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Kai Sassenberg
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Leibniz Institute for Psychology @zipd.bsky.social & Uni Trier (Germany)- Open Science & social influence (conspiracy beliefs, power, social norms, competition) - views are my own

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 19h
Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics.
-> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach
Beliefs in conspiracy theories are seemingly hard to dispute through facts. Researchers have partly attributed this resistance to certain information processing styles that are associated with cons...
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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · Aug 30
@nature.com finds science posts on #Bluesky are more original, and earn far higher engagement. Need we say more!?
#Twitter #X #SocialMedia #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
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Reposted by Kai Sassenberg, Nathan Nunn, Jennie Batchelor

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Aug 30
One week left to apply.
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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 24
Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
York. View from the river Ouse.
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28
Inducing flexibllity mindsets are among the few treatments that influence, in particular, those with pronounced attitudes (not just the undecided fence sitters).
This link might provide you easier access to the paper
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28
Flexibility mindsets had similar effects on environmental intentions when induced within or outside the environmental domain. These results add to a line of research @kwinter.bsky.social and I and a number of other colleagues have conducted over the last > 10 years.
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Flexibility mindsets: Reducing biases that result from spontaneous processing
Spontaneous (i.e., heuristic, fast, effortless, and associative) processing has clear advantages for human cognition, but it can also elicit undesirable outcomes such as stereotyping and other bias...
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28
New paper alert: @kwinter.bsky.social Laura Henn, and I show in 3 studies (N = 1005) that flexibility mindsets (induced by cognitive conflicts) enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those initially low in pro-environmental attitudes.

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Flexibility mindsets enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those with a low pro-environmental default tendency
Environmental psychology provides several promising approaches to enhance pro-environmental behavior. However, these are usually only effective within…
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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)
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 25
Strong conspiracy beliefs about COVID = lower perceptions of procedural justice

Study: Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19
Delighted to see our new paper led by @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social out. In a 5-wave longitudinal study (conducted in 2022/23), we tested whether the feeling of procedural justice returned for those high in conspiracy beliefs towards the end of the pandemic. Short answer: No! For more details👇
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Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · Aug 19
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.
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Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · Aug 19
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 18
We explicitly focused on confirmatory research (sorry, I should have indicated that). And yes: at least one hypothesized pattern per prediction. If you a preregistration contains two hypotheses specifying two predicted patterns - even better. I guess we agree, but my post was not perfectly worded.
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 18
Do preregistrations in psychology live up to minimum standards? We argue in a new paper that they should at least contain the hypothesized pattern, the measures, the planned sample size and analyses, the exclusion criteria, and a time stamp. But do they? For more details read Lena Hahn's threat! 👇
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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · Aug 18
How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...
Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...
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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · Aug 18
How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...
Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...
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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 8
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397 Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.
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Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · Nov 26
How marvelous! 😍

@marlephie.bsky.social, Kinga Bierwiaczonek und @fhopp.bsky.social hold joint junior professorships at the
@zpid.bsky.social and @unitrier.bsky.social.

➡️https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/detail/three-junior-professorships-for-research-at-zpid

#psychology #research
Marlene Altenmüller, Kinga Bierwiaczonek and Frederic Hopp hold joint junior professorships at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and Trier University. Photos: Maja Drewes, ZPID
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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Dec 21
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · Dec 21
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
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Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · Jan 23
🌟 From now on we are active with three pages at Bluesky! 🌟

@zpid.bsky.social
@zpidjobs.bsky.social
@psychopengold.bsky.social

#OpenScience #leavingX
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Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de · Feb 26
Are you interested to dive deeper into bridging #psychology and natural language processing #nlproc? We are organizing a new workshop (collocated with icwsm.org in Copenhagen, taking place on June 23. Paper deadline is March 21st. More information: nlpsi-workshop.github.io
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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Jul 18
🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....
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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · Jun 16
Today, my dear colleague @annameret.bsky.social presented our work on data sharing in psychology at @icssi.bsky.social ✨We show that open data is findable, but less reusable.
Preprint coming soon, preregistration available on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

#Metascience #SciSci #ICSSI2025
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 14
www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...
Elektromobilität: Warum es so viele Vorurteile gegenüber E-Autos gibt
Fehlinformationen über Elektroautos sind in Deutschland besonders stark verbreitet – auch bei Gebildeten. Wie kommt das? Und was hilft dagegen?
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Reposted by Kai Sassenberg, Sabine Pahl, Veronika Karnowski

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 12
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · Jun 9
Surveys across four countries indicate that misinformation about electric vehicles is widespread and often linked to conspiracy mentality, but fact sheets and AI dialogues can help reduce these misconceptions. doi.org/g9psj2
Most people believe misinformation about electric vehicles, international survey finds
More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US.
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 9
🥳New paper on belief in #misinformation about electric vehicles led by Chris Bretter w Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Belinda Wade & Kevin Winter out in @natenergy.nature.com. Conspiracy beliefs are the strongest predictor and #ChatGPT helps to reduce belief in misinformation
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Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles - Nature Energy
Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interac...
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 6
Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · May 26
New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · May 23
Interested in improving researcher's access to social media data? Kate Dommett and myself are hiring for a Research Fellow (1 year; based at Sheffield) for an exciting new project to be announced soon: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Research Fellow (UKRI Social Media Data Access for Researchers)
Research Fellow (UKRI Social Media Data Access for Researchers)
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · May 19
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
Handbook of Social Psychology Celebrates 90 Years with Groundbreaking Open-Access Sixth Edition
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · May 15
Unser gesamtes Workshopprogramm: www.gesis.org/workshops
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · May 15
🗣️ Ein gutes Interview beginnt lange vor der ersten Frage.
Lerne im #GESISworkshop, wie man qualitative Interviews plant, führt & auswertet – von Leitfaden ✍️ bis Transkription 🎧.
Jetzt buchen ➡️ t1p.de/qual-intervi...

#QualitativeForschung #Interviews
GESIS Workshop Qualitative Interviews - Theorie und Praxis 04. bis 05. August 2025 | Mannheim Günter Mey & Paul S. Ruppel
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