📣 📣 📣 Submission deadline TONIGHT midnight (UTC+1)!!! #SocialPsychology #BPS #Public #Environment #Politics #Society #ClimateCrisis #CostofLivingCrisis #PublicHealth

EXTENDED DEADLINE for @bps-social-psych.bsky.social submissions!!! Ends midnight 11th May. 2-day attendance £105 (for section members), conference dinner (on the 8th) £25, 8-9th September, 2026, London, UK Theme: Social Psychology for the Public Information here: www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Had a really good time presenting the British Psychological Society Social Section last year. Recommend it.

EXTENDED DEADLINE for @bps-social-psych.bsky.social submissions!!! Ends midnight 11th May. 2-day attendance £105 (for section members), conference dinner (on the 8th) £25, 8-9th September, 2026, London, UK Theme: Social Psychology for the Public Information here: www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

The submission deadline for this year's @bps-social-psych.bsky.social conference is 3 May! It's a great opportunity to present new research and this year's theme is social psychology for the public. www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Excellent presentation on some brilliant research from @drannetempleton.bsky.social

All smiles at the Crowds and Identities meeting today! Thank you @drannetempleton.bsky.social for presenting your stunning research on evacuation instructions, excited to see where it goes! 🫶🏻

Submissions & registration are open for BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference (Social Psychology for the Public) 8-9 Sept 2026, London. We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community partners. Submission deadline: 3 May www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Submissions & registration are open for BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference (Social Psychology for the Public) 8-9 Sept 2026, London. We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community partners. Submission deadline: 3 May www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Excellent presentation by @drrotemperach.bsky.social and Franziska Busch, at the Crowds and Identities March 2026 meeting! @profjohndrury.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social

Repost across your networks for any social psychologists who might be interested! Attending this annual conference has been one of my yearly highlights since the early days of my PhD, we're a friendly bunch – consider attending to meet like-minded researchers interested in social psychology!

*SAVE THE DATE* September 8-9 2026! 📅🗓️ More details soon to follow for this year's BPS Social Section Conference in London ☀️ Please repost to spread the word to anyone interested in attending, we're excited to welcome new and returning delegates 🧑🏽‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧑🏿‍🏫👨‍🏫👩‍🏫

Consequences of Individual-, Organizational-, and Societal-Level Allyship: An Integrative Review and Recommendations for Policymakers and Practitioners New from @schreiber-julia.bsky.social spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

'Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies' - These events were riots not ‘protests’ - More people were involved than far-right activists - There were significant community defence actions. @ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media! It's online and free 🙂 www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Crowds & Identities Feb 2026! Fantastic work by @evangelospsych.bsky.social on Crowds, awe, and ordeal: Experiences, psychological transformations and ideological reproduction. Great seeing everyone! @swedishprotests.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @yarazebian.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social

1/2 'In social psychology, the current ease of online surveys, vignette experiments and so on only reinforces a point made 20 years ago that studies of "behaviour" are rare compared to studies of self-report....'

Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych. Link to pre-print below. www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Out now! Handbook of Social Identity Research 🌟 📚 ✍ Edited by Nyla Branscombe and Katherine J. Reynolds 'Indispensable for those interested in the research methods and empirical results' – Naomi Ellemers Read first chapter 🆓: tinyurl.com/mpfkzvjz ℹ️ More information: tinyurl.com/38ctp2f8

'Beyond the politics of demand: Prefigurative politics and the future of collective action research' New pre-print from @swedishprotests.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social and others with important argument about how social psych approaches collective action osf.io/preprints/ps...

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

The Crowds & Identities seminar, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social presents his team's important work on public perceptions of police use of force against protests.

The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT. The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...

The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT. The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...

It's Black Friday. Eight years ago today, a huge false alarm on Oxford Street was pathologized as a 'stampede' caused by 'mass panic'. We analysed why people mistook a harmless sound for a terrorist attack and why others joined their flight. @ukri.org funded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'Not calling out these politics for what they are can only legitimise them. This is done through euphemism (calling them “populist” for example), by absorbing and mimicking them or accepting them as “legitimate grievances” from “the people”.'

>1600 fossil fuel lobbyists >300 big agriculture lobbyists 551 carbon capture and storage lobbyists Are COPs where governments gather to discuss addressing climate change, or where capitalists gather to stop them?

Important new paper shows that mass casualties from extreme heat are likely at the current level of global warming and will only get worse the more the world warms: “mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We replicated one of the oldest experiments in Psychology (Triplett, 1898) as a registered report. Children completed a task faster in pairs than when they were alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The co-action effect is a thing. But what's the mechanism for this fascinating form of social influence?

I feel 'obliged' to share this again...

Join us for the second free session (of 3) in our Collective Action series today 2-4pm GMT, hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and brilliantly organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social & @merveozturkey.bsky.social See the speakers and register to get the link here: www.bps.org.uk/event/relief...

-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025

FREE online webinar from @bps-social-psych.bsky.social that may be of interest: 'From Relief to Resistance – Sustaining Collective Action for Structural Change' 6 November, 2-4pm More details below: www.bps.org.uk/event/relief...

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized. Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10: We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests, @yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...

'Panic'? It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance: 'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'How Participation in Collective Action Changes Relationships, Behaviours, and Beliefs: An Interview Study of the Role of Inter- and Intragroup Processes' @swedishprotests.bsky.social Re-reading this one from 2019 as part of my teaching preparation jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

A well-attended Crowds & identities, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, with presentation on his important work on collective action for Uyghur Muslims in China among Muslims in Turkey and the United Kingdom, by @metesefauysal.bsky.social

@merveozturkey.bsky.social & I are organizing an event with the @bps-social-psych.bsky.social Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency Our wonderful speakers: Dr. Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir Dr. Rim Saab Prof. @lucygobag.bsky.social Prof. @profjohndrury.bsky.social

Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers Funded by @ukri.org doi.org/10.20919/VJV...

New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies.

Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online! www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

Rising together: how collective action emerges in the face of an emergency Thursday (2nd Oct) 12-2pm Attendance is free, but you need to register. www.bps.org.uk/event/rising... This is the first (of 3) session in our free online series designed as an open space to come together and share ideas

A @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social free online event, organized by @drselintekin.bsky.social : 'Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency' www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

Godmorgon alla som är intresserade av klimatpsykologi, vad som skapar storskalig beteendeförändring, vad som påverkar att känna hopp & vad man bäst kan göra för klimatet - tycker ni ska anmäla er till den här endagskonferensen 22 november som Psykologer för Hållbar Utveckling ordnar. Öppen för alla!

Remaining in or leaving climate activism – insights from current and former activists on sustained engagement New from @swedishprotests.bsky.social & colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Re-reading this chapter by Carina Hoerst, @alexhaslam.bsky.social @evangelospsych.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @fergusneville.bsky.social et al. for lecture preparation for the coming term. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The session that stood out for me, “What Can Social Psychology Do”—chaired by @swedishprotests.bsky.social—brought us together to explore how we can respond to urgent crises, for example by challenging journals, associations, and institutions complicit in, or failing to act on, the genocide in Gaza.