It was great to see Vivian Liu present on the paper she led with Bethany Corbett Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #SRA2026

I'll be presenting the second study of my @researchireland.ie funded PhD, "Who are we? A qualitative study of children's #national and #European identities and #Inclusion of #Minorities" (w/ @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social) #SocialIdentity #IrishIdentity #EuropeanIdentity #DevPsy #SocialPsych

✨This week, the Helping Kids! Lab is at #SRA2026 ! See more information below on when and where you can see these amazing presentations of our team by @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social, @iniccraith.bsky.social, Dr. Ellen Kneeskern & Dr. Vivian Liu.

🔥🔥🔥This fascinating study examines the relationship between #prosocial behaviors and #civicparticipation by considering how #trust in #minorities moderates this relationship. #Chile #longitudinal #LatinAmerica #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000817

📚In this study by Hirohito Mashiko, a short-term #conflict-resolution 🏋️🧠 training program was found to improve Japanese junior high students' #interpersonal skills and #relationships. Worth a read 👇 doi.org/10.1037/pac0000823 #PeaceEducation #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych

Can sexism justify war? 💭🔎📚 In this excellent 🆕 study, Bosaia & Rollero connect ambivalent sexism with moral disengagement in #conflict. From Patriarchy to the Battlefield: 📖Read here: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000823 #CRSV #Gender #FeministPeace #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych

Facing our 💫emotions with curiosity💭 🧑‍🔬🔎This brilliant study explores how an integrative emotion regulation style facilitates #empathy and inclusive victimhood- paving the way for #reconciliation. Read now: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000830 #PeacePsychology #EmotionRegulation #AcademicSky #SocialPsych

At last weeks #LabMeeting, Melike presented her research on supporting adolescents in reducing substance use and digital addiction. Thank you Melike! ✨✨ #SocialPsy #DevPsy #DualAddiction #Intervention #HelpingKidsLab #Lab #Schemas

At last weeks #LabMeeting, we had the pleasure of listening to Michele Maia's guest talk on physical therapist behaviours that might hinder children's object exploration. Thank you so much for the interesting talk! ✨

✨ The brand new @aspbelong.bsky.social website is live!! Find all the info and resources on the ASPbelong project, the immersive story "Lina", and how this is boosting social belonging for young people! 🫂 🔗Have a look! aspbelong.com

🎉"The Longitudinal Relationship Between Youth Intergroup Contact and Social Cohesion Outcomes in Two Divided Societies" by @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social, @shelleymckeown.bsky.social, and others, is one of the top 10 most-cited papers in 2024! 🔗Read it here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

☘️ Today we're meeting our Spring Intern! Zaina is a master's student from the University of Amsterdam doing her internship in the lab right now. Learn more about her here! 🫙 #DevPsy #AcademicSky #SocialPsych #Internship #HelpingKidsLab #MeettheTeam

✨Today, we have another new member of the lab to introduce! Meet Ellen, a post-doctoral researcher who will work on the @aspbelong.bsky.social project! ☘️ Learn more about her here and on our website: helpingkidslab.com/who-we-are/%... #MeettheTeam #DevPsy #PhDSky #AcademicSky #SocialPsych

Today, we're introducing Donagh! A PhD researcher at UCD and our new administrative lab support. Learn more about Donagh here! ⤵️ #DevPsy #AcademicSky #SocialPsych #HelpingKidsLab #PhDSky

Meet Melike! A PhD Researcher from Türkiye doing research on prevention and intervention strategies for adolescent addiction right now. Learn a bit more about her here below! ☘️⬇️ #DevPsy #PhDSky #SocialPsych #HelpingKidsLab

@escaponline.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @socialpsychology.bsky.social @socpsychbasel.bsky.social @easpd.eu @eadp.bsky.social @eadperu.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

At our first #LabMeeting after winter break, Maddie and Tara practiced conducting the school survey for feedback. ✨ Thanks both! 📣 Still recruiting #Teachers and #Parents (4th–6th class). #SocialPsych #Research #Education #DevelopmentalPsychology #HelpingKidsLab #IrelandEd #Teacher #Teaching

🗣️Tuesday at the @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social research and engagement day postdoc Ellen Kneeskern presented about the scientific communication for @aspbelong.bsky.social 💬Exciting to learn about the other projects and to be getting our work out! #ResearchandEngagement #DevelopmentalPsych

We are now recruiting! We welcome a global and diverse set of applicants for a new ERC Consolidator project funded by @erc.europa.eu www.ucd.ie/research/new... 📣 Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... 📣 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

📢 Call for Papers
Special Issue: Rethinking Resistance in Peace & Conflict
 #peace #psychology #APA We invite work that challenges dominant models of #peace ✊🏽 See www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pac/resistance-peace-conflict for more information @apajounals.bsky.social @lauraktaylorPHD.bsky.social

📢Publication alert! 💡Ethno-Religious Socialization Among Majority and Minority Group Children in a Post-Conflict Society 💻Read the whole Article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔍 Or take a look at the infographic below! @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social @blaylockd1.bsky.social

Now hiring at @ucddublin.bsky.social in #psychology ✅ Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... ✅ 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud... Part of @helpingkidslab.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Award www.ucd.ie/research/new...

