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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 21h

📣Calling undergrad and early grad students studying psychology: Want to connect with advanced grad students who can share advice and help you navigate academia? Apply to join the SPSP Peer Advising Program!

Apply here before October 28: ow.ly/Nb0W50X7L9s

SPSP
Get Advised by Grad Students and Postdocs: Apply as an Advisee in SPSP's Peer Advising Program
Application Deadline: October 28

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 16h

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20.

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

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Diego Reinero, Ph.D. @diegoreinero.bsky.social · 21h

🚨Excited to announce the full-day Moral Psychology pre-conference at #SPSP2026!

We sold out last year, and with this year’s incredible speaker lineup, we expect the same.

Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p... There’s a best poster award!

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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · 1d

@elijfinkel.bsky.social
& I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement at Northwestern University. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.

Application deadline: Nov. 17.

Salary: ~$80k.

facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

Northwestern Faculty Search -

facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 1d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

uni-wh.softgarden.io

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 4d

🗞️ 🤖 Weekend reading anyone? For the launch of @transformernews.ai as a standalone publication, they invited me to contribute a piece on what persuasive AI might mean for democracy and elections.

Here’s the result…

buff.ly/OJsNmpK

AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy

Opinion: Felix M Simon argues that AI is unlikely to significantly shape election results in the near future, but warns that it could damage democracy through a steady erosion of institutional trust.

www.transformernews.ai

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 6d

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 11d

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 4d

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is what these people want

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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 4d

October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 5d

Who else do I know here who is working on LLM coding of open ends and is interested in working on a panel on the topic for AAPOR 2026?

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 19d

Interested in models used to estimate lagged effects in panel data? We (@rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Hyewon Yang) have a new paper looking at patterns of stability and their implications for bias and model choice: osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/x]

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 6d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 6d

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier.

#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 6d

Natalism for me but not for thee. Read my new working paper w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social and Ben Newman: we show some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access in an effort to minimize the growth of the non-white population.

Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 6d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 7d

Two open positions on COS's research team!

Project Coordinator: Undergraduate degree in research, or equivalent experience ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Program Manager: 10 yrs of project management experience or 2+ program management ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Please share w/colleagues

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 7d

🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right

Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

www.tandfonline.com

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 7d

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...

▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time

GRAND Recruitment

Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 8d

My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI.

This is part of WASP-HS, an interdisciplinary research cluster on AI’s impact on people and society.

Come and be my colleague!

Submission date: 15 Nov. 2025

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI

The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an

su.varbi.com

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 8d

@abbycassario.bsky.social has empirical data getting at this idea being drafted as we speak

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 9d

Helpful review of four types of interventions targeting misinformation at the individual level (boosting, nudging, debunking, and automated content labeling). No magic solutions, here. I suspect a combination of individual- and system-level efforts are necessary. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Countering Misinformation: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Implications of Current Interventions: European Psychologist: Vol 28, No 3

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 10d

Something similar from this ought to work, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Selling Ourselves Short? How Abbreviated Measures of Personality Change the Way We Think about Personality and Politics | The Journal of Politics: Vol 80, No 4

Political scientists who study the interplay between personality and politics overwhelmingly rely on short personality scales. We explore whether the length of the employed personality scales affects ...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 16d

New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t know. Seems like the cars running stop signs, failing to use turn signals, passing too close, and going well above the speed limit have some responsibility.

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