At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

Im Bundeskanzleramt zeigte sich beim Behavioural Insights Connect: Wenn Wissenschaft & Politik in den Dialog treten, entstehen neue Wege, um Demokratie wirksam & erfahrbar zu machen. Unsere Policy Ultra Briefs sollen dabei einen nachhaltigen Beitrag zur evidenzbasierten Politikgestaltung leisten. 💬

Für Klimaschutz & Austausch: Die DGPs zeigt in einer neuen Handreichung, wie Veranstaltungen nachhaltig gelingen – von Mobilität über Verpflegung bis Abfallreduktion. Präsenz & Ökologie im Einklang 👉 www.dgps.de/schwerpunkte...

Happy thanks to everyone joining and contributing to #FGSP2025 and safe travels back👋, we hope you had a stimulating time! And thanks so much to @olivergenschow.bsky.social and colleagues at @leuphana.bsky.social for organizing the next biannual meeting🙏 - looking forward to #FGSP2027!

Welcome to Bochum everyone! 🩷 We’re thrilled to see so many of you at the 19th conference of the Social Psychology Section — ready to share ideas, connect, and maybe even fall in love with a little brutalist concrete charm 🧱✨ #FGSP2025

We always get asked, "What can I *personally* do to help address climate change?" Sadly, there hasn't been a very good answer to this question. Previous guides often treated people as monoliths, giving them a one-size-fits-all answer. But that's changed now. Enter SHIFT. jointheshift.earth

We are getting ready for 3 days of #FGSP2025 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with > 300 contributions! looking forward to learning about the latest research in social psych - safe travels to Bochum everyone!🚄

Review alert 🚨 What motivates collective action for the environment? 🔎🌍 We reviewed 27 publications to identify the proximal predictors of environmental collective action. Here are our key findings:

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

📢Öffentliches Wissenschaftsevent @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Psychologische Einblicke in Verschwörungserzählungen Mit @rolandimhoff.bsky.social, @pialamberty.bsky.social, @lpummerer.bsky.social, @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social & Bianca Liebrand Bergbau-Museum Bochum 14.9.25, 18:00 Tickets: 5€ tinylink.net/VbOF9

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

📢 New commentary out today in Nature Human Behaviour! We argue that behavior change interventions often suffer from a one-sided success focus. But failures may reveal structural barriers people face. 🔗 rdcu.be/ex8hR #BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy

📣Wisskomm-Interessierte in Bochum und Umgebung aufgepasst: dieses öffentliche Wissenschafts-Event zu Verschwörungserzählungen im Rahmen der Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie solltet ihr euch nicht entgehen lassen! #FGSP2025

🪧New Preprint led by @saschakuhn.bsky.social on the connection between climate policy support and macro- (country-level) variation in e.g., economic freedom, per capita emissions, income inequality, and climate vulnerability, building on data from the Many Labs Climate Project!

10 days left to apply to join #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at ⬇️ perfect position for a post-PhD ambulatory assessment/ ecological momentary assessment resesrcher with an interest in determinants of health behaviours and #digitalhealth! #PsychJobs #HealthPsych #BehSci #AcademicSky

Schade, dass wir uns mehr Klimaschutz nicht leisten können, weil dafür muss erst die Wirtschaft laufen, und die läuft halt nicht so gut, unter anderem, weil es mit dem Klima nicht so läuft.

Das Deutschlandticket ist für viele junge Menschen zu teuer geworden – das zeigt der deutliche Rückgang bei den Abo-Zahlen. Dabei war das Ticket ein großer Erfolg: Es hat Bus und Bahn auch für Auszubildende, Studierende und Menschen mit geringem Einkommen bezahlbar gemacht. (1/3)

🪧New preprint out: "Politicians underestimate support for climate action even more than the general public" osf.io/preprints/os... Pluralistic ignorance - citizens underestimating others' climate concerns - is well documented. But what about policymakers in office?🏛️🤔 A short thread 🧵

Wir haben 1.014 Bürgergeldbeziehende befragt – als Gegengewicht zu einer Politik, die lieber über statt mit Menschen spricht. Die Ergebnisse haben wir heute auf der BPK vorgestellt. Hier geht es zur Aufzeichnungen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_t...