Time for TVEM, tomorrow…

We invite apps for our postbac fellowship in educational research and action. Postbacs engage in research on learning & learning environments, receive close mentorship from scholars across disciplines, and gain hands-on experience through community-based programs. See cladlab.nd.edu/era-fellowsh...

📣Calling all #Teachers and/or #Parents of children in 4th, 5th and 6th class! 👫We are conducting an in-school study with children around the country, all about what it means to be Irish and European, and the implications for inclusion in #Ireland. 🧵👇 #IrelandEd #Teacher #Education #Teaching

🤩 Children would receive #ChildScientist certificates, schools would receive vouchers, and we are very happy to talk to your pupils all about science and research in psychology :) 💭Want to get involved? Ask your principal to fill in the consent form, or feel free to DM with questions!

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon) If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.

This paper was long in the making! Ethno‐Religious Socialization Among Majority and Minority Group Children in a Post‐Conflict Society Now out in Social Development! dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode... @blaylockd1.bsky.social Hannah J Kramer Megan Stutesman @qubpsych.bsky.social

👀 Can paying attention to riot graffiti🖌️ in urban areas help us understand #localconflictdynamics? 🗺️ This study examines what rioters felt and expressed on the streets during the Honiara #riots in November 2021. 📖Read here: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000816 #pacificislands #PeacePsych #AcademicSky

🧠How do advantaged group's help initiatives affect its members' attitudes toward #peace? 🔎 @eliadler.bsky.social & co explored the dark side of #intergroup help. Read here: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000819 #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych @eranhalperin75.bsky.social @rethink-hope.com

@andyluttrell.bsky.social #OpinionSci Super interesting points around language vs categories across cultures! (min 45). Got me thinking about if/our work with children and non-visually distinct, but socially important, categories: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

📢New Publication alert! 💡Prosocial behaviour and trait risk-taking predict willingness to help others. 💻Read the whole Article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍Find out more about our Generation Peace Project: gnrtnpeace.com @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social @leilaeisner.bsky.social ✨

#GENERATION_EU is a reality! So grateful to receive #ERCCoG from @erc.europa.eu 🤩 With new PhDs and Post-docs, the @helpingkidslab.bsky.social will address: What is European identity? How does it develop? Does it promote peace? Across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

💙💛 Many congratulations to Associate Professor Laura K. Taylor of the UCD School of Psychology on being awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for her GENERATION EU project. 👏👏👏 @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social

Thanks for the post! Delighted to bring another #ERCCoG to @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social Looking forward to getting to work on #GENERATION_EU and collaborate with colleagues here and across the continent 🇪🇺💛💙

Follow to learn more and see future job posts! Grateful for the support of colleagues from: @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @srcdorg.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @pacjournal.bsky.social @entirl.bsky.social

Thanks for the post! Delighted to bring another #ERCCoG to @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social Looking forward to getting to work on #GENERATION_EU and collaborate with colleagues here and across the continent 🇪🇺💛💙

Proud to be one of six #ERCCoG projects in #Ireland this round! Congrats on the other awardees - such exciting research on the island! www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/s...

Thanks to @ucddublin.bsky.social for this lovely write up as well: www.ucd.ie/research/new...

Dr Laura K. Taylor has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her GENERATION EU project. #ERCCoG The project will explore how young people develop and align with a ‘European’ identity, and the implications that this can have on society. ucd.ie/research/new...

Delighted to receive the #ERCCOG! The colleagues at @ucdresearch.bsky.social we’re so helpful in the preparation stage and navigating the support from @entirl.bsky.social I’m so grateful for the opportunity to better understand how youth can make a constructive change here in Europe.

Follow to learn more and see future job posts! Grateful for the support of colleagues from: @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @srcdorg.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @pacjournal.bsky.social @entirl.bsky.social

#GENERATION_EU is a reality! So grateful to receive #ERCCoG from @erc.europa.eu 🤩 With new PhDs and Post-docs, the @helpingkidslab.bsky.social will address: What is European identity? How does it develop? Does it promote peace? Across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

💙💛 The University has honoured Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon, alongside leading business executives Siobhán Talbot and Mark Dobbin, and economist Paul Sweeney, during the week of graduation ceremonies.

Mai’a Cross of Northeastern University opens the public policy event, in collaboration with @bentonra.bsky.social of @ucddublin.bsky.social

@andyluttrell.bsky.social with another great episode of #OpinionScience podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/o... Shining a light on the importance of testing (throwing spaghetti at the wall), rather than relying on experts to identify effective political messages.

#PSY40630 folks This, not surprisingly, is a way better description than I did week 1 🤦‍♀️ And they even get into jackknifing and the origins of where bootstrapping’ could have come from!

Loved this @quantitude.bsky.social episode Great translation across different fields: Differential items functioning Measurement and variance And: Psychometric, or, Predictive validity And our old favorite: Restricted range! #PSY40630

@dublinbusnews.bsky.social the E1 and E2 corridor from Cabinteely through Sandyford hasn’t picked up in over 40 minutes. Any chance future days can have more buses on this route for those of us that have to commute to work after the school drop off? Thanks!