The Psychology of Brexit

The Psychology of Brexit

John McGowan, Angela Gilchrist and Rachel Terry discuss the psychology of the forthcoming UK referendum on membership of the European Union.

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Some links mentioned in the show

Telegraph Piece about Daniel Kahneman’s views on ‘Anger and irritation’ in the Referendum

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/05/british-voters-succumbing-to-impulse-irritation-and-anger---and/

John’s McGowan on the Scottish Independence Referendum (from 2014 – 2nd piece in feature. The other two are very interesting also!)

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/edition-6/opinion-scottish-question

A short introduction to Social Identity Theory

http://www.simplypsychology.org/social-identity-theory.html

A very interesting piece by Matthew D'Ancona about some of the expectations on both sides of the argument.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/13/10-days-from-terrible-mistake-europe-immigration-leave-campaign

The UK in a Changing Europe project is a network of social scientists providing evidence-based, non-partisan analysis of the UK’s relationship to the EU.

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/

Full Fact offers analysis of the claims of the two campaigns in the Referendum.

https://fullfact.org/

Producer: John McGowan

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