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This #OpenAccess study from 'Affective Science' shows that dyad arrangement affects perceived emotional valence intensity, with face-to-face bodies seen as more emotionally intense than back-to-back ones. bit.ly/3KSeKSc @drkatiegray.bsky.social #AffectSci #SocPsyc #VisionScience #AcademicSky
Affective Science
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
socpsychbasel.bsky.social
✊️ Political extremism fuels collective action regardless of political content.
New research coauthored by lab member @fannylalot.bsky.social now out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social ⬇️

#socialpsyc #socpsyc #polpsy
fannylalot.bsky.social Fanny Lalot @fannylalot.bsky.social · Mar 10
Very proud of this new piece out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! ✊✊Political extremism (left & right) fuels collective action regardless of political content.
📊We use data from two real-world protests in 🇫🇷: against COVID19 (typical right) and pension reform (typical left) and find this asymmetric U-shape
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
steveread.bsky.social
#SocialPsych
#SocPsyc
#SocialPsychology

SPSP still lists twitter on its front web page. Please contact them and ask them to drop that and add Bluesky
January 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
joelleforestier.bsky.social
What are people's favorite things for participants to do/tasks for participants to complete in pairs/small groups *other than* the fast friends procedure? I'm looking for tasks that could take up 10-20 minutes of a dyadic interaction, ideally. #socpsyc #PsychSciSky
January 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
lizstokoe.bsky.social
My Department at LSE @lsepbs.bsky.social is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology! Closing date 2.3.25.

Link below to join a wonderful team!

#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsyc #SocPsyc @bps-social-psych.bsky.social

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
hss.springernature.com
Vincent F. Hendricks’s 'Sucker Nation' asks the questions ‘Why do intelligent, informed people continue to participate in systems they privately distrust?’ and ‘Why does exploitation persist even when manipulation is widely recognized?’ bit.ly/4dKqHDG 💙📚 #PhilSci #SocPsyc
Sucker Nation
May 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
14henderson.bsky.social
🚨New paper in Popular Communication! 🚨 "Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review". (1/9)🧵🔽
dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540....
#InoculationTheory #misinformation #socpsyc #design #seriousgames #learning
Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review
Misinformation has been demonstrated to pose a great risk to society, demanding action from policymakers and educators. Inoculation theory is a theory of resistance to influence, which in recent ye...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
14henderson.bsky.social
🚨New preprint is out! 🚨 "Inoculation Theory as a Design Approach To Gamified Misinformation". 🧵🔽 osf.io/preprints/ps... #InoculationTheory #misinformation #socpsyc #design #gamification #learning
December 23, 2024 at 1:02 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Following the implementation of policies that were the "extreme version far beyond mainstream conservative positions" people in Israel shifted to the left on issues

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Abstract for a paper that reads, How does the rise of ideologically extreme leaders affect attitudes and beliefs among their supporters? Previous research on paradoxical thinking suggests that when individuals are exposed to a radicalized version of their held beliefs, they moderate them in response. However, it is yet unknown whether, how, and among whom, such moderation occurs in response to radicalization of individuals' favored leaders. The proposed study examines how an unfolding real-world manifestation of a paradoxical thinking intervention—that is, the radical and extreme policies carried out by the newly elected Israeli government—affects the political attitudes of the government's supporters. Using a longitudinal design, we examined how pre-election attitudes (N = 589 government supporters) moderate, radicalize, or remain unchanged following the announcement and implementation of radical policies. Over four time points, we also examine the psychological mechanisms mediating the policies' moderating impact, to disentangle the reciprocal or paradoxical effects of radicalization among leaders on the public.
January 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Participation in collective action moralizes people’s attitudes because it politicizes their identity, enrages them, and/or empowers them to achieve social change (by @alleal.bsky.social & co)

