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The psychology of conspiracy theoriesCreative Commons Image dmountain.com under CC-BY licence

By Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University)

25 January 2012

 Why do people believe sometimes outlandish conspiracy theories? You need to look beyond the individual to start to understand, explains Jovan Byford.  Read more : The psychology of conspiracy theories

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Bystander intervention Featuring: video,audio, Jupiter Images

By Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University)

09 April 2010

Dr Jovan Byford, Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University guides us through bystander intervention and the factors that affect our behaviour during unusual situations.  Read more : Bystander intervention

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Why don't people intervene? Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University)

09 April 2010

Dr Jovan Byford, Lecturer in Psychology at The Open Univeristy, offers an explanation of why, sometimes, people don't intervene when they see bad things happening.  Read more : Why don't people intervene?

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One person's memory as history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Lost In Anywhere under CC-BY-NC licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University)

18 November 2006

It's said one person can change history. It's certainly true that just one person can change how things are remembered.   Read more : One person's memory as history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Families re-writing history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Valerie Reneé under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University)

17 November 2006

Amongst the other things they hand down to you, your ancestors are shaping your view of the past.  Read more : Families re-writing history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Fluid history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Peter Rosjberg under CC-BY-ND licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Dr Daniel Weinbren (The Open University), Dr Jovan Byford (The Open University)

16 November 2006

The past is things that have happened; how is it that the present can shape how we recall them?  Read more : Fluid history: A Things We Forgot To Remember podcast

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Byford, Jovan (2011). Staro sajmište: Mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja [Staro Sajmište: A site remembered, forgotten, contested]. Belgrade: Beogradski centar za ljudska prava.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The collaborationist administration and the treatment of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Serbia. In: Ramet, Sabrina and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, (In press).

Byford, Jovan (2011). Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović: 'Lackey of the Germans' or a 'victim of Fascism'? In: Ramet, Sabrina and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, (In press).

Byford, Jovan (2011). Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The willing bystanders: Dimitrije Ljotic, ‘Shield Collaboration’ and the destruction of Serbia’s Jews. In: Haynes, Rebecca and Rady, Martyn eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Η «ημιαναγνώριση» του Ολοκαυτώματος: Αναζητώντας μια θέση στη δημόσια μνήμη της Σερβίας για την εξόντωση των Εβραίων
[‘Half-Recognizing’ the Holocaust: Remembrance of the Semlin camp in Belgrade since the 1980s]. In: Αντωνίου, Γιώργος; Δορδανάς, Στράτος; Ζάϊκος, Νίκος and Μαραντζίδης, Νίκος eds. Το ολοκαύτωμα στα Βαλκάνια [Holocaust in the Balkans]. Thessalonika: Epikentro, pp. 155–206.

Byford, Jovan (2010). "Shortly afterwards, we heard the sound of the gas van": Survivor Testimony and the Writing of History in Socialist Yugoslavia. History and Memory, 22(1), pp. 5–47.

Byford, Jovan (2008). Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press.

Byford, Jovan (2007). When I say 'the Holocaust', I mean 'Jasenovac': Remembrace of the Holocaust in contemporary Serbia. East European Jewish Affairs, 37(1), pp. 51–74.

Byford, Jovan (2006). ‘Serbs never hated the Jews’: the denial of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox Christian culture. Patterns of Prejudice, 40(2), pp. 159–180.

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Jovan Byford lectures in psychology at the Open University. Dr Byford's main research interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of socially shared beliefs; the relationship between psychology and history and between social remembering and prejudice, with particular emphasis on the way that discursive and rhetorical psychology can help in exploring these issues.

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