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Dr. Vollhardt received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (with a concentration in the Psychology of Peace and Violence) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and joined Clark University in Fall 2009. She is affiliated with CGRAS, CRES, HGS, and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Dr. Vollhardt’s research focuses on the psychological impact of collective victimization, focusing on questions such as: how do people make sense of oppression and violence against their group? How do different beliefs about collective victimization relate to intergroup attitudes and social and political views? What explains different resistance strategies in violent and repressive contexts? How is group-based power understood in the context of oppression? Dr. Vollhardt and her collaborators conduct this research using multiple methods (e.g., experiments, field experiments, surveys, content analysis, archival research, interviews, focus groups, Q-methodology studies) and working in different contexts with various ethnic, racial, religious, and national groups. She also co-edits the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Dr. Vollhardt currently teaches courses on research methods, the social psychology of intergroup relations, resistance, and collective violence and its aftermath.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Cologne, 2009
- M.A. in Psychology, University of Cologne, 2004
- B.A. in Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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In F. Bou Zeineddine & J. R. Vollhardt (Ed.), Resistance to violence and repression: Global psychological perspectives.
Chapter: Jewish resistance during the Holocaust: Influences on the choice between individual and collective resistance strategiesPublished by Oxford University Press
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2023
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Published in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
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2023
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Lay theories about collective power in the context of racial oppression.
Published in European Journal of Social Psychology
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2023
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Published in British Journal of Social Psychology
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2023
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Vol. 62
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Issue #1
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General Inclusive Victimhood Predicts Willingness to Engage in Intergroup Contact: Findings from Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Basque Country
Published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
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2022
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Vol. 52
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Issue #2
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The role of group versus hierarchy motivations in dominant groups’ perceived discrimination
Published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
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2022
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Vol. 25
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Issue #3
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Published in European Journal of Social Psychology
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2021
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Issue #Online first before inclusion in an issue
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Beyond Comparisons: The Complexity and Context- Dependency of Collective Victim Beliefs
Published in European Journal of Social Psychology
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2021
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Vol. 51
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Issue #7
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The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood
Chapter: “We all suffered!” – The role of power in rhetorical strategies of inclusive victimhood and its consequences for intergroup relations.Published by Oxford University Press
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2020
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The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood
Chapter: Experiencing acknowledgment versus denial of the ingroup’s collective victimization.Published by Oxford University Press
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2020
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The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood
Chapter: Introduction to “The social psychology of collective victimhood”: Examining context, power, and diversity in experiences of collective victimization.Published by Oxford University Press
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2020
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The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood
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2020
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ISBN # 9780190875190
Oxford University Press
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Published in Asian Journal of Social Psychology
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2020
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Issue #Online first publication before inclusion in issue.
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Published in Journal of Social Issues
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2020
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Vol. 76
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Issue #4
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Resistance to Collective Victimization and Oppression
Published in Current Opinion in Psychology
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2020
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Vol. 35
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Through the lens of history: The effects of beliefs about historical victimization on responses to refugees.
Published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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2020
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Vol. 74
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Resistance to repression and violence: Global psychological perspectives
Oxford University Press
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Awards & Grants
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Honorable Mention for the 2020 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
2020
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Lee Gurel/John E. Bell Endowed Student/Faculty Achievement Award (Student: Arai Long)
2021
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