Lorena Gil De Montes
Biographic Data
| ID | 166077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorena Gil De Montes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorena Gil |
| FAMILY NAME | De Montes |
| SIGNATURE | DE MONTES L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8430-5105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Fair and Representative Process: The Path to Political Trust in Colombian Transitional Justice / Proceso justo y representativo: el camino hacia la confianza política en la justicia transicional col…
In contexts such as Colombia, where institutional distrust is high, understanding the mechanisms that promote political trust is essential for peace. This study posits that it is possible to restore the fractured relationship between citizens and the State during the application of transitional justice (TJ) through fair, representative processes that give voice to communities, and a satisfactory assessment of a mechanism such as the peace deal. I…
Return, Social Identity, and Perceived Stress Among Highly Skilled Women
This article examines identification with the society of origin as a key psychosocial process shaping perceived stress among highly skilled women after return migration. Previous research on return has mainly focused on labour market reintegration, paying less attention to how psychosocial experiences and identity processes shape post-return adjustment, particularly among women. The study is based on a sample of 264 Spanish women who returned aft…
Peace representations in Colombian media during transitional justice from 2016 to 2021
This study analyzes peace representations in the Colombian press during transitional justice (2016–2021) of an intractable conflict. A sample of 1,800 news articles and 1,609 photographs from two national newspapers was analyzed through automated lexical analysis and manual image coding. The authors’ findings revealed two dominant representations: a victim-centric approach (negative emotions and confrontation) and an institutional one (state-led,…
Remembering according to national identity and ideology: Influences of ideological positioning and national identities on the collective memory of the Civil War and dictatorship in Spain among youths …
This research aimed to analyse the social representations of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship among young people from different autonomous communities in Spain. A free-association exercise elicited by the words ‘Civil War’ and ‘Francoism’ was completed by 477 university students of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Madrid. Participants were also asked about their national identity and ideological orientation. Lexical analysis w…
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue
Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a redistributive policy proposal that is receiving increasing attention in the Spanish political sphere. Welfare attitudes literature has shown that support for UBI is higher among left‐wing citizens and those of lower socioeconomic status. However, previous studies have not addressed the mediating role of ideological values such as egalitarianism or meritocratism in supporting UBI. Furthermore, studies have no…
Community on conflict: Social representations of the recent past among members of historical memory associations of Biscay ( La comunidad en conflicto: representaciones sociales del pasado reciente en…
This paper aims to identify how the members of historical memory associations of Biscay (Spain) constructed their ‘community images’ through their social representations of the recent past. We analysed the discourse of 12 in-depth interviews with various members of six historical memory associations. The findings show that the interviewees conceptualize the community from a postmodern perspective, characterizing it in terms of diversity, mobility…
Where do we come from and where are we going?' A study about the transformation of knowledge related to long-term care
The care crisis manifests the tensions and profound changes which are taking place in contemporary long-term care systems, leading to new care views and modalities in society. Through 26 interviews conducted with caregivers, family members and elderly people with care needs, this study aims to make visible the transformation in the conceptions of care in the Basque Country. First, the results show the displacement of familiarist ideas and values.…
Dependency and aged care in Spain: Tensions and contradictions in a society in transition
Dependency and care assistance during old age has become an increasing focus of debate and change in society. Consequently, people must cope with diverse and even contradictory values and ideas about the issue. This study aimed to understand the social representations of dependency based on the dialogical approach of the Social Representations theory. Total 26 semi‐structured interviews were conducted in the Basque Country (north of Spain) with r…
Colombian Transitional Justice: The media discourse of the Peace Agreement and perceptions regarding its institutions
Colombia had the longest internal armed conflict in Latin America, and its government reached a peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas in 2016. This article explores the transitional justice social representations during the signing of the peace agreement (study 1) and their implementation, during 2019-2020 (study 2). The first study analyzes the news related to the institutions created from the peace agreement during 2016. The second study exp…
Where does risk lie in sexual practices? A study of young people’s social representations
In this study we investigate the social representations of risky sexual practices. Specifically, we analyse the circumstances in which young Spanish people consider a sexual practice as risky, and how such ‘representations’ of risk have implications for decisions about using condoms. We use the Grid Elaboration Method to gather the naturalistic thoughts and feelings of 175 young people regarding risky sexual practices and performed a lexical anal…
