Thomas Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7577-7047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1883 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resisting dystopian visions of urban policy: A dialogical analysis of speeches from Danish anti-ghetto-law protests
The current research studies demonstrations held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 2020 and 2023 in the wake of the 2018 ‘parallel society agreement’ (a.k.a. ‘ghetto-laws’). The stated aim of this legislation was to facilitate the integration of ethnic minorities into mainstream society by drawing middle-class Danish residents into public housing areas defined by high levels of ethnic minority populations. We draw on dialogical and socio-cultural p…
The gender gap in the care economy is larger in highly developed countries: Sociocultural explanations for paradoxical findings
Despite the growing demand for care economy employees (e.g., nurses, teachers, and social workers), men remain underrepresented in these careers. While economically developed countries support more equal rights for women and men, their labor markets are highly gender segregated (Charles, 1992, 2003). We conducted a focused investigation of this paradoxical pattern in the care economy, testing whether gender gaps in care economy career interest ar…
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space
This qualitative case study examines the motivations behind the first public celebration of Ramadan in Copenhagen's cityscape in 2024, exploring the interplay between visibility, identity recognition and citizenship for Danish‐Muslims. Through thematic analysis of interviews with event organizers, the study situates itself within social psychological theories of locational citizenship, recognition and identity dynamics in public spaces. Findings …
A Dialogue With the (il)Legitimate Other: An Action‐Oriented and Dialogical Account of Social Representations in Urban‐Integration Policy
Using semi‐structured interviews, we investigate how professionals involved in implementing or communicating a controversial Danish integration policy articulated their perspectives on the policy. This policy—the ‘the parallel society agreement’ (also known as the ‘ghetto‐laws’)—aims to draw a ‘Danish’ middle class into marginalized public housing areas to promote assimilation of ethnic minority residents. Adopting a dialogical and action‐oriente…
Associations of war exposures, post-migration living difficulties and social support with (complex) PTSD: A cohort study of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Denmark
PMLDs are important risk factors for post-trauma psychopathology in war refugees. Social support mitigates the negative association between PMLDs for PTSD, while low social support is an independent risk factor for CPTSD. Attention should be paid to refugees' daily life challenges and social support networks
Schools, childcare infrastructures, and mothers' time use and psychological well-being: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Schools and childcare infrastructures are key in shaping parents' daily routines and well-being. Focusing on COVID-19 school disruptions, we examine how women's time use and psychological well-being changed as schools and childcare facilities closed and later reopened during the first wave of the pandemic in Denmark (April 1-June 26, 2020). Using data from a longitudinal opt-in online survey with Danish residents, we find that the reopening of sc…
Is It Safe for Us to Be Together Again? Identity, Trust, and Perceived Risk at Mass Events During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Three years after the outbreak of COVID-19, governments are still working toward a return to “normal life.” Yet, the twin forces of ongoing disease threat and progressively relaxing restrictions raise important questions about whether, where, and when people feel safe. We analyzed data from post-event surveys of participants at live events held across Denmark between June and November 2021 ( n individuals = 4,932; n events = 79). Consistent with …
Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis: A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures
In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark ( n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, p…
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-coronavirus crowd
Diversity: From people to knowledge and back again
As incoming editors in chief, we are honoured to take stewardship of the European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) for the next three years. The job before us is made easier by the healthy state the journal is currently in. For this, we thank – and congratulate – the outgoing editors in chief, and their editorial board. In particular, we celebrate their commitment to constantly improving the quality and reputation of the journal, and to openin…
Fragile Heterosexuality
Previous research demonstrates that membership of majority groups is often perceived as more fragile than membership of minority groups. Four studies ( N1 = 90, N2 = 247, N3 = 500, N4 = 1,176) investigated whether this was the case for heterosexual identity, relative to gay identity. Support for fragile heterosexuality was found using various methods: sexual orientation perceptions of a target who engaged in incongruent behavior, free-responses c…
“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader
Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6,112), a study involving an Australian community sample (Study 2, N = 515), and two experiments (Study 3a, N = 96; Study 3b, N = 296). We found correl…
Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group's Future: A Study on the Role of Collective Nostalgia Across 27 Countries
Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However, little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across cultures. We predicted that collective nostalgia is triggered by collective angst as it helps people to restore a sense of in-group continuity via stronger in-group belonging and out-group rejection (in the form of opposition to immigrants). Based on a sample (N = 5,…
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one or one's ingroup is worse off compared with some relevant standard coupled with feelings of dissatisfaction, anger, and resentment. RD predicts a wide range of outcomes, but it is unclear whether this relationship is moderated by national cultural differences. Therefore, in the first study, we used national assessments of individual-collectivism and power distance to code 303 effect sizes from 31…
New English Canaan, or, New Canaan
1632 Thomas Morton (1579?–1647) was an Anglican colonist from Devon, England. By profession, he was a lawyer. He explored parts of Massachusetts in 1622, but returned to England. Two years later, he returned to Massachusetts and established a small fur-trading outpost called Mary Mount (today Quincy). He collected extensive notes on the region, including its wildlife, agriculture, and natural resources. He was sympathetic toward American Indians …
The shared experience of caring: A study of care-workers' motivations and identifications at work
This article presents an analysis of long-term care-workers' work motivation that examines the way this is shaped by the social contexts in which they operate. We conducted a thematic analysis of 19 in-depth interviews with care-workers. Three core themes were identified as underpinning their motivation: those of ‘fulfilment’, ‘belonging’ and ‘valuing’, and together these contributed to a central theme of ‘pride’. We also found an overarching the…
Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
Amphitheater
The amphitheater ‐ a large oval structure with banks of seating for viewing games in a central Arena ‐ is one of the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture, and the Colosseum in Rome is its most famous example.
