My Journey to Become a Political and Social Psychologist

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract In this chapter, I reflect on how my life journey led me to become a social and political psychologist. Growing up in Chile during years of political polarization, dictatorship, poverty, protest, and democratic recovery shaped the questions that have guided my academic work: why societies become divided, how groups enter into conflict, and how people can rebuild trust after violence, exclusion, and injustice. My personal history, family background, religious formation, and experience of Chile’s democratic transition helped me understand that psychology is not only a scientific discipline, but also a way to engage with the real problems that affect societies. This journey was deeply shaped by the many mentors I encountered throughout my academic career that I mentioned in this chapter, whose guidance, intellectual generosity, and trust played a central role in my development as a researcher. Through my work on intergroup contact, social identity, migration, forgiveness, reparation, collective action, social cohesion and social norms, I have sought to produce science that speaks to urgent social challenges and helps illuminate paths toward more just, cohesive, and democratic societies. This work has been possible through strong international collaboration networks and through the creation of spaces for training new generations of researchers in the Social and Political Psychology Laboratory at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in collaboration with many labs in different regions of the world. The central message of the chapter is that democracy requires memory, dialogue, recognition, and meaningful contact across differences. Social and political psychology can help us understand conflict, repair damaged relationships, and imagine more inclusive ways of living together.
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Authors González G. Roberto
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197771051.003.0021
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