Linda Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9681-9915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Explaining a collective false alarm
Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 participants and analysed multiple secondary data sources from the 2017 false alarm in Oxford Street, UK, to develop a new explanation of this phenomenon. There was evidence that awareness of recent collectively self‐relevant terrorist attacks lowered the thr…
How Riots Spread Between Cities
Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in these events. We examined the role of police interventions in the spread of rioting to one English city in August 2011 by triangulating multiple data sources and analyzing police accounts and communit…
Mothers’ Voices
This article focuses on interviews with ‘birth mothers’ who experienced successive losses of their children to public care in one local area of London, England. Interviews were conducted during a project partnership between a London borough and university staff, aiming to provide a localised, pilot support initiative which responded to mothers’ viewpoints. To ‘hear’ mothers’ own voices more clearly, we analysed interview transcripts using a metho…
A social identity model of riot diffusion
Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of riot diffusion. We triangulated multiple sources to construct a narrative of events; and we analysed interviews with 68 participants to examine experiences. In line with the model, we found evidence fo…
Thinking critically about rapport and collusion in feminist research
Positive Relationships That Support Elder Health and Well-Being Are Grounded in Midlife/Adolescent Family
Family is potentially a major support system for people of all ages. It can become particularly important for elders. On the basis of a 25-year longitudinal study, this article explores the contributions of family system functioning at parents' midlife to elderly parents' physical and mental health. Findings support the significant influence of the quality of the midlife/adolescent family life cycle stage on later life relationships between elder…
Research and social change
Mindful Psychotherapy
This article focuses on meditation and the benefits it can bring to psychotherapy practice, both through the person of the therapist and as therapeutic method. A regular meditation practice supports the clarity of mind that the therapist brings to his or her work and can thus greatly impact both the quality and usefulness of the work, as well as the health of the therapist. The relationship between mysticism and contemplative practice is discusse…
Les facteurs facilitant et contraignant l’allaitement maternel en Estrie (Québec)
Just a token commitment
Isolated Housewives and Complex Maternal Worlds - The Significance of Social Contacts between Women with Young Children in Industrial Societies
This article reconsiders the picture of the mother of young children in industrialised societies as the 'isolated housewife', suggesting this notion is by no means straightforward. We suggest there is considerable evidence for the existence of mothers' social contacts and their significance both as 'work' and 'friendship' in industrial societies. A pre-occupation with the notion of the 'isolation' of 'housewives' has led social researchers to neg…
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
The Family in Question
Parental validation and support in the development of adolescent daughters
An individuation process involving validation and a valuing process involving support act as mediating Processes between parent development and adolescent development
Sartre
The Family in Question
Isolated Housewives and Complex Maternal Worlds - The Significance of Social Contacts between Women with Young Children in Industrial Societies
This article reconsiders the picture of the mother of young children in industrialised societies as the 'isolated housewife', suggesting this notion is by no means straightforward. We suggest there is considerable evidence for the existence of mothers' social contacts and their significance both as 'work' and 'friendship' in industrial societies. A pre-occupation with the notion of the 'isolation' of 'housewives' has led social researchers to neg…
A social identity model of riot diffusion
Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of riot diffusion. We triangulated multiple sources to construct a narrative of events; and we analysed interviews with 68 participants to examine experiences. In line with the model, we found evidence fo…
How Riots Spread Between Cities
Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in these events. We examined the role of police interventions in the spread of rioting to one English city in August 2011 by triangulating multiple data sources and analyzing police accounts and communit…
Research and social change
Les facteurs facilitant et contraignant l’allaitement maternel en Estrie (Québec)
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
Sartre
Parental validation and support in the development of adolescent daughters
An individuation process involving validation and a valuing process involving support act as mediating Processes between parent development and adolescent development
The Family in Question
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
Isolated Housewives and Complex Maternal Worlds - The Significance of Social Contacts between Women with Young Children in Industrial Societies
This article reconsiders the picture of the mother of young children in industrialised societies as the 'isolated housewife', suggesting this notion is by no means straightforward. We suggest there is considerable evidence for the existence of mothers' social contacts and their significance both as 'work' and 'friendship' in industrial societies. A pre-occupation with the notion of the 'isolation' of 'housewives' has led social researchers to neg…
Just a token commitment
Les facteurs facilitant et contraignant l’allaitement maternel en Estrie (Québec)
Mindful Psychotherapy
This article focuses on meditation and the benefits it can bring to psychotherapy practice, both through the person of the therapist and as therapeutic method. A regular meditation practice supports the clarity of mind that the therapist brings to his or her work and can thus greatly impact both the quality and usefulness of the work, as well as the health of the therapist. The relationship between mysticism and contemplative practice is discusse…
Positive Relationships That Support Elder Health and Well-Being Are Grounded in Midlife/Adolescent Family
Family is potentially a major support system for people of all ages. It can become particularly important for elders. On the basis of a 25-year longitudinal study, this article explores the contributions of family system functioning at parents' midlife to elderly parents' physical and mental health. Findings support the significant influence of the quality of the midlife/adolescent family life cycle stage on later life relationships between elder…
Research and social change
Thinking critically about rapport and collusion in feminist research
A social identity model of riot diffusion
Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of riot diffusion. We triangulated multiple sources to construct a narrative of events; and we analysed interviews with 68 participants to examine experiences. In line with the model, we found evidence fo…
Mothers’ Voices
This article focuses on interviews with ‘birth mothers’ who experienced successive losses of their children to public care in one local area of London, England. Interviews were conducted during a project partnership between a London borough and university staff, aiming to provide a localised, pilot support initiative which responded to mothers’ viewpoints. To ‘hear’ mothers’ own voices more clearly, we analysed interview transcripts using a metho…
How Riots Spread Between Cities
Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in these events. We examined the role of police interventions in the spread of rioting to one English city in August 2011 by triangulating multiple data sources and analyzing police accounts and communit…
Explaining a collective false alarm
Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 participants and analysed multiple secondary data sources from the 2017 false alarm in Oxford Street, UK, to develop a new explanation of this phenomenon. There was evidence that awareness of recent collectively self‐relevant terrorist attacks lowered the thr…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)