Balancing academia, family, and personal health can be tough. A year ago, I started jogging once a week to pick up my kids from daycare—fun for them & good for me (at least until they get heavier 😅). More about combining academia with family at the Parenthesis blog: parenthesis-blog.de

🎓Leuphana University Lüneburg (@leuphana.bsky.social) offers 6 PhD scholarships in #psychology with the focus on how psychology connects with sustainable transformation on individual, collective & systemic levels. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 ℹ️ Details: www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

What a great end of a fantastic #FGSP2025 conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de organized by @hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social. We will give our best to organize a similarly good #FGSP3027 conference in Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social in 2 years.

Pursuing a career in academy while having a family can be challenging! @rolandimhoff.bsky.social presented a poster about this challenge at the current #FGSP2025 conference. More insights can be found on the following blog: parenthesis-blog.de

@hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social kicking off the #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. I'm very much looking forward to inspiring talks and discussions over the next couple of days.

Today, the #AOWI2025 conference at @leuphana.bsky.social kicked off with an @de.in-mind.org writing workshop among others.

What can be learned from the so-called replication crisis in psychological science? In a recent publication, we summarize the open science movement in a fairytale and explore how business research can profit from it. @susanne-adler.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s414...

This interesting project found a positive association of individual victimhood and both general and specific conspiracy beliefs within different countries, though this association varied across countries. Thank you for involving me in this project, Daniel Toribio-Flórez & @marlephie.bsky.social

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp... 1/8 🧵

Are you passionate about how individuals and societies transform? Join the Psychology of Transformation PhD program at Leuphana University (Germany) and explore psychological questions about change and sustainability, and human development @leuphana.bsky.social 👉 www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

There is only this week left to apply for the Phd-position (75%; 4 yrs) about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social.

We are hiring 14 early-career researchers! In the programme “Embracing Transformation” researchers investigate what transformation is and how it can be successfully shaped. Find out more: www.leuphana.de/en/portals/e...

Psychotherapeut:innen gesucht! Ab September haben wir weitere Stellen in unserer Hochschulambulanz zu vergeben. Alles wichtigen Infos stehen in der Ausschreibung. Ich freue mich über Fragen auf Bluesky oder per Email und natürlich über Bewerbungen :-)! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Especially since I have kids myself, I kept on wondering whether the sequence in which siblings are born influences their personality. New research suggests that sibling order has rather small effects on personality.

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

Der Parenthesis Blog ist an der #teap2025 mit einem Poster vertreten. Der Blog illustriert anhand individueller Karrierewege, ob und wie eine wissenschaftliche Karriere mit Familie vereinbar sein kann. Erfahrungsberichte können hier nachgelesen werden: parenthesis-blog.de @teap2025.bsky.social

ChatGPT says I coined the term ‘automatic imitation’. I'm not sure that's true, but this book is a fine survey of the state of the art. Open access. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Finally, the hard copy version of the book on automatic imitation, @craccoemiel.bsky.social and I edited, has arrived. We're glad the book is also available as open access via the following link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Currently, I'm working on a new lecture on cogntive psychology. In this lecture, I would like to do several class demonstration/class experiments. Based on your experiences, which topics work very very well for such kind of experiments?

Nie wieder einen Science Slam verpassen! 🎤 Unser Newsletter zeigt dir, wo die nächsten Science Slams stattfinden, versorgt dich mit fesselnden Videos von Science-Slam-Vorträgen und Updates in Sachen Social Media. Lass dir das nicht entgehen! 👇 www.scienceslam.de/newsletter/

Mareike Westfal recently developed and validated an online version of the imitation-inhibition task. This allows even researcher with few programming experiences to assess imitative behavior online. Together with @ja.ncrusi.us @craccoemiel.bsky.social link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Das sind die aktuelle Forderungen der @dgps.bsky.social zur anstehenden Bundestagswahl

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

@craccoemiel.bsky.social and I are excited that our edited book on #AutomaticImitation is now published online as open access @SpringerPsych. The chapters cover sections on measures, processes, and consequences of diverse forms of automatic imitation. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

For the next half of a year, I'm on parental leave. I'm glad that spending so much time with the family is possible in Germany. This is my office for the next couple of months 👇

Wer ist warum empfänglich für Dynamiken der Rechtsradikalisierung? Diese Frage treibt gerade viele Menschen um. Psychologische Antworten liefert unser neues Buch.👇Ich glaube es ist sehr gut geworden. 😉 shop.kohlhammer.de/psychologie-...

