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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 11h

First news is that I just joined the Uni Mannheim, team of Olga Stavrova. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues (@publavecziga.bsky.social, @janaberkessel.bsky.social) and the nice research environment with @gesis.org (incl @axburg.bsky.social) and the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social nearby

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome to Mannheim, Lotte!! 😍

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · 24d

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · May 8

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."

Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · May 5

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)

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PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

PsyComm: Einladung zur Interessengruppe

In der fachgruppenübergreifenden DGPs-Interessengruppe PsyComm (Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie) möchten wir psychologische Forschung und Praxis in der Wissenschaftskommunikation miteina...

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Apr 30

🇺🇸 Study 2 (50 US states; N=336,491), using Gallup data, replicated and extended these findings, revealing that states with greater terrain ruggedness exhibited a higher proportion of vertical (“boss-like”) supervisory relations, rather than egalitarian, collaborative (“partner-like”) styles. (4/4)

Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Apr 30

🌎 In Study 1 (78 countries; N=156,658), we combined cross-national survey data from the EVS/WVS with digital elevation models. Results showed that national preferences for military rule and a strong leader (who bypasses democratic processes) were higher in countries with more rugged terrain (3/n)

Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Apr 30

Overall we find: Yes! ⛰️ More rugged terrain predicts stronger preferences for hierarchical authority. These findings hold after controlling for GDP per capita, population density, urbanization, gender, age, and spatial autocorrelation. (2/n)

Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Apr 30

If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰
In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n)

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Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy

Human societies differ markedly in their endorsement of hierarchical authority, ranging from strict obedience to powerful leaders and militaries to mo…

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Çağatay Gürsoy @caggursoy.bsky.social · Apr 29

ECRs, not-ECRs, Open Science Enthusiasts, Open Source Enthusiasts; I mean y'all basically, see you 'morrow at 15.00CET!

Mannheim Open Science Meetup @maopenscience.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀
🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth
🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health
📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy

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Mannheim Open Science Meetup @maopenscience.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀
🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth
🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health
📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy

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Larissa Wieczorek @larissa-wieczorek.bsky.social · Feb 13

Using my 1st post on blsky to report on my experience of participating in the 1st EAPP early career workshop: 2 days packed with talks and discussions in a small group of post docs and experts from the field. Found this very inspiring and valuable, hope there’ll be many more editions in the future ✨

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Mannheim Open Science Meetup @maopenscience.bsky.social · Jan 22

✨ Join the upcoming Mannheim Open Science Meetup✨

🗞️ Topic: Reproducible Research Data Management with DataLad
🗣️ Speaker: Lennart Wittkuhn
📅 Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Online, sign up here: lnkd.in/ek9YDNuB

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Jan 22

We are back from the winter break and look forward to (re)connecting with all the open science people in Mannheim and beyond 😍 if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me, Juli, or David!

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thanks for the list, @njsgibson.bsky.social! Would you mind adding me, too? :)

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · Nov 28

🎓 Join Our Team! 🌍💡

We’re hiring 2 student assistants in Behavioral Economics & Intercultural Psychology. Remote work (within Germany) possible!

📌 Apply by Dec 20, 2024

www.fernuni-hagen.de/uniintern/ar...

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Oct 30

Thanks for an exciting and enlightening day that built the basis for future collaborations. 🔬 ➡️ 🌍
Special thanks to Dr. Barbara Hartl and the Institute for Advanced Studies (@ihs-vienna.bsky.social) for hosting our talk.

Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Oct 30

🌍 When in Vienna 👩‍🏫 Last month Fritz Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, and I (@spspnews.bsky.social) had the opportunity to visit the United Nations and meet with the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. We discussed how social and personality psychology can be applied to foster sustainable development 🌾

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Sep 22

Just like Moritz, I am also very grateful to my PhD advisor Jochen Gebauer, to Tobi, my family, my friends, and my colleagues for their constant support. I am also grateful to the University of Mannheim and to the MZES, where I am now a post-doc research fellow 😊 (4/4)

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Sep 22

I am particularly honored to receive it together with Dr. Moritz Ingendahl who also did his PhD at the University of Mannheim. He studied articulation dynamics and their effects on judgments. You can read about our PhDs and the jury's reasoning here: dgps.de/die-dgps/pre... (3/n)

DGPs - Heinz-Heckhausen-Preis

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs) ist eine Vereinigung der in Forschung und Lehre tätigen Psychologen und Psychologinnen. Die DGPs erstrebt die Förderung und Verbreitung der wissen...

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Sep 22

The biennial Heinz-Heckhausen Award honors early career researchers for their PhD dissertation in psychology. I am very honored to receive this year's award for my PhD on how determinants of well-being vary across sociocultural contexts - and why this might be the case 🤓 (2/n)

Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Sep 22

Last week, Dr. Moritz Ingendahl (Ruhr-University Bochum) and I received this year's Heinz-Heckhausen Award of the @dgps.bsky.social! 🤓🥳 www.dgps.de/die-dgps/pre...

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie @dgps.bsky.social · Sep 18

Unsere diesjährige Heinz-Heckhausen Preisträgerin @janaberkessel.bsky.social ⁩ hält in Hörsaal 34 ihren Vortrag zur Preisverleihung 👇🏼

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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is great! Could you add me and @wingentobias.bsky.social :) Thanks!

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