We are thrilled to announce that Karolina Dyduch-Hazar has received the Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for her outstanding work, "Feeling Bad About Feeling Good? How Avengers and Observers Evaluate the Hedonic Pleasure of Taking Revenge" (co-author: Mario Gollwitzer). 🏆

Another one ;)

🟡 We are delighted to share that Social Psychological Bulletin has Impact Factor of 2.0!

🏅 Another big milestone for the once small and locally published journal - with more to come in the future.

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Humor Conference in KRK 🐲 #ISHS2025

What nonverbal behaviors would make you #trust someone? Does every trust-based profession prioritize the same ones? To find the answer, Montoya & Porter (2025) reviewed 86 textbooks for future professionals across eight disciplines. [spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/vi...

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Have you ever felt kama muta? It is a complex, positive #emotion typically described as being ‘touched’ or ‘moved’? Koh et al. (2025) investigated how #kamamuta relates to situations of collective threat [spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/vi...

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🕒 We are extending the deadline for submissions for our Special Topic on the Role of Physical Threat in Social Phenomena. Save the new date: March 31st! Read more about the call: spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism Two preregistered studies ( N = 679) tested the links between women’s gender identity and their amusement with sexist jokes targeting men. We hypothesized that the interaction between the strength (i....

This was published in print back in October, but I forgot I had a BlueSky account. ;) www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #socialpsyc #humor

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,218,335, Karolina Koszałkowska ‪@koszalkowska.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 25, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,218,335!

If you like #socialpsyc or humor studies or aggression or whatever in social/personality psychology please be my friend on here, I don't understand how this ...thing works. 🦋☁️

Deadline soon!

dinosaurs might have had hair, we don't know bc hair isn't captured in fossil record

I often feel conspiracy mindsets work this way.

If something *could* be possible, or if I can *imagine* it, then it's true.

Humbug.

New Special Topic in Social Psychological Bulletin: "Is Psychology Self-Correcting? Reflections on the Credibility Revolution in Social and Personality Psychology", guest edited by Brian Nosek and Simine Vazire. spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

EASP Meeting 2024 Emotional crying is a common and inherently social phenomenon crucial to understanding a wealth of social processes ranging from social cognition to intergroup relations . The meeting aims to connect....

🟡 Would you like to visit Poland and share your research or research ideas on emotional tears and crying? 💧 Visit emotionalcrying.weebly.com Deadline for submissions: Dec 15, 2023. 🟡

Are you concerned that post-debriefing reconsent procedures might pose a threat to the internal (or external) validity of your study? (e.g. high prejudice people might disproportionately leave, biasing results?)

I wrote on this bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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