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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall has died.

She was truly a beacon of light in this world.

I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence.

Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work.

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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 7d

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

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Shuxian Jin | 金淑娴 @shuxianjin.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Excited to share our new paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
In a cross-societal online behavioural experiment with 3,371 participants in 13 societies, we found that perceived societal honour norms predict both greater competition and greater cooperation.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies - Nature Human Behaviour

This online study with 3,371 participants from 13 societies found that perceived societal honour norms predicted both greater competition and greater cooperation at both societal and individual levels.

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Kai Epstude @kaiepstude.bsky.social · 15d

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here:
www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 15d

This review suggests that the average effectiveness of choice architecture interventions on behaviour is smaller than often reported and that there is substantial heterogeneity in their effects
@szaszibarnabas.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 17d

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings."

Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology.

#SocialPsyc

Introduction to the ERSP special issue on “Reflections on social-psychological theorizing and the state of our field”

Published in European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)

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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · 22d

Did you know that people who move to more walkable cities in the US end up walking more? This seems obvious, but is quite solid evidence for the influence of the built environment on human activity and well-being. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · 22d

(4/7) In the U.S., they studied 52 conspiracy beliefs: Republicans tended to believe those targeting the left, while Democrats believed those targeting the right—showing no clear partisan monopoly on belief in conspiracies.

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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · 22d

Do you want to be a part of transforming #healthcare towards a greener, circular future? Campus Fryslân (@rug.nl) has a PhD vacancy focused on understanding/promoting #sustainable healthcare behavior from an Environmental Psychology perspective (deadline: 28 September): www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 28d

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle

Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced."

By @maddipow.bsky.social

Research integrity needs a kindness agenda or we will lose ECRs

Responding to early-career researchers’ honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science, says Madeleine Pownall

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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · Sep 2

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

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Ilan Kelman @ilankelman.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Tsunamis & atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful"
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#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies
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Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful

The usual tsunami advice to move inland and to move to high ground might not be possible for many atolls. Generic, international, trans-oceanic warnings need to become locally meaningful. What advice ...

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10

Redirecting

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌍 What can we do as people to tackle climate change?

Too often, the answer is framed narrowly around consumption choices. These choices are crucial for mitigation, but they’re only part of the story.

We influence #climate change in many areas of our lives🧵

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 30

As wildfires burn at home in 🇵🇹 and here in CA, we have a new paper that finds: exposure to fires doesn’t necessarily predict greater support for climate change mitigation. But people closest to the 2021-2022 fires do prioritize personal adaptive action. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paying attention and paying the costs: wildfires in the American West - Climatic Change

Preliminary estimates suggest that the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires could be the costliest disaster in U.S. history to date when accounting for both direct and indirect losses. As personal exper...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some people find politics interesting. Others do not. In a new paper, I show that appealing to MEANING increases political interest. In 6 experiments, connecting what people find meaningful in their lives to politics increases political interest. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great piece by Maja Kutlaca, Helena Radke & Melis Uluğ on moving psychology beyond selective allyship toward consistent global action. Well worth a read. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Psychology should move from selective allyship to empowered actions to tackle global crises - Communications Psychology

Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical respon...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Aug 28

#SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky

Submitting an EASP 2026 symposium on intergroup relations, contact, or dehumanization?

If you think I could add to your symposium, drop me a DM.

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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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The Behaviour in Crisis Lab @bcrisislab.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Postdoc Opportunity!
Join Jagiellonian Univ. (Kraków) as a Post-doctoral Researcher in Social Psychology (4-year NCN-funded project on global crises & collective action).

🗓 Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
🔗 easp.eu/job-offers/itm/post_doctoral_researcher_positio-2107.html

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Verena Reidinger @reidingerve.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’ll have more to say about this paper in a bit, but very excited about it. Helps to explain why punishment doesn’t work to improve cooperation, why people still punish anyway, and what it implies about the evolution of cooperation and criminal justice policy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Profitable third-party punishment destabilizes cooperation | PNAS

Third-party punishment is theorized by some scholars to be essential to the evolution of large-scale cooperation, but empirically, it often fails t...

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