La Manada” in the digital sphere: Coping with a sexual aggression case through Twitter
The gang rape known as the “La Manada” case has had an unprecedented social impact in Spain. This research investigates how this case has been dealt with through Twitter by a collective symbolic coping process (Social Representation Theory). Discourse on Twitter was analyzed at two key points in time: the announcement of the judgment and the aggressors’ release from prison. In total 6,592 tweets with the hashtag #lamanada were selected and their …
Ebola in the Public Sphere: A Comparison Between Mass Media and Social Networks
This study examines how Ebola is transformed from purely scientific knowledge to public’s thinking through media communication, using Spain as a case study. To do so, this research carried out a lexical analysis in both classic media communication and social network communication (Twitter). The results showed that traditional news used a reified discourse pattern prescribing the discourse of scientists and authorities. Tweets, in contrast, adhere…
Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases
This study examined the collective image of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software. First, results showed that Ebola was represented as inherently African. Second, it was also depicted as a global threat creating fear. People also felt anger, a…
Representaciones sociales de inteligencia y los valores culturales que las enmarcan
El atributo de inteligente posee un gran valor social, ya que puede facilitar o dificultar el desarrollo intelectual de los estudiantes. Con esto en mente, desde la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales, se analiza el sentido común del concepto de inteligencia y cómo estas definiciones se encuentran asociados con valores humanos. Esta asociación ayuda a comprender dinámicas sociales que pueden estar afectando en lo que se entiende como intelige…
Normative regulations and the use of language in describing political events: An Analysis of the Pragmatic Use of Language on Newspapers
Defined the Linguistic Intergoup Bias as the tendency to describe positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors in more abstract linguistic categories than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behavior (Fiedler et al, 2003) and basing on the idea of Moscovici that "something" is beyond the text, (1994; 163), three studies analysing the use of language in newspapers editorials are presented. Editorials where selected from different newspapers…
Linguistic Signatures of Regulatory Focus: How Abstraction Fits Promotion More Than Prevention
In 3 experiments, the authors investigated how strategic inclinations associated with promotion versus prevention orientations--that is, eager approach versus vigilant avoidance, respectively--affect the use of language. It is hypothesized that eager promotion strategies used to attain desired end states entail using more abstract language than used with vigilant prevention strategies. This is shown to hold for experimentally induced relationship…
Communication constraints on the linguistic intergroup bias
Communication Patterns in Interdependent Relationships
Two studies were designed to investigate how the type of interdependence (cooperative vs. competitive) between a speaker and a recipient influences communicators' descriptions of positive and negative target behaviors. The target-addressee relationship was a positive one in the first study. It was expected that speakers in the cooperative condition would describe positive target behaviors in a more abstract way, whereas in the competitive conditi…
Understanding the emergence of infectious diseases: Social representations and mass media
The present study examines social representations of the threat created by emerging infectious diseases. A free association experiment was carried out in which the stimulus was a news item where the framing of a discourse (human interest vs. attribution of responsibility) was manipulated. Results showed that the human interest discourse sparked off representations linked to vulnerability, while the responsibility discourse produced representation…
Linguistic Signatures of Regulatory Focus: How Abstraction Fits Promotion More Than Prevention
In 3 experiments, the authors investigated how strategic inclinations associated with promotion versus prevention orientations--that is, eager approach versus vigilant avoidance, respectively--affect the use of language. It is hypothesized that eager promotion strategies used to attain desired end states entail using more abstract language than used with vigilant prevention strategies. This is shown to hold for experimentally induced relationship…
Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases
This study examined the collective image of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software. First, results showed that Ebola was represented as inherently African. Second, it was also depicted as a global threat creating fear. People also felt anger, a…
Communication constraints on the linguistic intergroup bias
Communication Patterns in Interdependent Relationships
Two studies were designed to investigate how the type of interdependence (cooperative vs. competitive) between a speaker and a recipient influences communicators' descriptions of positive and negative target behaviors. The target-addressee relationship was a positive one in the first study. It was expected that speakers in the cooperative condition would describe positive target behaviors in a more abstract way, whereas in the competitive conditi…
La Manada” in the digital sphere: Coping with a sexual aggression case through Twitter
The gang rape known as the “La Manada” case has had an unprecedented social impact in Spain. This research investigates how this case has been dealt with through Twitter by a collective symbolic coping process (Social Representation Theory). Discourse on Twitter was analyzed at two key points in time: the announcement of the judgment and the aggressors’ release from prison. In total 6,592 tweets with the hashtag #lamanada were selected and their …
