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Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · Jan 23

🌟 From now on we are active with three pages at Bluesky! 🌟

@zpid.bsky.social
@zpidjobs.bsky.social
@psychopengold.bsky.social

#OpenScience #leavingX

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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · Aug 30

@nature.com finds science posts on #Bluesky are more original, and earn far higher engagement. Need we say more!?
#Twitter #X #SocialMedia #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

www.nature.com

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Aug 30

One week left to apply.

Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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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

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Inducing flexibllity mindsets are among the few treatments that influence, in particular, those with pronounced attitudes (not just the undecided fence sitters).
This link might provide you easier access to the paper
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Flexibility mindsets had similar effects on environmental intentions when induced within or outside the environmental domain. These results add to a line of research @kwinter.bsky.social and I and a number of other colleagues have conducted over the last > 10 years.
doi.org/10.1080/1046...

Flexibility mindsets: Reducing biases that result from spontaneous processing

Spontaneous (i.e., heuristic, fast, effortless, and associative) processing has clear advantages for human cognition, but it can also elicit undesirable outcomes such as stereotyping and other bias...

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

New paper alert: @kwinter.bsky.social Laura Henn, and I show in 3 studies (N = 1005) that flexibility mindsets (induced by cognitive conflicts) enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those initially low in pro-environmental attitudes.

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

Flexibility mindsets enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those with a low pro-environmental default tendency

Environmental psychology provides several promising approaches to enhance pro-environmental behavior. However, these are usually only effective within…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 25

Strong conspiracy beliefs about COVID = lower perceptions of procedural justice

Study: Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Delighted to see our new paper led by @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social out. In a 5-wave longitudinal study (conducted in 2022/23), we tested whether the feeling of procedural justice returned for those high in conspiracy beliefs towards the end of the pandemic. Short answer: No! For more details👇

Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

We explicitly focused on confirmatory research (sorry, I should have indicated that). And yes: at least one hypothesized pattern per prediction. If you a preregistration contains two hypotheses specifying two predicted patterns - even better. I guess we agree, but my post was not perfectly worded.

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Do preregistrations in psychology live up to minimum standards? We argue in a new paper that they should at least contain the hypothesized pattern, the measures, the planned sample size and analyses, the exclusion criteria, and a time stamp. But do they? For more details read Lena Hahn's threat! 👇

Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · Aug 18

How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...

Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397

Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

doi.org

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today, my dear colleague @annameret.bsky.social presented our work on data sharing in psychology at @icssi.bsky.social ✨We show that open data is findable, but less reusable.
Preprint coming soon, preregistration available on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

#Metascience #SciSci #ICSSI2025

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 12

I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...

Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)

The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...

www.psychjob.eu

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 14

www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...

Elektromobilität: Warum es so viele Vorurteile gegenüber E-Autos gibt

Fehlinformationen über Elektroautos sind in Deutschland besonders stark verbreitet – auch bei Gebildeten. Wie kommt das? Und was hilft dagegen?

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · Jun 9

Surveys across four countries indicate that misinformation about electric vehicles is widespread and often linked to conspiracy mentality, but fact sheets and AI dialogues can help reduce these misconceptions. doi.org/g9psj2

Most people believe misinformation about electric vehicles, international survey finds

More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US.

techxplore.com

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

🥳New paper on belief in #misinformation about electric vehicles led by Chris Bretter w Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Belinda Wade & Kevin Winter out in @natenergy.nature.com. Conspiracy beliefs are the strongest predictor and #ChatGPT helps to reduce belief in misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles - Nature Energy

Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interac...

doi.org

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...

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Antonia May @acmay.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany

Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

doi.org

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · May 26

New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · May 23

Interested in improving researcher's access to social media data? Kate Dommett and myself are hiring for a Research Fellow (1 year; based at Sheffield) for an exciting new project to be announced soon: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Research Fellow (UKRI Social Media Data Access for Researchers)

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · May 19

The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars.

Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT

Handbook of Social Psychology Celebrates 90 Years with Groundbreaking Open-Access Sixth Edition

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 8

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Walter Benjamin Programme
Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET

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