There is just one week left to apply for the PhD-position in our project (together with @ja.ncrusi.us and @craccoemiel.bsky.social) on imitative behavior at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Job alert: Together with @ja.ncrusi.us and @craccoemiel.bsky.social, I am looking for a PhD (75%; 3 years) on a @dfgpublic.bsky.social funded project on the topic of imitative behavior at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The position starts in February 2025. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

I feel super honored to have been a supervisor of Mareike Westfal's dissertation on automatic imitation together with @ja.ncrusi.us. What a great defense this was today! Congratulations, Mareike!

📣Job offer: I'm looking for a postdoc interested in emotion, motivation, and/or social psychology. German not required and much flexibility. Thanks for sharing! Happy to answer questions. More information: www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

Many people believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. On the other hand, intermittent fasting, which often involves deliberately skipping breakfast, is becoming increasingly popular. Christoph Bamberg explains how this fits together. www.in-mind.org/blog/post/br...

Warum braucht gute #WissKomm gute WissKomm-Forschung? Wie sich mein Engagement bei @de.in-mind.org und meine Forschung bereichern habe ich mit dem Publikum der #WissKon24 geteilt. Ihr könnt es jetzt online nachhören: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNk5... @wisskon.bsky.social @nawik.de @univie.ac.at

Neue Beiträge auf parenthesis-blog.de - Blog zu Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaft und Familie: Instrumente zur Förderung | Schulferien | Lifehacks | Vorankommen in der Karriere | Außerhalb der Arbeitszeiten | Auslandsaufenthalte mit Kindern @ja.ncrusi.us @olivergenschow.bsky.social

In a registered report @craccoemiel.bsky.social, Roman Liepelt, Marcel Brass, and myself found weak evidence for the idea that automatic imitation is influenced by animacy belief­—i.e., the belief of whether the other person’s hand is (non)human. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

„Warum gute #Wisskomm gute Wisskomm-Forschung braucht” – damit wird sich Prof. Dr. @lauramkoenig.bsky.social von der @univie.ac.at in ihrer Keynote bei der #WissKon24 am 19. April 2024 auseinandersetzen.  www.nawik.de/wisskon/die-...

Come join us for a three year PhD position on Evaluative Conditioning in our group at the Ruhr Uni Bochum. Primary advisor is @moritzingendahl.bsky.social jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Malte Friese in the house! What a great talk on sexual motivation at Leuphana University!

No place for racism! What a great campaign at Lüneburg!

There’s a moral asymmetry in free will attributions. People think you have more free will when you do bad things than when you do good things. But why? Previously, there were two rival explanations for this effect. Then today, a new one just came out

At last week’s Leuphana expert talk about social innovations, we discussed our #SinTrA project in which we investigate how individuals experiencing barriers to employment can be sustainably integrated into the labor market. www.leuphana.de/en/partners/...

@craccoemiel.bsky.social and I are excited to have submitted all the chapters of our book on Automatic Imitation to our publisher. The book will be open access and cover sections on measures, processes, and consequences of imitation written by esteemed experts in the field.

Recently, I had the chance to talk about Open Science with the Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Thanks for the great exchange. open-science-future.zbw.eu/open-science...

I'm joining the party by posting a word cloud made from google scholar by scholargoggler.com

It was great to be, at least remotely, be part of this interesting project. More of this kind of many-labs project will surely advance our understanding of societal important behaviors.

Das In-Mind Magszin heißt nun explizit auch Artikel geschrieben für Kinder willkommen!

Ist Familienleben mit Karriere in der Wissenschaft vereinbar? In unserem Blog (ParenThesis), der diese Woche online ging, antworten wir auf diese Frage mit Beiträgen zu Arbeitsalltag, Konferenzbesuchen, Homeoffice mit Kindern u.v.m. parenthesis-blog.de @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @ja.ncrusi.us

🎉InMindRewind2023 Nun zu den am meisten nachgefragten Blog-Beiträgen! Warum deren Themen so relevant sind, ist eigentlich in jedem Fall offensichtlich - teils handelt es sich um sehr ernste Fragen. Platz 1 - Achtung Psychotrick ;-) - wird Euch dennoch überraschen... 1/4