Just opened: 2 calls for positions in political theory in the "Moralizing Politics" project led by C. Rostbøll @ucph.bsky.social 1️⃣PhD Scholarship, "The Dignity of Work": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... 2️⃣PhD Scholarship, "Cancel Culture": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... ⏰ April 13

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Come join me today, as I present our exciting new work on 4- to 12-year-old children's application of religious norms across 14 countries and 32 cultural/religious groups!

This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.

🎤 Delighted to give the keynote today at the 6th Annual Conference of the Political Psychology Network! 🏛️ I present my current book project on how democratic resilience can be strengthened — and which evidence-based interventions actually work. Looking forward to the exchange!

Per protocol analysis strikes again! Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.

Lol, there's a WWE pay per view event in Chicago while I'm at a conference. Come to my session on relationships on Friday at 8am. I'll let you hit me with a folding chair

I can’t be at @spspnews.bsky.social this year, but folks from the lab are still presenting cool stuff! Go check it out!👇

Excited to share that I’ll also be presenting a working paper with @mjbsp.bsky.social and @shreevallabha.bsky.social on political attitude centrality and stability as a featured data blitz at the #SPSP2026 computational psychology preconference. Come check it out! ☺️ Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

What effect does politician corruption have on the publics they serve? Ramos et al. explore in their paper from this month's issue. Read the full piece for their findings on corruption's toll on perceived morality & justice of society & what it means for people's well-being. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

In #polarized times, #morality fuels not just strong attitudes, but deep social divides. At #SPSP2026, our symposium “Moral Minds in Polarized Times” explores how moralized political thinking emerges, how it polarizes, and how it can be reduced. Join us Sat. 2/28 at 3:30pm. 🧵

New pre-print just dropped 👇

@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @joshmccrain.bsky.social, and I are putting together a panel at PolMeth in July on using CongressData, CSPP, and SenateData. We are aiming to have up to 5 people (preference to junior faculty using the data or interested in doing so). Please reach out to me if interested!

What Americans Think of Words like “Democracy” and “Authoritarianism” In These Times. We recently tested how civic terms landed in today's political climate with a large sample (N=5,393) of Americans. Read more at open.substack.com/pub/moreinco...

🔔We are hiring!🔔 In Geneva, we are looking for a new colleague in comparative politics: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

gotta say, very frustrating how long it takes to update a preprint on psyarxiv

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

With all due respect to the authors (the study raises a “potential” concern), but its framing overstates that concern imo. A few things worth flagging before everyone panics 1/

New in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: “Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation”: doi.org/10.1111/pops... With @nmicatka.bsky.social & @aleksks.bsky.social, we examined how sleep quality relates to voter turnout & non-electoral participation across multiple countries.🧵1/8

In "The Authoritarian Divide," Christopher Federico @chrispps.bsky.social, Stanley Feldman and Christopher Weber identify factors that have shaped and conditioned the sorting of Americans into different belief patterns and partisan camps as a function of authoritarianism. cla.umn.edu/polisci/news...

Where would you recommend to start if I wanted to do a network analysis on symptoms over time? any tutorials and / or theory papers highly appreciated!

Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #polisky #academicsky

Is narcissism bad for democracy? Federico et al. examine the relationship between collective narcissism and politically contrarian attitudes ("need for chaos" & "anti-establishment"). Read the full piece for their full findings and what they mean for democracy. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

0.8 FTE 2-year postdoc in social psychology and communication sciences at the University of Groningen looking at "the conversational dynamics of polarization." Deadline: 16 February 2026 #SocialPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Postdoc Position in Social and Organisational Psychology at University of Cologne Application deadline: 15 February 2026 More info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PhDSky

📣 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social invites applications for it's Summer School on Extremism and Democracy! 🗓️ 6 – 10 July, University of Bologna 🎓️ Present your research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the field ✅️ Open to all students enrolled in a PhD programme ⌛ Deadline: 25 February

Loyalty to favoured groups trumps the effects of causal structure in making causal judgments on issues of politics. When identities are not provided, causal structure matters; when they are known, they are almost all that matters. Here is the link to our study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our article with @honoratam.bsky.social on ✨motivated causal judgements✨ is out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social! When something bad happens, whose actions produced the outcome and who bears responsibility? It depends much more on the identity of the actors than on the details of the situation.

Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!

Asian Americans have long histories of violence, discrimination, & exclusion. Much of this behavior is poorly understood. The literature on discrimination against other racial groups is much larger than the literature on anti-Asian animus. A group of my coauthors and I are trying to fill that gap.

Put together a quick starter pack for political methodologists (broadly defined) who have made their way over to BlueSky. If I've missed folks, please let me know! go.bsky.app/JBavA7x

Reminder: Applications for the Early Career Scholar Travel Awards are open until 17th February! #ISPP #ISPP2026 #AwardsNominations #PoliticalPsychology #SocialPsych #ISPPAnnualMeeting

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

ISCON and PMIG call for nominations for the Ostrom Award for Career Contribution to Social Cognition. Eligibility: 25 years post PhD (awards are not given posthumously). More detail here: www.socialcognition.net/ostrom-award 1/2

February is here, and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! We'll be highlighting all 12 special issue articles and 14 original articles throughout the month, but if you can't wait to see what's in store, check out the full issue now! buff.ly/l4gb7cg

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

📣 Applications Now Open: ISPP 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards ISPP is pleased to announce the 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards, supporting early career researchers to attend ISPP's Annual Meeting in Newcastle. For more information and to apply, visit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1! we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology. we find that values structure political preferences among children.

🚨New paper in Popular Communication! 🚨 "Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review". (1/9)🧵🔽 dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540.... #InoculationTheory #misinformation #socpsyc #design #seriousgames #learning

New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Are you open science-minded, technically savvy, and interested in mixed methods? Come build the future of mixed methods with Tamarinde Haven and @mariestadel.bsky.social. Our campus is green, our colleagues supportive, and our research excellent! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3583...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

Just to be clear: best article in the *FIELD* of political communication, not the journal

What should my students read about OPEN SCIENCE? I'm teaching the second methods class in our MA sequence, and I want them to understand current best practices in open science and why they matter. What readings would you assign?

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!

Advances in Statistical Analysis has a call for papers on the role of multiverse analysis in statistical modelling and applications: link.springer.com/journal/1018... Deadline is May 1st, so still plenty of time to put something together!>

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Social Status in SPQ Manuscripts should be submitted at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spq by December 15, 2026. See ‘‘Submission Guidelines’’ for the submission requirements for articles and research notes.

What is a great journal that really likes tutorial papers and re-analyses (metasciencey) that helps translate econometrics to Psychology but DOESN'T charge an APC? #psych #meta #stats