@marlephie.bsky.social kicking off the Monday lectures with a very inspiring talk about trust in science/scientists, stereotypes of scientific disciplines, and science communication. 🔬🧬🥼🧑‍🔬

"Hi, I am ConsBot, the conservative AI chatbot." Would you trust this bot?

As #AI becomes politicized, we found strong "ideological fit effects": people trust bots & follow advice when the AI aligns with their political camp:

Preprint w. @marlephie.bsky.social et al:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

One week left! We are looking forward to your submissions! 🤗

Why not both? (i.e., randomize the order of appearance in the questionnaire) - also comes with the nice side effect of being able to explore whether if actually matters.

@marlephie.bsky.social eröffnet die Reihe der Montagsvorträge und spricht über die Herausforderungen, die Stereotype für Wissenschaftler*innen mit sich bringen und darüber, wie sie überwunden werden können. 🎤

📅 20.04.2026
🕒 14:15 Uhr - 15:45 Uhr
📍 Universität Trier, Gebäude A/B, Hörsaal 1

Starting today, if an AI agent is detected in your Prolific study, we’ll give you twice the cost of that non-human participant back.

You pay for human data. You expect human data. We’re backing that with our 100% Human Guarantee.

Learn more: www.prolific.com/100-human-gu... #AcademicSky #Research

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.

Spoiler alert: they aren't

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We are a consortium at LMU Munich (@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social, @kduermeier.bsky.social), TU Braunschweig (Monika Taddicken, @hendriks.bsky.social, @j0shisisland.bsky.social), MfN Berlin (Susanne Hecker, Jakob Meyer) & @zpid.bsky.social (me). We look forward to new perspectives and discussions! 👐

📣 Dear #CitizenScience crowd! 📣 This October (5+6), we are organizing a SYMPOSIUM in collab with @pcstnetwork.bsky.social at the wonderful @mfnberlin.bsky.social in Berlin. We welcome PRACTICAL and RESEARCH perspectives on "Building Knowledge Together: #CitizenScience, #Communication & #Trust".

In case you missed it 👀 ❗

FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science !

Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨

Moral psychology flourishes because of our variation in moral values both within and across cultures. I'm happy to see that our registered report protocol for developing and validating the MFQ-2 in German populations is out now! Next up: Data collection and analysis ⚖️ 💻

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? 🧵

doi.org/10.1177/0047...

Cartoon einer Wissenschaftlerin am Schreibtisch, Kaffeetasse in der Hand, viele Papiere auf dem Tisch

Vielleicht überlegen manche von Euch ja selbst auch, in die Wissenschaft zu gehen. Ich habe mich gefragt, was in dem Fall für Euch interessant sein könnte 🤔. Zu Beginn meiner wissenschaftlichen Karriere hätte ich gerne gewusst, dass...

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
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

You want to conduct semi-structured interviews at scale via voice or chat?
@maxmlang.bsky.social offers an open-source framework for you to use: OASIS
oasis-surveys.github.io
github.com/oasis-survey...

Schon gefunden! 🤓

Straight to my reading list. 🌿

The cover for the SciComm Conversations episode on “Showing the person behind the science”.

5️⃣ “Showing the person behind the science”, with @marlephie.bsky.social, in which she discussed the role of personalisation in science, with @achintyarao.in.

▶️ coalesceproject.eu/2026/03/06/s...

#SciComm #Personalisation #Personalization #Science

Science under changing ideological conditions: Hungarian psychology in the twentieth century - cultura & psyché Creative academic thinking and research are inconceivable without academic freedom. This applies to all academic disciplines, including psychology. A concrete example that illustrates this fundamental...

There is no creative research without academic freedom.

In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible.

A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April.

doi.org/10.1007/s436...

Neuanträge werden erst später entschieden: www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/zehn...

If you’re more of a reader than a listener: Many of the topics we talk about are also included (in fewer and more precise words) in my recent Current Opinion piece on personal disclosure in #SciComm: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

We discuss some of my previous research on #self-disclosure and #me-search, but also newer ideas such as role perspectives and the need for disciplinary differentiation in #SciComm.

SciComm Conversations: “Showing the person behind the science” Listen to "Showing the person behind the science. Guest: Marlene Altenmüller" on Spreaker. Transcript Achintya Rao : Welcome to SciComm Conversations. My name is Achintya Rao. In this episode we exp...

🎙️ Last May at the conference of @pcstnetwork.bsky.social in Aberdeen, I was interviewed by @achintyarao.in about my work on personal disclosure in #scicomm and its effects on #trust. The podcast episode is now available: coalesceproject.eu/2026/03/06/s...

Das Bild ist ein Flyer zum Kolloquium und hat denselben Inhalt wie der Text im Beitrag. Zusätzlich sind dort Fotos der beiden Vortragenden abgebildet.

✨ Save the date für unseren nächsten Lunch-Talk! ✨

📅 Am Freitag, den 20. März 2026 (12:00–12:45 Uhr) sprechen Laura M. König und Jan Crusius zum Thema "In-Mind Magazin: Psychologie für alle"

💻 Online via Zoom

📩 Anmeldung per E-Mail an: psycomm@dgps.de

Wie immer freuen wir uns auf euch! 💛

I would already be happy if we found a few more solid short-lived effects… 😅

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!! 🫶

Marlene presents „Limits of an open mind: intellectual humility‘s role in motivated reasoning“.

Finally, I did my best filling in for @jlolacher.bsky.social, presenting (and acting out 🙅🏼‍♀️) our shared work (under review - stay tuned!): We find no alleviating effects of #IntellectualHumility on the #MotivatedReception of policy-relevant #Science. Thanks for all the feedback & ideas! 🤗

Marlene talks about „Artistic activism: employing art for disruptive climate protests“.

This morning at #24hPolPsy, I got to share work I did with @derbaerrennt.bsky.social on the effects of #ArtisticActivism in the context of disruptive #ClimateProtests, brining together political psych and empirical aesthetics. You can also read the paper here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... 🎭🎨🪧📣

Lena presents her research titled „Taking advantage: Using scientific authority for political statements unrelated to one’s expertise“.

@lenazohm.bsky.social shared recent findings on possibly gendered perceptions of expert trespassing (i.e., commenting outside one’s expertise) and researchers who are claiming epistemic authority when expressing political opinions.

Katharina presents her research titled „Better together? The impact of public participation on perceived legitimacy of science and politics“

@kduermeier.bsky.social presented insights from her series of studies showing (lacking) effects of public participation in science and politics on trust and legitimacy.