two Self–Other relations in the elaboration of representations at the micro‐ and ontogenetic levels, assuming that it can result in acceptance and/or resistance to new laws. Drawing on the Theory of Social Representations, it concretely looks at how individuals elaborate new representations relevant for biodiversity conservation in the context of their relations with their local community (an intera…

  • Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions

    Open Access•P Castro, Tânia R Santos•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …

  • Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

    Open Access•Valentina Rizzoli, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 61

    The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…

  • Can regenerated inner‐city areas remain sites of public‐place sociability? Psycho‐social processes predicting public sociability in a changing neighbourhood

    Open Access•Leonor Bettencourt, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    The processes of urban regeneration of long‐disinvested inner‐city neighbourhoods today happening in many European cities sometimes dramatically transform residents' traditional uses of their public places. Focusing on a neighbourhood renowned for its traditional public place sociability – Mouraria, in Lisbon – this study explored the psychosocial processes that may shape the maintenance of that sociability in the face of increasing social divers…

  • Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship

    Alice Fonseca, P Castro•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2022

    Considering the impact of Greta Thunberg on the contemporary climate debate and activism, this article seeks to understand the meaning-making patterns that structure her message. An interdisciplinary approach is used, integrating socio-psychological perspectives with the environmental citizenship literature, to develop a systematic analysis of 25 of Thunberg’s public speeches, exploring: (1) the oppositional meaning-categories (themata) she choos…

  • (De)humanizing Metaphors of People in Pain and Their Association with the Perceived Quality of nurse-patient Relationship

    Eva Diniz, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Metaphor and Symbol•2022

    Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nurses’ use for making sense of their …

  • Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of (Environmental) Activists and Their Discourses: When and How are They Penalized for Seeking Change

    P Castro, Miriam Rosa•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2023

    Activists are often negatively stereotyped and appraised, yet they can also influence the change they seek. This suggests that the dimensions and processes involved in their stereotyping and their influence are still unclear, as are the impacts of their argumentative style and the level of social consensus about the cause they defend. We focus on clarifying through an experimental study (n = 226): (1) how the argumentative style – radical or mode…

  • Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

    Open Access•Tânia R Santos, P Castro•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Political…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …

  • Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal

    Tânia R Santos, P Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2023•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…

  • The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press

    Open Access•Nuno Monteiro Ramos, P Castro•ARTICLE•Public Understanding of Science•2025

    Today, the dominant climate change discourses affirm its anthropogenic nature and the urgency for policies. However, minority discourses remain active in the worldwide debate, refining arguments beyond simple denial—as shown regarding formal/official discourses of the United States and European far-right parties. This makes it necessary to examine the public understanding of climate change in everyday, informal minority discourses, looking at how…

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