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🧵 New research alert: Recreational drug use among sports fans — UK 🇬🇧 vs US 🇺🇸 Just published in Journal of Sport & Social Issues. Why almost no one in the US is talking about this?
#SportsResearch
#DrugPolicy
#HarmReduction
#FanCulture
#SocialScience
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New paper! ⚽🔥 We tested how local ties (loyalty to one’s football club) shape broader ties (connection to the national team). Where better than Türkiye, home to some of the world’s most passionate rivalries? 🇹🇷
24 days ago
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🚨 New paper out: What if extreme criminal and prosocial acts shared the same root cause? We explore how identity fusion—where personal & group identities merge—can help explain violence, loyalty, & desistance.
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From Glastonbury to the Euros, we’re wired to come together — to celebrate, grieve, chant, cry. Euphoric AND dysphoric rituals matter. Here’s a quick reflection from my time at Nudgestock 🎥
youtu.be/GGIqHuWvrG4
What collective moment has moved you recently?
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Dr Martha Newson - The Power of "Us" | Nudgestock 2025
YouTube video by Nudgestock
https://youtu.be/GGIqHuWvrG4
4 months ago
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Our latest study on the Twinning Project explores how the strong, positive social identities needed for desistance from crime can form through
#football
in
#prison
... Key findings from 454 participants in prison: 🦋Personal transformation → deeper change & lasting identity fusion
4 months ago
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Can people feel bonded to someone who is heavily stigmatised (like a formerly incarcerated person) if they believe that person has gone through something deeply life-changing? The answer: Yes—but culture matters. A lot. 🧵
6 months ago
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Great opportunity for a
#psychology
#PhD
student from the The British Psychological Society and POST to have 13 weeks+ in Parliament with a generous £7,900 stipend!
post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...
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British Psychological Society Fellowship 2025/26
Application deadline: 4 May 2025 (23:59).
https://post.parliament.uk/british-psychological-society-fellowship/
6 months ago
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Interview in the Sunday Times... Fitness and wellbeing are no longer just about feeling good: looking good has also become a marker of discipline, value, even — perhaps most worryingly — virtue.
www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Is ‘maximising’ your life making you miserable?
From queueing for a five-star cinnamon bun to getting your steps in, the modern quest to live an optimal life might be making things worse
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/fashion/article/is-maximising-your-life-making-you-miserable-np8d3g59p
6 months ago
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Who's watching
#severance
? I gave an interview to
@sciam.bsky.social
on the show's psychology
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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What Severance Life Would Really Be Like, according to a Psychologist
Life as an “innie” in the show Severance would likely involve severe trauma and mental stress, psychological research suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-severance-life-would-really-be-like-according-to-a-psychologist/
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Great to be part of this series for @BBCSounds...a mix of lived experience from the fans, old footage and I'm chuffed that a psychology/evolutionary take made its way in! Why have 400 fights in a lifetime over
#football
?! For answers, listen on BBC Sounds:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Gangster - Hooligans - Hooligans 1. A Different Ball Game - BBC Sounds
Tony Bellew investigates the inside story of Britain's football hooligans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kv20t4
8 months ago
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New research with brilliant colleagues in Brazil! 🇧🇷⚽ We explored how synchrony in football chants shapes perceptions of ingroup strength and outgroup threat. A real-world look at social bonding and intergroup dynamics 🧵👇
8 months ago
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Celebrating Maff Potts' book launch! He dives deep into human connection, kindness & the meaning of life (no big deal 😅).
@camerados-org.bsky.social
are changing the world—no agenda, no hierarchy, just sofas, tea & real talk. What a privilege to be part of something so special!
9 months ago
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Featured on BBC R4 discussing why losing a football match can feel like personal devastation. The science shows that fans of less successful teams form deep, almost family-like bonds—sometimes even stronger than those of elite club supporters.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Why Do We Do That? - Series 2 - 2. Why do I get so upset when my team loses? - BBC Sounds
Join anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi to find out why we get so upset when our team loses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027d3x
9 months ago
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Reminds me of our study
@justinsulik.bsky.social
!
add a skeleton here at some point
9 months ago
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How can sport-based
#prison
programs support
#women
? We studied the Twinning Project, a
#football
initiative, to find out.
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