An amazing, much needed resource!

🌍 When and why do people—and policymakers—recognize the structural roots of unsustainable consumption and support systemic solutions to fight climate change? Thrilled and grateful to explore structural influences and policy support in my new ERC Advanced Grant (SUSCON). #ERCadG #BehavioralScience

📣 Excited to share our new preprint: "Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS) osf.io/preprints/os... We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.

🧠🌍 Can you correct misperceptions of the impact of different climate actions? In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, we tested whether climate action literacy interventions can shift behavioral commitments toward more effective climate actions. Check out our neat results 🙂 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

The Heist By @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

⚡Calling all environmental researchers and members of the climate movement - big news! ⚡ We’ve just released our new book, The Psychology of Collective Climate Action - and it’s Open Access! You can download the book from Routledge or on our Wandelwerk page: www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien

Kanzler Merz sagte letztens, eine Partei müsse »›aggressiv kämpferisch‹ gegen die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung« arbeiten, um verboten werden zu können. Warum das nicht stimmt - und auch Innenminister Dobrindt falsch liegt bei den Bedingungen fürs AfD-Verbot:

There is a new Executive Order that is closely related to many of the topics promoted in the science reform movement. It deserves a close read as it will surely have implications for how some promoted reforms are implemented in policy and practice. My hot take 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars. Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT

Hot off the press! Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability? Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed: openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

📣very thrilled to see the new, open access (!) edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology is now online! With 50 chapters, this is an amazing collective effort brought to everyone by @danielgilbert.bsky.social, Susan Fiske, @elijfinkel.bsky.social, and Wendy Mendes and Situational Press. 👏🎉🙏

Genau dieses Leistungs-Gerede ist leistungsfeindlich. Weil es nämlich einen großen Teil der Leistungen ausblendet. Abseits bezahlter Arbeitszeit wird nicht bloß herumgelegen und gefaulenzt. Da werden auch Kinder erzogen, Kranke gepflegt, Kultur geschaffen, Ideen entwickelt. (Thread)

🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Hat man im Wahlkampf irgendwie nicht gemerkt: Der Anteil der Menschen, die das Thema Umwelt- und Klimaschutz sehr wichtig finden, ist höher als jener, die das über das Thema Zuwanderung sagen. (Und auch die Plätze 1 und 2 sind interessant.)

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

Die AfD ist jetzt insgesamt gesichert rechtsextrem. Viele sagten, es wäre Zeit für ein AfD-Verbot, wenn dieser Fall eintritt. Wenn du das jetzt auch fordern möchtest, hier geht es zur Petition: innn.it/AfDVerbot

Ein AfD-Verbot ist das Gebot der Stunde#Kommentar#AfD

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is all pretty recent. And the change wasn’t magic, or even all that hard. It just took a clear vision and determined leadership. Your city could choose leadership too if it actually wanted to. Great pic via @jbpssx.bsky.social

"This message of collective responsibility is one our current economic and political system works hard to suppress by championing unlimited freedom to consume, while ignoring the loss of freedom that such behaviour causes"

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Gary Kasparov on Russia 20 yrs ago: "Putin’s bad, but surely he’ll stop short of—and you can fill in the blank with a dozen things he did to destroy Russia’s fragile democracy and civil society, many of which Trump is doing or attempting to do in America today." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

DGPs und FTPS empfehlen mehr psychologische Expertise in der Politik: Sieben Positionen für bessere Integration, psychische Gesundheit, gesunde Arbeit, Klimaschutz und mehr. 👉 Jetzt lesen: www.dgps.de/aktuelles/de...

PhD opening in Environmental Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A really good 6 minute interview to watch. The dangers and perils of #climatechange have not gone away just because the US government under new administration has chosen to "disengage" #ClimateCrisis

Just over one week left to apply for this year's Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality! Applications close midnight (Berlin time) next Sunday, March 9, 2025, so don't delay if you want to take part in an unforgettable experience this summer in Berlin! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...