Digital markers of the mobilization of violence

Brown, O., Smith, L. G. E., Davidson, B. I., Racek, D., & Joinson, A. (2026). Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(1), 70–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241266866

DDoS Attack as a Confrontational, Online Collective Action

Lowery, C. G., M., E., & Smith, L. G. E. (2026). From Cyber Threat to Political Action: The Identity and Motivations Presented by Anonymous Sudan for DDoS Attacks. 8th Workshop on Attackers and Cybercrime Operations (WACCO 2026), IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026, Lisboa, Portugal. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11631997

Generative AI

Smith, L.G.E., Owen, R., Cork, A. et al. (2024). How and why psychologists should respond to the harms associated with generative AI. Communications Psycholology, 2, 60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00110-8

AI and Collective Intelligence

Bullock, S., Ajmeri, N., Batty, M., Black, M., Cartlidge, J., Challen, R., Chen, C., Chen, J., Condell, J., Danon, L., Dennett, A., Heppenstall, A., Marshall, P., Morgan, P., O’Kane, A., Smith, L. G. E., Smith, T., & Williams, H. T. P. (2024). Artificial intelligence for collective intelligence: a national-scale research strategy. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 39, e10, Article e10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888924000110

Collective Action

Thomas, E.F., Duncan, L., McGarty, C., Louis, W.R. and Smith, L.G.E. (2022), MOBILISE: A Higher-Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges. Political Psychology, 43, 107-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12811

Digital markers of the mobilization of collective action

Smith, L. G. E., Piwek, L., Hinds, J., Brown, O., Chen, C., & Joinson, A. (2023). Digital traces of offline mobilization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(3), 496–518. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000338

Polarization and Collective Action

Smith, L.G.E., Thomas, E.F., Bliuc, AM. et al. (2024). Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement. Communications Psychology, 2, 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00089-2

Collective Intelligence: Potential and Challenges

Riedl, C., De Cremer, D., Lucarelli, G., Antoine-Souklaye, E., Bullock, S., Ajmeri, N., Batty, M., Black, M., Cartlidge, J., Challen, R., Chen, C., Chen, J., Condell, J., Danon, L., Dennett, A., Heppenstall, A., Marshall, P., Morgan, P., O’Kane, A.,…Denis, G. (2025). The potential and challenges of AI for collective intelligence. Collective Intelligence, 4(1), 26339137241308821. https://doi.org/10.1177/26339137241308821

Social Interaction, Social Identity, and Social Change

Smith, L.G.E., Thomas, E.F. and McGarty, C. (2015), “We Must Be the Change We Want to See in the World”: Integrating Norms and Identities through Social Interaction. Political Psychology, 36, 543-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12180

Neural markers of Social Identity

Hinvest, N. S.,  Ashwin, C.,  Hijazy, M.,  Carter, F.,  Scarampi, C.,  Stothart, G., &  Smith, L. G. E. (2025).  Inter-brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs. British Journal of Psychology,  116,  170–182. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12743

Autism and Social Identity

Cooper, K.,  Smith, L. G. E., and  Russell, A. (2017)  Social identity, self-esteem, and mental health in autism. European Journal of Social Psychology,  47,  844–854. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2297.

Psychosis and Social Identity

Hogg, L. I.,  Smith, L. G. E.,  Kurz, T., &  Morrison, A. P. (2024).  Social identification, identity integration and wellbeing in people who hear voices. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice,  97,  215–233. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12509

ADHD and Social Identity

Cooper, K., Thomas, K., Burnley, A., & Smith, L. G. E. (2026). Understanding ADHD identity and preferred terminology for adults with ADHD in the UK: associations with medication use, well-being and mental health. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10652

A method to model social identity change and radicalization in language

Smith, L. G. E., Wakeford, L., Cribbin, T. F., Barnett, J., & Hou, W. K. (2020). Detecting psychological change through mobilizing interactions and changes in extremist linguistic style. Computers in Human Behavior, 108, 106298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106298

Radicalization and Social Identity

Smith, L. G. E., Blackwood, L., & Thomas, E. F. (2020). The Need to Refocus on the Group as the Site of Radicalization. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(2), 327-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619885870 

Social Identity Integration, Researchers, and Lived Experience of Psychosis

Hogg, L. I., Branitsky, A., Morrison, A. P., Kurz, T., & Smith, L. G. E. (2025). ‘Lemons to lemonade’: Identity integration in researchers with lived experience of psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 98(3), 643–662. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12582

Randomised Feasibility Trial: Groups for Health for Psychosis

Hogg, L. I., Smith, L. G. E., Haslam, C., Coxhill, L., Kurz, T., Hobden, G., & Morrison, A. P. (2025). A randomised feasibility trial comparing group and individual format GROUPS FOR HEALTH interventions for loneliness in people who experience psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 98(2), 478–500. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12574

Autism social identity and mental health

Cooper, K., Russell, A. J., Lei, J., & Smith, L. G. E. (2023). The impact of a positive autism identity and autistic community solidarity on social anxiety and mental health in autistic young people. Autism, 27(3), 848–857. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221118351