Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Excited to launch the website for our EASP pre-conference on Prosocial & Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods 📅 June 30 | Strasbourg ⏰ Early bird deadline: April 14 Program: sites.google.com/view/prosocial-and-antisocial/ @easp2026.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social

A 3-wave study of 1427 climate-action supporters tests predictors of conventional versus radical climate activism. Radical intentions were rare and linked most strongly to youth, personality and collective victimhood rather than ideology or efficacy. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

INTRODUCING OUR FIRST RESEARCH NETWORK ✨ The Collective Action Network Led by Maja Kutlaca, Özden Melis Uluğ, and Helena Radke Read more about the Network below or via the dedicated page on our website: www.isjr.org/can #justice #collectiveaction #research #researchnetwork #ISJR #CAN

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV? Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you! Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

📃 Call for Papers 📃 “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology” Abstracts due: 01 May 2026 #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Job ad🌱: PhD position on climate change and cooperation in rural Asia, with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) & Nina Hansen (University of Groningen) in an interdisciplinary project. Deadline: April 1, 2026. socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!

🚨 “Perceiving Protest” by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March! Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

Psych Jobs Postdoctoral Position in Social Psychology at the University of Bonn (3 years) Research in moral psychology and related area

I need a postdoc for my project “Panel Studies of Optimism Bias and Positive Mood”. I need someone with an interest in affective science, very strong English and writing skills, and experience of using SEM with longitudinal data. Thread continues ...

What motivates people to engage in climate advocacy? In a new PNAS Nexus megastudy [https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf400] led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social we tested 17 theoretical interventions on a large US sample (N=31,324) to increase public, political, and financial climate advocacy. 1/5

📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS) 🔬 The role Experimental consumer research Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments 📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible) ⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable) 🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Feel free to share with anyone 🌱

🌍🇺🇸 Published Today in PNAS Nexus 🌍🇺🇸 How can we foster collective climate action? - led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social & @madalina.bsky.social - 17 behavioral interventions, designed by 50 experts - tested on >30000 US participants academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵 1/11

First Cooperation Colloquium of the year: Caroline Graf (University of Zürich): Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

'The Psychology of Crowd Behavior', Annual Review of Psychology Final, peer-reviewed version now available open access. Please share. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Check out this very interesting tool from Giving What We Can that relies on our data!

I'm thrilled to share news about this new EMP Lab pre-print on empathic AI--led by my student @jdweng.bsky.social & with the amazing @mgreinecke.bsky.social. We lean into meta-science & philosophy of science to consider what empathic AI means for *empathy* as a construct, now & into the future. 1/n

I’m glad to share our new paper on fossil fuel reliance and climate change mitigation. Higher perceived reliance is associated with lower support for systemic climate policies. (1/4) @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“We requested information about the case to at least protect attendees of our future events and potentially act against Hewstone, however, Oxford University never provided any information.” Open Access: archive.is/ue5k8#select... Paywall: www.thetimes.com/uk/education... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching Deadline: Jan 23 Please share and spread the word! www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Meta-analysis: After correcting for publication bias, there is no effect of “social norm messaging” nudges on health behavior We need theories that explain *why* these interventions don’t work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'People who wrongly believe that others care more about selfish values ... are less likely to volunteer... experiments have found that showing people that others share similar values and beliefs to them can make them more trusting & hopeful for the future.' theconversation.com/think-societ...

A journalist asked me about public behaviour during the Bondi Beach attack:

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026. We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages. 📝 Deadline: January 5 2026 🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There are 10 (!) #PhD positions available through the ECCO project (which our colleagues Lise Jans and Ellen van der Werff are part of) on #sustainable transitions - deadline to apply is 15 February: www.collectievekracht.eu/ecco/ecco+pr... @collectievekracht.bsky.social

🚨STOP, replication time!🚨 Does Feeling “Right” Make the Good More Good (and the Bad More Bad)? Achar & Lee found that when people experience regulatory fit, moral predispositions get amplified—moral folks act more moral, less moral folks act less moral. Big, exciting claim!

🧠💡 This feat of study by Kasper Otten and colleagues analyzed 1.5M decisions from 135K people in online public-goods games. Takeaway? When group membership changes (people leave, newcomers join), cooperation drops. Stable groups = stronger cooperation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Excited to share new work led by @anneleh.bsky.social and Star Hartley in @spssi.bsky.social's Journal of Social issues! We report studies w/ indigenous iTaukei and Indo-Fijians (displaced under colonial rule) investigating how each reasons about equal rights and democratic governance in Fiji.

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

In case you can't access the original article in full: archive.is/M2wK8

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."

I’m thrilled to share that our paper is now published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!🧵👇 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

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