Pre-Print When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories? We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK). Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀 One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social Thank you for sharing 🫶 Please reach out if you have any questions. @polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters. Exactly 5 years later, the free access to my new overview paper "The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality" will expire. Coincidence, Elsevier? 🤐 Download now before it's too late: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...

Psycholog:innen aufgepasst🧑🏽‍🔬💬👩🏻‍💻! Du kommunizierst aktiv über deine Forschung und trägst dazu bei, dass die Psychologie als Wissenschaft sichtbar wird? 📣 Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) @dgps.bsky.social schreibt auch 2026 wieder einen Preis zur Wissenschaftskommunikation aus!

@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.

Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups. As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)

#MePsy25 now with a couple of highlights- we start with the best paper award - with honorable mention for Fabian Hutmacher, Markus Apple, and Stephan Schwan - for www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since my early PhD days, I dreamed of conducting this study. Over time, I was fortunate to work with stellar colleagues, @lunafrauhammer.bsky.social , @tobiasdienlin.com and Manuel Cargnino who helped turn this vision into reality. The full publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New publication alert! How does coping dispositions (vigilance and cognitive avoidance) affect preferences for fictional versus non-fictional information about climate change?

📢 New publication alert! What are the cognitive effects of political microtargeting?

Interested in the MediaPsych Best Paper Award 2025? 🏆 🎉 We’re looking for the best media psychological article published between 2023 and now. @mepsy.bsky.social Members of the German DGPs MediaPsych division can apply. 👉 www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

🇪🇸🇩🇪 Saludos desde Galicia! Katja Pook and I returned from an inspiring visit to Pontevedra @uvigo.bsky.social Many thanks to our fantastic host Javier Abuin. We explored opportunities for student exchange and further research on fact-checks and virtual influencers. Looking forward to what’s ahead 🤩

🚨 New Publication alert! "Latent Bombs of Disinformation", recently published on Information, Communication and Society in collaboration with Chang Sup Park, João Guilherme B. Santos, Athus Cavalini and Homero Gil de Zúñiga. 50 eprints on the link (1/n) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G7ZVC...

👋Hey! Bist du Psycholog:in? Interessiert dich #Wissenschaftskommunikation 👩‍🎓💬? Wir haben eine Interessengruppe in der @dgps.bsky.social gegründet, in der wir uns vernetzen und Expertise sammeln möchten! Komm vorbei am 05. Mai um 16 Uhr - oder trag dich ein und bleib up to date!

"Media Psychology" goes Bluesky ✨ On this channel, we will post new articles, infos about the journal, and news from the world of media psychology.

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Very excited to start with Morgan Ellithorpe @morganellithorpe.bsky.social, Roselyn Lee-Won and Drew Cingel as new Editors of "Media Psychology". In the first issue, we explain our goals for the journal. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔎 #MediaPsych In meinem Team an der @unidue.bsky.social suchen wir Verstärkung in Form einer Doktorand:in-Stelle (100%) im Bereich Medienpsychologie mit Fokus auf Bildung, Politik, Moral und vieles mehr! www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Bitte an geeignete Kandidat:innen weiterleiten!

The relationship between social media and democracy is complex but important and there is a lot of debate. For coordination, I wanted to gauge the community with a discussion thread about what, in my view, we do know and the ones we do not know (yet), please add your thoughts and/or disagree: 1/n

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓📱💻 🤖You are a PhD student in Media Psychology? Then, this PhD Workshop is waiting for you! If you are interested in receiving feedback on your writing, presentation style, career planning and much more from mentors and PhD peers - please apply for this preconference! www.uni-due.de/media-psych-...

Engagiert, verantwortungsübernehmend und zuversichtlich gemeinsam ins @dgps.bsky.social Jahr gestartet ⬇️

🚨 Call for Papers🚨 Are you researching public opinion across countries & contexts? Submit to the Public Opinion Quarterly special issue I’m co-editing with Hernando Rojas & Ting Chen. Let's advance nuanced, cross-contextual insights! 🌍 📅 Deadline: May 18, 2025 🔗 CFP: academic.oup.com/poq/pages/ad...

A new *trust in science scholars* starter pack! ✨ Created by @marlephie.bsky.social who you need to contact to get on it 🙃 go.bsky.app/UXRS1uq

📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

Curious about what German-speaking media psychologists and our international friends are up to? Then this list might be for you. go.bsky.app/V9A2gEp You are a member/friend and we've forgotten you? We're sorry! Please comment and we'll add you.

Which factors increase the intensity of parasocial interaction? In a new paper from our Landau Media Psych group, Tobias Schreyer and Uli Gleich test the Two-Level Model of PSI with a novel experimental design using Zoom videos. @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

Despite a room requiring pac man navigation skills, the keynote by the wonderful Amy Orben is welcomed by a packaged audience #DGPS2024

In an eventful week with no shortage of conspiracy theories and misinformation, we‘re looking forward to applications until Friday 😊

If it's three, it's a tradition - and this one is a fantastic one 😉: Inaugural lecture and summer party at the @ifkw.bsky.social this year with the fantastic colleagues Benjamin Krämer and Lars Guenther giving insights into their work.

Interested in research on misinformation, conspiracy theories or selective exposure? We’re searching for a PhD student in our Media Psychology group in Landau (3 years). Please contact me for any questions – we're very much looking forward to your applications! jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/5...

New Preprint: “(Don’t) Stop Believing” Are conservatives generally more vulnerable to #misinformation? Our new study suggests: Bias occurs on both sides – but in different forms (higher confirmation bias on the right, higher disconfirmation on the left). osf.io/84c36 Here's a thread ⏬

1/3: 🌟 Funding Opportunity for Early Career Researchers in Media Psychology! 🧠💻 Our Media Psychology division is excited to offer €2000 in research grants to junior members. We welcome proposals from doctoral candidates & postdocs in media psychology.

Interesting read: How do beliefs in implausible vs. plausible conspiracy theories differ? Correlational and experimental study find that a generalized suspicious mindest (conspiracy mentality) is more strongly related to belief in conspiracy theories with low evidential value. ⬇️

As many others, we've mostly stopped being active on Twitter and will continue our communication on bluesky.

Saludos desde Chile! 🇨🇱 Very happy to spend the upcoming weeks together with great colleagues, misinformation and conspiracy research, sun and empanadas in Santiago at Universidad Católica and Universidad Diego Portales. Muchas gracias a Magdalena Saldaña, Marcelo Santos y @sebavalenz.bsky.social !

Saludos desde Chile! 🇨🇱 Very happy to spend the upcoming weeks together with great colleagues, misinformation and conspiracy research, sun and empanadas in Santiago at Universidad Católica and Universidad Diego Portales. Muchas gracias a Magdalena Saldaña, Marcelo Santos y @sebavalenz.bsky.social !

Hello Bluesky with a sky from Landau 😊

Hello Bluesky with a sky from Landau 😊