Efisio Manunta

Efisio Manunta is a social and political psychologist affiliated with CLLE (Cognition Langues Langages Ergonomie) at the Université de Toulouse and CNRS. Manunta completed a BSc in Psychology at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, including an Erasmus exchange at the Université François-Rabelais, before earning an MSc in Cognitive Sciences with first class honours and a PhD, both at the Université de Toulouse. Prior to returning to Toulouse, Manunta held a postdoctoral position at the University of Limerick and, earlier in the career, worked as an educational psychologist and career counselor at the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale. Research covers political psychology, social identity, and ideological belief, with published work on populism, identity threat, collective action, and political trust, including longitudinal studies of electoral behaviour and cross-national comparative projects on economic distress and populist attitudes.