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N=20,996/23 countries, male gender, pol right, and Eastern culture associated with higher speciesism. People who believe more in animal sentience had stronger consumption rationalizations, suggesting meat paradox generalizes across cultures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Trial suggesting psychodynamic therapy reduces aggression in people on probation with antisocial personality diagnosis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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This is (I believe) the first time cultivated meat has been available for sale in Europe. In a WORLD first, it's available as pet food! When I started talking and writing about this a decade ago, people thought the idea was laughable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:

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When establishing PHAIR we recruited an Ombudsperson team to help us see our blind spots; I’m thankful to the team, glad they found no systematic bias in studies we’ve published, and appreciate their suggestions to improve the journal @phair-society.bsky.social phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...

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neuroticism and depression are more genetically related at higher levels of neuroticism

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@ranabkalkan.bsky.social is a rising star at KU Leuven. She hosts a podcast that focuses on what psychologists are like - not sure this is the most interesting episode but it is the most recent: check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/3gg3...

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Diet is a general indicator of speciesist attitudes phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...

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Digital psychiatry is an exciting field and includes efforts to enhance diagnosis and monitoring of mental illness using passive sensing (eg smartphone sensors). But the literature is rife with small N studies focusing on single diagnoses. That's a huge problem for two reasons... 1/

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PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 💚 An opportunity to bring together researchers from social and behavioural sciences, and animal activists and advocates from around the world to share research on animal advocacy. 🐣 For more information and to sign up: phair2025.co.uk

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I talked to Özge Fischer-Baum from @psychscience.bsky.social about our recent paper on informal caregivers‘ wellbeing! Their podcast Under the Cortex is a really fun format 😊 www.psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-202...

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Our typical study surveys are short and only have a single time. What can we do with huge sets of people reporting sustainability behaviors over longer periods? This has been quite a project. Thanks to NWO for the SSH-XS support, and to AWorld in Italy for their steady partnership. aworld.org

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Reminder! 🚨 You have until 30th January to submit a proposal for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 🗓️ For further information and to submit a proposal: phair2025.co.uk

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Study from large german sample shows omnivores more likely to transition to plant-based diet on doctor recommendation or to save money than because of politician or scientist advice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Welcome to the Society for the Psychology of Human Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) BlueSky page! 💙 Here we aim to advance and promote scientific research on moral and social psychology, diet and health, human-animal relationships, sustainability and environmental psychology. 🌱 phairsociety.org

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Understanding the different perceptual worlds of other animals is a huge part of ensuring their welfare - this new proposal for 'smart glasses' that allow you to see the world as the animal (in this case: chickens) might is a very cool way of making these differences salient doi.org/10.1016/j.at...

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Why isn’t everyone using EMA in clinical assessment? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Looking forward to the kick-off meeting of the DFG-funded Computational Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Network (ccpp.network; Stefan Westermann/Sven Banisch) later in Witten-Herdecke today!

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Ever wondered whether our personality influences our first sexual milestone? 🍒 We explored how the Big Five traits affect the timing of first sexual experiences — and how these, in turn, shape personality traits over time. Check out our preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #PersonalityPsych

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The scientist’s dilemma in climate activism phairsociety.org/2025/01/13/b...

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Check out our new paper using GIMME to study common and uncommon associations among +/- affect, motives, expectancies, consequences, and drinking. In these young adults we see lots of positive feedback loops in common features, but individual models reveal potential problems.

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Benefits of increasing taxes on animal based food and decreasing taxes on plant based food www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Traveling might be fun at the time but it won’t make your life better (on average and maybe only if you’re Dutch) with Adam Nissen Madeline Lenhausen @wiebkeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2700...

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Interesting new Ashton/Lee study showing birth order effects on #perpsy - suggests middle children are more communal; longer/content valid personality measures are more sensitive www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Is personality so predictably linked to chronological age that unique experiences usually play only a minor role in personality development? Comments and criticism are welcome on the intro draft of a paper proposing and testing this hypothesis. shorturl.at/QPKpw

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Our new paper led by @ealbath.bsky.social clarifies which psychological needs predict belief in conspiracy theories. Using RICPM we found that within-person decreases in personal control and belonging, but increases in levels of meaning in life, temporally precede increases in conspiracy belief.

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Therapist perception of therapeutic process not that different in person vs teletherapy. With Katie Aafjes-Van Doorn, Xiaochen Luo, Vera Bakes in Psychotherapy Research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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It’s really hard to distinguish trait neuroticism from state negative affect with questionnaire items. Paper with Ajda Flisar, Les Morey, Jan Kamphuis, and Andy Skodol ; current issue of psych assessment. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Are you a PhD student interested in the psychology of human-animal relations? Consider applying to the EASP Summer School blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/ Our workstream focuses on the social & moral psych of human-animal relations & animal product consumption; w/ Emma Alleyne & @chopwood.bsky.social

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People who report feeling empty are at risk for a host of other problems including self harm. Relatively little is known about emptiness bc it is usually studied as a symptom of bpd. psyche.co/ideas/feelin...

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It’s hard to influence environmental attitudes and behaviors www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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The question I've got asked most frequently at conferences when I was presenting something on the perception of life events was whether there are any age differences. Using data from the SOEP-IS, we addressed this simple but interessting question. Open-access link: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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🔥 We are now welcoming submissions for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 in Edinburgh! 🔥 We are inviting contributions in four different formats: Symposia, Standard Talks, Blitz Presentations, & Posters. Read the call for proposals and the submission guidelines here: PHAIR2025.co.uk

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Comparison of plant based alternatives on health and environmental criteria. Cool study; would have been nice to see justice criteria too. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39621907/

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A study by @wiebkeb.bsky.social & @mdkraemer.bsky.social shows caregiving lowers life satisfaction and raises anxiety, depression, and loneliness. #SupportCaregivers

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Subjective emptiness is a serious mental health problem that gets very little research attention. Julija Gjorgjieva and I examined #perspy risk factors: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Practitioners Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders available for preorder @Guilford www.guilford.com/books/Practi...

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"Meating of the Minds: Who Denies Animal Mind in Response to the Meat Paradox?" New paper in PHAIR by Tan, Bastian, & Smillie exploring individual differences in the meat paradox. phairsociety.org/2024/12/02/p...

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Can people intentionally change their personality? Happy to share that our review on volitional personality change research has now been published at Nature Communications. Open-Access-Link: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

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