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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 16d

Mich beschäftigt schon lange die Frage, wie Klimapolitik so gestaltet werden kann, dass sie zugleich soziale Gerechtigkeit stärkt. #Mobilität spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle: Sie bestimmt, wer Zugang zu gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe hat – und sie hat Einfluss auf Lebensqualität. (1/X)

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 27d

This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 27d

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog

What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…

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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

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JESP @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nice 🧵 about a brand new paper in our journal! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

Big shoutout to my amazing collaborators: Anna Lambrich, Linda McCaughey, and Iris K. Schneider. This work would not have been possible without you. 🙌

The paper is out now in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social . Check it out for more details! 📄🔍10/10

#AcademicSky #PsychSky #DecisionMaking #Ambivalence

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

📌 TL;DR:
✔️ Info seeking helps to reduce felt ambivalence if the info is clearly positive or negative.
❌ However, this effect is not (only) driven by attitude change.
🔍 Future research should explore how info seeking helps people feel better, not just think clearly about their attitudes. 9/10

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

So what else might be going on?

We suggest info seeking might also be an emotion-focused coping strategy, helping people manage the discomfort stemming from the conflict, even if it doesn’t resolve the actual attitudinal roots. 8/10

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

This supports a core idea in ambivalence research:
People can reduce felt ambivalence through information seeking. But it’s not that simple.
Our data showed that this process can’t be fully explained by the resolution of the attitudinal conflict. 7/10

Figure showing that potential ambivalence does not reduce when people seek univalent information, but remains the same. As with felt ambivalence, it increases when people seek ambivalent information.

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

However, if the additional information is also ambivalent, information seeking may increase felt ambivalence (see the Figure in the previous post). 😬 So: info seeking can help, but only if it brings clarity, not more confusion. ✅❌ 6/10

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

What did we find?
When people feel ambivalent about the initial information, they do seek more pieces of information about a stock’s development. This indeed helps reduce their felt ambivalence, but only if the new information is clearly positive or negative (univalent). 5/10

Figure showing that felt ambivalence reduces when people seek univalent information, but increases when they seek ambivalent information.

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

We tackled this gap using a sample-based information seeking paradigm.
In 4 preregistered studies (N = 542; 16,538 decisions), we looked at how people seek information during financial decision-making and how it affects their felt ambivalence towards different stocks. 📊📑 4/10

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

The problem? Most studies only measure intentions to seek information, rather than actual behavior. So we don’t really know if information seeking works to reduce ambivalence when people make real decisions. 🤔📉📈 3/10

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s long been assumed that people cope with this discomfort by seeking out information to sway their attitude one way or the other. Thereby, they ought to resolve the attitudinal basis of their conflict. But… do they really? 2/10

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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

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!

Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)

#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

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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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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

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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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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 New commentary out today in Nature Human Behaviour!
We argue that behavior change interventions often suffer from a one-sided success focus. But failures may reveal structural barriers people face.

🔗 rdcu.be/ex8hR

#BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy

Comment: Rethinking behavior change interventions in policymaking

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jul 22

Am 14. September gibt es in Bochum eine Abendrevue zu Verschwörungserzählungen, die ich mit @pialamberty.bsky.social und @lpummerer.bsky.social gestalte unter Mitwirkung von @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social und sekten-info-nrw.de. Tickets sind begrenzt und unter dem Link bestellbar.

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jul 21

Hi! Ich bin Rima und freu mich, euch diese Woche bei @realscientists.de bei meiner Arbeit mitzunehmen 🥳 Worum wird's gehen?
👩🏻‍🔬 Forschung: Entscheidungsprozesse, normatives Verhalten (Regeln befolgen?!), Informationsverarbeitung, Drittmittelvergabe
👩🏻‍🏫 Lehre: Abschlussarbeiten

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Jul 18

If you're interested (conversation in German), you can listen here: www.deutschlandfunk.de/grillen-doen...

#meat #vegetarianism #socialpsych #dlf
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Grillen, Döner, Currywurst: Warum die Deutsche nicht vom Fleisch loskommen

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Benjamin Buttlar @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social · Jul 18

I took part in a Deutschlandfunk Lebenszeit discussion round today on why it's so difficult to stop eating meat. We covered a wide range of topics, and I was glad to contribute a social psychological perspective. It was also great to hear from and speak with listeners live on air. 1/2

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Jul 3

Rare open-rank researcher job in environmental psychology, Copenhagen employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Call for open-rank academic position in Environmental Psychology and Sustainability

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Jul 2

🪧New preprint out:

"Politicians underestimate support for climate action even more than the general public"

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Pluralistic ignorance - citizens underestimating others' climate concerns - is well documented.

But what about policymakers in office?🏛️🤔

A short thread 🧵

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Rima-Maria Rahal @rimamrahal.bsky.social · Jun 23

Will I see you for #SIPS2025? If you're around on Wednesday, come drop by at our #hackaton where we'll work on (re)writing the book ✏📖 on Social Psychology creating an Open Educational Resource. We will document shifts in the field and revisit classic studies in light of recent replication efforts.

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jun 10

Join us for the exciting unconferences during #SIPS2025 in Budapest on June 25-27!

We will be discussing #OpenScience, AI, replication studies, critical thinking, integrity, transparency, trust, community, peer review, public engagement, preprints, the future of SIPS, and more!

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