“There is a word for this. It is, in my view, fascism.“ Rutger Bregman on Trump and his administration: “It’s really important to understand what this is. Because then we’ll stop being shocked all the time, and we can prepare.”

🧵Women are underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. Why? One contributor: gender gaps in political ambition that emerge in childhood In new paper, we ask: What predicts kids' political ambition? We studied 367 children (ages 5-11) in the US & China. 1/8 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

How does information on public opinion on environmental issues shape citizens' opinions? Out and open access with @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, and @jasonreifler.bsky.social + others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please help Bori by participating in her research if you can! Bori needs *British* participants who are 18+, and identify as *non-religious* or *Christian*. Full details on the LinkedIn info below and direct link to the survey 👉 gre.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... www.linkedin.com/posts/borbal...

Please help Bori by participating in her research if you can! Bori needs *British* participants who are 18+, and identify as *non-religious* or *Christian*. Full details on the LinkedIn info below and direct link to the survey 👉 gre.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... www.linkedin.com/posts/borbal...

According to a new report, 33 of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned on his first day in office have since been charged, arrested, or convicted of new crimes. Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.

Alone at Christmas? #joinin is always good.

Every existing problem in survey research is about to look quaint.

As a social psychologist working on intergroup relations, I am very grateful to have the opportunity to explore issues related to (tackling) poverty disadvantage and hostility toward people who are poor. More information about our interdisciplinary EU-funded project 👉 www.gre.ac.uk/articles/pub...

So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...

The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT. The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

We have a new paper in Science Advances proposing a simple test for bias: Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently? Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white? 1/

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....