Erica Hepper
@ericahepper.bsky.social
Social/personality psychologist at University of Surrey interested in the social context/consequences of self-related motives and emotions. Esp. narcissism, self-enhancement/protection, nostalgia, attachment and close relationships. She/her. Views my own.
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The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars.
Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT
Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT
May 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars.
Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT
Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT
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1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟
Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist??
➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test
🧵👇
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory
Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist??
➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test
🧵👇
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory
OSF
osf.io
May 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟
Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist??
➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test
🧵👇
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory
Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist??
➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test
🧵👇
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory
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Newly Published:
@ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
@ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time - Yuthika U. Girme, Nickola C. Overall, 2025
Attachment insecurity is characterized by chronic concerns about whether partners can fulfil core relatedness needs, including feeling loved and cared about. In...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Newly Published:
@ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
@ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
This is a really apt analogy to narcissism and I look forward to reading this paper in full.
Global Narcissism vs. Global Warming
"Through the metaphor of 'global narcissism' this paper explores how humanity’s response to ecological crisis mirrors narcissistic defense mechanisms and suggests a collapse is taking place."
By @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
"Through the metaphor of 'global narcissism' this paper explores how humanity’s response to ecological crisis mirrors narcissistic defense mechanisms and suggests a collapse is taking place."
By @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
May 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is a really apt analogy to narcissism and I look forward to reading this paper in full.
It's always a proud day celebrating a PhD graduation and this year our research group is lucky, and quadruply proud, to have 4! Big congratulations to you all, I know you have wonderful futures ahead 👏👏👏
Congratulations to our PhD graduates, Drs. Rose Brett, Federica Case, Chuan-Ren Isaac Chuang, and Fatima Ozeto.
May 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's always a proud day celebrating a PhD graduation and this year our research group is lucky, and quadruply proud, to have 4! Big congratulations to you all, I know you have wonderful futures ahead 👏👏👏
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Starting university doesn’t mean students already know how to use academic language. Our new blog explores why learning discipline-specific academic language is vital for student success and a healthy democracy. srheblog.com
SRHE Blog
The Society for Research into Higher Education
srheblog.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Starting university doesn’t mean students already know how to use academic language. Our new blog explores why learning discipline-specific academic language is vital for student success and a healthy democracy. srheblog.com
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Who's ready for more Expanding Empathy? Through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making & @rockethics.bsky.social, I'm bringing it back for year 6. Now more than ever, we need to highlight why empathy can be strength, not weakness. And why universities, interdisciplinarity, & outreach matter. 1/n
April 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Who's ready for more Expanding Empathy? Through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making & @rockethics.bsky.social, I'm bringing it back for year 6. Now more than ever, we need to highlight why empathy can be strength, not weakness. And why universities, interdisciplinarity, & outreach matter. 1/n
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We're recruiting new RRIG grad student, junior, and senior committee members! Join @rosieshrout.bsky.social, Kori Krueger, @bogolsky.bsky.social, Judith Gere, and Laura Machia to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 5th. Please share widely!
FOR JUNIOR, SENIOR & GRAD MEMBER 2026.docx
CALL FOR JUNIOR MEMBER The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) seeks an application for one new junior committee member. You may self-nominate or nominate others for this role. The committe...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We're recruiting new RRIG grad student, junior, and senior committee members! Join @rosieshrout.bsky.social, Kori Krueger, @bogolsky.bsky.social, Judith Gere, and Laura Machia to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 5th. Please share widely!
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Narcissistic people are more likely to feel ostracized and misread social cues
Narcissistic people are more likely to feel ostracized and misread social cues
Despite their swagger, narcissistic individuals often misread social interactions as rejection, reinforcing feelings of exclusion and insecurity.
www.psypost.org
April 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Narcissistic people are more likely to feel ostracized and misread social cues
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📈Research shows people can accurately track personality changes across situations. We're better at noticing shifts in extraversion and conscientiousness than emotional stability or agreeableness.
Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights!
Read more: ow.ly/qLG750VAQCZ
Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights!
Read more: ow.ly/qLG750VAQCZ
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📈Research shows people can accurately track personality changes across situations. We're better at noticing shifts in extraversion and conscientiousness than emotional stability or agreeableness.
Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights!
Read more: ow.ly/qLG750VAQCZ
Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights!
Read more: ow.ly/qLG750VAQCZ
It was fun bringing my 10yo daughter to participate in a research study @surreypsychology.bsky.social last week. Bonus highlight was that she drew me this portrait on my whiteboard, which I can now never erase! ❤️ #academicparent
April 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It was fun bringing my 10yo daughter to participate in a research study @surreypsychology.bsky.social last week. Bonus highlight was that she drew me this portrait on my whiteboard, which I can now never erase! ❤️ #academicparent
Helpful tips from @theloveconsortium.bsky.social on communicating research in the media and to the public, from both academic and journalist's perspective. Bookmarking for later! go.unc.edu/y4K8W
April 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Helpful tips from @theloveconsortium.bsky.social on communicating research in the media and to the public, from both academic and journalist's perspective. Bookmarking for later! go.unc.edu/y4K8W
I'm so excited to have started our ESRC funded project on Dyadic Nostalgia in Couple Relationships @surreypsychology.bsky.social. Many years in the making and now we finally get to do the research! V happy to have the brilliant @gloriawsma.bsky.social as our lead postdoc gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
Gateway to Research (GtR) - Explore publicly funded research
The Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publically funded research
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April 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm so excited to have started our ESRC funded project on Dyadic Nostalgia in Couple Relationships @surreypsychology.bsky.social. Many years in the making and now we finally get to do the research! V happy to have the brilliant @gloriawsma.bsky.social as our lead postdoc gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
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I am delighted to announce that we will be hiring a social psychologist: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please contact me with any questions!
Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Social Psychology
Exciting Opportunity in Social Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...
jobs.surrey.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I am delighted to announce that we will be hiring a social psychologist: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please contact me with any questions!
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Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media
Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media
As attention spans shrink, storytelling — and truth — may be the greatest casualties of digital culture.
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April 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media
Really enjoyed today's UK Attachment Network meeting at the University of Bristol. Such a great range of inspiring relationship research talks and discussions.
March 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Really enjoyed today's UK Attachment Network meeting at the University of Bristol. Such a great range of inspiring relationship research talks and discussions.
Very helpful blog post on mediation analysis... I am determined to find valid ways of doing and interpreting it despite the many pitfalls!
New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Very helpful blog post on mediation analysis... I am determined to find valid ways of doing and interpreting it despite the many pitfalls!
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This @BPSOfficial funded secondment at the Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology is an excellent opportunity for a PhD student
post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...
post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...
British Psychological Society Fellowship 2025/26
Application deadline: 4 May 2025 (23:59).
post.parliament.uk
March 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This @BPSOfficial funded secondment at the Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology is an excellent opportunity for a PhD student
post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...
post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...
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New OA paper in Compass with @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social, and a number of non-blue-sky students and colleagues.
If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Renewal of Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling With Latent Variables: Clarifications, Methodological Advantages, and New Directions
Researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of data from dyads must select a preferred statistical framework. In this review, we focus on one option that has seen relatively modest adoption: ...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New OA paper in Compass with @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social, and a number of non-blue-sky students and colleagues.
If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Should You Break Up with Dating Apps?
Here I covered for @psychologytoday.com a debate about the pros and cons of dating apps
#psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky🩺#HiSciSky #dating
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...
Here I covered for @psychologytoday.com a debate about the pros and cons of dating apps
#psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky🩺#HiSciSky #dating
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...
Should You Break Up with Dating Apps?
Should you break up or continue your relationship with dating apps? Here are takeaways from a recent debate about the value of dating apps.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Should You Break Up with Dating Apps?
Here I covered for @psychologytoday.com a debate about the pros and cons of dating apps
#psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky🩺#HiSciSky #dating
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...
Here I covered for @psychologytoday.com a debate about the pros and cons of dating apps
#psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky🩺#HiSciSky #dating
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...
We're hiring! Three new Lecturer posts @surreypsychology.bsky.social including one dedicated to Social Psychology jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
(There's a list of Uni priorities but candidates in more traditional social psych areas also v encouraged!)
(There's a list of Uni priorities but candidates in more traditional social psych areas also v encouraged!)
Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Social Psychology
Exciting Opportunity in Social Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...
jobs.surrey.ac.uk
February 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We're hiring! Three new Lecturer posts @surreypsychology.bsky.social including one dedicated to Social Psychology jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
(There's a list of Uni priorities but candidates in more traditional social psych areas also v encouraged!)
(There's a list of Uni priorities but candidates in more traditional social psych areas also v encouraged!)
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It might be Valentine's Day but, as @vlamarche.bsky.social says, few people can boast a 100% success rate when it comes to attracting love interests.
Her psychology-backed tips in the @uk.theconversation.com are here to help you cope with romantic rejection.
theconversation.com/how-to-cope-...
Her psychology-backed tips in the @uk.theconversation.com are here to help you cope with romantic rejection.
theconversation.com/how-to-cope-...
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It might be Valentine's Day but, as @vlamarche.bsky.social says, few people can boast a 100% success rate when it comes to attracting love interests.
Her psychology-backed tips in the @uk.theconversation.com are here to help you cope with romantic rejection.
theconversation.com/how-to-cope-...
Her psychology-backed tips in the @uk.theconversation.com are here to help you cope with romantic rejection.
theconversation.com/how-to-cope-...
Enjoyed talking to #BBC Radio Surrey for their #ValentinesDay breakfast show! 💝 It was nice to have the chance to talk about research (including our ongoing work on #nostalgia) as well as societal trends in #relationships. @surreypsychology.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Enjoyed talking to #BBC Radio Surrey for their #ValentinesDay breakfast show! 💝 It was nice to have the chance to talk about research (including our ongoing work on #nostalgia) as well as societal trends in #relationships. @surreypsychology.bsky.social
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EMA/Daily Diary researchers!
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email [email protected] with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email [email protected] with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
EMA/Daily Diary researchers!
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email [email protected] with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email [email protected] with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky