📌 #TealHelix held its 3rd 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐚 on 27-28 April bringing partners together to discuss WP progress, pilots plans and priorities & GoGreen Hub co-creation activities. As we move further into the project's second year, we are excited for what's ahead! 🌱

A piece about recent findings on what-if thoughts in political contexts: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...

New paper: We examine the role of counterfactual thoughts in bereavement and prolonged grief. Thoughts about how the death could have been prevented, increased levels of grief illustrating dysfunctional aspects of counterfactuals in such situations. doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

How can counterfactual thinking help tackle conspiracy theories? The short (~3 minute) answer is in our @spspnews.bsky.social blog post (with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social, and Bob Fennis): spsp.org/news/charact... 1/2

Voting in an old water tower. Only in the Netherlands. #gemeenteraadsverkiezingen

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-...

New paper just published with @valentinmang.bsky.social and Bob Fennis looking at how people view someone who shares conspiracy theories

Great piece by Anna Kende and Joszef Pantya on how do defend academic freedom in illiberal times. Their insights from working in Hungary are (unfortunately) increasingly relevant elsewhere: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Our paper investigating the action/inaction distinction in the context of group-based regret has just been published (w/ Xin Wang and Martijn van Zomeren) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are leaders blamed for disasters that eventually did not occur? The answer points to the crucial impact of partisanship in assigning blame for events that almost happened. @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social w/ Matejas Mackin, @danieleffron.bsky.social, and Neal Roese authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New paper out in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social ! We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles). A 🧵 1/n

For the German speakers interested in listening to a conversation on nostalgia: Ich hatte ein interessantes Gespräch mit @tobiasbecker.bsky.social und Magdalena Nowicka, moderiert von Eva Röder. von SWR Kultur.

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

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...

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...

The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is inviting proposals for a special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Deadline: September 1, 2025.

Great interview!

TealHelix consortium met in Amsterdam to align efforts, discuss progress, and collaborate! 🤝A key highlight was engaging with our Stakeholder Board, whose expertise adds great value to the project. A huge thank you to VU Amsterdam for hosting—excited for the next steps! 💚

New paper on responding to negative feedback: We find different profiles of people differing in their responses to negative feedback. Whether the goal to actually perform better is crucial. Led by Felix Grundmann, and in collaboration with @sussch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out today! Our Editor (@akfetterman.bsky.social) lays out his vision for the journal. Specifically, he calls for daring research that refocuses on the human experience, tackles real-world issues, & causes (good) trouble in the field. Free Access: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Jannis Kreienkamp received the 2024 dissertation award of the Dutch social psychology association (ASPO) for his work on the challenges studying how individuals adapt to a new culture. The work resulted in 3 excellent papers: doi.org/10.1177/1088... doi.org/10.1177/0146... doi.org/10.1080/0027...

We kick off the annual ASPO conference with a welcome from Hedy Greijdanus at Groningen Forum

New paper led by Jannis Kreienkamp: A Gentle Introduction and Application of Feature-Based Clustering with Psychological Time Series www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Congratulations, Jannis!

If you're interested in research on misinformation and conspiracy beliefs, I can highly recommend checking out this special issue!

The conference program for the annual meeting of the social psychologists in the Netherlands (ASPO) is online now: sites.google.com/rug.nl/aspo2... Registration for conference participation is still possible until the end of the week.

The European Journal of Social Psychology is looking for junior consulting editors www.easp.eu/news/itm/ejs...

Our new paper is out:

A nice summary that includes our work on moral inconsistency and counterfacyals thoughts:

We're looking for a future PhD student at the University of Groningen for a project focusing on the intersection between social and consumer psychology. The main focus is on processes that motivate individuals to buy sustainable products: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... (deadline: June 26, 2024)

Our editorial outlining the new policies at EJSP is online now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper: We investigate how individuals respond to negative feedback and how situational goals influence our responses to it. doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

I am super excited to announce that we are hosting the next EASP Summer School in Košice, Slovakia from 8th – 19th July, 2024. We have fantastic teachers teaching fantastic workshops. Check out and spread the word! Let's have a great time together. sites.google.com/view/easpsum...

Happy to announce that a part of my PhD research has just been published! Together with my supervisors, Bob Fennis and @kaiepstude.bsky.social, we examined how the need to evaluate shapes the effects of exposure to conspiracy theories on behavioural intentions authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Our new paper tracking the needs and experiences of migrants using experience sampling methods is out in PSPB. We show that situational need satisfaction is a very consistent predictor of attitudes towards the outgroup. Jannis Kreienkamp is the lead author! Congrats to him. doi.org/10.1177/0146...