"One of the gravest misconceptions in the field is the assumption that measuring individuals over multiple time points is equivalent to adopting a developmental perspective." Read this poignant response to Berry (2025) by Philipp Jugert and Peter Titzmann. advances.in/psychology/1...

📢 The acculturation debate continues: A Direct Response to John Berry's critique was just published in advances.in/psychology! @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social addresses recent criticisms and reveals crucial, overlooked findings from meta-analytical evidence. advances.in/psychology/1...

🧠🌍 New in advances.in/psychology! How does anxiety about the future shape young people’s politics? A UK–Greece study finds that future anxiety links to stronger democratic support — but among young men, it’s also tied to more right-conservative views. Full article: advances.in/psychology/1...

Retorikken rundt LLM ser ut til å være mer finansiell fantasi enn empirisk faktum; imponerende språk, sparsom produktivitet—keiseren har fortsatt ikke fått på seg arbeidsklær. Sett med mine teknolog-øyne ikke overraskende. Glimrende innlegg av @kunstjonas.bsky.social www.dn.no/innlegg/kuns...

🇳🇴 Ny kronikk: Innvandrere er mer åpne for #psykisk #helsehjelp enn vi tror – og enn de tror selv. 🇬🇧 New op-ed: Migrants in Norway are more open to #mental #healthcare than we assume – and than migrants themselves assume. www.dagensmedisin.no/forskning-ps... @kunstjonas.bsky.social

🚀Just released my first R package on CRAN: LLMTranslate! Automates forward–back survey translations w/ LLMs, including reconciliation + change logs. No more weeks of manual reviews. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

I have some points of disagreement with John’s commentary, but I respect the depth of thought he brings to the topic. It's important to engage with different views as we push the field forward.

Forgive and forget… if it’s your party? A new article in advances.in/psychology reveals how partisan loyalty shaped forgiveness of political leaders in the 2024 UK General Election. advances.in/psychology/1...

🚨Publication Alert: Can emotional acculturation, usually seen as beneficial, have hidden costs? Immigrant minority students who internalize majority emotional norms report more social contact but less school engagement—especially when facing discrimination. advances.in/psychology/1...

Violent Extremism can take many forms. It can be cultural, structural, institutionalised and direct - or any mixture of these. New book about the subject bsky.app/profile/kuns...

This book looks great! Can't wait to read. (and thrilled to be a part of it. @nourkteily.bsky.social & I have a chapter on dehumanization you might be interested in!) #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Congrats to the Editors on curating such a strong list of chapters.

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

This new study reveals that using bivariate proxies to test interaction effects in meta-analyses systematically inflates effect sizes—clarifying why earlier syntheses, including those assessing the acculturation “integration” hypothesis, overstated their conclusions.

🚨 Just published in advances.in/psychology: “Cross-lagged panel networks” combine network theory and SEM to track dynamic, item-level effects across constructs like self-esteem and school commitment. advances.in/psychology/1...

A friendly reminder that submissions for the special issue, which I am co-editing with John F. Dovidio, are due by the end of the month. Please consider submitting—and feel free to share the call with colleagues who might be interested.

📢 New in advances .in/psychology: How do mobile phones, social media & digital diasporas shape modern migration experiences? Explore emerging research on digitally mediated acculturation by Jaimee Stuart, Colleen Ward, @jkarl.bsky.social, and Ronald Musizvingoza. advances.in/psychology/1...

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

📢 New in advances.in/psychology: Who gets to say, “This country is ours”? This research unpacks territorial vs. epistemic ownership of a nation—comparing majority Finns & second-gen immigrants. advances.in/psychology/1...

New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Please reshare: Reminder – Submissions Due End of June! APC waived.

Call for papers: “The Psychology of Pushback: Understanding Resistance and Compliance During Democratic Decline.” Edited by Jonas R. Kunst and John F. Dovidio. advances.in/psychology/1...

Please reshare: Reminder – Submissions Due End of June!

This might be my new favorite paper on acculturation! It challenges us to ask whether widely celebrated concepts like multiculturalism truly serve all communities—especially Indigenous Peoples.

new open access piece in the European Review of Social Psychology by @kunstjonas.bsky.social reporting a review and meta-analysis of majority-group acculturation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why has acculturation research focused only on minority groups when it's defined as mutual cultural change? My meta-analysis of 37 studies (N = 11,000+) reveals how majority groups also transform—and how colonial mindsets in academia created this blind spot. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine. I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

New paper by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & Mesoudi on acculturation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... A must read!

BREAKING: The AAUP & chapters @ Harvard, Rutgers, & NYU; & the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from carrying out arrests, detentions, & deportations of students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests & protected 1st Amendment activities.

We are entering a terrible stage in the decline of democracy here in the US. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?

The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.

Glad to read the news that the Norwegian government has dropped the requirement that international PhD fellows must learn Norwegian www.khrono.no/regjeringen-...

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

A researcher just lost their grant funding because their work might help understand why people are hesitant about vaccines.

New paper alert: In two studies, we found that poor sleep over the past month was linked with a stronger belief in conspiracy theories, especially after exposure to conspiratorial content. Published in the Journal of Health Psychology. Read: doi.org/10.1177/1359...

Wondering about #OpenScience Practices for #Qualitative Research? In our new paper, we showcase the use of audit trails to transparently document the full qualitative analysis procedure Equivalent to sharing code in quantitative research. Check it out bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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....

Our commentary on emotion-conspiracy theory frameworks was just published! While @lpummerer.bsky.social et al.'s AMCT model is excellent, we show mathematically how model complexity exponentially decreases cross-cultural replicability. Thanks @igi.bsky.social for the invitation!

The NYC @standupforscience.bsky.social rally was 99% organized by grad students & postdocs. Without new folks, younger folks bringing their ideas & momentum to the forefront, science will stagnate. I appreciate the inspiring examples they all set for me. I’m grateful to have learned from them.

If you haven't heard, APS is going to be outside of the US every 3 years from now on. First stop, Barcelona! Hell yes!

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

Great topic for Special Issue at @advances.in

In times of democratic backsliding, documenting what’s happening can itself be an act of resistance. That’s why I’m sharing this important Call for Papers for the Special Issue! Please re-post!

1. Rubio will get owned by Lavrov. 2. He will come out with some shitty deal that nobody would accept. 3. Trump & Putin will blame Ukraine when it’s rejected (“they don’t want peace, etc”). 4. Pro-Ukraine Rs in Congress will say nothing.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

The community note 🤌😘

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.