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Collective Action Tendency Measurement (SIMCA)

Collective action tendency measurement, organized by the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA; van Zomeren, Postmes and Spears, 2008), assesses the psychological predictors of willingness to engage in protest and group-based political action: perceived injustice (especially group-based anger), group efficacy, and politicized social identity. SIMCA integrates these three traditions into a structural model in which identity drives action both directly and through injustice and efficacy.

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Social Identity Model of Collective Action Measurement
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-psychology
  • van Zomeren, M., Postmes, T., & Spears, R. (2008). Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives. Psychological Bulletin, 134(4), 504-535. · DOI 10.1037/0033-2909.134.4.504
  • van Zomeren, M., Postmes, T., & Spears, R. (2012). On conviction's collective consequences: Integrating moral conviction with the social identity model of collective action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51(1), 52-71. · DOI 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2010.02000.x
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