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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · 18d

That blood-chilling threat you're feeling now? Even small ideological change away from you is threatening, shaping our cardiovascular reapinses, as we find in this Psychophysiology paper led by @feitenglong.bsky.social .

Feiteng Long @feitenglong.bsky.social · 29d

Progressive social change threatens ideological rightists and challenges leftists, as our physiological data show.
Check out our new paper for the full story – a key part of my PhD work with @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers.
#socialpsychology #politicalpsychology #socialchange

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

The present study reveals how changes in public opinion on migration influence the cardiovascular stress responses of ideological leftists and rightists. Compared to stability, progressive changes in....

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Apr 29

*led* by @feitenglong.bsky.social , that is - and masterfully!

Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Apr 29

The thing about norm-setting diversity initiatives? They work! See our findings on such real-life intervention among university students from a pre-registered longitudinal study employing network analysis, less by @feitenglong.bsky.social

Feiteng Long @feitenglong.bsky.social · Apr 28

Check out our registered report @ispp-pops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pops..., in which we present a four-wave field experiment combined with network analysis. We cannot make it without our social network expert @tzingora.bsky.social and my PhD supervisors @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers!

The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups

Individuals' attitudes toward members of ethnic and national outgroups can be shaped by peer norms within social networks. However, little is known about the interplay between such spontaneous normat...

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Apr 29

Nice to connect! Indeed lots to fear these days.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 28

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Frans Timmermans @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl · Mar 10

Dat is emancipatie. Dat komt door onderwijs. En dat moeten we in stand houden.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Feb 15

If you weren't sure by now that the Nazi party had taken over the US, Vance's calls to be more welcoming to Europe's Nazi parties should have helped you gain some certainty.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Feb 9

If you're living anywhere where far-right leaders are making surprisingly fast strides,
I cannot recommend this piece enough:

The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Feb 5

After 16 months of continuous bad news, the absolute evil of this morning's news still managed to shock me: The U.S. president explicitly called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, to the obvious delight of Netanyahu, but also of Israel's "opposition" leaders. Pasaran?

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Dec 20

Political hope, anyone? When are leaders go fascist, previous supporters of those leaders actually go less fascist.
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb

Gone Too Far Elite Radicalization Hebel-Sela Aldar Orian Harel Political Psychology

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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · Dec 17

Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how?

Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Nov 27

Paper just out in JASP! Anat Ruhrman's investigation of the impact of exposure to violence in an intergroup conflict on empathy towards the outgroup, with @ericmshuman.bsky.social , Jojanneke van der Toorn, Eran Halperin and yours truly.
tinyurl.com/mrddk9zp

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Nov 25

Malieveld, den Haag, now.

#stopdebezuinigingen #woinactie #EppoCiao #kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Nov 20

I was angry. I wrote a thing.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Opinie | Nederland neemt de tactieken over die Netanyahu gebruikt om minderheden te delegitimeren

Antisemitisme: Het echte gevaar voor religieuze en etnische minderheden komt van politici die bevolkingsgroepen tegen elkaar ophitsen en discriminerende praktijken afdwingen, vindt Ruthie Pliskin.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thanks for this! Happy to join.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Sep 25

Thank you! These both look great - I'll look more into them.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Sep 25

Fellow social psychologists, I need your help!
Can you recommend an intro Social Psych textbook that

a. was published this decade
b. is _not_ incredibly U.S. focused
?

Or, if you can't, could you repost?

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out our new paper, the fruit of a complex, nuanced project led by @feitenglong.bsky.social , with Daan Scheepers and yours truly:

t.ly/QK_nI

Norms of equality reduce prejudice towards migrants, but only among conservatives

The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations on this!! Sad to see you go.

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · May 1

With the one and only, hope expert par excellence, @smadarcohenchen.bsky.social . Welcome to Bluesky!

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hope is hard to come by these days, but is that strictly a bad thing?
Out now in ERSP: Smadar Cohen-Chen and I review past work on group-based hope to examine when it's good and when it's bad, in feeling and in function. Open access at shorturl.at/xFIS7

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Apr 29

@lhoenig.bsky.social 's groundbreaking project (the first from her PhD, with me and @dedreu.bsky.social ) is out, in JEP:G no less! See the comments for open access links.

Laura Hoenig @lhoenig.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks to JEP:G, my collab. Ruthie Pliskin & Carsten De Dreu, and some constructive reviewers, our paper sees the light of day!

Honoring that humans often have multiple public goods in which they can choose to invest resources, we explore the realm of ✨multiple-public-goods provision problems✨

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Mar 19

New EJSP editorial team, new (updated) guidelines! See them here, and come submit your work to us!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Jan 30

10 years after participating in the Lisbon edition, I'm truly excited to attend the EASP summer school again, this time as teacher, alongside @iborinca.bsky.social. Apply by 29.2 for our psych of violent interethnic conflict workshop, or any of the other workshops, all taught by fabulous scholars.

Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · Jan 29

I am super excited to announce that we are hosting the next EASP Summer School in Košice, Slovakia from 8th – 19th July, 2024. We have fantastic teachers teaching fantastic workshops. Check out and spread the word! Let's have a great time together. sites.google.com/view/easpsum...

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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · Dec 13

Five days left to apply to a PhD position with two of the best, loveliest researchers out there:
@leticiarmicheli.bsky.social and @aromano.bsky.social

Leticia Micheli @leticiarmicheli.bsky.social · Nov 28

📢 Job alert!

Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups.

📝Deadline: 18 December

Please share widely!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

#AcademiSky #PsychSciSky

PhD student (full-time, 4 years)

PhD student (full-time, 4 years) “Effects of economic inequality on cooperation and conflict between groups”Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 year PhD position at the Institute of Psyc...

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