📢 Call open! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes. ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... 🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

🚨Promotionsstelle "Antisemitismus am Arbeitsplatz" - TVL-13 75%, 4 Jahre 🚨 Bitte gerne eifrig weiterleiten: ab März 2026 (vorbehaltlich finaler BMFTR-Zusage) ist in unserem Team eine Stelle im Projekt von @zakfio.bsky.social zu vergeben. Näheres in der Ausschreibung: www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

New: Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone. Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

Five is my favorite number—and now the article has been published in Volume 55, Issue 5. This just made my day 🤩

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

An intensive weekend at the Peace Psychology Conference in Bremen lies behind us. I am delighted to have received the Gert Sommer Award for my dissertation on addressing problems of affective polarization.

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen? Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte: In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

✨✨New publication ✨✨ Enhancing intellectual humility about political views? Challenging. 4 out of 5 interventions did not conceptually replicate... BUT: one did - providing information about the benefits of IH! 🤓 Details ⬇️

Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen? Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte: In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.

Two-year postdoc in political psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany Enquiries: @jorislammers.bsky.social Further info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PoliPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is inviting proposals for a special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Deadline: September 1, 2025.

"Google Scholar is manipulatable... we analyze over 1.6 million Google Scholar profiles and identify instances of citation manipulation to boost an author’s citation metrics. In many cases, this was done through a previously undocumented practice of 'citation purchasing' "

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Wann hat das eigentlich angefangen, dass die Kommunikation wissenschaftspolitischer Funktionsorganisationen diesen reißerisch sportifizierten Sound angenommen hat? War schon mal besser unterhalten.

Call for submissions: Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025! October 17, 2025, at Eindhoven University of Technology Keynotes: Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç and Dr. Lisa Spitzer ECR's: Submit your talk before 31st of June! paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-05-26-p...

Call for papers: “The Psychology of Pushback: Understanding Resistance and Compliance During Democratic Decline.” Edited by Jonas R. Kunst and John F. Dovidio. advances.in/psychology/1...

🚀 PhD Position in Psychological Methods at @unimarburg.bsky.social 📅 Start: 01.10.2025 | 💼 50% TV-H E13 | ⏳ 3 years Focus on statistical modeling—Bayesian statistics, cognitive modeling, psychometrics. 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/r5dKTr 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Neuigkeiten in @zeit.de aus unserem Forschungsverbund!! www.zeit.de/politik/2025... (kostenlos) www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2... (paywall) Mehr Infos zu unserer Forschung: www2.hu-berlin.de/coping-with-...

✨✨Freshly accepted work @socialpsychbull.bsky.social ✨✨ Which measure to chose to assess intellectual humility in the German context? - A comparison of four self-report scales - Here's the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨✨Freshly accepted work @socialpsychbull.bsky.social ✨✨ Which measure to chose to assess intellectual humility in the German context? - A comparison of four self-report scales - Here's the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are happy to announce, that the 6th meeting of the german political psychology network will take place in 2026 at vienna university. Join us for 24 hours of interdisciplinary discussions! #socialpsychology #politicalpsychology #psychologyconference

The @wzb.bsky.social in Berlin is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the future of democracy this October. The deadline for paper submissions is a week from now (April 30, 12pm EST). More info here: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s...

I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on 2 projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets. If anyone knows of someone with computational skills (network analysis, NLP, etc.) who is looking for a postdoc- have them reach out to me.

I'm excited to announce a hybrid Expanding Empathy event on Political Divisions & Morality, next Friday April 25 from 11am-5pm EST, in person at Penn State & on Zoom. This event will bring together researchers in psychology, political science, communications, philosophy, sociology, anthropology. 1/n

“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Univer...

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Sunshine in Berlin, a sleeping cat at my feet, fresh coffee on the desk, new data to analyze - what a perfect afternoon :)

I just learned about this fantastic tool diversity-x.de ! You can easily check the diversity of your reference list by simply uploading a PDF. Entering the references of my current project underlines how recent and how US-American the intellectual humility literature im psychology is...

Vielen Dank für alle Hinweise! Hier nun mein Kommentar zur Situation der US-Wissenschaft – mit Link zu diesem Post. www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/24/n...

Dear colleagues, I invite you to sign a letter of support for Serbian students and professors and to share it within your academic community. Thank you for standing with us! (600+ signatures at the moment) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

SLAPPs sind rechtsmissbräuchliche juristische Verfahren, mit denen Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen mundtot gemacht werden. Um solche Einschüchterungsklagen zu sammeln, zu koordinieren und Hilfestellung zu geben hat sich, mit dem DJV Kooperationspartner, die Anti-Slapp-Anlaufstelle gegründet.

Horkheimer Fellowship 2025 – Call for Applications Application deadline: April 20, 2025 Postdoctoral fellowship Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt am Main September 2025, duration of three months www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/ho...

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

🚨 New Issue Alert! Dive into the emotional whirlwind of #conspiracy #theories with our latest PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY issue on The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories. Unpack how #emotions drive reactions to conspiracies. A must-read for anyone intrigued by the #psychology of #belief.

New theory paper-led by @lpummerer.bsky.social with Karen Douglas, @drdanieljolley.bsky.social & @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying appraisal theories to understand emotional and behavioral reactions to CTs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“War again?” The 35th Meeting of the German Peace Psychology Association takes place in Bremen, Germany, from 20-22 June 2025. Call for applications: www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1517 Deadline: 22 April 2025 Some travel support available for participants from low & middle-income countries!

✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa. Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📖 New open access paper 📖 "The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci

Warum ist diese oft geäußerte Idee, Wissenschaftler*innen, die in den USA ihre Stellen verlieren, könnten ja zu uns kommen, so unsinnig? Nicht nur wegen der Prekärität unserer Strukturen ( #IchBinHanna) und weil es schlicht nicht geht (viele können halt nicht mal schnell den Kontinent wechseln). 1/5

📢 Looking for a paid PhD position in Social Psych in Germany? A fantastic team is looking for a new member. I personally enjoyed working and living in Marburg so much! Feel free to share & ask question in a DM or contact @arothers.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social :)

PhD opening in the UK: cognitive, computational, and sociocultural basis of pro-environmental decision-making www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

Make sure to submit your abstract and join us in Chemnitz this June!🎉 👉🏼 www.soscisurvey.de/EASPintersec... #SocialPsyc

Join us for our next Political Psychology Lunch on Feb 28! Ayla Schaub & Emma Roßbach will share insights from their research on East German identity. Don’t miss it!⬇️

This is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science www.science.org/content/blog...