Jolanda Jetten

Jolanda Jetten is a social psychologist at the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland who received a PhD in social psychology from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. Jetten's research spans social identity theory, intergroup relations, collective action, and public responses to social issues including climate change, economic inequality, and conspiracy beliefs. Jetten's work examines how social identity processes shape attitudes toward wealth redistribution, institutional trust, gender equality, immigration, and disaster recovery, with particular attention to how societal-level factors like economic inequality and institutional quality influence individual and group behavior.