Ilka H. Gleibs

Leading in the climate crisis: the role of identity leadership in fostering identification, norms and collective efficacy for climate action

Ilka H. Gleibs, Lea-Sophie Funk

The escalating climate crisis demands coordinated, collective action. This review paper draws and extends the Social Identity Model of Pro-Environmental Action (SIMPEA) to explore how identity leadership can foster the social and psychological foundations for effective climate mobilization. While SIMPEA outlines the …

Think political leader — think he or she? A multi-country test of a gender-fair language intervention to reduce gendered leadership stereotypes

Ilka H. Gleibs, Kim Peters, Alma Jeftić, Timothy Ballard et autres

How identity leadership drives collective action for sustainability

Ilka H. Gleibs

The climate crisis presents an unprecedented challenge that requires collective behavioural change on a large scale. Drawing on the social identity approach to crisis leadership, this paper examines how identity leadership principles can mobilise sustainable behaviours. Through integration of recent empirical findings …

Is it really bad that only 50% of social science papers are reproducible?

Ilka H. Gleibs

Three new papers in Nature from the SCORE project find that around half of social science studies hold up under replication, reproducibility, and robustness tests. Many commentators have read this as failure. Ilka Gleibs argues there is a more optimistic reading and …