New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies.

On this day, seven years ago, I defended my PhD thesis. Can't believe it's been so long 🥲 @profjohndrury.bsky.social @richardamlot.bsky.social

Re-reading this chapter by Carina Hoerst, @alexhaslam.bsky.social @evangelospsych.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @fergusneville.bsky.social et al. for lecture preparation for the coming term.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

At this stage I've lost faith that our academic societies are actually interested in social justice in the slightest. They ll never speak truth to power, they ll never take a position that might harm their financial interests. Might suggest some contact interventions tho to overcome group conflict 🤡

EASP advertises scholarships for research visits to Israel, which decimated Palestinian universities & killed its academics. I'm sure that benefiting from "cultural immersion that extends learning well beyond the lab or library" compensates for the genocide & the thousands of murdered people.

"This application of Adorno’s maxim 'never again Auschwitz' has made of it the opposite of what he intended: a tool of [Germany's] Staatsräson instead of resistance against it." Must-read, authoritative analysis of Germany's misguided response to Gaza, unearthing gems from Adorno's work and more!

If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

What do you mean by "humanitarian situation"? Something simply just happened? FYI it's called a genocide.

Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke.

When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.

I don't think I have been more disgusted by anything recently as much as this statement. I'd rather they said "we don't give a fuck about the ongoing genocide"

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians.

‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region.

Shame on the signatories.

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This is what our politicians and scientific societies are openly covering for and excusing. Meanwhile, Israeli politicians go full out, not even trying to keep up the pretences.

Complete cowardice from one of the biggest societies to name things for what they are: Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Especially after what happened in the year's conference in Prague, this shows the board is unwilling to fix the internal problems they themselves acknowledged that exist in the society

"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Reminding Americans that US contributes much to #climatecrisis (and benefits from heavy consumption) ==>

✳️ increased climate concern (among liberals)

✳️ DECREASED climate concern (among conservatives)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in Annual Review:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

If you face the paywall, try the pre-print version instead:
www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ

Yeeep, it's insane, yesterday there was a fire at the center of Athens 😞

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Crowd psychology post at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Fantastic opportunity for someone.
@crowdsidentities.bsky.social

www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