What a kick off meeting for our Horizon project! 🇪🇺 Funded by the European Commission, in the next three years we will be exploring how to build trust across communities and reduce poverty-related hostility. Follow us on Linkedin! www.linkedin.com/posts/btl-co...

In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...

-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025

🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱 #Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈 #Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact

'Panic'? It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance: 'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#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...

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...

Our new paper(with Eva Walther & Malgorzata Kossowska)in Current Opinion in Psychology introduces a group-based motivational framework showing that willful ignorance, beyond individual, is also a group strategy shaping identity & conspiracy beliefs.Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Extremism at the Centre" "Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item" By... @eddieclarke.bsky.social @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐 Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea! October 28, 1pm GMT. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h... @tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

Early afternoon sabbatical trail in south east London #HelloAutumn

So lucky that the brilliant @laurahallain.bsky.social visited my daughter’s school today! Little one came home excited and inspired 💫 📕

Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪

Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial? In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sabbatical mode on. What I most look forward to? Reading!

Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online! www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

“Democrats think 45% of Republicans support partisan murder, 20 times larger than what data show. Similarly, Republicans think 42% of Democrats support partisan murder, which is 25 times larger than reality. Americans have a fundamentally incorrect understanding of support for partisan violence.”

ISPP’s Scholars Under Threat Committee call for proposals:

Republicans perceive more discrimination against people who are: White, evangelical, men & religious. Democrats are much more likely to perceive discrimination against people who are: gay or lesbian, Black, immigrants in US legally, Hispanic, & women.

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Interested in state-of-the-art methodologies to study social change? My brilliant colleague @drfbzen.bsky.social is hosting Dr. Agnieszka Rychwalska next week, funded by British Academy! 👉 resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in... Come and learn all things functional connectivity analysis! 🧐

“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0

In the session Decolonization and status quo Leyla De Amicis is presenting her project Decolonizing ourselves - funded by the BPS Social Psychology Section through pump-priming (this is an annual funding opportunity for our members to help them with starting up, pilot study etc)

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

Bye bye out-of-office message… you were so needed! Hello September 👩🏼‍💻 #AcademicSky

Not only their anti-immigrant rhetoric but obvious incompetence of politicians in power emboldens right-wing populist beliefs (e.g., ”Politicians talk too much and do too little," "An ordinary citizen would represent my interests better than a professional politician").

New article on park inequities nationwide. This is the first U.S. analysis of disparities in park access using individual-level data. We find that White and Native American residents have more park space available, while Asian, Black, and Latino/a/x residents generally have less access to park space

New pub! 📝 Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @tijana-et-al.bsky.social @arothers.bsky.social

Two experiments find that reminding U.S participants that the U.S. is disproportionately responsible for climate change leads conservatives (but not liberals) to show *reduced* preferences for environmentally friendly consumption www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to announce we received Horizon funding for our BTL-COP project (Trust and Leadership to challenge global aporophobic crime in a police Community of Practice). Led by Prof @jilljameson.bsky.social the next 3 years will bring fascinating research + practice!! 👉 www.gre.ac.uk/articles/pub...

What a team, what team spirit! #Lionesses 🥳

If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

3 years ago today, 40°C was reached in the UK for the first time. But is that as hot as the UK can get in the current climate? Model evidence suggests temperatures could in fact exceed 45°C if conditions are perfect 🫣 Gillian Kay and colleagues in @rmets.org Weather: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

#AcademicSky What truly bugs me is that RESEARCH is what so many academics seemingly care about, often neglecting students & teaching. Yet they're not willing to DO the research & writing themselves? What is it that they care about? Prestige? Notches on CV?

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

check out some of the recent (and older) publications that have come out of our HONORLOGIC project: honorlogic.org/outputs/

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇

She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.

A concise and well-explained summary of our recent APSR paper on PID among Asian Americans and Latinos, via APSA’s Political Science Now… politicalsciencenow.com/the-identity...

📢 Just published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! We examine how war-related memories shape reconciliation—and how meta-humanization can counter dehumanization and promote peace in post-conflict Kosovo.

PSA: If you're currently in Prague for #ISPP2025, you might also like joining the 24 Hours of Political Psychology in Vienna in February! No conference fee, always worth a trip! Approach me with any questions 😊 Submissions are open until the end of September: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at #24hpolpsy2026

Stay tuned ⌛ @yasemingacar.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social It will be available for pre-order starting in September! www.routledge.com/Social-Psych...

New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊ We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎

Building a society of equals starts with understanding what undermines it. The #EverydayExtremism Scale, developed by Dr. Rebekah Mifsud and Prof. Gordon Sammut (University of Malta) for the #OppAttune project, measures exclusion in everyday life. 🔗 oppattune.eu/wp-content/u... #HowFarisTooFar

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...