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Hakan Çakmak

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phd candidate • social/political psychology • researching solidarity & violence • #firstgen • potty-mouthed & plainspoken • doesn't/matter • posting in 🇬🇧🇹🇷🇳🇱 GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AibJD-MAAAAJ&hl=en

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here is the starter pack of people working on the psychology of collective action, social change and resistance. DM me or reply below if you'd like to be added.

go.bsky.app/CnZmUxA

#CollectiveAction #SocialChange #Resistance #SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsychology

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Take Sipma @takesipma.bsky.social · 5d

Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial?

In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 21d

So much of the absurdity in how some elites talk about Charlie Kirk—or navigate the authoritarian politics of this regime—stems from political science’s and the elite class’s fixation on polarization, and the misguided belief that it’s inherently bad and that the “remedy” is civil submission.

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Pedro Magalhães @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social · 26d

Here, @aarslew.bsky.social and I use the well-demonstrated fact that, in issues where people have incentives to withhold socially undesirable behaviours or opinions, the absence of an interviewer facilitates their expression. (4) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 26d

Love it when you 1) do a proper preregistration, 2) find an unexpected finding in the course of examining your preregistered hypotheses, 3) present the unexpected finding as exploratory, and 4) a reviewer HAMMERS you for "undermining the integrity of the preregistration process?" 🫠

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Chuma! As far as I recall, neither social identification nor variables relating to the socio-structural premises of SIT were measured (only macro-economic inequality indices being used). Perhaps @vukasin.bsky.social, the lead author, could provide a more in-depth answer!

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · 27d

Glad to see that our work comparing national stereotypes across 45 non-Western countries is now out in SPPS!

See Vukašin’s post below for the highlights.
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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 27d

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior?

Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.

🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · Sep 3

We cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 5

@aycaaksu.bsky.social this piece might interest you!

Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

❗ These double standards reveal serious threats to civil rights, hence carrying societal implications: freedom of speech and assembly appear safeguarded for some groups, but repressed and contested for others.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

❗ Political psychology must focus more on elite hypocrisy, political leaders who violate liberal principles, even at the cost of alienating some of their voter base (e.g., the Biden administration), rather than solely on voter asymmetries.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

❗ Protest evaluations depend not just on tactics, but on who is using the so-called effective protest tactic and whether they challenge the status quo (in this case, historical dispossession and genocide led by Israel and openly aided by the US, the UK, and the EU).

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

left-wingers rated the policing as far more unfair, while right-wingers did not.

There are couple of key implications from this research:

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

The only difference was whether the protest was led by pro-Israel or pro-Palestine Jewish groups. Findings showed that while both left- and right-wingers judged the policing of pro-Israel protests as unfair, polarisation emerged around pro-Palestine protests:

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thus, across two experimental studies, we presented non-Jewish British and American participants with an identical protest scenario: an authorised silent sit-in with the banner “Never Again”, followed by police detainment of protesters.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

At the societal level, however, it is less clear whether citizens endorse these discrepancies or whether they depend on ideology.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

At the governmental level, repression falls overwhelmingly on pro-Palestine activists, even extending to Jewish-led movements such as Jewish Voice for Peace. E.g., the Biden administration justified police repression of Jewish anti-genocide protesters under the pretext of “combating antisemitism.”

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

In pro-Israel movements, it highlights the exclusive Jewish victimhood while overlooking historical oppression and Israeli crimes against humanity against Palestinians. In pro-Palestine movements, it is used to draw parallels between the Holocaust and Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

This research focuses on double standards in perceptions of police treatment of protests organised by pro-Israel and pro-Palestine Jewish politicised movements in the US and UK, in the context of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Both politicised identity groups use the slogan “Never Again”.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Sep 4

Proud to announce that our paper with Mortada Al-Amine, “Who holds the banner ‘Never Again’? The effects of protesters’ identity and audiences’ ideology on perceived unfairness of police treatment”, has been published in the International Journal of Social Psychology.

Link: doi.org/10.1177/0213...

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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...

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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great piece by Maja Kutlaca, Helena Radke & Melis Uluğ on moving psychology beyond selective allyship toward consistent global action. Well worth a read. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Psychology should move from selective allyship to empowered actions to tackle global crises - Communications Psychology

Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical respon...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Perspectives on Preregistration

Nice review of the different perspectives on preregistration by Yke Bauke Eisma and Joost de Winter.

Preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The replication crisis has accelerated the adoption of open science practices, with study preregistration having emerged as a vital, yet contested, reform. This review synthesizes the discourse surrounding preregistration into four perspectives: (1) Idealist, (2) Pragmatist, (3) Skeptic, and (4) Innovator. Idealists view preregistration as essential to hypothesis testing by separating confirmatory and exploratory analyses and preventing HARKing and p-hacking. Pragmatists highlight workable infrastructure, including templates, registries, and deviation-reporting tools, in order to integrate preregistration into actual scientific workflows. Skeptics caution about the rigidity of preregistration, administrative burden, performative compliance, and displacement of deeper problems such as weak theory, as well as opportunities to game the system. Innovators extend preregistration through Registered Reports, adaptive and versioned plans, and computationally integrated pipelines that document exploration while preserving transparency. In conclusion, the discourse surrounding preregistration is not a simple debate between proponents and opponents but an interplay of diverse perspectives, with tensions between confirmatory rigor and exploratory discovery, and between top-down policies and bottom-up reform.

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · Aug 25

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

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