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Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · 19d

Last week I was at the BPS Social Psych Conference @bps-social-psych.bsky.social in Oxford @ox.ac.uk The theme was Beyond Tribalism—bringing different traditions together organised by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @nascherme.bsky.social
Some reflections in a thread 👇

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Shelley McKeown Jones @shelleymckeown.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you to everyone who supported and attended- it was great to have so many social psychologists hanging out in Oxford at the lovely LMH.

BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

That's a wrap for the 2025 BPS social section conference in Oxford🎉

Thank you to those who came to present their latest contributions to social psychology!

Another thank you to our organisers @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @nascherme.bsky.social for making this conference possible!

Until next year!

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Its with great pleasure that we present Chloe Bracegirdle as this year's early career award winner! 🏆

Her keynote talk explores the ties that bind and divide in terms of intergroup relations in school social networks.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 29d

At @bps-social-psych.bsky.social, section chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social congratulates Prof Stephen Gibson on the mid-career award @bpsofficial.bsky.social

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're pleased to kick off the 2025 BPS Social Psychology Section Conference with a welcoming speech by our chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social and organisers @shelleymckeown.bsky.social & @nascherme.bsky.social

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Laura K Taylor @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social · Jul 4

So wonderful to connect with colleagues (and friends!) after the #ISPP2025 sessions

Thanks for bringing us all together @polpsyispp.bsky.social

@shelleymckeown.bsky.social

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Helping Kids! Lab @helpingkidslab.bsky.social · Jul 3

This weekend, we are excited to have our team presenting at #ISPP2025 ! See here for where to catch these incredible presentations by Dr. Vivian Liu and @iniccraith.bsky.social

@ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social

Helping Kids! at International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 2025 Annual Meeting

Dr. Vivian Liu, postdoctoral researcher at UCD. Presentation: GENERATION PEACE: Measuring Youth Peacebuilding. When: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 8:30-9:45 AM. Where: RB 101

Isabelle Nic Craith, PhD researcher at UCD. Presentation: A systematic review of the relationship between national identity content and attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants among child, adolescents, and young adults. When: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM. Where: RB 107

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Sumedh Rao @sumedhrao.bsky.social · Jul 3

Delighted to have made it to this year's #ISPP2025 and to present this paper from our Shared Spaces project authored with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social and @pierlucdupont.bsky.social

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

Finally, Chloe Bracegirdle from @ox.ac.uk ‬ looks at ethnically segregated social networks in UK schools.

🔹82% of bullying ties were same-ethnic

🔹18% were cross-ethnic

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

Stefania Paolini from @durhampsych.bsky.social explains work showing that positive intergroup contact improves social cohesion, but the disproportionate effect of negative contact is larger when people feel able to self-select out of contact situations.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

@aaronltbh.bsky.social ‬ from @westernsydneyu.bsky.social‬ describes how GPS-based movement patterns may reveal who seeks or avoids outgroup spaces in Greater Sydney.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

Jack Klein discusses identity-fusion - a powerful form of group alignment that can motivate extreme pro-group behaviour.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 22

Final day of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference...

Tjitske de Groot from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reviews the different effects of intergroup contact interventions on minority and majority groups.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Helen Neville discusses the different processes of peacebuilding for White people and People of Colour within systems of oppression.

#SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Aishath Nasheeda introduces life skills education in the Maldives.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Alex O’Donnell discusses positive intergroup contact and youth development. For more see: issr.uq.edu.au/profile/4885...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Patrick Kotzur from @durhampsych.bsky.social presents longitudinal data showing intergroup “contact does its magic across the board,” including target outgroups (primary transfer effect), other outgroups (secondary transfer effect), and cognition more broadly (tertiary transfer effect).

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 21

Day 2 of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference

@shelleymckeown.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk explaining that empathy is associated with more positive attitudes toward out‐groups in Northern Ireland, which in turn, is related to higher out‐group prosocial behaviors.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kicking off the SASP-SPSSI 2025 “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference
in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand.

sasp.org.au/events/sasp-...

@lindatropp.bsky.social
@shelleymckeown.bsky.social
@spssi.bsky.social

#SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky

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Shelley McKeown Jones @shelleymckeown.bsky.social · Jun 14

I am incredibly lucky to be working closely with the wonderful @emilykubin.bsky.social over the coming, watch this space!

Emily Kubin @emilykubin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very excited to share I have been awarded the Walter Benjamin Post-Doc Fellowship from the DFG for my project on healing conflict through understanding victimhood narratives.

Will be conducting this work @University of Oxford w/ the wonderful @shelleymckeown.bsky.social starting in September 25

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Emily Kubin @emilykubin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very excited to share I have been awarded the Walter Benjamin Post-Doc Fellowship from the DFG for my project on healing conflict through understanding victimhood narratives.

Will be conducting this work @University of Oxford w/ the wonderful @shelleymckeown.bsky.social starting in September 25

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you know potential PhD candidates who'd be interested, please link them to Studentships currently advertised on our ERC ID-Compression project (one social psychology; one applied maths/computational social science): @markrubin.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

An image of a description for ID-COMPRESSION PhD Studentships 2025
Studentship 1: Social Sciences with an Interest in Social Identity
Studentship 2: Applied Maths/Stats/Computational Social Science

Full text PDF available at link

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Shelley McKeown Jones @shelleymckeown.bsky.social · Jun 7

It was great to work on this one together.

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Jun 6

Led by the brilliant @shelleymckeown.bsky.social we present a Perspectives article on why and how #IntergroupContact can be a valuable tool in educational settings. We hope this can facilitate a fruitful dialogue between researchers and teachers bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · May 16

Explore the new May special issue of @pacjournal.bsky.social on peace psychology and #global challenges across a broad range of applications, including changing attitudes toward religious others. bit.ly/4mbdZRS @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

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