I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Stony Brook in Fall '26! My lab will take a social cognitive approach to studying how we form/update our beliefs and why we disagree about what is true vs false I'll also be reviewing grad apps! See below for more info

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized. Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...

Just bumping this -- I'll be recruiting a new graduate student this cycle, to start in fall 2026. So will my colleagues Karen Gasper and Reg Adams. I'm currently the area coordinator. Reach out if you have questions about Penn State Social Psychology -- WE ARE!

"From water management in Canada, to nature-based solutions in New Zealand, to poverty alleviation in Guatemala, ICCN (International Climate Council Network) members share examples of cost-effective and impactful #adaptation policies." @climatecouncils.bsky.social @klimaatraad.bsky.social

Should 'sisters' be doing it by themselves when it comes to gender equality initiatives? Not really, no! "It [also] matters whether the approach is arguing for a 'we-change' or a 'she-change'.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops... BSky author: @shellkryan.bsky.social

New review from me on whether there are ideological differences in science denial. Although Dems/libs are much more likely to report they trust science than Reps/cons in the U.S., similar diffs do not emerge in most countries, and in some, it's the reverse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Empathy for deep-sea animals as a twofold empathy problem: empathy for physical form dissimilarity, and across divides of the unknown (i.e., ecologies about which we know little). Can curiosity offset empathy avoidance and foster approach? @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @ssripennstate.bsky.social

Posting is correlated with affective polarization: 😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics 🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

New environmental psychology jobs: 1 full professor, 2 postdocs: Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit... 1/3

A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536) Only 50% of findings replicated Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are some people more selective in who they help?
Our new paper w/ Isabel Thielmann says: Yes!! 
👉 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

The deadline for the meeting on counterfactuals is coming up. Don't forget to send in your contribution.

Opposing and Promoting Effects: Existing Intergroup Relations Shape the Divergent Effects of Common Threats on Intergroup Cooperation www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian...

🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th! Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali... #qualitative

We are delighted to announce that the 7th International Conference on Social Identity and Health will be returning to its roots at the University of Exeter. Tuesday 23rd – Friday 26th June 2026 NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS – deadline for Abstracts Monday 1st December: www.icsih.org/submissions

Welcome! This is the official account of the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology 2026. Here, we'll be sharing all the important updates and information related to the upcoming congress. Feel free to visit our official website for more details: easp2026strasbourg.com

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Very cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/

Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.

The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) is hosting an on-line conference 11/7-11/8: Any interested attendees are welcome! Speakers include Paul Bloom, Daryl Cameron, Joshua Greene, Melton Yecel, Abigail Cassario, and others (including me). For more details see sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Really good read: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

🚨 Our colleagues in Abu Dhabi are hiring! Looking for someone to bridge social and developmental perspectives to study topics related to social cognition, attitudes, stereotypes, political psychology. Not-to-be missed opportunity to join an excellent group! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/175417

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This game by @financialtimes.com shows the positive results of high impact (and high effort) sustainability measures, yet mostly overlooks the role of behavior change (with only a few solutions involving personal action). System change and behavior change are both crucial ig.ft.com/climate-game/

Shared my insights about a Broken Social Scene album that is not as good as You Forgot It In People but is still pretty dang good

Jane Goodall has died. She was truly a beacon of light in this world. I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence. Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

🚨 Excited to share our new paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In a cross-societal online behavioural experiment with 3,371 participants in 13 societies, we found that perceived societal honour norms predict both greater competition and greater cooperation. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

This review suggests that the average effectiveness of choice architecture interventions on behaviour is smaller than often reported and that there is substantial heterogeneity in their effects @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings." Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology. #SocialPsyc

Did you know that people who move to more walkable cities in the US end up walking more? This seems obvious, but is quite solid evidence for the influence of the built environment on human activity and well-being. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(4/7) In the U.S., they studied 52 conspiracy beliefs: Republicans tended to believe those targeting the left, while Democrats believed those targeting the right—showing no clear partisan monopoly on belief in conspiracies.

Do you want to be a part of transforming #healthcare towards a greener, circular future? Campus Fryslân (@rug.nl) has a PhD vacancy focused on understanding/promoting #sustainable healthcare behavior from an Environmental Psychology perspective (deadline: 28 September): www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

"Tsunamis & atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful" www.preventionweb.net/drr-communit... #EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies @preventionweb.bsky.social @undrr.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @uclwrc.bsky.social

Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10

🌍 What can we do as people to tackle climate change? Too often, the answer is framed narrowly around consumption choices. These choices are crucial for mitigation, but they’re only part of the story. We influence #climate change in many areas of our lives🧵

As wildfires burn at home in 🇵🇹 and here in CA, we have a new paper that finds: exposure to fires doesn’t necessarily predict greater support for climate change mitigation. But people closest to the 2021-2022 fires do prioritize personal adaptive action. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

Some people find politics interesting. Others do not. In a new paper, I show that appealing to MEANING increases political interest. In 6 experiments, connecting what people find meaningful in their lives to politics increases political interest. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Great piece by Maja Kutlaca, Helena Radke & Melis Uluğ on moving psychology beyond selective allyship toward consistent global action. Well worth a read. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky Submitting an EASP 2026 symposium on intergroup relations, contact, or dehumanization? If you think I could add to your symposium, drop me a DM.

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

📢 Postdoc Opportunity! Join Jagiellonian Univ. (Kraków) as a Post-doctoral Researcher in Social Psychology (4-year NCN-funded project on global crises & collective action). 🗓 Deadline: 27 Aug 2025 🔗 easp.eu/job-offers/itm/post_doctoral_researcher_positio-2107.html

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
doi.org/10.1177/1065...