Four Core Social‐Psychological Motivations to Undertake Collective Action

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Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep (2020, methodology): “Movements for social change generally arise out of the group’s identification of a social problem that the collective actors are driven to address (Van Zomeren, 2013; Wright et al., 1990).”
Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope’s emotion- and problem-focused coping functions (2019, background): “Its second goal is to offer an integrative coping perspective, which differentiates two potential coping functions (Lazarus, 1991, 1993) that connect, or do not connect, hope to collective motivation as identified in an integrative model of collective action (e.g., Van Zomeren, 2013).”
Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating Core Motivations and Features of Social Structure into the Political Psychology of Political Action (2016, background): “Van Zomeren (2013, 2015) suggested that there are potentially two different trajectories by which core values and action-oriented identities relate to one another.”
Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (2018, background): “Indeed, support for this link is rather mixed (Van Zomeren, 2013) and any explanation for the link remains tentative for this reason.”