Open position alert: Associate Professorship in Quant methods in psych department at University of Oslo. Deadline 1 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

the football euphoria seems strong in Oslo. thousands doing the RO-tual on the streets. We got interviewed by NRK and VG and explained the tears and euphoria www.vg.no/nyheter/i/16...

German weekly Der Spiegel on our emotion concept Kama Muta www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... #kamamuta

me, answering press inquiry: "We don’t claim to have discovered a new emotion. ... I have seem comments under previous articles along the lines of 'scientists again discover obvious thing'." Headline writer of the Daily Mail: "Psychologists reveal a brand-new emotion" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a short piece on kama muta in reading fiction, from the Catalan newspaper ara llegim.ara.cat/opinio/kama-...

beautiful anecdote and note on kama muta in psyche.co/notes-to-sel... by @hannahseo.com

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU docs.google.com/document/d/1...

slowly compiling this list. I don't believe in linkedin. message me to be added.

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives. Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...

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This is what the rest of our lives will look like: We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to. Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!

excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...