I’m thrilled to share that our paper “Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs. pro-environmental decisions” is now published in Communications Psychology! 🌿 OA link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/6

🎉 New paper alert! In this collaboration across 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 (n = 3,055), we developed a new pro-environmental behavior task and tested which psychological interventions actually make people more willing to put in real effort for mitigating climate change. Fully OA: tinyurl.com/2s46fppb

So happy to see this out! 🎉 We surveyed people from 68 countries about how they encounter and engage with information about science! See the thread below for a summary of the main findings 👇 Congratulations to the whole team, especially @nielsmede.bsky.social and @colognaviktoria.bsky.social 👏

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"! You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper out in NYAS! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝 w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social (thread below)

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41... “The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that moderate increases in cumulative heatwave exposure increase a person’s biological age — to an extent comparable to regular smoking or alcohol consumption.”

📢 🥳 New paper alert! We developed a new task (RateME) for studying the effects of personal and group rejection and showed that both types of rejection can be linked to radicalization via increased hostility. 🔗 Link to the paper: shorturl.at/uJiDa

What an excellent and truly important commentary on the clashes between bottom-up and top-down neuroscience and how we can move forward www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 Our paper is now out in Communications Psychology! We explore how effortful leisure (like puzzling) can be a source of meaning in daily life. Across 5 studies (N = 2,569), we find: - Effort makes leisure feel more meaningful - But not necessarily less enjoyable 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Excited to share our new paper on individual victimhood and conspiracy beliefs across 15 countries! 🌍 Check out the 🧵 below 👇🏼

Very excited to see this paper out! Grateful I had the chance to contribute to data collection in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Austria 🇦🇹. My home country Bulgaria is rarely included in such surveys, so I’m especially happy we got data there. Stellar effort by the team, especially @colognaviktoria.bsky.social! 👏

I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁

Enjoying stunning Brisbane and its amazing wildlife while waiting for #OHBM2025 to start 😍@ohbmofficial.bsky.social Looking forward to a week of inspiring talks and fruitful discussions! DM me if you are attending and want to chat 😊

Awesome talk by @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social on how the emergence of radical climate activists (Last Generation) impacted portayals of moderate activists (Fridays for Future) 🤩👏 See also our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to see that our International Neuro Climate Working Group is featured by the World Economic Forum as one of the top global initiatives addressing climate change & mental health 🌍🧠 Grateful to be part of this inspiring, growing movement! 📰 Read more: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯 🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists. My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

Do radical climate protests influence portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes? 🤔 We analyzed 2,376 news articles and 193k user comments to answer this question! Check out our new preprint 👇🏼

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

New preprint 📄 We tested how good are experts in predicting the effectiveness of behavioral science interventions aimed at increasing climate-relevant beliefs and behavior 🌱🌍 Spoiler alert: they’re better than the public! But… (check out the 🧵 below for more ⬇️)

Why do people fight for or against climate action? Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Our new paper analyzes 19 predictors of climate change beliefs & action across 55 countries (N=4635) 4 predictors had consistent effects across all outcomes: 1) environmentalist identity, 2) trust in climate science, 3) internal environmental motivation, 4) the Human Development Index

Gut wrenching footage from the new David Attenborough movie showing the devastating impact of industrial trawling on ocean life. Entire ecosystems ripped out from the seafloor and destroyed in minutes, absolutely devastating…

🌍 So excited to share our new paper “Machine learning identified key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors”, just out in npj Climate Action! 🔗 Fully Open Access: rdcu.be/ele9s 1/

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

"If we really want the best talent in science, then let’s foster environments across the scientific enterprise that invite neurodiversity and recognize the strengths of neurological differences," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a 2024 #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3GcwC7z

Cannot recommend this position more! 🤗 SCAN-Unit is an amazing place with wonderful people 🤍 and @clauslamm.bsky.social is the best mentor a PhD student can hope for! Please share with potential candidates

It was a pleasure to welcome Prof. Jyoti Mishra @neatneuro.bsky.social from UC San Diego in @scanunit.bsky.social and hear about her amazing research on climate trauma and community resilience 🤗 I’m so excited that there are more and more neursocientists working on climate change topics!

🧠🌍 Thrilled to share our latest paper, just out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences: "Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health" Read here (OA!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

🚨 New Manylabs launch 🚀 How does extreme heat affect our cognition & social behaviors? Contribute & become a co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... Please share 🔁 #EnvironmentalPsychology

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So proud of my friend and colleague @maxsteininger.bsky.social for his amazing work, showing how nature exposure reduces not just subjective pain reports but even people’s neural response to pain 🧠🤩

I’m beyond excited to share that I have been awarded the Marietta-Blau Fellowship! 🤩 This funding will support a one-year research stay at the Net Zero Observatory at the University of Queensland 🇦🇺 to work with the amazing Prof. Matthew Hornsey. 1/5

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

Happy times 🤍

🚨Paper alert 🚨 Do you wonder about how emotions influence climate-friendly outcomes? @kimdoell.bsky.social and I have analyzed how 8 emotions influence climate beliefs, climate policy support, sharing climate messages, and climate behavior across 63 countries. We found that... 1/

Extinction in tropical forests. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37 forests in 3 continents to reveal selective #extinction occurring within #TropicalForests triggered by #anthropogenic pressure in the broader landscape 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4jVaeyZ

Check out this cool comic in the Guardian by First Dog on the Moon about our new research! 🤩🦜 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the EU, Cyprus and Slovakia have the lowest shares of respondents agreeing that humans have developed from earlier species, 46%. Latvia (50%), Romania (51%), and Malta (54%) follow them. 3 non-EU countries in the survey had less. SK stands out from its V4 neighbors CZ (76), HU (67), and PL (58).

5-year environmental psychology PhD opening here at the UvA on the NWA project "ChangeAble; Accelerating Climate Action by Leveraging Behavioural Change" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

More evidence that a universal basic income would significantly reduce child abuse and neglect. This is a universal payment in NZ to parents with kids under age 1.

New study confirms the presence of #microplastics in the brain, liver and kidneys. The concentration in the 🧠 was 7–30 times higher than in the liver and kidneys! And there was an even higher accumulation of microplastics in the brains of people with #dementia… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just wrapped up the last course I’ll teach during my PhD @univie.ac.at, and I couldn't be more grateful for this experience. 🤗 Over the past years, I've been teaching seminars on social neuroscience, and I’ve truly discovered how rewarding it is to teach and engage with bright, curious students. 1/4

Exciting news! Our newest research, led by the amazing @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social looking at trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries with over 70,000 participants has just been published! 🚀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.