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

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Registration for the 2025 SoDoc Workshop is now open: www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/psycholo... We would love to welcome you in Chemnitz! #socialpsychology #phd #chemnitz

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

Are LLMs impartial moral judges? @sarahmlr.bsky.social doing an excellent job sharing our first results at #MoralMedia25, highlighting that LLMs rate moral violations from ingroup members less severely than the same actions committed by outgroup members.

Do you perceive meat differently depending on the degree of preparation? Short answer: yes (multilevel modeling), but no distinct underlying mechanisms (network analysis) Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out our new preprint 😊 Project with @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social & M. Chambon

What fuels support for the Last Generation & other non-normative collective action? New paper w @lpummerer.bsky.social Lara Ditrich & @kwinter.bsky.social suggests beliefs in a climate-related conspiracy between politicians and industry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔵 Zurich Thursday, 3 April, from 16:30 to 17:15 CET Topic: "What is a high quality pre-registration?" osf.io/preprints/os... Lena Hahn, Trier University

I had an amazing time talking about #OpenScience at the Cochrane Symposium in Freiburg "Integrität in der Wissenschaft – gemeinsam gegen Betrug". ✨ @zpid.bsky.social

“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!

For (social) psychologists using NLP (natural language processing), this 👇 will be a great occasion to present and discusss you work with NLP people interested in psychology. 10 more days to submit!

Using AI in HR? In a new paper led by Miriam Gieselmann with @d-erdsiek.bsky.social and Vincent Rost @zew.de we report 3 studies (total N=2025) seeking an answer to the question: For which tasks do managers consider AI? Short answer: more for marketing & finance than in HR. doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

Test Sharing - The Open Test Archive of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID): repository hosts research instruments available for free reuse #OpenAccess #Psychology #Tests leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta...

Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision? In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community. 👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🧵1/4

➡️ Do you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes and live in the UK? A research team from us warmly invites you to participate in our study “Social identification and chronic illnesses": app.prolific.com/register/par...

🌟 We have launched our preregistration platform PreReg! 🌟 PreReg guides researchers through all the steps of pre-registration and now offers an even clearer structure. #Preregistration #OpenScience #Psychology leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta...

Here is a new collection of resources regarding preregistrations including a shiny app for the generation of preregistrations, help for reporting deviations, literature on preregistrations etc. prereg-psych.org