Olivier Klein
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Professor of social psychology at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Daily 🚴 .
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As anti-vax RFK will become US health secretary, now may be a good time to read our little book on the psychology of vaccination.
www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...
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The Psychology of Vaccination
Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not? What is the difference between vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccinism? What can social psychology tell us about attitudes towards vaccinatio...
https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Vaccination/Klein-Yzerbyt/p/book/9781032665405
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
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Craig Aaron
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“Chilling and unconstitutional” —
@attorneynora.bsky.social
@freepress.bsky.social
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U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/technology/trump-rubio-european-tech-disinformation-digital-services-act.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Paul Fairie
29 days ago
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Kenzo Nera
about 1 month ago
This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas,
@paulbertin.bsky.social
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Laurence Dierickx
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I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks
@olivierklein.bsky.social
They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
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They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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New publication led by
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Brent Toderian
about 1 month ago
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
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Leah McElrath
about 2 months ago
“The paper warned that, in an extreme scenario, a highly persuasive AI chatbot ‘could benefit unscrupulous actors wishing, for example, to promote radical political or religious ideologies or foment political unrest among geopolitical adversaries.’” (I do not think this is an “extreme scenario”…)
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Josh McCrain
2 months ago
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Linda Tropp
2 months ago
knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔
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Fiona Kazarovytska
2 months ago
Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social
✨ With
@olivierklein.bsky.social
@jrvollhardt.bsky.social
@michelletwali.bsky.social
@elifsandal.bsky.social
@laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here:
www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EASP 2026 PRECONFERENCES
Social Psychology News Articles
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/call_for_submissions_easp_2026_p-2155.html
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If you are interested in collective memory and plan to attend the EASP General Meeting in Strasburg, don't miss our preconference!
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Sydney Levine
2 months ago
I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
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Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Graduate Students (PhD program) I will be accepting PhD students through the NYU psychology department for the current application cycle (for admission in Fall 2026). My lab is joint between the Co...
https://sites.google.com/corp/site/sydneymlevine/open-positions
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New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially
@paulbertin.bsky.social
who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.
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Sander van der Linden
2 months ago
Yes the BBC edit was poor journalistic form but the research indeed shows that Trump's speech predicted riots, violence, and weapons use on January 6th.
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Paul Bertin
3 months ago
Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon,
@kenzonera.bsky.social
,
@rritabajraktari.bsky.social
, Vincent Yzerbyt,
@olivierklein.bsky.social
, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs
Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.70029
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Kyle Griffin
3 months ago
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
https://t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
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Edwy Plenel
4 months ago
Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, l’autorité chargée de la politique vaccinale aux États-Unis se réunit à New York. Mais elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vaccins nommés par le premier d’entre eux, le ministre de la santé Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
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États-Unis : les antivax prennent le pouvoir sur la santé
L’autorité sanitaire chargée de la politique vaccinale se réunit jeudi et vendredi à New York. Mais cinq ans après le début de la pandémie de covid-19, elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vac…
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/180925/etats-unis-les-antivax-prennent-le-pouvoir-sur-la-sante
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Ben Williamson
5 months ago
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
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Adam Kucharski
5 months ago
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (
xkcd.com/2400/
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Jessica Eaton
5 months ago
Wow and wow and WE MUST ALL DO THIS!!
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This post has not aged badly unfortunately.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed
5 months ago
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.”
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If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/08/university-chicago-humanities-doctorate/684004/?gift=m5irZtWeVchrwf45AZUzlZTRznTyvHYJehbAWpYDNu4
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Vincent Lemire
5 months ago
Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?
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samuel mehr
5 months ago
My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)
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Brent Toderian
5 months ago
As our kids go
#BackToSchool
, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.
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Sciencepo ULB
6 months ago
[Job] The Policy Lab at
@ulbruxelles.bsky.social
seeks to recruit a postdoctoral researcher (full time, 2 years) in the framework of the project 'Metropolitan internet meets post-growth' Deadline: 30 August
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Julia M. Rohrer
6 months ago
New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer.
www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...
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What’s in a correlation?
Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you...
https://www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/whats-in-a-correlation/
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Julie Carpenter, PhD
6 months ago
I'm quoted in this piece. In short: do not use ChatGPT or any generative AI as a “therapist.” It’s not sentient. It doesn’t care. It may even lead people toward harm. And nothing shared is protected by HIPAA or real privacy standards; it's fodder for the machine.
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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AI is transforming how we communicate in relationships
‘All I wanted was to feel seen, heard and understood by him, but instead, he was sending me a robot’s questions’
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68306/1/how-ai-chatgpt-communicate-love-dating-romance-robot-prompts
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
6 months ago
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Caroline Van Wynsberghe
6 months ago
"De grâce, que la Belgique ne réagisse pas trop tard. En commençant par manifester une indignation commune devant des menaces envers les magistrats, car cette indignation est le premier bouclier pour protéger les défenseurs de l’Etat."
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Gordon Hodson
6 months ago
Clear advice from
@catherinedevries.bsky.social
on clear writing. Who could argue with such solid advice? (he naively asks the internet)
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Adrien Fillon
6 months ago
Is there a difference between falsification and refutation? Popper used the former in the book about logic of scientific discovery and the latter in the last (conjecture and refutation). And I never understood the difference.
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Very sad to learn that Helen De Cruz, who had been a constant online presence for me on Twitter and then here, passed away. Read her last blog post. A little gem on what we leave to others.
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Ultimes scories
7 months ago
La Pride de Budapest interdite par Orban. Rien n’arrête les libertés. Surtout pas le fascisme
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Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!
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Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!
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Julia M. Rohrer
7 months ago
Great post on the many bad effects of measles. That Roald Dahl letter of his daughter's death gets me every time tho 😔
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Krassensteins
7 months ago
Best image of the day:
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Julia M. Rohrer
7 months ago
"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.>
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Daniel Lakens
7 months ago
I often see Ioannidis' paper 'Why most published research findings are false' on reading lists. And by all means - I found it educational when I first read it. But you might also want a summary of the criticisms on the paper, and we dive into these in our
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Entendu à un colloque: selon une enquête faite sur un échantillon français (supposé représentatif), on arrête d’être jeune à 42 ans et on devient âgé à 64 ans…
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Daniel Lakens
8 months ago
It can be interesting to read why so many psychological scientists have raised concerns - which twice led to a crisis - about (social) psychology for over half a century. There are important lessons we can learn from our history about why these concerns have not been solved.
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Paul Bertin
8 months ago
Great talk by
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2025, with a proud supervisor
@olivierklein.bsky.social
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The New Yorker
8 months ago
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm.
nyer.cm/u405qvQ
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Joseph Fasano
9 months ago
"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." —Joseph Brodsky
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Sarah Gilbert
9 months ago
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically.
tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
https://tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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“ we have nothing to lose but our chains”
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-higher-education.html
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Kara Swisher
9 months ago
Resistance is NOT futile
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Aaron Rupar
9 months ago
Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"
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