Over the next couple of years, I’ll be studying how political ideology, intergroup relations, and economic beliefs are shaped by broader societal structures like neoliberalism and neocolonialism.

Excited to see what’s ahead (and if Jennifer regrets her decision)!

Good question! Yes, that's basically what the graph shows though we got calculations estimated from the mixed model!

Yes Hakan, that's right!

✨On a personal note, this has been the most ambitious and rewarding project I’ve ever led (started in 2022 on the shores of Egypt). Even better, I carried it out with some of my closest and beloved people, and many new colleagues who became friends. Special thanks to Prof. John Jost for co-leading!

💡Takeaway: global structural inequalities can override the usual ingroup favoritism. Sometimes nations admire powerful outsiders more than their own.
Full paper here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔎What did we find?

• Advantaged outgroups = seen as more competent, but less warm.
• Disadvantaged outgroups = less competent, no difference in warmth.
• In poorer & more exploited countries, outgroup favoritism on competence was strongest.

📊Our team of 76 researchers studied 12,339 participants across 45 non-Western countries.
We asked how people stereotype:
• their own nation
• a relatively advantaged outgroup (Western Europeans)
• a relatively disadvantaged outgroup (Western Africans)

This also marks the last empirical chapter of my PhD with great supervisors Gerben Van Kleef & Bastiaan Rutjens! 🎓

For those unable to access the paper behind the paywall, I uploaded the free preprint version (link should be working soon):

🔗 osf.io/v6pbg_v1

Speaking of systemic issues, with science cuts looming across the West (UK, US, NL), what can scientists do? Petitions/statements have their place, but can’t match the bargaining power of organized workers. Join a union, talk to colleagues, and organize to defend science 🚩

More broadly, we argue that low trust in scientists goes beyond political ideology. Neoliberal policies (privatization, commercialization) have damaged science. Corporations with vested interests (e.g., tobacco, climate change) and the "publish or perish" mentality don't help.🏢

Furthermore, we tested interventions to boost conservatives' trust in scientists (N = 7,800). Unfortunately, none worked. This raises concerns about the effectiveness of short, one-time interventions in increasing trust in science. 😕

In our registered report (two years in the making ⏳), we find that liberals trust scientists more, not just in fields like climate change, public health, & social sciences, but also in neuroscience, biology, & nuclear science.

Directory of free, open psychological datasets

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

You can read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks Samuel!

We also measured behaviors - voodoo doll, petition signing and donation.

Started as a Master's student project and now we're here! Kudos to all the collaborators and supervisors on this one. Happy to say it's my fourth PhD project that is published 🎊