Michael Wenzel

Flinders University — Australia

Psychology · Social Sciences

51h-index9.2kcitations244works6.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Forgiveness and Related Behaviors(64), Social and Intergroup Psychology(47), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis(25), Emotions and Moral Behavior(24), Taxation and Compliance Studies(23)

Publications243 total

Silenced voice: Social identity, (empathetic) collective angst, and the troubled referendum to empower Indigenous Australians
Political Psychology·2026
Trait Responses to Interpersonal Offenses Scale (TRIOS): Measure development and validity evidence
Personality and Individual Differences·2025
Examining Motivational Profiles of Forgiveness in the Workplace: An Employee-Centered Approach
Journal of Business Ethics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Empathy for violent offenders: Knowing the truth facilitates victims’ empathy in victim-offender mediation
Journal of Experimental Criminology·2025Open Access
Transformative Moral Repair Following Interpersonal Transgressions: Post-Transgression Relationship Growth
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2025Open Access
What Is, What Was and What Could Be: Simultaneously Comparing How Emotional Reactions to the Past, Present and Future Predict Collective Action
European Journal of Social Psychology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness
British Journal of Social Psychology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
What makes self-forgiveness so difficult (for some)? Understanding the lived experience of those stuck in self-condemnation
Self and Identity·2025· 1 cited
“No Matter What We Do, Nothing Is Enough”: A Qualitative Investigation of Political Despair
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
When the Smoke Will Not Clear: Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Political Despair on Well‐Being and Collective Climate Action
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
What could be? Depends on who you ask: Using latent profile analysis and natural language processing to identify the different types and content of utopian visions
British Journal of Social Psychology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding: Longitudinal effects of election conspiracy beliefs on criticism of democracy and support for authoritarianism during political contests
Political Psychology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
“修己安人 cultivating oneself to benefit others”: A qualitative study on self-forgiveness in China.
Qualitative Psychology·2024· 3 cited
The Power and Pitfalls of Social Norms
Annual Review of Psychology·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Imagining a Positive Future: Desirability and Possibility as Possible Pathways to Hope and Commitment to Collective Action
Imagination Cognition and Personality·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Thinking about the future: Examining the exacerbating and attenuating factors of despair-induced climate burnout
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
The role of truth in victim–offender mediation: Victims of crime who feel they know the “whole” truth are more receptive to apologies.
Law and Human Behavior·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Keeping score: Past victimization reduces offenders’ conciliatory sentiments for their present transgressions
European Journal of Social Psychology·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
“The future will be green, or not at all”: How positive (utopian) and negative (dystopian) thoughts about the future shape collective climate action
Global Environmental Psychology·2024· 40 citedOpen Access
‘We despair’: Examining the role of political despair for collective action and well‐being
European Journal of Social Psychology·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Tyler G. Okimoto(10), Lydia Woodyatt(10), Amélie Mummendey(7), Sven Waldzus(5), N. T. Feather(5), Chris G. Sibley(3), Simon M. Bury(3), Michael J. Platow(2), Ulrike Weber(2), Kyli Hedrick(2), Natalie Taylor(2), Oliver Sng(1), Katherine J. Reynolds(1), Marilynn B. Brewer(1), Angela T. Maitner(1), Walter G. Stephan(1), Jim Sidanius(1), John Duckitt(1), Fiona Kate Barlow(1), Kumar Yogeeswaran(1)