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue
Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a redistributive policy proposal that is receiving increasing attention in the Spanish political sphere. Welfare attitudes literature has shown that support for UBI is higher among left‐wing citizens and those of lower socioeconomic status. However, previous studies have not addressed the mediating role of ideological values such as egalitarianism or meritocratism in supporting UBI. Furthermore, studies have no…
Where do we come from and where are we going?' A study about the transformation of knowledge related to long-term care
The care crisis manifests the tensions and profound changes which are taking place in contemporary long-term care systems, leading to new care views and modalities in society. Through 26 interviews conducted with caregivers, family members and elderly people with care needs, this study aims to make visible the transformation in the conceptions of care in the Basque Country. First, the results show the displacement of familiarist ideas and values.…
Ebola in the Public Sphere: A Comparison Between Mass Media and Social Networks
This study examines how Ebola is transformed from purely scientific knowledge to public’s thinking through media communication, using Spain as a case study. To do so, this research carried out a lexical analysis in both classic media communication and social network communication (Twitter). The results showed that traditional news used a reified discourse pattern prescribing the discourse of scientists and authorities. Tweets, in contrast, adhere…
Normative regulations and the use of language in describing political events: An Analysis of the Pragmatic Use of Language on Newspapers
Defined the Linguistic Intergoup Bias as the tendency to describe positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors in more abstract linguistic categories than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behavior (Fiedler et al, 2003) and basing on the idea of Moscovici that "something" is beyond the text, (1994; 163), three studies analysing the use of language in newspapers editorials are presented. Editorials where selected from different newspapers…
Understanding the emergence of infectious diseases: Social representations and mass media
The present study examines social representations of the threat created by emerging infectious diseases. A free association experiment was carried out in which the stimulus was a news item where the framing of a discourse (human interest vs. attribution of responsibility) was manipulated. Results showed that the human interest discourse sparked off representations linked to vulnerability, while the responsibility discourse produced representation…
Communication constraints on the linguistic intergroup bias
Communication Patterns in Interdependent Relationships
Two studies were designed to investigate how the type of interdependence (cooperative vs. competitive) between a speaker and a recipient influences communicators' descriptions of positive and negative target behaviors. The target-addressee relationship was a positive one in the first study. It was expected that speakers in the cooperative condition would describe positive target behaviors in a more abstract way, whereas in the competitive conditi…
Linguistic Signatures of Regulatory Focus: How Abstraction Fits Promotion More Than Prevention
In 3 experiments, the authors investigated how strategic inclinations associated with promotion versus prevention orientations--that is, eager approach versus vigilant avoidance, respectively--affect the use of language. It is hypothesized that eager promotion strategies used to attain desired end states entail using more abstract language than used with vigilant prevention strategies. This is shown to hold for experimentally induced relationship…
Normative regulations and the use of language in describing political events: An Analysis of the Pragmatic Use of Language on Newspapers
Defined the Linguistic Intergoup Bias as the tendency to describe positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors in more abstract linguistic categories than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behavior (Fiedler et al, 2003) and basing on the idea of Moscovici that "something" is beyond the text, (1994; 163), three studies analysing the use of language in newspapers editorials are presented. Editorials where selected from different newspapers…
Representaciones sociales de inteligencia y los valores culturales que las enmarcan
El atributo de inteligente posee un gran valor social, ya que puede facilitar o dificultar el desarrollo intelectual de los estudiantes. Con esto en mente, desde la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales, se analiza el sentido común del concepto de inteligencia y cómo estas definiciones se encuentran asociados con valores humanos. Esta asociación ayuda a comprender dinámicas sociales que pueden estar afectando en lo que se entiende como intelige…
Ebola in the Public Sphere: A Comparison Between Mass Media and Social Networks
This study examines how Ebola is transformed from purely scientific knowledge to public’s thinking through media communication, using Spain as a case study. To do so, this research carried out a lexical analysis in both classic media communication and social network communication (Twitter). The results showed that traditional news used a reified discourse pattern prescribing the discourse of scientists and authorities. Tweets, in contrast, adhere…
Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases
This study examined the collective image of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software. First, results showed that Ebola was represented as inherently African. Second, it was also depicted as a global threat creating fear. People also felt anger, a…
La Manada” in the digital sphere: Coping with a sexual aggression case through Twitter
