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Markus Appel

@markusappel.bsky.social

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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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Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 7 more Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Hugo Mercier, Efrén O. Pérez, Melissa R. Michelson, Jacob Montgomery, Markus Appel, Matt Grossmann, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 14d

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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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Mark J. Brandt, Mark Rubin , and 5 more Lisa W. Fazio, Mark J. Brandt, Mark Rubin, Lionel Page, Markus Appel, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Jill A. Jacobson, Juan Ramón

Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 24d

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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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Pennycook, Jennifer A. Richeson , and 9 more Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Pennycook, Jennifer A. Richeson, Virginia Braun, Nathan Nunn, Efrén O. Pérez, Markus Appel, Paul E. Smaldino, Peter Stoett, Melanie C. Green, Michael W. Kraus, Jill A. Jacobson

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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Reposted by John Drury, Robert Böhm, Gordon Hodson , and 4 more John Drury, Robert Böhm, Gordon Hodson, Kai Sassenberg, Markus Appel, Lusine Grigoryan, Sara Constantino

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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Reposted by Markus Appel, Katrin Weller, Sebastian Stier

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

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

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 Ⓜ️udde @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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Reposted by David G. Rand, Andy Purvis, Emily K. Vraga , and 9 more David G. Rand, Andy Purvis, Emily K. Vraga, John Fasullo, Pablo Brañas‐Garza, Markus Appel, Torbjørn Wisløff, Andreas Reinstaller, J. Ignacio Criado, Scott L. Althaus, Mohsen Mosleh, Nicole Graulich

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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Reposted by Teja Tscharntke, David Lusseau, Helmut Hillebrand , and 12 more Teja Tscharntke, David Lusseau, Helmut Hillebrand, Wolfgang Kiessling, Mathias Disney, Kai Sassenberg, Bram Spruyt, Markus Appel, Margaretha Järvinen, Christian Schöb, Craig P. Paukert, Michael F. Tlusty, Tom Broekel, Raji C Steineck, Anson Au

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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Reposted by Markus Appel, Von P. Walden, Philip Barrett , and 2 more Markus Appel, Von P. Walden, Philip Barrett, Michiel van Meeteren, Linards Udris

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, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <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

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Jan-Philipp Stein @jpstein.de · Dec 5

Based on our 12-item scale to measure attitudes towards AI (ATTARI-12), my colleagues @tgnambs.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social, as well as the team over at the #SOEP have now developed a new short questionnaire to measure domain-specific AI attitudes in healthcare, education, and at work ⤵️

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Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 1

Fun fact: The zeros in 2001: A Space Odyssey's title card are not zeros.

Kubrick used the Gill Sans typeface and preferred to use the capital letter O rather than the narrower zero (0) for the numbers.

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