Pauline.Grippa@ulb.be
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
Pauline Grippa holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Université libre de Bruxelles (Center for Social and Cultural Psychology). Her dissertation, which combines field studies and experiments, explores conflicts within social movements, with a particular focus on the dynamics of competition between submovements within the broader struggle. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL) as part of the “NotLikeUs” project funded by FNRS-FWO. After analyzing internal conflicts within social movements, her current research focuses on affective polarization between citizens and dissatisfaction with politics, aiming to identify factors that can reduce this polarization and its detrimental effects on democratic processes.
CV
- 10/2024 - ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique as part of the « NotLikeUs » project funded by the FNRS-FWO
- 01/2021-10/2024: PhD student, FRESH (FNRS-F.R.S.) at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (ULB, Belgium) under the supervision of Professor Laurent Licata
Areas of research
- Intergroup relations
- Social movements
- Identity threats
- Politicized identities
- Ideological conflicts
- Competition over social recognition
- Research
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My doctoral research focused on intergroup conflicts within social movements and their consequences on cooperative dynamics within the movements. Through four qualitative and quantitative studies, we found that conflictual relationships within social movements can arise when members of established subgroups fear being supplanted by emergent subgroups that are ideologically different and attract social recognition. Our research suggests that the fear of being supplanted relies on the perception that another subgroup’s identity and ideology not only differ from theirs but could erase the established subgroup’s identity and ideology.
In addition to my doctoral research, my interests also include political identity and citizen mobilisation in the context of collective actions such as the #Balancetonbar and #BoycottQatar2022 movements. I have also studied the processes of agentivity in the discourses of decolonial activists in Belgium.
- Publications
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Grippa, P., & Licata, L. (2025). ‘We Are No Longer the First to Lead the Dance’: Analysing Intergroup Conflicts Within the French‐Speaking Belgian Feminist Movement. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 35(4), e70134.Bertin, P., & Grippa, P. (2025). Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Political Psychology.Grippa, P., & Licata, L. (2025). Fear of Being Supplanted: Intergroup Competition Over Prototypicality and Identity Threats Within Social Movements. International Review of Social Psychology, 38(1).Grippa, P., Bertin, P., Klein, O., & Licata, L. (2025). Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements. European Journal of Social Psychology.