📣 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".
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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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 ⚖️ 💻
After legalization, cannabis consumption did not seem to increase in our sample. However, keep in mind, our data does not speak to cannabis consumption and possible changes on a more general population level.
We recruited a convenience sample of 605 German citizens 1 month (T1) after the recreational cannabis legalization and 6 months later (T2): One’s own and friends’ positive attitudes and norms, behavioral intention and control in T1 predicted later cannabis consumption (T2).
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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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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Oh nice. I also did not know that mustard can be made in a mill. Fascinating!
Great talk! Looking forward to seeing the results of your research project - hopefully with more pictures of mills :)
Looking forward to meeting everyone at the EASP small group meeting on "Counterfactual thinking and its role in cognition and communication" starting later today here in Groningen
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We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...
How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof
Results will be shared here!
Thank you for your feedback! We have added a comment field at the end of the survey. Given that a number of responses are already in, we are hesitant to change the questions beyond this, despite your suggestions being interesting and relevant.
💥 Academic freedom - so important!
Please help our research team and take time for their survey:
How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof
Results will be shared here!
We are hiring 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Would you like to start working at our beautiful institute this coming spring?
#psychology #openscience #metascience
Find out more here: leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ylp9kss4
Also calling on a couple of feeds - thanks to all who already participated! 😊 #socialpsyc #psycsci #psychscisky #psychologie #academicsky #OpenSci #PhDSky
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!! 🫶
🚨 Deadline tomorrow! 🚨
You are someone who does quantitative #metascience? Want to do this as a #professor? With a research-focused, tenure-track position in Germany? At a great institute with a super smart and fun team? This one is for you! 🤗
At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
🧵 New paper alert!
People enjoy eating meat but often feel uneasy when being reminded that it comes from animals. To understand how people avoid this conflict, our new study explores how food preparation helps people mentally separate meat from its animal origins. Here’s what we found 👇
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Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
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In a new preprint led by @abitter.bsky.social we tested whether open data is useful for reproducibility and usage based on automated and human assessment of data FAIRness. The short answer is: in the majority of cases not really. For more information 👇
The deadline for the meeting on counterfactuals is coming up. Don't forget to send in your contribution.
Great work by @abitter.bsky.social @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @t-1m.bsky.social et al. on FAIR data sharing in Psychology.
They also suggest 6 simple checks that can be implemented in the editorial process to improve data FAIRness.
We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here:
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Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10
New paper alert: @kwinter.bsky.social Laura Henn, and I show in 3 studies (N = 1005) that flexibility mindsets (induced by cognitive conflicts) enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those initially low in pro-environmental attitudes.
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