Thrilled to share my first publication in a Nature journal! Our new article in Nature Climate Change (@natclimate.nature.com) explores whether conversations with generative AI tools like ChatGPT may help shift climate scepticism.

Thanks to @hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social for organizing such a great #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Thanks also for including a tour through the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum. Reminded me of the stories my grandfather told who worked as a miner in the region (see the pictures)

This morning at #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de we had a symposium on current views on motivated reasoning with talks from @marlephie.bsky.social @kwinter.bsky.social @philippschmid.bsky.social and Arne Stolp (from @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social‘s lab) and myself. For some more details, here’s a🧵

We have three (online) talks on motivated cognition this fall, everyone interested is very welcome to join… schedule here:

Thank you to @mepsy.bsky.social for this honorable mention for my paper with @markusappel.bsky.social and Stephan Schwan - and congratulations to the winners of the Best Paper Award! :)

AI & COLLECTIVE MEMORY The agentic turn shatters collective memory through three key forces: (1) The war on human agency. (2) The sharding of the self (3) The new haunting My latest article in Current Opinion of Psychology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join our team at In-Mind: We are looking for 2 new editors and 3-4 people for our social media team!

Asking the users themselves, how does social media affect their well-being? In a large-scale study we find: Social media has a negative but small effect. Other aspects s/a listening to music appear more relevant. Effects differ across users and countries. 🧵1/6 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

Paper on the problems of using LLMs as replacements for human participants journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How come that all these celebrities (dead and alive, real and fictional) have their own predatory journals and want me to publish in them? So far, I got mails from Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Charles Darwin, George Orwell - and even Bridget Jones! Has anyone else had the same experience?

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

using AI to review a paper is one thing (and there's a lot to be said abt that), but submitting a paragraph-long AI summary as a review is a whole 'nother level of laziness. editors, flag that shit & never pass it along to the authors. also don't accept any papers or reviews from that reviewer.

Ihr habt unser letztes (und erstes) Treffen verpasst, wollt euch aber gern noch einbringen? Kein Problem! Wir treffen uns wieder am 13.8. um 16 Uhr. Tragt euch ins in diesem Post verlinkte Formular ein und wir schicken euch den Link zu! @dgps.bsky.social #WissKomm #PsychSciSky

What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

📢 New publication in Peace and Conflict: "Solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦? How fear- and moral-based motivations explain the psychological tug-of-war in the German public." By @carlagrosche.bsky.social, Carolin Ziemer, myself (👈co-1st authors) & @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1037/pac0... 1/🧵

I have a new paper on "The Psychology of Virality" with @steverathje.bsky.social We explain how similar psychological processes (eg preferential attention to negativity, social motives, etc.) drive the spread of information across online and offline contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 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 🧵

We snap photos of everything. But does more documentation mean better memories? 📸📲🤳 Not necessarily. Too many photos can drown out what really matters. Remembering is all about selection. Talked about this with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Does more #deliberation reduce biased information processing or does it rather contribute to finding rationalizations for one‘s preexisting views? In a new theoretical paper, we argue that both might be true - depending on the circumstances. Here’s a 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

In a newly accepted #EJSP paper, we (w/ Doro Mischkowski) discuss how the two accounts could be integrated and propose concrete predictions under which conditions people create coherence via belief-consistent processing or by updating their beliefs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am a member of the Young Academy of the @badw.de myself - highly recommend applying for this scholarship if you’re based in Bavaria! Great opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange and for meeting a host of brilliant and fascinating scholars

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Are there contexts where expressing intellectual humility (IH) can backfire? On established or morally convicted topics, the positive impacts of perceived high (vs. low) IH on competence and warmth are attenuated or reversed. Full Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1948...

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

🚨 New @psychinquiry Issue 36:1 just dropped! Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social. Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...

The conference is free of charge and a wonderful opportunity to catch up with what's new in Political Psychology - I hope to see many familiar and new faces in lovely Vienna (this time flood-free, knock on wood) Spread the word! @polpsynetde.bsky.social

New blog post in which I: 📈 detail a new citations-for-sale scheme in Google Scholar 🧻 make the 395 fake papers generated through this scheme available as a dataset 💤 chastise Google for failing to maintain the most widely used academic search engine Enjoy! reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/g...

New paper on autobiographical #memory in the #digitalage 🚨 What do individuals do when being asked to remember past events? We show that they repeatedly switch between information stored in their minds and information stored in external resources (e.g., their smartphones) doi.org/10.1186/s412...

📢 New Publication 📢 Contrary to popular claims of desensitization, @rinatmeerson.bsky.social, @kevinkoban.bsky.social, & Jörg Matthes found that frequent exposure to digital hate is linked over time to greater feelings of personal responsibility to intervene against it. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc...

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

New paper with #IsabelVillanueva and @kaipingchen.bsky.social ✨ We tested how online users discuss #plagiarism, data #fraud, #replication failure, and (unintentional) errors by scientists – based on 19,462 X posts by @retractionwatch.com and 22,936 user replies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A frequently heard tip in science communication is to use fewer technical terms. But are there any disadvantages? In a new publication in *Learning and Instruction*, @julianfick.bsky.social, Luca Rudolph and I get to the bottom of this question. 🕵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A systematic review of echo chamber research: comparative analysis of conceptualizations, operationalizations, and varying outcomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‘Scientific research, in my mind, is still a human activity at heart…’ I fired some questions at @ufeest.bsky.social, author of ‘Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration’. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

I very much enjoyed this fascinating real world memory paper-- congrats @barense.bsky.social and team! Makes me rethink my use of the term "naturalistic memory" when I'm actually referring to (fictional) movies and narratives 😂! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Students can even get 30% off. More info: jasp-stats.org/2024/11/21/d...

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

New theory paper-led by @lpummerer.bsky.social with Karen Douglas, @drdanieljolley.bsky.social & @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying appraisal theories to understand emotional and behavioral reactions to CTs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ingar tried the new OpenAI agent 'Operator' that can take over tasks in your browser to fill in a Qualtrics survey. It's pretty great at lying to being a hoooman. Best response: "I enjoy eating strawberries because they are sweet". TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT threadreaderapp.com/thread/19000...

„we do not detect a significant citation decrease for scholars accused of scientific misconduct“ journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀 Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested? ✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite? In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 ⬇️

Please share! Call for Research Collaborators: Cross-Cultural Study on the Continued Influence of Misinformation We invite researchers to join The Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation Across Cultures (CINEMAC) Mega-Study. More details here: forms.gle/o7mEYtZxFzsM...

Does taking a temporary break from social media truly impact our well-being? Discover the answer in our meta-analysis, now published in Scientific Reports 🎉: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My fellow communication scientists, can you point to scientific articles about what @techconnectify.bsky.social is concerned about Some parts I believe relate to @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social's paper, but I know I'm missing other parts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

Although some researchers manage to perfectly adhere to preregistrations, it is common to need to deviate. Not all deviations are consequential, but some are, and it is important to evaluate the impact of deviations on the severity of a test. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...