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Markus Appel
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Psychology of Communication, Media Psychology, Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Father and former table tennis player.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 7d
Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Floating Points
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Timo Gnambs @tgnambs.bsky.social · 15d
💡 How do people in Germany perceive Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

In our recent population survey in Germany, we examined attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions regarding AI in work, healthcare, and education.

🔗 Read the full open-access article here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions of artificial intelligence: A population study in Germany
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly affects individuals’ private and professional lives. Importantly, both the acceptance and adoption of new AI…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · Oct 2
The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:

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Markus Appel @markusappel.bsky.social · Sep 26
We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · Sep 16
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob
Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation
As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...
cimcyc.ugr.es

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 31
Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland

Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future

I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 22
While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · Sep 18
🔥 Hot Off the Press! Latest Psychological Inquiry ft. AMEDIA-Model: How digital tech is reshaping our autobiographical memory. 🤔💭 #AMEDIA #Memory #DigitalAge #Psychology #Tech from Hutmacher, Appel, & Schwan @iwmtue.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...

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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · Jul 16
We snap photos of everything. But does more documentation mean better memories? 📸📲🤳

Not necessarily. Too many photos can drown out what really matters. Remembering is all about selection.

Talked about this with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Erinnerungen: Fotografieren wir zu viel?
Dank des Smartphones können wir jeden Moment festhalten. Warum das nicht unbedingt bedeutet, dass wir uns besser erinnern.
www.sueddeutsche.de

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Jun 19
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
sks.to

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Oliver Genschow @olivergenschow.bsky.social · Jun 2
Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field
www.leuphana.de

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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · May 2
New paper on autobiographical #memory in the #digitalage 🚨

What do individuals do when being asked to remember past events? We show that they repeatedly switch between information stored in their minds and information stored in external resources (e.g., their smartphones) doi.org/10.1186/s412...
Mediated autobiographical remembering in the digital age: insights from an experimental think-aloud study - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Autobiographical remembering may undergo significant transformations in the digital age, in which the omnipresence of digital tools has led to an increased density of recorded life episodes. To gain d...
doi.org

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · Mar 23
@davidryanmiller.com thought you might appreciate this work by @johnjost.bsky.social, which I see as very aligned with what you suggest

spsp.org/news/charact...
Debunking “Both-Sideology” for the Sake of Democracy and Social Science | SPSP
Conservative-rightists in the U.S. are more prejudiced, less democratic, and more violent than liberal-leftists.
spsp.org

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · Mar 12
🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀

Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?

✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
www.gesis.org

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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · Feb 25
My fellow communication scientists, can you point to scientific articles about what @techconnectify.bsky.social is concerned about

Some parts I believe relate to @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social's paper, but I know I'm missing other parts
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · Feb 11
📱 Interested in collecting data with smartphones? Join this #GESISworkshop with @lukotto.bsky.social @gesis.org for a hands-on guide to planning, conducting & analyzing mobile, intensive-longitudinal surveys.

➡️ More info & registration: tinyurl.com/mobiledata25
GESIS Workshop Design and Methods for Mobile Data Collection 31 March to 02 April 2025 | Online Lukas Otto (GESIS)

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Jan 14
I don't plan to read it, but this is what they mean by anxious generation, yes? 🫠

From here: www.apa.org/pubs/reports...
Graph showing age groups who find environment as a source of stress. Younger folks are more stressed by enivronment.

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · Jan 10
Sometimes the grass is indeed greener – and the sky is blue!
We are ending activities on X and joining bluesky.

➡️https://go.uniwue.de/exit
➡️https://idw-online.de/de/news845520

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Pablo Jost @pjost.bsky.social · Jan 10
Hej journalists, Elmo, Alice, and Hitler hit news values, but amplifying far-right provocations plays right into their hands. It might bring short-term clicks, but the long-term boomerang will hit—not only grabbing attention, fueling their agenda, but also undermining trust in the media.
Title of the paper: How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd) Abstract The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability to instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate media coverage and public awareness. To explain the success of populists’ deliberate provocations, we drew from research on populism and scandal theory to develop a theoretical framework that we tested in two studies examining the rise of German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) between January 2015 and December 2018. In Study 1, an input–output analysis of 17 deliberate provocations by AfD politicians in German news media revealed much more coverage about their attacks on migrants than about their attacks on political elites, although all were covered in predominantly scandalizing ways. Next, Study 2, involving media database research and an analysis of Google Trends data, showed that the provocations had increased overall media coverage about the AfD and influenced public awareness of the party

Reposted by Markus Appel, André Melzer, Philipp K. Masur

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German Neubaum @germanneubaum.bsky.social · Jan 8
📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jan 7
A less discussed aspect of normalization of the far right is the attacks on anyone using pre-normalization assessments and terminology.

This has been going on for over a decade, in Europe and the U.S., where the term “far right” is being squeezed tighter and tighter until it only refers to Nazis.

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Jan 7
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jan 7
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jan 5
#JobAlert: Full-time position as University Professor of ‹Interface Cultures/Critical Data› at the University of Arts Linz, application deadline: 7 February 2025
www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/j...
Professor of “Interface Cultures/Critical Data” according to Section 98 of the Austrian Universities Act (UG 2002)
Applikation deadline: 07/02/2025
www.kunstuni-linz.at

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jan 4
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Jan 4
With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · Dec 20
New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Why the latest CDC teen mental health report is a politically inconvenient bombshell for crusading California pols
The report reveals that teens’ use of social media is more complicated than the simplistic campaigns to restrict access recognize.
www.sfchronicle.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Dec 20
- Social Psychology Job -

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics specialising in socio-cultural psychology, communication psychology, and/or political psychology

Closing date: 2nd March 2025

#SocialPsyc PoliPsy #PsychJobs #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-ali...
jobs.lse.ac.uk

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Markus Appel @markusappel.bsky.social · Dec 17
Six days until our application deadline! Post-doc position (4 years) at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Psychology of Communication and New Media. Starting April 1, 2025. Follow this link for the German and English language (Page 2) job announcement: go.uniwue.de/psycomedia