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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Shelley McKeown

shelleymckeown.bsky.social
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.
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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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

bps-social-psych.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by John Drury — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown, Sofia Stathi

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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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by Laura K. Taylor — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

helpingkidslab.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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@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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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Jack Klein discusses identity-fusion - a powerful form of group alignment that can motivate extreme pro-group behaviour.
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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown, Winnifred R. Louis

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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Aishath Nasheeda introduces life skills education in the Maldives.
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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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Alex O’Donnell discusses positive intergroup contact and youth development. For more see: issr.uq.edu.au/profile/4885...
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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown, Winnifred R. Louis

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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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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by Shelley McKeown

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

mikeq.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

emilykubin.bsky.social
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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by Shelley McKeown

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It was great to work on this one together.
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by Gordon Hodson — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown, Andrew Livingstone, Sofia Stathi

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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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by Mark Rubin — Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

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For more info, check out the ICRN website...

@mindwaveprof.bsky.social
@lukaswallrich.bsky.social
@debshulman.bsky.social
@shelleymckeown.bsky.social
@drcaitlinbaker.bsky.social

#SocialPsyc
International Contact Research Network
Network Founder and Colloquium Organizer — Associate Professor of Social Clinical Psychology
contact-research-network.github.io
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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

apajournals.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

pacjournal.bsky.social
🌍 From the 2022 Symposium of International Network for Peace Psychology, the #PAC Special Issue tackles global #social, #environmental & #geopolitical challenges after COVID-19.

🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pac0...

#AcademicSky #SocialPsych

@shelleymckeown.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @laurentianu.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown, Laura K. Taylor

pacjournal.bsky.social
📢 Special Issue Alert!

We’re excited to share the #PAC Special Issue:
Peace Psychology and Global Challenges

Co-edited by Nikola Balvin, Reeshma Haji, & @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

🔗 psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

#AcademicSky #SocialPsych #PeacePsychology @apajournals.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Shelley McKeown

bps-social-psych.bsky.social
Nominations for the 2025 career awards are now open! 😁

This year you can nominate a social psychologist for the EARLY- and MID-Career awards

For more information, open the awards tab on our website through the link below 👇

www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...
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