Slightly tired but super happy on the way back from the #FGSP2025 which we hosted this year in Bochum. These were three intensive but extremely joyful days!

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’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...

"'Stop the Count!' - How Reporting Partial Election Results Fuels Beliefs in Election Fraud" Why are people taken in by election conspiracies? It is down to cumulative redundancy bias (CRB), which makes it difficult to ignore projections/hype not matched by poll results. 🧪

New paper in PsychScience: Partial election results fuel fraud beliefs via cumulative redundancy bias. Early leaders are favored; late flips spark suspicion. 7 studies, including 2020 GA data, show this persists despite explanations. @moritzingendahl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper @moritzingendahl.bsky.social @johannawoitzel.bsky.social & @hansalves.bsky.social ) #EJSP Smaller groups (numerical minorities) viewed more negatively, even controlling for group membership status! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PrejudiceResearch

New in personality psychology: How Greedy People Respond to Missing Discounts: Insatiability and Inaction Inertia, from Vanessa Rettkowski, @moritzingendahl.bsky.social, and Marcel Zeelenberg doi.org/10.1525/coll...

🚨 Job alert - please share! I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later. Details in thread 👇 #PsychSciSky

Are stereotypes about minorities more negative? The short answer: Yes. @johannawoitzel.bsky.social @hansalves.bsky.social More details in our new paper at EJSP: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Come join us for a three year PhD position on Evaluative Conditioning in our group at the Ruhr Uni Bochum. Primary advisor is @moritzingendahl.bsky.social jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...