📣 Dear #CitizenScience crowd! 📣 This October (5+6), we are organizing a SYMPOSIUM in collab with @pcstnetwork.bsky.social at the wonderful @mfnberlin.bsky.social in Berlin. We welcome PRACTICAL and RESEARCH perspectives on "Building Knowledge Together: #CitizenScience, #Communication & #Trust".

How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Moral psychology flourishes because of our variation in moral values both within and across cultures. I'm happy to see that our registered report protocol for developing and validating the MFQ-2 in German populations is out now! Next up: Data collection and analysis ⚖️ 💻

Since April 1st, 2024, cannabis is legal in Germany – no April fool's joke! In our new publication (with @doomed-generation.bsky.social & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social), we ask: What are antecedents of recreational cannabis consumption? 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0047...

New preprint available: Transparency and open data are important. In contrast to Elson et al. (2026) doi.org/10.31234/osf..., who have called for non-anonymized data in metascience, we argue for a more nuanced approach to prevent unjustified harm for authors of original work doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Looking forward to meeting everyone at the EASP small group meeting on "Counterfactual thinking and its role in cognition and communication" starting later today here in Groningen sites.google.com/rug.nl/count...

We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

💥 Academic freedom - so important! Please help our research team and take time for their survey:

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

We are hiring 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) Would you like to start working at our beautiful institute this coming spring? #psychology #openscience #metascience Find out more here: leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ylp9kss4

Also calling on a couple of feeds - thanks to all who already participated! 😊 #socialpsyc #psycsci #psychscisky #psychologie #academicsky #OpenSci #PhDSky

Dear colleagues - we want to better understand perceptions of data fraud and its detection and need your support! Are you currently a #researcher in #psych (or related fields) working with #data? Perfect - please respond to & share this short study (7min): sosci.rlp.net/detection/?r... Thank you!! 🫶

🚨 Deadline tomorrow! 🚨

You are someone who does quantitative #metascience? Want to do this as a #professor? With a research-focused, tenure-track position in Germany? At a great institute with a super smart and fun team? This one is for you! 🤗

At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.

Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

🧵 New paper alert! People enjoy eating meat but often feel uneasy when being reminded that it comes from animals. To understand how people avoid this conflict, our new study explores how food preparation helps people mentally separate meat from its animal origins. Here’s what we found 👇 1/9

Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

In a new preprint led by @abitter.bsky.social we tested whether open data is useful for reproducibility and usage based on automated and human assessment of data FAIRness. The short answer is: in the majority of cases not really. For more information 👇

The deadline for the meeting on counterfactuals is coming up. Don't forget to send in your contribution.

Great work by @abitter.bsky.social @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @t-1m.bsky.social et al. on FAIR data sharing in Psychology. They also suggest 6 simple checks that can be implemented in the editorial process to improve data FAIRness.

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10

New paper alert: @kwinter.bsky.social Laura Henn, and I show in 3 studies (N = 1005) that flexibility mindsets (induced by cognitive conflicts) enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those initially low in pro-environmental attitudes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

I'm looking forward to giving a keynote at the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025, where I will talk about my meta-scientific work on preregistration and and my experiences of being part of the open science movement as an early career researcher!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.

How complete are preregistrations? Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2515...

I’m excited to share my first first-authored paper with @abitter.bsky.social in the Journal of Happiness Studies: “The Emotional Climate of Academia: Exploring Social Media Data as an Indicator of Well‑Being.” 📖 Read it here (OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Am 14. September gibt es in Bochum eine Abendrevue zu Verschwörungserzählungen, die ich mit @pialamberty.bsky.social und @lpummerer.bsky.social gestalte unter Mitwirkung von @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social und sekten-info-nrw.de. Tickets sind begrenzt und unter dem Link bestellbar.

🚨 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 🧵

Fresh of the press! I'm incredibly proud of this new paper by Kiki Vu and myself where we show how much bias is introduced when people use workarounds to test interaction hypotheses meta-analytically. Check it out: advances.in/psychology/1...

The Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025 is on October 17. Keynote speakers are @uyguntunc.bsky.social and @lspitzer.bsky.social. The symposium is free to attend for everyone - also if you are not a PhD student. And will soon announce an extra workshop the afternoon of the 16th.

Today, my dear colleague @annameret.bsky.social presented our work on data sharing in psychology at @icssi.bsky.social ✨We show that open data is findable, but less reusable. Preprint coming soon, preregistration available on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy... #Metascience #SciSci #ICSSI2025

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

🥳New paper on belief in #misinformation about electric vehicles led by Chris Bretter w Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Belinda Wade & Kevin Winter out in @natenergy.nature.com. Conspiracy beliefs are the strongest predictor and #ChatGPT helps to reduce belief in misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...

New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

📢 Our colloquium series continues! 🗓 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM (CET) 🎙 Dr. Daniel Toribio-Flórez, will speak in English about: "Consequences of conspiracy beliefs for interpersonal relationships" 📍 on-site or online: all details here👉 leibniz-psychology.org/en/products/...

Ahhh, so excited to participate at #SIPS2025 Online!😍 Tomorrow, I'll host the hackathon "Community Testing of ZPID’s Preregistration Platform PreReg”, which I'm looking forward to a lot!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

📣very thrilled to see the new, open access (!) edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology is now online! With 50 chapters, this is an amazing collective effort brought to everyone by @danielgilbert.bsky.social, Susan Fiske, @elijfinkel.bsky.social, and Wendy Mendes and Situational Press. 👏🎉🙏

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

New article out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology led by @kwinter.bsky.social (with @lpummerer.bsky.social Matthew Hornsey & Timo von Oertzen) showing that conspiracy mentality and wind farm opposition mutually predict each other over time. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Daniel’s visiting us at @zpid.bsky.social next week! 🥳 We’ll stream his talk on conspiracy beliefs and relationships and you’re welcome to join - please reach out to us for the link.

⏰ Last Chance to Apply! Only 5 Days Left! ⏰ 📅 Apply by: May 18th, 2025

💥Save the date!💥 On June 3, we will be there again and have answers to psychological topics. 📅Choose your topic and book your appointment now! #BookAScientist #Psychology #AI #OpenScience #KLARpsy #ZPID @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...

Die Anmeldung zum SoDoc Workshop 2025 in Chemnitz ist ab sofort möglich: Auf der Website findet ihr alle Infos zu den Teachern und zum Programm des Doktorand:innenworkshops der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie in der DGPS. Kommt in die Kulturhauptstadt 2025, wir freuen uns auf euch! @dgps.bsky.social