Trust in science predicted protection intentions 😷 during the pandemic. But does this mean trust in science CAUSED protection intentions? 🤔 Yesterday at #FGSP2025, I presented our experimental work on this and got great feedback 🙌. If you are curious, here is our preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

In my talks about replication crisis (not reproducibility) I always used as attention-catcher that we cannot afford this roughly 50% replicability in human sciences since someone like Trump could use this to discredit everything and push their agenda. I hate that this prediction came true.

This is what you get for asking “yes but what’s the mechanism” one too many times 💋

Perspectives on Psychological Science returns—reimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect. Read the relaunch editorial. #PsychScience #OpenScience #EditorInChief @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QWMMC...

Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI? In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

🚨 CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? 🚨 Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). 🧵1/4

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We used interpretable machine learning on data from 55 countries (N = 4,635) to identify the most important individual- and nation-level factors predicting climate beliefs, policy support, and behaviors. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441... Led by @todorova.bsky.social

The "motherhood penalty" has shown greater discrimination against moms vs dads in the workplace. New work by @chrispetsko.bsky.social Rebecca Ponce de Leon & Ashleigh Rosette now instead shows a parenthood boost effect for moms & dads! BUT White parents may have a higher boost than Black parents.

👉 Science communication in psychology Our dear colleague and Jun. prof. @marlephie.bsky.social phie.bsky.social is co-speaker of the interest group “PsyComm” - together with @hendriks.bsky.social. We wish you & the group every success! leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta... #scicom #psychology

Das ist ein Skandal erster Güte, kommt aber bei uns in den Nachrichten kaum vor: Die US-Regierung versucht, Harvard zu zerstören, die vielleicht beste Universität der Welt. Es ist wirklich unglaublich. Schauen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)

Breaking News: Friedrich Merz failed to win enough support from lawmakers in the first round of voting to become Germany’s next leader. No modern German chancellor has ever failed to secure the job on a first ballot in Parliament.

🎺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*

Causal inference people, please help Ruben before he goes to the hardware store and maybe even accidentally drowns himself. Has anybody actually made a video illustrating the pipe metaphor for the flow of causality?

Had a really good time in Hagen - great people, great talks, great walks! Thanks for the invite! ☺️

Based on the grouchy replies, I’m beginning to think we need a crash course in how industry influences science for the #openscience folks. Some highlights.

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!

📢 New preprint now out on the causal (?) link between trust in science and pandemic protection intentions. Honestly, the results are not what I originally hoped for 🧐 Link: osf.io/th953_v1 with Simone Dohle & Ann-Christin Posten. 1/5

Thanks for the Flashback! Publishing with @socpsyjournal.bsky.social was fantastic—the reviewers and editor were great and really improved the manuscript. However, what truly stood out was their understanding during my parental leave, granting me a 7-month extension so I could be a full-time dad. 😊👨‍👧

Great summary of recent research on public perceptions of preprints, featuring a cool new paper by @fleerackers.bsky.social et al. 📰 Goes beyond our earlier work by also using qualitative methods, revealing very interesting (and worrying) results. Insightful read! www.science.org/content/arti...

🎓 Join Our Team! 🌍💡 We’re hiring 2 student assistants in Behavioral Economics & Intercultural Psychology. Remote work (within Germany) possible! 📌 Apply by Dec 20, 2024 www.fernuni-hagen.de/uniintern/ar...

It’s been a great start so far! So many common interests and ideas between our teams on #sciencereception, #metascience, and #bigdata - new research on all things (psychology of) science on the horizon! 🤩

Check out this interactive graph about how different scientists are perceived by people with different political orientation in the US! Mathematicians are perceived as trustworthy from both sides... clearly most people never had the chance to talk with a mathematician after a beer or two😉 #scicomm

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍 Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...

New paper: https://buff.ly/3ZcAz30 During the Covid-19 pandemic, many researchers felt the urge to contribute to the societal goal of curbing infection rates and alleviating the stress people experienced. Many thus (hastily) did "Covid Research".

Joining in on the buzz: I started a list with researchers working on trust in science across disciplines! Any suggestions? Self-suggestions more than welcome!! Let’s connect! Please share widely 🤗 #trustinscience #scicomm go.bsky.app/UXRS1uq

I need an #rstats sanity check for a #psychology study I'm running...just need to make sure I'm specifying the mixed-effects model correctly All input is welcome, will explain in the next tweet...

Last week, Dr. Moritz Ingendahl (Ruhr-University Bochum) and I received this year's Heinz-Heckhausen Award of the @dgps.bsky.social! 🤓🥳 www.dgps.de/die-dgps/pre...

New paper, brilliantly led by my sister Sophia Wingen, on the impact of growth mindsets on workplace coaching! 🌟 We find that growth mindsets boost willingness to coach, likely through positive outcome expectancy. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After an inspiring time in industry, I’m excited that today is my first day BACK IN ACADEMIA @fernunihagen.bsky.social 🥳🎉! I am super happy to continue my academic work, with new perspectives from both my time as a data scientist and from my new group (w. Angela Dorrough and Marina Orifici).

Job alert 🚀! An exciting 3-year, 75% PhD position in a DFG project on Cooperation, alongside a great team (with Angela Dorrough and Marina Orifici). Flexible work schedules and remote arrangements possible. Apply here: jobs.fernuni-hagen.de/job/Hagen-Do...

Super happy that our research on stereotypes about scientists is now published! Curious which scientific discipline is the most powerful 💪, the most trustworthy 😇, or the most conservative 🐘? Explore the data yourself in our shiny app: 02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/app-polsci/

Do stereotypes about scientists' political orientation shape trust in science? Check out our new paper with @marlephie.bsky.social and Anna Schulte: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

**WHY IS TRUST IN SCIENCE POLITICALLY POLARIZED?** Political stereotypes about scientists decisively shape the link between people's #politicalorientation and their #trustinscience. New publication with @wingentobias.bsky.social & Anna Schulte. #scicomm #polarization🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1177/1075...