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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 20d

Passed my viva with minor revisions today. So, apparently I'm a doctor now! Thanks to my supervisors, @anamariab99.bsky.social and Yuki Kamide, my examiners Mirona Gheorghiu and Christopher Benwell, and the viva coordinator Josephine Ross!

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Aug 26

#psychjobs

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

Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yes! Is there a link?

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jul 18

This looks really interesting. Definitely going on the "to read" list

Marija Petrović @marijapetrovic.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣Fresh out the slammer - our Registered Report on the so-called LWA - "A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left-wing authoritarianism" with @milicaninkovic.bsky.social out now in Political Psychology! @ispp-pops.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1111/pops...

A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left‐wing authoritarianism: Development and validation of left‐wing authoritarianism scale in a post‐communist society

The position of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA), contrary to its right-wing counterpart, has long been contested within the psychological literature. Efforts to examine the nature of LWA have recent...

doi.org

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jul 9

Presented at #ISPP2025 in Prague last week:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ana-ma...

Congratulations to Daniel Courtney, who had a big week — submitting his PhD thesis on Monday and presenting his paper "Why Is Everyone an Expert Online? | Ana-Maria Bliuc

Congratulations to Daniel Courtney, who had a big week — submitting his PhD thesis on Monday and presenting his paper "Why Is Everyone an Expert Online? Establishing the Mechanism of the Opinion-...

www.linkedin.com

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

July will start with the @polpsyispp.bsky.social meeting in Prague, where I will be presenting my PhD research.

Then the viva in August...🤞

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

We created media consumption, trust and distrust variables by averaging Ad Fontes' bias and reliability of each source participants said they use, trust and distrust.

We found that rather than trust of biased, unreliable sources, distrust of unbiased, reliable media predicts CA/group consciousness.

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

Media Distrust, Group Identity, and Collective Action in the U.S. Gun Control Divide.

Media distrust is a direct predictor of CA in gun control supporters, and a predictor of group consciousness (which itself predicts CA) in 2nd Amendment supporters: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

doi.org

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

The effect entails an increase in confidence in topic-knowledge, without an increase in actual knowledge (i.e. an increase in overconfidence) following giving an opinion on that topic.

We find the expected effect between no opinion and opinion conditions, but not between private and public opinions

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

Introducing the Opinion-Overconfidence Effect: How Publicly Expressing Opinions on Social Media Increases Confidence Without Knowledge.

In 3 preregistered studies, we test the novel opinion-overconfidence effect, upon which my thesis is based:
doi.org/10.33767/osf...

doi.org

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

Big June announcements:

1: Thesis submitted!🎉
2: My first two preprints...preprinted?

Huge thanks to @anamariab99.bsky.social, both my PhD supervisor and co-author on both papers.

Preprints in following posts...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations! 🎉

Reposted by Danny Courtney

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jun 16

We created the Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale

In 10 studies (N~6,000) we combined 10 existing measures into 1 measure that assess how humble people are as individuals & in groups

Summary www.centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com/p/the-collec...
Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale: New Preprint

We give you a sneak peak a new preprint where we discuss how Intellectual Humility is measured + we created a consolidated scale.

www.centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com

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Reposted by Danny Courtney

Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

An image of a description for ID-COMPRESSION PhD Studentships 2025
Studentship 1: Social Sciences with an Interest in Social Identity
Studentship 2: Applied Maths/Stats/Computational Social Science

Full text PDF available at link

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · May 4

I keep seeing this quote from you. Where is it from originally?

Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Mar 19

We also went to a beautiful beach on the north coast of the island, but I think you'll find good beaches in any direction🤷‍♂️

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Mar 19

Nothing to do with karate kid, but I was there for my honeymoon around this time of year. Going on a whale-spotting tour was well worth it. Also, as touristy as it is, going to for a meal in Naha where they play traditional music live is great. Are you just on the main island?

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Mar 19

@minzlicht.bsky.social I'm listening to the latest episode of two psychologists (rarely) four beers a bit late, so just heard you're in Japan for a month. I lived there for 12 years, so if you're after any info send me a DM, and I'll help as much as I can

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jan 23

So, Britain is becoming more dishonest, because... self-report measures say so. Anyone see the flaw in this inference?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sneaky Britain? How our moral compasses are changing

www.bbc.co.uk

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jan 7

Just reading the title and abstract this reminds me a lot of @chrisbail.bsky.social's social media prism

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Jan 6

Presented our research (with @anamariab99.bsky.social and Ihsan Yılmaz) on civilisational populism within Indian and Turkish diasporas in Australia today at the Japan Society of Quantitative Political Science winter meeting today

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Dec 18

After that (and the 40+ essays I have to mark) I'll be planning for next term, when I'll be module convener for intro #socialpsych at Birkbeck!

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Dec 18

Final day of term! This term I've taught academic writing at Roehampton, stats at Birkbeck, and a guest lecture on social media & psychology at Regent's. Tomorrow off to Japan to see the in-laws, where I'll also be presenting at JSQPS on civilisational populism in Indian/Turkish diasporas!

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · Dec 18

Wow, that blows me away! 😅

We have a lot of international students. No wonder we had to have an official announcement of how the scoring system works here after their first assignment!

I think the reaction of "ban any use of AI" is misguided, but when it produces bad work, it needs a reaction