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How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems! Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

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I'm completely astounded that the government is just silent on the collapse of the British university system. The effect isn't only on the jobs that are going, but for all those that rely on universities and will be lost over time: caterers, admin, gardeners, etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae (Harvard) and in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yang (UChicago) explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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People in social networks made up of others with similar views were more resistant to attitude change than people in heterogeneous social networks pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15598106/

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

How do job seekers react when orgs quantify their diversity commitments? In a 🚨new paper🚨 with @ikesilver.bsky.social & Edward Chang, we explore competing predictions about how women and racial minorities react to measurable goals vs. vague, values-focused commitments.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

In happy news, our paper, "Thinking about God increases intergroup prosociality even when conflict is salient", is now out in GPIR! Particularly excited that this paper includes two amazing Fijian collaborators who played integral roles in leading fieldwork! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Over the 2020 US and NZ elections, antidemocratic attitudes preceded conspiracy beliefs, rather than conspiracy beliefs fostering antidemocratic attitudes by @lindaskitka.bsky.social & many others in @ispp-pops.bsky.social #socpsych #polisky #polpsych onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

new article on insurgency and autonomy in Myanmar UNHAPPY IS THE LAND THAT NEEDS HEROES by Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung (co-published with Chuang) endnotes.org.uk/posts/geoffr...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

‼️ Hiring‼️ One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun! Please share widely.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

At this month's Crowds & Identities @crowdsidentities.bsky.social seminar, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, Rhea Haddad presents her new work with @drannetempleton.bsky.social on how collective sound-making at live sports events expressed shared identity.

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Crowds & Identities @crowdsidentities.bsky.social celebrate @sanjeedah.bsky.social’s birthday at Planet India

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The world’s biggest crowd event? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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In a study that may surprise some or may surprise no one... Participants don't read consent forms. They spend about 8 seconds on them, older people are more likely to have read , but really 6-17% could have even skimmed. Ethical & practical issues abound. osf.io/npa3b/downlo... #metasky #phdsky

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Women: You are invited to participate in a study of how identity characteristics influence women’s experiences of bias at work. Fill out the brief survey here: amy-diehl.com/study (And please repost and share this link).

submitted 50 days ago • 24 comments

African nations collaborating with NGOs in the management of protected areas 👍 New study finds these collaborative management partnerships (CMPs) contribute to significant decreases in #deforestation in vulnerable protected areas #biodiversity #forests www.inrae.fr/en/news/co-m...

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If you are wondering what is going on in Ethiopia with all these recent moderate magnitude earthquakes, a comprehensive and in-depth report is now available on Earthquake Insights by @judithgeology.bsky.social and Kyle Bradley. ⚒️ 🧪 #volcano open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

When a protest event happens in another town, when do people gather to protest in their own area? Help us answer this question by filling in my student's short questionnaire. Please share. www.instagram.com/p/DDNLcOiNHNY/

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happy to finally share this open access piece where we mapped honor, dignity, and face values and concerns across Mediterranean societies & beyond. huge amount of work went into this and I am grateful to the wonderful honorlogic team for making this happen journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how? Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

Can we reduce polarization with empathy? Just published a new (replication) study with @mrooduijn.bsky.social and Matthijs Gillissen showing that different components of empathy have quite different effects [1/5] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

🧵Please share! 🎓 PhD studentship for August 2025 entry The @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Business School is offering fully funded PhD studentships for August 2025 entry. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/business-sch...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Come join us in Mauritius this summer for the Interdisciplinary Ethnography field school! anthropology.uconn.edu/2023/01/10/s...

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Across different countries (United States, Sweden, Egypt, Lebanon) and different religious beliefs (Christians, Muslims, atheists), participants were much more generous toward other participants who share the same religious beliefs. doi.org/10.1017/jdm....

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Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal osf.io/preprints/ps... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky

submitted 80 days ago • 4 comments

📢📢📢Check out this 12-13 month Research Fellow #position at the HONORLOGIC project (PI: Prof. Ayse K. Uskul) & Uni. of Sussex Psychology to work on projects exploring the role of honor in social interactional processes. 🗓️ Deadline: 3 Jan 2025

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Crowds & Identities early birthday celebration meal, with @sanjeedah.bsky.social @evangelospsych.bsky.social @harrymlewis.bsky.social @alleal.bsky.social

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

New paper: we look at the moral reasoning children vs. adults show re eating animals. Children are more "morally absolute", not showing the trade-offs (e.g. between concerns about animal welfare vs. naturalness of meat eating) adults make. osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #moralPhil

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Take part in my student's study on collective action -- or share this post for her. Thanks!

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Last chance to join the amazing HONORLOGIC team as a research fellow. interested in cultural psychology? have skills in multi method analyses? enjoy writing papers? apply here for a 12-13 month position to produce outputs with us: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/11fef29b...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I’m recruiting 1-2 doctoral students to work with me in @lsepbs.bsky.social at the LSE. Topics: moral reasoning, facilitating difficult intergroup cooperation and alliances to solve common problems (and political violence if I must). Deadline Jan 15. If interested DM for guidelines on applying

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

My last article on emotional geographies at the border of Ceuta and Melilla. I explore how film-viewing can reveal intimate experiences and civic emotions of activists in the context of pro-migrant mobilization #Borders #Emotions #Ceuta #Melilla www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Episode 102! A great conversation with Colin Wayne Leach about his systems approach to social science and what we know about protest as a vehicle for social change. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3AVH... Web: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/prot...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

deadline approaching fast: scholars researching the Mediterranean Region & groups from the Mediterranean cultures now updated website with featured speakers Mai Albzour, @ayseguveli.bsky.social , Rebecca Byrant, and Ahmed Mohamed submit your abstracts by Dec 15: honorlogic.org/cretemeeting/

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the ways people interact with and value nature. 🌍🧪: - @ipbes.bsky.social #ValuesAssessment All these values must be considered to effectively address the #biodiversity crisis. Read the Values Assessment Report: www.ipbes.net/the-values-a...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Two great conferences for behavioural science next year: IAREP in Tartu, Estonia, June 17 for #EconomicPsychology, #BehaviouralScience, #BehaviouralPolicy, etc. iarep2025tartu.com IBPPC in London, UK, September 10 for #BehaviouralPublicPolicy, #Nudge, #Sludge, etc. www.ibppa.org/conference

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