Publications

  1. Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., & Takashima, R., (forthcoming). Social Identity, Collective Connectedness and Loneliness. In J. Barnett, K. Vasileiou & Field, O. (Eds) Research Handbook on Loneliness and Social Connection. Elgar: London.
  2. Izuma, K., Ito, A., Yoshida, K., & Aoki, R. (in press). Psychological scales in the brain: Trait-linked questionnaire items evoke similar neural patterns in the mPFC. Communications Psychology.
  3. Bellucci, G., Imada, H., Fett, AK., Ito, A. (online now). Neurocomputational mechanisms of maladaptive behaviors in loneliness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.07.007
  4. Harkin, L., Stevenson, C., Fino, E., et al. (forthcoming). Older adults can re-appraise loneliness using a social connectivity app: a mixed method intervention study. Ageing and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2025.2572017
  5. Dingle, G. A., … Stevenson, C. et al., (2025) Australian and UK perspectives on social prescribing implementation research: Theory, measurement, resourcing and discovery to ensure health equity. Health and Social Care in the Community. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/2650302
  6. Ito, A., Himichi, T., Imada, H., Takashima, R., Haslam, S. A., McMillan, B., Igarashi, T. (2025). Online Social Identity Mapping (oSIM) in Japan. Japanese Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12591
  7. Haslam, S. A., Haslam, C., Cruwys, T., Sharman, L. S., Hayes, S., Walter, Z., … & Young, T. (2024). Tackling loneliness together: A three-tier social identity framework for social prescribing. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(5), 1128-1150. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241242434
  8. Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Seppälä, T., & Stevenson, C. (2024). The more diverse the better: Identifying with a diverse neighbourhood mother community predicts greater intergroup contact. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2764
  9. Wakefield, J. R., Stevenson, C., Këllezi, B., McNamara, N., Bowe, M., Dobai, A., … & Tunçgenç, B. (2024). Articles from and inspired by the 5th International Conference on Social Identity and Health. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2790
  10. Charles, S. J., Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R., & Fino, E. (2023). Diversity of group memberships predicts wellbeing: cross sectional and longitudinal evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231202278
  11. Harkin, L., Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Daly, R., Talbot, C. V., Park, M. S. A., … & Price, B. (2023). Being cut off from social identity resources has shaped loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal interview study with medically vulnerable older adults from the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2724
  12. McNamara, N., Wakefield, J. R., Mair, E., Rennoldson, M., Stevenson, C., & Fitzsimmons, W. (2023). Multiple group identifications and identity compatibility in eating disorder recovery: A mixed methods study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2720  
  13. Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., Riikonen, R., & Finell, E. (2023). Keeping apart on the playground: Construction of informal segregation on public playgrounds in multiethnic neighborhoods. Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(1), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221116632
  14. Stuart, A., Yan, R. J., Harkin, L. J., Katz, D., Stevenson, C., Mehta, V., … & Price, B. (2023). Digital intervention in loneliness in older adults: Qualitative analysis of user studies. JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), e42172. https://doi.org/10.2196/42172
  15. Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Paajanen, P., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Development of first‐time mothers’ sense of shared identity and integration with other mothers in their neighbourhood. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32(4), 692-705. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2592
  16. Stuart, A., Katz, D., Stevenson, C., Gooch, D., Harkin, L., Bennasar, M., … & Nuseibeh, B. (2022). Loneliness in older people and COVID-19: Applying the social identity approach to digital intervention design. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100179
  17. Bowe, M., Wakefield, J. R., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Jones, B. A., … & Heym, N. (2021). The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2520
  18. McNamara, N., Stevenson, C., Kellezi, B., Wakefield, J. R. H., Mair, E., Bowe, M., … & Halder, M. (2021) Community identification, social support and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12456
  19. Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R. H. (2021) Financial distress and suicidal behaviour during COVID-19: Family identification attenuates the negative relationship between COVID-related financial distress and mental Ill-health. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211014597
  20. Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J., Felsner, I. & Drury, J., (2021) Collectively Coping with Coronavirus: Local Community Identification Predicts Giving Support and Lockdown Adherence During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12457  
  21. Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Koschate, M., Cohen, J., Levine, M., (2021) “Oh no, not a group!” The factors that lonely or isolated people report as barriers to joining groups for health and wellbeing. British Journal of Health Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12536
  22. Bowe, M., Gray, D., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Wakefield, J. R., Kellezi, B., … & Costa, S. (2020). A Social Cure in the Community: A mixed‐method exploration of the role of social identity in the experiences and well‐being of community volunteers. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(7), 1523-1539. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2706
  23. Gray, D., & Stevenson, C. (2020). How can ‘we’help? Exploring the role of shared social identity in the experiences and benefits of volunteering. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30(4), 341-353. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2448
  24. Wakefield, J.R.H., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Bowe, M., Wilson, I., Halder, M.M. and Mair, E., (2020). Social Prescribing as ‘Social Cure’: A longitudinal study of the health benefits of social connectedness within a Social Prescribing pathway. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320944991  
  25. Kellezi, B., Wakefield, J. R. H., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Mair, E., Bowe, M., … & Halder, M. M. (2019). The social cure of social prescribing: a mixed-methods study on the benefits of social connectedness on quality and effectiveness of care provision. BMJ Open, 9(11). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033137
  26. Wakefield, J.R.H., Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., McNamara, N., and Stevenson, C. (2019) When Groups Help and When Groups Harm: Origins, Developments, and Future Directions of the ‘Social Cure’ Perspective of Group Dynamics. Social and Personality Psychology Compass https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12440