I was going to say “intergroup relations”, but I guess “war and peace” covers it

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏

Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8

Please share it widely!

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

“Our culture is cosmopolitan because we are a cosmopolitan species. We are citizens of the world, not nations, to paraphrase both Socrates and Thomas Paine. What has allowed us to thrive, physically and culturally, is not our rootedness but our mobility”

aeon.co/essays/there...

Congratulations!! It sounds fascinating, can’t wait to see what you find!

Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

30%: #Immigrants are overrepresented amongst #Nobel winners 🏆
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Which Cultural Dimensions Predict Variations in Emotional Conformity? An Extension of Vishkin et al. (2023) Across 28 Nations - Peter B. Smith, Alexander Kirchner-Häusler, Lusine Grigoryan, Vivian Miu... Despite being a classic social psychology topic, cultural variability in conformity has only been examined systematically in the last few decades. Vishkin et al...

It is often assumed that conformity is higher in collectivist cultures. In our new study that just came out in JCCP, we show that emotional conformity is actually higher in individualistic cultures, replicating earlier findings across 28 nations journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congraaats! ❤️ Hope you are all surviving 💪

Our paper on addressing climate change with behavioral science won the SPSP Cialdini Prize 🥳🥳🥳

finally saw that wonderful Jane Goodall clip and I can’t tell you how delighted I am to learn that in addition to being a genius and a pure soul and a phenomenal advocate and a cultural revolutionary, she was also a hater

Abstract: Authorities, from parents of toddlers to leaders of formal institutions, use punishment to communicate disapproval and enforce social norms. However, punishment is often interpreted in contrasting ways: at times it teaches and enforces norms, but at other times it fails or even backfires, undermining the authority’s legitimacy. We show that these seemingly contradictory effects of punishment can only be understood by considering the cognitive processes in the minds of human observers of punishment. In a series of experiments, we showed the systematic variability in how adults and children interpret punishment. We developed a formal cognitive model, derived from a standard model of how people make sense of each others’ actions (Inverse Planning), that captures and explains these inferences quantitatively and parsimoniously. This work reveals the rational logic behind how people learn from punishment, and a key constraint on the function of punishment in establishing shared social norms.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium:

Setayesh Radkani @setayeshradkani.bsky.social:

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model

Date: Friday, Oct 10
Time: 15:00 UTC+2 Vienna / 9 am NYC

Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Introduction to the ERSP special issue on “Reflections on social-psychological theorizing and the state of our field” Published in European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)

very happy to share the following special issue to which we invited a diverse set of reflections on our field that we thought would have something important and inspirational to contribute to ongoing theoretical discussions in social psychology.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does anyone know of any generalised additive mixed models courses running over the next ~year? Ideally in person, pref UK/Europe #rstats #gam #gamm

Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Job: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology in Oslo

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I'm looking for secondary schools in the Yorkshire area to take part in an intervention to help children critically engage with sexist content online!
If you know any teachers or schools that might be interested, please ask them to drop me an email on erl541@york.ac.uk for more information :)

@vponizovskiy.bsky.social

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

We’re at the post WWII inflection point: the state created for survivors of the most notorious genocide in history itself commits genocide. At the same time, 100,000 Britons march for fascism in London.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Except for the keys not working, hope it was a good start :)

Will is an amazing supervisor who will support you and cheer you on every step of the way. My career wouldn’t be where it is if it wasn’t for him. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone looking for a PhD or a postdoc in social/environmental psych.

One week left to apply.

It's not too late to spend next year gearing up for #datascience! The deadline is 29th August for overseas applicants, 5th September for home applicants. Come and learn #rstats with us in lovely York :)

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

@vponizovskiy.bsky.social

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Congrats, @ewanmurray.bsky.social and team! 🎉🥳👏

Female Founders Outperform Their Male Counterparts but Receive Much Less Funding, a Study Finds New research shows women entrepreneurs generate twice the revenue per dollar raised compared to male counterparts.

Women-founded companies generate 78¢ of revenue for every $1 raised vs 31¢ for male-founded startups. They burn 15% less capital--in 2024 $270K/month vs US startups $320K/month. Yet female founded startups received only 2.1% of venture capital in 2024. www.inc.com/annabel-burb...

Thanks, Thùy Vy 😊