Surprisingly, snapshots from everyday life of that time likewise amplified happiness, but were less effective antidotes to negative emotions. Overall, showing pictures about Nazi terror in combination with other pictures from that time seems to reduce the impact of the terror pictures.
A fifth study (N=642) conducted online does not replicate this effect. An integrative analysis of considered emotions, however, implies that glorifying propaganda images may be doubly vicious: they reduce negative and enhance positive emotions experienced after reminders of atrocities.
We investigate how the propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. In four laboratory studies (total N = 429) Germans expressed weaker guilt when pictorial reminders of the atrocities committed during the Nazis' redesign were mixed with glorifying propaganda images.
Motivated by the redesign of the exhibition at the Obersalzberg Memorial we studied the effect of these pictures among nowadays Germans. The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past.
During the Nazi period cigarette boxes contained codes that could be traded for collectable pictures that showed Nazi propaganda. More than 4 billion of these pictures have been sent out. Some of these pictures were glorifying the Nazi regime.
We focused on the impact of glorifying propaganda and found that showing these pictures (but also showing neutral pictures from the Nazi period) among pictures about Nazi terror reduces negative and increases positive emotions.
How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions.
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1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum.
This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵
Since April 1st, 2024, cannabis is legal in Germany – no April fool's joke! In our new publication (with @doomed-generation.bsky.social & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social), we ask: What are antecedents of recreational cannabis consumption? 🧵
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We firmly believe that, in such cases, anonymized data are the better option and non-anonymized data should, if at all, be published in a repository allowing restricted access for scientists.
We conclude that the sample (e.g., the analyzed original publications) and the data per publication, with an anonymized ID, should always be published. However, we argue that publishing non-anonymized data might cause unjustified harm to original authors (e.g., errors in human coding).
(b) a pragmatic consideration of the current uptake of open science practices, (c) a greater appreciation for social interaction dynamics in the scientific community, and (d) a more nuanced view of the benefits and costs of non-anonymized open data in metascience.
The arguments we present in our preprint for being more cautious with metascientific data are based on (a) the understanding that metascience data informs about characteristics of research at an aggregate but not at the study level,
New preprint available: Transparency and open data are important. In contrast to Elson et al. (2026) doi.org/10.31234/osf..., who have called for non-anonymized data in metascience, we argue for a more nuanced approach to prevent unjustified harm for authors of original work
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Geld für die Förderung von Atomkraft, das hat Ursula von der Leyen gestern locker gemacht. Die Abkehr von der Atomkraft sei ein strategischer Fehler gewesen.
Ihre Aussage muss vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der militärischen Nutzung gesehen werden
Introducing the German General Social Survey Personas (GGSSP) – a #persona collection derived from the German General Social Survey (#GGSS #ALLBUS).
This data release provides plug-and-play persona descriptions to steer the generations of LLMs towards individual members of the German population.
If you are a published psychologist, please fill in our short questionnaire on academic freedom. We try to again a better picture of the community's perception of the situation.
New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.
Dear colleagues - we want to better understand perceptions of data fraud and its detection and need your support! Are you currently a #researcher in #psych (or related fields) working with #data? Perfect - please respond to & share this short study (7min): sosci.rlp.net/detection/?r... Thank you!! 🫶
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At Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID), we are searching for a postdoc who works with us toward a better understanding of the need for Open Science support of researchers in psychology and to improve the user friendliness of our products.
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Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers
Übrigens: Im digitalen Zeitalter könnt ihr mit eurer Aufmerksamkeit einen Unterschied machen. Medien messen die Klicks von Artikeln. Je mehr ihr Klimainhalte klickt, lest und teilt, umso größer der Antrieb sie zu veröffentlichen
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@kaisassenberg.bsky.social war zu Gast beim Radio #BR2 und sprach darüber, warum persönliche Überzeugungen zunehmend als Argumente genutzt werden.
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In other words, our results failed to replicate the impact of co-opetition on flexibility. We discuss the impact of online data collection and changes in the understanding of competition as potential causes of the failed replication. 4/4
In the new paper, two conceptual and one direct replication (total N = 1,340) found no difference in cognitive flexibility after / in co-opetition compared to the other types of interdependence. Bayesian analysis showed strong evidence against an effect (BF10 < 0.05). 3/4
In 2016, we studied the impact of co-opetition–the demand to cooperate and compete with the same target–on cognitive flexibility. Back then, we found that compared to pure competition and cooperation, experiencing co-opetition increases cognitive flexibility (eg, generating more diverse ideas). 2/4
New paper alert: @claudiaaraya.bsky.social and I published a failed (conceptual and exact) replication of one of the studies I published with Florian Landkammer 10 years ago doi.org/10.1037/xge0... on the impact of conflicting demands on cognitive flexibility 1/4
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