Submissions & registration are open for BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference (Social Psychology for the Public) 8-9 Sept 2026, London.

We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community partners.

Submission deadline: 3 May

www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Is this only ‘in-person’ or is it possible to join online?

@bps-social-psych.bsky.social

Submissions & registration are open for BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference (Social Psychology for the Public) 8-9 Sept 2026, London.

We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community partners.

Submission deadline: 3 May

www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Excellent presentation by @drrotemperach.bsky.social and Franziska Busch, at the Crowds and Identities March 2026 meeting!
@profjohndrury.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social

Repost across your networks for any social psychologists who might be interested!

Attending this annual conference has been one of my yearly highlights since the early days of my PhD, we're a friendly bunch – consider attending to meet like-minded researchers interested in social psychology!

*SAVE THE DATE* September 8-9 2026! 📅🗓️

More details soon to follow for this year's BPS Social Section Conference in London ☀️

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SPSSI Journals Although allyship has the potential to foster inclusivity and bring about social change, its consequences have received too little attention in the literature. In the current contribution, we aim to ....

Consequences of Individual-, Organizational-, and
Societal-Level Allyship: An Integrative Review and
Recommendations for Policymakers and Practitioners

New from @schreiber-julia.bsky.social

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

'Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies'

- These events were riots not ‘protests’
- More people were involved than far-right activists
- There were significant community defence actions.

@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Social Media and Secondary Data in Psychological and Educational Research: Confronting Key Ethical and Methodological Issues | BPS This one day online event aims to raise and discuss methodological and ethical issues involved in working with secondary data from social media and public datasets.

Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media!

It's online and free 🙂

www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Crowds & Identities Feb 2026! Fantastic work by @evangelospsych.bsky.social on Crowds, awe, and ordeal: Experiences, psychological transformations and ideological reproduction. Great seeing everyone! @swedishprotests.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @yarazebian.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social

And expertly led meeting by @samreenchhabra.bsky.social

1/2 'In social psychology, the current ease of online surveys, vignette experiments and so on only reinforces a point made 20 years ago that studies of "behaviour" are rare compared to studies of self-report....'

Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...

Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych.

Link to pre-print below.

www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Out now! Handbook of Social Identity Research 🌟 📚

✍ Edited by Nyla Branscombe and Katherine J. Reynolds

'Indispensable for those interested in the research methods and empirical results' – Naomi Ellemers

Read first chapter 🆓: tinyurl.com/mpfkzvjz
ℹ️ More information: tinyurl.com/38ctp2f8

'Beyond the politics of demand: Prefigurative politics and the future of collective action research'

New pre-print from @swedishprotests.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social and others with important argument about how social psych approaches collective action

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Teaching when to trust As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

The Crowds & Identities seminar, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social

@pjsaaved.bsky.social presents his team's important work on public perceptions of police use of force against protests.

Precarious Solidarities: Collective Action during and after disasters Under Authoritarianism or repression | BPS The final instalment of this series, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field. Time may be subject to change.

The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT.

The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...

Precarious Solidarities: Collective Action during and after disasters Under Authoritarianism or repression | BPS The final instalment of this series, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field. Time may be subject to change.

The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT.

The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...

Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 particip....

It's Black Friday. Eight years ago today, a huge false alarm on Oxford Street was pathologized as a 'stampede' caused by 'mass panic'. We analysed why people mistook a harmless sound for a terrorist attack and why others joined their flight.

@ukri.org funded

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'Not calling out these politics for what they are can only legitimise them. This is done through euphemism (calling them “populist” for example), by absorbing and mimicking them or accepting them as “legitimate grievances” from “the people”.'

>1600 fossil fuel lobbyists
>300 big agriculture lobbyists
551 carbon capture and storage lobbyists

Are COPs where governments gather to discuss addressing climate change, or where capitalists gather to stop them?

Important new paper shows that mass casualties from extreme heat are likely at the current level of global warming and will only get worse the more the world warms: “mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We replicated one of the oldest experiments in Psychology (Triplett, 1898) as a registered report. Children completed a task faster in pairs than when they were alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The co-action effect is a thing. But what's the mechanism for this fascinating form of social influence?

I feel 'obliged' to share this again...

There is a 3 one on 4th (if I remember correctly) Dec that you might be able to attend - it will be fab too

From Relief to Resistance: Sustaining Collective Action for Structural Change | BPS The second in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

Join us for the second free session (of 3) in our Collective Action series today 2-4pm GMT, hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and brilliantly organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social & @merveozturkey.bsky.social

See the speakers and register to get the link here: www.bps.org.uk/event/relief...

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library <em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.

-- Call for Papers --

Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025