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Tijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · 26d

What a way to kick-off vacation! 🤩

Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
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SPSSI Journals

This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o...

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!

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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · May 9

We got annoyed by people (mainly politicians) saying „Europe“ when they mean the „EU“. So we wrote a paper 🤓

Tijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Happy to have our paper published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies! With truly one & only amazing @fmsmallfield.bsky.social, and Christopher Cohrs

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Apr 23

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

psych.peercommunityin.org

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Tijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happy to share we were awarded a Collaborative grant by the EASP to study the transformative effects of prefigurative politics in the context of the anti-corruption protests in Serbia! 😍 SO MUCH looking forward to this research with the most amazing people 👇

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Apr 14

Normative fit exemplified by a Kebab place in Oslo. Or is it a Trattoria?

A kebab/pizza place slapping an italien flag onto their kebab sign

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 15

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.

Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.

What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Mar 12

I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

www.bbc.com

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Mar 5

✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa.

Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Research suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c...

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · Mar 5

📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.

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

#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci

The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems

A challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s…

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Feb 18

This nicely illustrates why it’s important to think about probability as a useful shortcut that helps understanding reality instead of an objectively „real“ property of the world.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Feb 5

Amazing read.
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“

Andreas Petrossiants @apetrossiants.bsky.social · Feb 5

I spoke with Kristin Ross about her recent book "The Commune Form," and about the joy and pleasure of building non-accumulative forms of life. May a million communes bloom www.e-flux.com/journal/151/...

The Commune Form: A Conversation - Journal #151

Kristin Ross interviewed by Andreas Petrossiants about her recent book The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life.

www.e-flux.com

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Feb 3

Have you heard of the police tho

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Feb 1

There is no "common ground" with fascism.

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Jan 30

Schreibt eurem/eurer CDU Abgeordneten und macht Druck für die Abstimmung am Freitag! 📧 Hier gibt es sogar eine Vorlage (die Email war mir aber etwas zu milde formuliert):
action.lnob.net/kampagne/we-...

Keine Abstimmungen mit Rechtsextremen! - Social Action Tool

In der Woche des Holocaustgedenktags greift die CDU das Asylrecht an. Das ist geschichtsvergessen! Zahlreiche Jüdinnen und Juden versuchten, vor den Nazis zu fliehen und baten um Asyl- meist vergeben...

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · Jan 30

unexpected beauty in track changes 🌈

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Jan 30

Ich werde am 23. Februar die Partei wählen, die Heidi Reichinnek als Spitzenkandidatin aufgestellt hat. Sie hat als *einzige* gestern die richtigen Worte gefunden und ihre Kritik an der unsäglichen Merz-Resolution nicht durch ein "ja aber" zur Migration untergraben. Dieser Integrität gebührt Respekt

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Jan 21

"Questionable gesture", "strange gesture", "supposed "hitler salute"". What's wrong with German media. It does not matter if this person is a sick meme Idiot or whatever you interpret into this.
Cowards.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · Jan 21

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Elon Musk, noted incel dorkling, throws up a Nazi salute to pledge his life and honor to his dark master, Donald Bloaticus Trump, in a bizarre humiliation ritual in which the world's richest man cravenly submits himself to mastery by a doughy geriatric in a spray tan, all because his oldest daughter came out as trans and roasted him on social media.

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · Jan 17

Interesting special collection on "innovative qualitative research methods conducted across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging economies contexts." All the articles included in this volume are open access.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is the shape of the crisis: to prevent cataclysmic climate breakdown, we have to RADICALLY cut carbon pollution at a completely unprecedented rate. All prior climate policy has failed.

Any university without a massive, cross-disciplinary program to inform this task is part of the problem.

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