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Paper abstract: Although much is known about why people engage in collective action participation (e.g., politicized identity, group-based anger), little is known about the psychological consequences of such participation. For example, can participation in collective action facilitate attitude moralization (e.g., moralize their attitudes on the topic)? Based on the idea that collective action contexts often involve a strong social movement fighting against an immoral adversary, we propose that participating in collective action facilitates attitude moralization over time. By integrating the moralization and collective action literatures, we hypothesized that participation in collective action moralizes individuals’ attitudes over time because it politicizes their identity, enrages them vis-a-vis the outgroup, and/or empowers them to achieve social change. We tested these hypotheses in a 2-year, five-wave longitudinal study (N = 1,214) in the contentious context of the Chilean student movement. We examined within-person (and between-person) changes over time and consistently found that participation in collective action predicted individual changes in moral conviction over time through politicized identification and group-based anger toward the outgroup. Furthermore, moral conviction predicted participation in collective action over time—an effect consistently explained by politicized identification. These findings are the first to show that (a) participation in collective action moralizes individuals’ attitudes because it politicizes their identity and enrages them vis-a-vis the (immoral) outgroup and that (b) moralization in turn helps to better understand sustained movement participation. Theoretical implications for the literature on moralization and collective action are discussed.
December 19, 2024 at 7:33 PM
fannylalot.bsky.social
📣 Rejoignez-vous le 9 septembre pour une journée d'étude en ligne sur le thème *Psychologie Politique : Directions Présentes et Futures* !
L'appel à communication pour soumettre un blitz est également ouvert. Toutes les infos sont disponibles via les liens ci-dessous 👇
#SocPsyc #PolPsy #Psychology
afr-psypol.bsky.social AFR-PsyPol @afr-psypol.bsky.social · Jun 3
📢 Appel à communication ! 📢

Nous sommes très heureuses et heureux d'enfin pouvoir vous accueillir pour la première Journée d’Etude organisée par l’AFR- PsyPol intitulée ‘Psychologie Politique : Directions Présentes et Futures’ !

Toutes les informations sont disponibles ici : tinyurl.com/2y6bmfny
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June 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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If we outsource humanity, what’s left for us?

#psycology #cogpsyc #socpsyc #ai #dating
AI Love You: when robots play cupid
"There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge ... and then you don’t have to talk to 600 people" - Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder of Bumble In a rec...
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May 25, 2024 at 11:55 PM
professorjohnst.bsky.social
Do you have an MA, PhD, or PsyD in #Psychology? Are you currently ABD? If so, please consider applying for the Assistant Professor of Psychology position William Penn University.
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#GenPsyc #SocPsyc #PersonalityPsyc #LearningPsyc #Experimental #NeuroPsyc #LifespanPsyc
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April 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
socpsyjournal.bsky.social
Friday Flashback:

In 2023, Schneider, Burgmer, @tmerle.bsky.social, & Ferguson published their Special Issue on "Understanding Others in Moments of Crisis".

Their Editorial: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

Open Access Articles:
econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/zsp/54/1-2

#SocPsyc
January 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
drsofiastathi.bsky.social
Are there any papers that come to mind on intergroup contact between Greeks and Turks? #PrejudiceResearch #socpsyc
January 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
markrubin.bsky.social
Hi #SocialPsyc feed. I’ve removed “social psychology” as a tag phrase for this feed to try to make its posts a bit more intentional and relevant. So, from now on, the only hashtags that will get posts included in this feed are: #socialpsyc & #socpsyc (neither one case sensitive)! 👍
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December 14, 2024 at 9:35 AM
markrubin.bsky.social
Intergroup Contact

New research finds that intensifying positive contact with outgroup members has a stronger effect on outgroup attitudes than intensifying negative contact.

doi.org/10.1177/1368...

#SocPsyc #Psychology
July 24, 2024 at 5:50 AM
kcarriere.bsky.social
This summer, with about a month before school started, I threw out everything for Intro and re-prepped it. I want to do the same this winter break with #socialpsyc. If anyone in socpsyc or polpsy has anything they are willing to share for Social, I'd love to see it!
December 16, 2024 at 11:59 AM
anagantman.bsky.social
#psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky
March 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
anagantman.bsky.social
been thinking a lot in my lab about what it means to use the state to go after your enemies (for no reason at all). the beginnings of that thinking are in our paper on what makes state punishment unique (now in press at EJSP)
#psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky

osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
anagantman.bsky.social
there are so many rules to follow! only some of them the state enforces; in our new preprint "the psychology of state punishment" @jowylie.bsky.social connie chiu, nicolette dakin, wil cunningham & i argue state punishment is unique 🧵 #psychscisky
#cognition #socpsyc #philsky
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January 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
anagantman.bsky.social
what counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky
January 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM