The XKCD Dependency meme

Computationally formalising a verbal theory is an eye-opening experience because it forces you to openly state all the assumptions that the theory rest on

📦✨ The first printed copies of our pop-science book on Open Science have arrived! With Marko Sarstedt, dsiegfried1.bsky.social, Meikel Neumann, @susanne-adler.bsky.social & Monika Imschloss, we take readers on a journey through the “Open Science Land”.
👉Open access: expedition-open-science.org

Commentary to Kaiser and Wilson (2026): Don’t Forget the Power of Experimental Manipulation: Addressing Dilemmas in Investigating Mechanisms: European Psychologist: Vol 31, No 1

How should psychological mechanisms be investigated? In a commentary in European Psychologist, @ja.ncrusi.us and I argue that while valid measurement is important, researchers should not forget taking into account experimental manipulations.
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How the phrasing of climate change terminology impacts people’s understanding and their intention to behave sustainably - Climatic Change Climatic Change - A recent study by Bruine de Bruin, Clim Change 167, 2021 investigated how well laypeople understand eight key termini of climate change that are commonly used in IPCC reports...

Bruine de Bruin et al. (2021) proposed alternative climate terms to ease laypeople’s understanding of climate change. In a recent paper, we find: Not all terms improve understanding nor do they increase intentions to act sustainably. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Scicom #ClimateChange

We looking for a PhD-student (75%, 3 years) on social-cognition @leuphana.bsky.social.
Topic: Perception-action coupling (person perception, imitation, free-will belief, etc.).
Methods: Surveys, observations, reaction-times, neuro-physiology
📅 Apply by 31.12.2025
🔗 Details: tinyurl.com/bdf8ebpr

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Can reading one article change your belief in free will? New studies say maybe—but the effect doesn’t last. Our beliefs might be more resilient than they seem

New work by @olivergenschow.bsky.social
@protzko.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social 💡

Check out some new science!! 👀

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report Scientists debate how the public would react when anti-free will messages are communicated in the media. Taking part in this debate, social psychologi…

Do messages claiming free will doesn’t exist actually shift people's beliefs? Our @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social paper finds believe reductions over a week—but only when the context of reporting beliefs is the same as when reading text. w/ @protzko.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social
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Balancing academia, family, and personal health can be tough. A year ago, I started jogging once a week to pick up my kids from daycare—fun for them & good for me (at least until they get heavier 😅). More about combining academia with family at the Parenthesis blog: parenthesis-blog.de

Oh no! Wrong Hashtag! 😱It is of course #FGSP2027

🎓Leuphana University Lüneburg (@leuphana.bsky.social) offers 6 PhD scholarships in #psychology with the focus on how psychology connects with sustainable transformation on individual, collective & systemic levels.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
ℹ️ Details: www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

What a great end of a fantastic #FGSP2025 conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de organized by @hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social. We will give our best to organize a similarly good #FGSP3027 conference in Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social in 2 years.

Pursuing a career in academy while having a family can be challenging! @rolandimhoff.bsky.social presented a poster about this challenge at the current #FGSP2025 conference. More insights can be found on the following blog: parenthesis-blog.de

@hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social kicking off the #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. I'm very much looking forward to inspiring talks and discussions over the next couple of days.

Today, the #AOWI2025 conference at @leuphana.bsky.social kicked off with an @de.in-mind.org writing workshop among others.

What can be learned from the so-called replication crisis in psychological science? In a recent publication, we summarize the open science movement in a fairytale and explore how business research can profit from it. @susanne-adler.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social

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This is so amazing! Congratulations!

This interesting project found a positive association of individual victimhood and both general and specific conspiracy beliefs within different countries, though this association varied across countries. Thank you for involving me in this project, Daniel Toribio-Flórez & @marlephie.bsky.social

Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Are you passionate about how individuals and societies transform? Join the Psychology of Transformation PhD program at Leuphana University (Germany) and explore psychological questions about change and sustainability, and human development @leuphana.bsky.social
👉 www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

There is only this week left to apply for the Phd-position (75%; 4 yrs) about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social.

We are hiring 14 early-career researchers!
In the programme “Embracing Transformation” researchers investigate what transformation is and how it can be successfully shaped.

Find out more: www.leuphana.de/en/portals/e...

Psychologische*r Psychotherapeut*in (w/m/d) Bewerberfrist: 22.06.2025

Psychotherapeut:innen gesucht!

Ab September haben wir weitere Stellen in unserer Hochschulambulanz zu vergeben. Alles wichtigen Infos stehen in der Ausschreibung. Ich freue mich über Fragen auf Bluesky oder per Email und natürlich über Bewerbungen :-)!

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@hendriks.bsky.social‬ @christineblume.bsky.social‬

@elmanubohn.bsky.social @ja.ncrusi.us @in-mindmagazine.bsky.social @inmindnl.bsky.social @de.in-mind.org @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @wingentobias.bsky.social @janadreston.bsky.social @pialamberty.bsky.social @zpid.bsky.social @stellawernicke.bsky.social @annabelnijhof.bsky.social ‪

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Especially since I have kids myself, I kept on wondering whether the sequence in which siblings are born influences their personality. New research suggests that sibling order has rather small effects on personality.

What a great project!

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology