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 Psychology BSc at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, including an Erasmus exchange at the Université François-Rabelais, before earning a Cognitive Sciences MSc with first class honours and a PhD, both from the Université de Toulouse. Prior to returning to Toulouse, Manunta held a postdoctoral position at the University of Limerick and worked as an educational psychologist and career counselor for the French Ministry of Education. Research covers political psychology, populism, social identity, and identity motivations, with recent empirical work examining how collective action relates to political trust following elections, drawing on longitudinal data from the 2024 UK election.