How did German civil society react to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine? Who gets involved in a crisis?

✨✨New study in SPPS from our team; lead by Luise Hamdani, co-authored by @ronjademel.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht✨✨

A few key takeaways & Open Access paper here ⬇⬇⬇

You wrote a BA, MA, or PhD thesis in peace psychology, conflict studies, or related fields? Or you know someone who just did?

Consider applying for Gert-Sommer-Preis, an award by the German Peace Psychology association!

Deadline: 31st January, 2026

Details:
www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1584

Is affective polarization rooted in ideology, identity, or both?

By using agent-based modeling in 11 datasets with N ~70,000, Jens Lange, Alex Koch, hansalves.bsky.social & myself investigate the underlying mechanisms of attitude formation in political contexts.

Accepted at PSPB, preprint here ⬇️

#PMIG2025 and #SESP2025 were great: inspiring talks, plenty of time for networking, and taking place in beautiful Lisbon.
Hopefully the two conferences will continue to take place in Europe from time to time..? 😇

Presenting the certificate was one of the last official acts of [email protected], who handed over the chairmanship after 5 years of leading the association.
In addition, [email protected] presented our joint project on the winner-loser gap around this year's German federal election.

An intensive weekend at the Peace Psychology Conference in Bremen lies behind us.
I am delighted to have received the Gert Sommer Award for my dissertation on addressing problems of affective polarization.

Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen?

Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte:

In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.

✨✨Freshly accepted work @socialpsychbull.bsky.social ✨✨

Which measure to chose to assess intellectual humility in the German context?

- A comparison of four self-report scales -

Here's the preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

I just learned about this fantastic tool diversity-x.de ! You can easily check the diversity of your reference list by simply uploading a PDF.

Entering the references of my current project underlines how recent and how US-American the intellectual humility literature im psychology is...

Es hat Spaß gemacht, für den @tagesspiegel.de einen Gastbeitrag über affektiver Polarisierung in Deutschland zu schreiben!
Morgen in der Printausgabe :)
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/gespa...