The gang rape known as the “La Manada” case has had an unprecedented social impact in Spain. This research investigates how this case has been dealt with through Twitter by a collective symbolic coping process (Social Representation Theory). Discourse on Twitter was analyzed at two key points in time: the announcement of the judgment and the aggressors’ release from prison. In total 6,592 tweets with the hashtag #lamanada were selected and their …
Where does risk lie in sexual practices? A study of young people’s social representations
In this study we investigate the social representations of risky sexual practices. Specifically, we analyse the circumstances in which young Spanish people consider a sexual practice as risky, and how such ‘representations’ of risk have implications for decisions about using condoms. We use the Grid Elaboration Method to gather the naturalistic thoughts and feelings of 175 young people regarding risky sexual practices and performed a lexical anal…
Colombian Transitional Justice: The media discourse of the Peace Agreement and perceptions regarding its institutions
Colombia had the longest internal armed conflict in Latin America, and its government reached a peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas in 2016. This article explores the transitional justice social representations during the signing of the peace agreement (study 1) and their implementation, during 2019-2020 (study 2). The first study analyzes the news related to the institutions created from the peace agreement during 2016. The second study exp…
Dependency and aged care in Spain: Tensions and contradictions in a society in transition
Dependency and care assistance during old age has become an increasing focus of debate and change in society. Consequently, people must cope with diverse and even contradictory values and ideas about the issue. This study aimed to understand the social representations of dependency based on the dialogical approach of the Social Representations theory. Total 26 semi‐structured interviews were conducted in the Basque Country (north of Spain) with r…
Community on conflict: Social representations of the recent past among members of historical memory associations of Biscay ( La comunidad en conflicto: representaciones sociales del pasado reciente en…
This paper aims to identify how the members of historical memory associations of Biscay (Spain) constructed their ‘community images’ through their social representations of the recent past. We analysed the discourse of 12 in-depth interviews with various members of six historical memory associations. The findings show that the interviewees conceptualize the community from a postmodern perspective, characterizing it in terms of diversity, mobility…
Where do we come from and where are we going?' A study about the transformation of knowledge related to long-term care
The care crisis manifests the tensions and profound changes which are taking place in contemporary long-term care systems, leading to new care views and modalities in society. Through 26 interviews conducted with caregivers, family members and elderly people with care needs, this study aims to make visible the transformation in the conceptions of care in the Basque Country. First, the results show the displacement of familiarist ideas and values.…
Remembering according to national identity and ideology: Influences of ideological positioning and national identities on the collective memory of the Civil War and dictatorship in Spain among youths …
This research aimed to analyse the social representations of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship among young people from different autonomous communities in Spain. A free-association exercise elicited by the words ‘Civil War’ and ‘Francoism’ was completed by 477 university students of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Madrid. Participants were also asked about their national identity and ideological orientation. Lexical analysis w…
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue
Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a redistributive policy proposal that is receiving increasing attention in the Spanish political sphere. Welfare attitudes literature has shown that support for UBI is higher among left‐wing citizens and those of lower socioeconomic status. However, previous studies have not addressed the mediating role of ideological values such as egalitarianism or meritocratism in supporting UBI. Furthermore, studies have no…
Peace representations in Colombian media during transitional justice from 2016 to 2021
This study analyzes peace representations in the Colombian press during transitional justice (2016–2021) of an intractable conflict. A sample of 1,800 news articles and 1,609 photographs from two national newspapers was analyzed through automated lexical analysis and manual image coding. The authors’ findings revealed two dominant representations: a victim-centric approach (negative emotions and confrontation) and an institutional one (state-led,…
A Fair and Representative Process: The Path to Political Trust in Colombian Transitional Justice / Proceso justo y representativo: el camino hacia la confianza política en la justicia transicional col…
In contexts such as Colombia, where institutional distrust is high, understanding the mechanisms that promote political trust is essential for peace. This study posits that it is possible to restore the fractured relationship between citizens and the State during the application of transitional justice (TJ) through fair, representative processes that give voice to communities, and a satisfactory assessment of a mechanism such as the peace deal. I…
Return, Social Identity, and Perceived Stress Among Highly Skilled Women
This article examines identification with the society of origin as a key psychosocial process shaping perceived stress among highly skilled women after return migration. Previous research on return has mainly focused on labour market reintegration, paying less attention to how psychosocial experiences and identity processes shape post-return adjustment, particularly among women. The study is based on a sample of 264 Spanish women who returned aft…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Representations and Identity (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works)