Rate My Professor Hanna Zagefka

A leading social psychologist, Zagefka's research centers on intergroup relations, social identity, acculturation, prejudice, and behaviour change in contexts of intergroup helping. Her studies explore how group memberships shape perceptions, emotions, and actions, including why donations to disaster victims vary and how shared identities can boost charitable giving. Funded by the ESRC and Leverhulme Trust, her empirical work spans Europe, Asia, and the Americas, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health, reduced inequalities, and peace. She co-edited the book Intergroup Helping (Springer) and has authored numerous articles in top journals, such as 'Unity in Diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees' (Personality and Individual Differences, 2024), 'Blindspots in Acculturation Research: An Agenda for Studying Majority Culture Change' (European Review of Social Psychology, 2023), and 'Nuestra culpa: Collective guilt and shame as predictors of reparation towards historical outgroups' (2009). Zagefka is Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, sits on editorial boards including the International Journal of Psychology, and chairs or panels for funding bodies like ESRC, FWO Flanders, National Science Centre Poland, and others. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chartered Psychologist, her research has featured in BBC and The Economist, with projects like the Leverhulme Magna Carta Award on attitudes towards ethnic minorities.