Staff profile

Short biography

I am a social psychologist with a passion for social change and music. I joined Durham in September 2020. Before moving to UK, I lived and worked in the Netherlands and Germany.

• 2020-present: Assistant professor in Quantitative Social Psychology, Durham University
• 2017-2020: Postdoctoral fellow in Social Psychology, Osnabrück University, Germany
• 2011-2016: PhD student and teaching fellow in Social Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• 2009-2011: Research master, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• 2001-2009: Bachelor degree in Psychology and Bachelor Degree in Music Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia

• Allyship
• Collective action
• Ideology
• Morality
• Polarization
• Prejudice
• Social change

Journal Article

• Abakoumkin, G., Tseliou, E., McCabe, K. O., Lemay, E. P., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M., …Leander, N. P. (2024). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), Article e12909. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909
• Walter, L., & Kutlaca, M. (2024). Tolerance of political intolerance: The impact of context and partisanship on public approval of politicians’ uncivil behavior. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(1), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231156719
• Hartwich, L., Kutlaca, M., Ksenofontov, I., Jetten, J., & Becker, J. C. (2023). (Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(7), 1576-1592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2997
• Koudenburg, N., Kutlaca, M., & Kuppens, T. (2023). The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2992
• Hartwich, L., Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., & Becker, J. C. (2023). The Injustice–Efficacy Tradeoff: Counteracting Indirect Effects of Goal Proximity on Collective Action. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(2), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221093108
• Kutlaca, M., & Radke, H. R. (2023). Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(2), Article 12724. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12724
• Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., Van Lissa, C. J., Stroebe, W., Kreienkamp, J., Agostini, M., …Leander, N. P. (2023). Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2968
• Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Kutlaca, M., & Weick, M. (2023). Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0292842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292842
• Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., & Becker, J. C. (2022). Disadvantaged group members’ evaluations and support for allies: Investigating the role of communication style and group membership. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(6), 1437-1456. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211010932
• van Breen, J. A., Kutlaca, M., Koç, Y., Jeronimus, B. F., Reitsema, A. M., Jovanović, V., …Leander, N. P. (2022). Lockdown Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Inter-Relationships Among Feelings of Loneliness, Social Contacts, and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Early 2020. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(9), 1315-1330. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211036602
• Kutlaca, M., Radke, H. R., & Becker, J. C. (2022). The Impact of Including Advantaged Groups in Collective Action Against Social Inequality on Politicized Identification of Observers From Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups. Political Psychology, 43(2), 297-315. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12755
• Han, Q., Zheng, B., Leander, N. P., Agostini, M., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., …Bélanger, J. J. (2022). Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221127487
• Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., & Becker, J. C. (2022). Applying the Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Approach Coping to Collective Action Among Advantaged Group Allies and Disadvantaged Group Members. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 875848. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875848
• Estevan-Reina, L., de Lemus, S., Megías, J., Kutlaca, M., Belmonte-García, M., & Becker, J. (2021). Allies against sexism: the impact of men’s egalitarian versus paternalistic confrontation on women’s empowerment and well-being. Sex Roles, 84, 536-553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01184-4
• Kutlaca, M., Radke, H. R., Iyer, A., & Becker, J. C. (2020). Understanding allies’ participation in social change: A multiple perspectives approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1248-1258. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2720
• Kutlaca, M., van Zomeren, M., & Epstude, K. (2020). Friends or foes? How activists and non-activists perceive and evaluate each other. PLoS ONE, 15(4), Article e0230918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230918
• Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., Siem, B., Wright, S. C., & Becker, J. C. (2020). Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320918698
• Kutlaca, M., Becker, J., & Radke, H. (2020). A hero for the outgroup, a black sheep for the ingroup: Societal perceptions of those who confront discrimination. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103832
• Becker, J. C., Radke, H. R., & Kutlaca, M. (2019). Stopping wolves in the wild and legitimizing meat consumption: Effects of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance on animal-related behaviors. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(6), 804-817. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218824409
• van Bezouw, M. J., & Kutlaca, M. (2019). What do we want? Examining the motivating role of goals in social movement mobilization. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.796
• Sloot, D., Kutlaca, M., Medugorac, V., & Carman, P. (2018). Recycling Alone or Protesting Together? Values as a Basis for Pro-environmental Social Change Actions. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01229
• van Zomeren, M., Kutlaca, M., & Turner-Zwinkels, F. (2018). Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action. European Review of Social Psychology, 29(1), 122-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2018.1479347
• Kutlaca, M., van Zomeren, M., & Epstude, K. (2017). Our Right to a Steady Ground: Perceived Rights Violations Motivate Collective Action Against Human-Caused Earthquakes. Environment and Behavior, 51(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916517747658
• Kutlaca, M., Van Zomeren, M., & Epstude, K. (2016). Preaching to, or Beyond, the Choir. Social Psychology, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000254
• Täuber, S., van Zomeren, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2015). Should the moral core of climate issues be emphasized or downplayed in public discourse? Three ways to successfully manage the double-edged sword of moral communication. Climatic Change, 130(3), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1200-6
• van Zomeren, M., Täuber, S., Kutlaca, M., & Wermser, F. L. (2015). The Janus-Faced Self. European Journal of Personality, 29(3), 326 - 362. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2006