Why Do People Engage in Collective Action? Revisiting the Role of Perceived Effectiveness
Research has shown limited support for the notion that perceived effectiveness of collective action is a predictor of intentions to engage in collective action. One reason may be that effectiveness has been in terms of whether the action will influence key decision makers. We argue that the effectiveness of collective action might be judged by other criteria, such as whether it influences third parties, builds an oppositional movement, and expres…
Paul Seedhouse: The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective. Blackwell, 2005.
This monograph brings together work from Seedhouse's doctoral thesis and various journal articles, which together constitute an original contribution to our understanding of interaction in language classrooms. In using the tools of ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) to analyse classroom discourse as institutional interaction, Seedhouse has been able to throw critical light on a number of issues in communicative language teaching, such…
John L. Stanley
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The new English Canaan of Thomas Morton
even is not mentioned. It may be furmifed with tolerable certainty that he was one of the numerous traders, generally from Briftol or the Weft of England, who frequented the fifhing grounds and the adjacent American coafl during the early years of the feventeenth century.
Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group's Future: A Study on the Role of Collective Nostalgia Across 27 Countries
Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However, little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across cultures. We predicted that collective nostalgia is triggered by collective angst as it helps people to restore a sense of in-group continuity via stronger in-group belonging and out-group rejection (in the form of opposition to immigrants). Based on a sample (N = 5,…
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one or one's ingroup is worse off compared with some relevant standard coupled with feelings of dissatisfaction, anger, and resentment. RD predicts a wide range of outcomes, but it is unclear whether this relationship is moderated by national cultural differences. Therefore, in the first study, we used national assessments of individual-collectivism and power distance to code 303 effect sizes from 31…
Fragile Heterosexuality
Previous research demonstrates that membership of majority groups is often perceived as more fragile than membership of minority groups. Four studies ( N1 = 90, N2 = 247, N3 = 500, N4 = 1,176) investigated whether this was the case for heterosexual identity, relative to gay identity. Support for fragile heterosexuality was found using various methods: sexual orientation perceptions of a target who engaged in incongruent behavior, free-responses c…
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
The shared experience of caring: A study of care-workers' motivations and identifications at work
This article presents an analysis of long-term care-workers' work motivation that examines the way this is shaped by the social contexts in which they operate. We conducted a thematic analysis of 19 in-depth interviews with care-workers. Three core themes were identified as underpinning their motivation: those of ‘fulfilment’, ‘belonging’ and ‘valuing’, and together these contributed to a central theme of ‘pride’. We also found an overarching the…
Diversity: From people to knowledge and back again
As incoming editors in chief, we are honoured to take stewardship of the European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) for the next three years. The job before us is made easier by the healthy state the journal is currently in. For this, we thank – and congratulate – the outgoing editors in chief, and their editorial board. In particular, we celebrate their commitment to constantly improving the quality and reputation of the journal, and to openin…
Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-coronavirus crowd
The new English Canaan of Thomas Morton
even is not mentioned. It may be furmifed with tolerable certainty that he was one of the numerous traders, generally from Briftol or the Weft of England, who frequented the fifhing grounds and the adjacent American coafl during the early years of the feventeenth century.
John L. Stanley
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Why Do People Engage in Collective Action? Revisiting the Role of Perceived Effectiveness
Research has shown limited support for the notion that perceived effectiveness of collective action is a predictor of intentions to engage in collective action. One reason may be that effectiveness has been in terms of whether the action will influence key decision makers. We argue that the effectiveness of collective action might be judged by other criteria, such as whether it influences third parties, builds an oppositional movement, and expres…
Paul Seedhouse: The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective. Blackwell, 2005.
This monograph brings together work from Seedhouse's doctoral thesis and various journal articles, which together constitute an original contribution to our understanding of interaction in language classrooms. In using the tools of ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) to analyse classroom discourse as institutional interaction, Seedhouse has been able to throw critical light on a number of issues in communicative language teaching, such…
Amphitheater
The amphitheater ‐ a large oval structure with banks of seating for viewing games in a central Arena ‐ is one of the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture, and the Colosseum in Rome is its most famous example.
Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
New English Canaan, or, New Canaan
1632 Thomas Morton (1579?–1647) was an Anglican colonist from Devon, England. By profession, he was a lawyer. He explored parts of Massachusetts in 1622, but returned to England. Two years later, he returned to Massachusetts and established a small fur-trading outpost called Mary Mount (today Quincy). He collected extensive notes on the region, including its wildlife, agriculture, and natural resources. He was sympathetic toward American Indians …
The shared experience of caring: A study of care-workers' motivations and identifications at work
This article presents an analysis of long-term care-workers' work motivation that examines the way this is shaped by the social contexts in which they operate. We conducted a thematic analysis of 19 in-depth interviews with care-workers. Three core themes were identified as underpinning their motivation: those of ‘fulfilment’, ‘belonging’ and ‘valuing’, and together these contributed to a central theme of ‘pride’. We also found an overarching the…
Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group's Future: A Study on the Role of Collective Nostalgia Across 27 Countries
Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However, little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across cultures. We predicted that collective nostalgia is triggered by collective angst as it helps people to restore a sense of in-group continuity via stronger in-group belonging and out-group rejection (in the form of opposition to immigrants). Based on a sample (N = 5,…
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one or one's ingroup is worse off compared with some relevant standard coupled with feelings of dissatisfaction, anger, and resentment. RD predicts a wide range of outcomes, but it is unclear whether this relationship is moderated by national cultural differences. Therefore, in the first study, we used national assessments of individual-collectivism and power distance to code 303 effect sizes from 31…
“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader
Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6,112), a study involving an Australian community sample (Study 2, N = 515), and two experiments (Study 3a, N = 96; Study 3b, N = 296). We found correl…
Diversity: From people to knowledge and back again
As incoming editors in chief, we are honoured to take stewardship of the European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) for the next three years. The job before us is made easier by the healthy state the journal is currently in. For this, we thank – and congratulate – the outgoing editors in chief, and their editorial board. In particular, we celebrate their commitment to constantly improving the quality and reputation of the journal, and to openin…
Fragile Heterosexuality
Previous research demonstrates that membership of majority groups is often perceived as more fragile than membership of minority groups. Four studies ( N1 = 90, N2 = 247, N3 = 500, N4 = 1,176) investigated whether this was the case for heterosexual identity, relative to gay identity. Support for fragile heterosexuality was found using various methods: sexual orientation perceptions of a target who engaged in incongruent behavior, free-responses c…
Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-coronavirus crowd
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries
Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and…
Is It Safe for Us to Be Together Again? Identity, Trust, and Perceived Risk at Mass Events During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Three years after the outbreak of COVID-19, governments are still working toward a return to “normal life.” Yet, the twin forces of ongoing disease threat and progressively relaxing restrictions raise important questions about whether, where, and when people feel safe. We analyzed data from post-event surveys of participants at live events held across Denmark between June and November 2021 ( n individuals = 4,932; n events = 79). Consistent with …
Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis: A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures
In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark ( n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, p…
Resisting dystopian visions of urban policy: A dialogical analysis of speeches from Danish anti-ghetto-law protests
The current research studies demonstrations held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 2020 and 2023 in the wake of the 2018 ‘parallel society agreement’ (a.k.a. ‘ghetto-laws’). The stated aim of this legislation was to facilitate the integration of ethnic minorities into mainstream society by drawing middle-class Danish residents into public housing areas defined by high levels of ethnic minority populations. We draw on dialogical and socio-cultural p…
The gender gap in the care economy is larger in highly developed countries: Sociocultural explanations for paradoxical findings
Despite the growing demand for care economy employees (e.g., nurses, teachers, and social workers), men remain underrepresented in these careers. While economically developed countries support more equal rights for women and men, their labor markets are highly gender segregated (Charles, 1992, 2003). We conducted a focused investigation of this paradoxical pattern in the care economy, testing whether gender gaps in care economy career interest ar…
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space
This qualitative case study examines the motivations behind the first public celebration of Ramadan in Copenhagen's cityscape in 2024, exploring the interplay between visibility, identity recognition and citizenship for Danish‐Muslims. Through thematic analysis of interviews with event organizers, the study situates itself within social psychological theories of locational citizenship, recognition and identity dynamics in public spaces. Findings …
A Dialogue With the (il)Legitimate Other: An Action‐Oriented and Dialogical Account of Social Representations in Urban‐Integration Policy
Using semi‐structured interviews, we investigate how professionals involved in implementing or communicating a controversial Danish integration policy articulated their perspectives on the policy. This policy—the ‘the parallel society agreement’ (also known as the ‘ghetto‐laws’)—aims to draw a ‘Danish’ middle class into marginalized public housing areas to promote assimilation of ethnic minority residents. Adopting a dialogical and action‐oriente…
Associations of war exposures, post-migration living difficulties and social support with (complex) PTSD: A cohort study of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Denmark
PMLDs are important risk factors for post-trauma psychopathology in war refugees. Social support mitigates the negative association between PMLDs for PTSD, while low social support is an independent risk factor for CPTSD. Attention should be paid to refugees' daily life challenges and social support networks
Schools, childcare infrastructures, and mothers' time use and psychological well-being: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Schools and childcare infrastructures are key in shaping parents' daily routines and well-being. Focusing on COVID-19 school disruptions, we examine how women's time use and psychological well-being changed as schools and childcare facilities closed and later reopened during the first wave of the pandemic in Denmark (April 1-June 26, 2020). Using data from a longitudinal opt-in online survey with Danish residents, we find that the reopening of sc…
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