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Nicholas Tan @nickoras.bsky.social · 7d

New paper examining #personality predictors of #daily #meat consumption among #RomanticCouples who eat differing levels of meat. #Openness #Agreeableness #Compassion #JournalofPersonality @wiebkeb.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social

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Personality and Meat Consumption Among Romantic Partners in Daily Life

Objective Eating is often a social activity that can be influenced by others, particularly in close relationships when dietary preferences reflect underlying value differences. We sought to examine ...

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 13d

#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al.

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UZH diff-psy @uzh-diffpsy.bsky.social · Aug 22

Wie verändert sich unsere Persönlichkeit über ein Jahr? Dazu starten wir heute eine neue Studie und suchen nach Teilnehmenden zwischen 18-40 Jahren, die Interesse haben, Einblicke in ihre Persönlichkeit, Wohlbefinden und Verhalten über ein Jahr zu erhalten und bis zu 173 CHF (~185€) zu verdienen.

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smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social · Jul 4

Awesome discussion with Editor-in-Chief of @phair-society.bsky.social, Prof. Hopwood (@chopwood.bsky.social) of @ethz.ch
Listen on youtube and all major podcast platforms or on our website:

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#humans #animals #psychology #podcast
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PsychOpen GOLD @psychopengold.bsky.social · Jun 24

Podcast recommendation: Listen to @chopwood.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of our journal "Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations", over at @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social. Chris discusses the journal’s focus as well as his research on how we perceive and treat animals.

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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Jun 14

Check out this chat about the psychology of human animal intergroup relations on the smooth brain podcast

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#66. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations – Prof. Dr. Christopher J. Hopwood – Smooth Brain Society

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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · May 30

We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. We're looking for unpublished research such as theses, unpublished manuscripts, conference submissions etc.
Full call for data: tinyurl.com/4hur45cw
Please reskeet, or message me if you know unpublished research!

MA solitude: Call for unpublished data

Meta-analysis on solitude: Call for unpublished data Dear colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. Currently, we are looking for unpublished r...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · May 21

Right. They tested the claim that plant based diet causes depression etc via vitamin deficiency. This is the first experimental evidence I’m aware of.

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · May 21

Experimental evidence that plant based diet is not associated with well-being

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Effect of Moderate Red Meat Intake Compared With Plant-Based Meat Alternative on Psychological Well-Being: A 10-Wk Cluster Randomized Intervention in Healthy Young Adults

A healthy diet has been proposed to support good mental health, but the addition of either red meat or meat alternatives is nuanced.We aimed to determ…

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · May 6

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy.

First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium.

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Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues

This essay introduces a symposium on two books that engage in debates in both liberal political philosophy and food ethics, Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s Healthy Eating Policy and Political Ph...

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PHAIR @phair-society.bsky.social · Apr 30

📚In an interview with Dominic Lemken, we discuss the nuances of nudging in practice, when aiming to reduce meat consumption.

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#nudgetheory #foodchoice #vegan

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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 27

In practice I’d use SSM and then you can use bootstrapped CIs a la journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Beyond Description in Interpersonal Construct Validation - Johannes Zimmermann, Aidan G. C. Wright, 2017

The interpersonal circumplex is a well-established structural model that organizes interpersonal functioning within the two-dimensional space marked by dominanc...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 24

Interpersonal assessment enables reliable distinctions between problems, sensitivities, values, and efficacies along the same elevation/agency/communion dimensions

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Distinguishing Interpersonal Problems, Sensitivities, Values, and Efficacies

Covariation among the octant scales of Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) measures can be accounted for by a general elevation factor and two stylistic factors that can be rotated to reflect dominance ...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hard agree with @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social

I value feedback from students a lot and regularly change my approach based on their helpful suggestions, but the way they do teaching evaluations in North America are really bad for both equity and education.

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It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Nature Reviews Psychology - Student teaching evaluations are discriminatory against women and racialized groups, exhibit poor construct and predictive validity, and undermine teaching and learning...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 5

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Genomic Taxometric Analysis of Negative Emotionality and Major Depressive Disorder Highlights a Gradient of Genetic Differentiation across the Severity Spectrum

A core question in both human genetics and medicine is whether clinical disorders represent extreme manifestations of continuous traits or categorically distinct entities with unique genetic etiologie...

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 5

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The complexities of nudging meat off the plate: An interview with Domininic Lemken

How do small changes to our environment affect our decisions when making food choices? What can be done to reduce meat consumption when considering the interests of stakeholders? Dominic Lemken dis…

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 5

But I stand by the frame bc these can all be true: /researchers should try to do studies that matter and asking clinicians helps find out what that is, /between subjects studies are over represented because they are easy to do, /it is still hard to translate clinically useful research to practice.

Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 5

My thinking was that I often hear a reflexive attitude among researchers that clinicians don’t have time or ability to make use of research, and this produces a cynicism that defends against engaging with clinical ppl and reflecting on the value of our work. Arguably a bridge too far here.

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 5

I get it. We were not trying to imply we’d found the silver bullet to imp sci but I can see how, to a person in that area, it came across as naive or sensational, and the focus of reactions on here reinforces your point. In retrospect maybe we (mostly I) knew that would grab attention

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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations to @renemottus.bsky.social on receiving the National Science Prize in Social Sciences for his research on personality psychology. Well-deserved recognition for impactful research! Read more here: edin.ac/3E0xN9s
#psychology #research #impact #researchimpact #personalitypsychology

Psychology Professor ‘Honoured’ to Receive Prestigious Award

Congratulations to Professor of Personality and Social Psychology René Mõttus who was awarded the National Science Prize in the Field of Social Sciences by the Government of Estonia.

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 4

Maybe you’d like this alternative framing better?: clinical psych research is disproportionately influenced by how easy it is to do studies rather than how likely it is to help solve mental health problems

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 4

Fair point. The literature on science practice integration is huge and we were trying to address a much narrower question.

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Apr 3

Yeah we could definitely do better.