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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · 6d

New paper out in NYAS!
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝
w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 23d

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action!

When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance

Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...

planetaryhealthalliance.org

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!

Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)

#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · Aug 26

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that moderate increases in cumulative heatwave exposure increase a person’s biological age — to an extent comparable to regular smoking or alcohol consumption.”

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking

Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

www.nature.com

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢 🥳 New paper alert!

We developed a new task (RateME) for studying the effects of personal and group rejection and showed that both types of rejection can be linked to radicalization via increased hostility.

🔗 Link to the paper: shorturl.at/uJiDa

Group and personal rejection are similarly linked to extreme intergroup attitudes

Perceived marginalization of social groups has been identified as one of the main drivers of violent extremism across countries. However, most psychol…

shorturl.at

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jul 25

What an excellent and truly important commentary on the clashes between bottom-up and top-down neuroscience and how we can move forward

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

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Aidan Campbell @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎉 Our paper is now out in Communications Psychology!
We explore how effortful leisure (like puzzling) can be a source of meaning in daily life.

Across 5 studies (N = 2,569), we find:
- Effort makes leisure feel more meaningful
- But not necessarily less enjoyable

🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life - Communications Psychology

Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can...

doi.org

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jul 20

Excited to share our new paper on individual victimhood and conspiracy beliefs across 15 countries! 🌍

Check out the 🧵 below 👇🏼

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....

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jul 10

Very excited to see this paper out! Grateful I had the chance to contribute to data collection in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Austria 🇦🇹. My home country Bulgaria is rarely included in such surveys, so I’m especially happy we got data there.

Stellar effort by the team, especially @colognaviktoria.bsky.social! 👏

Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎

Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change

Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

www.nature.com

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jul 8

I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...

Hasty Theories

Why Social Psychology Needs to Stop Rushing to Explain

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟

I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠

Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁

Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jun 23

Enjoying stunning Brisbane and its amazing wildlife while waiting for #OHBM2025 to start 😍@ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Looking forward to a week of inspiring talks and fruitful discussions! DM me if you are attending and want to chat 😊

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jun 17

Awesome talk by @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social on how the emergence of radical climate activists (Last Generation) impacted portayals of moderate activists (Fridays for Future) 🤩👏

See also our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jun 13

Excited to see that our International Neuro Climate Working Group is featured by the World Economic Forum as one of the top global initiatives addressing climate change & mental health 🌍🧠

Grateful to be part of this inspiring, growing movement!

📰 Read more: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Environmental disruption is impacting people's mental health

Communities around the world are using innovative programmes like youth-led support schemes to address the mental health impacts of environmental change.

www.weforum.org

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Jana Köhler @janakoehler.bsky.social · Jun 5

1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯

🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.

My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jun 4

Do radical climate protests influence portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes? 🤔

We analyzed 2,376 news articles and 193k user comments to answer this question!

Check out our new preprint 👇🏼

Lukas Mayrhofer @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social · Jun 4

One month into my phd and my first preprint is out - at this pace I'll be done by the end of the year, right? 🥳

"Radical climate protests shaped portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes in German news media"

Read here or the🧵: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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OSF

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 3

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨

4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠

Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W

Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE ([email protected]).

coe.univie.ac.at

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 16

New preprint 📄

We tested how good are experts in predicting the effectiveness of behavioral science interventions aimed at increasing climate-relevant beliefs and behavior 🌱🌍

Spoiler alert: they’re better than the public! But…
(check out the 🧵 below for more ⬇️)

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Jarren Nylund @jarrennylund.bsky.social · May 11

Why do people fight for or against climate action?

Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Moral cases for collective action supporting and opposing mitigation efforts

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · May 14

Our new paper analyzes 19 predictors of climate change beliefs & action across 55 countries (N=4635)

4 predictors had consistent effects across all outcomes:
1) environmentalist identity,
2) trust in climate science,
3) internal environmental motivation,
4) the Human Development Index

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 14

The lab I am in has a lab account and we have found it quite useful. We were definitely getting more engagement on Twitter than here, but Bluesky still works okay, IMO.

I personally really like it when labs have a social media account, I've been managing ours, and it has not been too much work :)

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 12

Gut wrenching footage from the new David Attenborough movie showing the devastating impact of industrial trawling on ocean life. Entire ecosystems ripped out from the seafloor and destroyed in minutes, absolutely devastating…

spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 9

Thank youuu! 🥰

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 8

I'm deeply grateful to my wonderful co-authors for the opportunity to learn so much and for making this possible @kimdoell.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, @cameronbrick.bsky.social, @madalina.bsky.social, Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Florian Lange & David Steyrl! 🍀

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