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Ana Leal

@alleal.bsky.social
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Social psychologist, University of Sussex | morality | intergroup relations | social change | cooperation and climate action in the Global South

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week, @nature.com features the World Bank's reproducibility project, under which the Bank is publishing 'reproducibility packages' alongside all their reports, papers and technical notes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The World Bank is right to prioritize reproducibility
The development bank and others are starting to publish and verify the raw data and code accompanying their research-based reports and papers. Other agencies should do the same.
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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come to my wonderful wonderful unit! We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, like none I've even had before, and we're looking for others who would value and support it. If that's you, please apply! @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenphysics.bsky.social @leidenpsychology.bsky.social
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Professor of Social Decision-Making
Professor of Social Decision-Making Institute of Psychology, Leiden University Are you a leading researcher in social decision-making, ready to help shape the future of a thriving unit? The Social, Ec...
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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138
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[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New pub, led by Aymin Triki & in collab w/ @abbycassario.bsky.social, accepted at JESP! We found similarities in party cues among the left and the right when using representative samples of issues, although right-wing authoritarians may be an exception Other interesting findings follow!
Abstract of paper. It reads, How do people with different political ideologies process political information? Party cues are an
effect where people are more likely to support a policy position if they learn their party also
supports it, shifting their judgement in accordance with cues from their inparty and against their
outparty. This effect has been at the center of the debate over the psychological differences
between liberals and conservatives, with some scholars suggesting that differences in cognitive
styles between liberals and conservatives (e.g., rigidity, cognitive reflection) should result in
differences in party cue susceptibility. We advance this debate by measuring rigid cognitive
styles and applying a stimuli sampling approach to party cues across four preregistered
experiments (N’s per study > 1200). We found convincing evidence for ideological symmetries
in party cues in quota matched samples of Americans (Studies 1 & 2). In Studies 3 and 4, across
four measures of ideology and three self-report measures of cognitive rigidity, we found
ideological differences in self-reported rigidity in line with previous research. In Study 3, a
convenience sample, we found that conservatives were more likely to follow party cues.
However, Study 4, using a quota matched sample, found no ideological differences in cue
susceptibility, except with respect to right-wing authoritarianism. Exploratory analyses found
that when one group has greater prior awareness or stronger initial views on a topic, they show
smaller cueing effects. We conclude that while liberals and conservatives differ in cognitive
style, they largely share similar cognitive processes for interpreting and integrating political
information.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026
Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”
Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...
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Social Psychology - Hogrefe @socpsyjournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New work by @alleal.bsky.social et al. finds that attitudes are more likely to become moralized if there is a violation by a perceive immoral outgroup compared to a moral outgroup. This effect is explained by moral emotional reactions. doi.org/10.1027/1864... #SocialPsych #AcademicSky #Psychology
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Crowds & Identities webinar, expertly convened by @samreenchhabra.bsky.social, with Becky Davies presenting on her important PhD research on improving public engagement with triage in mass casuality incidents
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pacjournal.bsky.social @pacjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🔎How do gratitude and pride shape #benevolence and #activism across political ideology? Excited to share this research exploring the emotional foundations behind #SocioPoliticalEngagement. 🔗: doi.org/10.1037/pac0... @apajournals.bsky.social #SocialPsych #AcademicSky #PeacePsych #NewPublication
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Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵
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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/
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Become a Member – International Society for Moral Psychology
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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Excited to launch the website for our EASP pre-conference on Prosocial & Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods 📅 June 30 | Strasbourg ⏰ Early bird deadline: April 14 Program: sites.google.com/view/prosocial-and-antisocial/ @easp2026.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 31/03/2026
A 3-wave study of 1427 climate-action supporters tests predictors of conventional versus radical climate activism. Radical intentions were rare and linked most strongly to youth, personality and collective victimhood rather than ideology or efficacy. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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International Society for Justice Research @isjrorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
INTRODUCING OUR FIRST RESEARCH NETWORK ✨ The Collective Action Network Led by Maja Kutlaca, Özden Melis Uluğ, and Helena Radke Read more about the Network below or via the dedicated page on our website: www.isjr.org/can #justice #collectiveaction #research #researchnetwork #ISJR #CAN
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV? Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you! Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...
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2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📃 Call for Papers 📃 “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology” Abstracts due: 01 May 2026 #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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Call for Papers: “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology”: A Special Issue of Social Psychology: Social Psychology: Vol 0, No 0
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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Job ad🌱: PhD position on climate change and cooperation in rural Asia, with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) & Nina Hansen (University of Groningen) in an interdisciplinary project. Deadline: April 1, 2026. socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...
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PhD position-Climate Change and Cooperation in Asia, 1945 to the Present - SOCION
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Kai Epstude @kaiepstude.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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-...
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PhD position-The (Mis)Perception of Social Norms in Dynamic Social Networks - SOCION
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Hannes Rusch @hannesrusch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!
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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨 “Perceiving Protest” by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March! Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/02/2026
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Psych Jobs Postdoctoral Position in Social Psychology at the University of Bonn (3 years) Research in moral psychology and related area
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Rob Booth @robertbooth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I need a postdoc for my project “Panel Studies of Optimism Bias and Positive Mood”. I need someone with an interest in affective science, very strong English and writing skills, and experience of using SEM with longitudinal data. Thread continues ...
This is a picture, prepared by my university, to publicise the fact that I received a research grant.
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Madalina Vlasceanu, PhD @madalina.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What motivates people to engage in climate advocacy? In a new PNAS Nexus megastudy [doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf400] led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social we tested 17 theoretical interventions on a large US sample (N=31,324) to increase public, political, and financial climate advocacy. 1/5
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Kristian Roed Nielsen @roednielsen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS) 🔬 The role Experimental consumer research Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments 📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible) ⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable) 🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
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Postdoc in Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
MSC is looking for a Postdoc interested in experimental consumer research to join an international project on sustainable food consumption.
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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🌍🇺🇸 Published Today in PNAS Nexus 🌍🇺🇸 How can we foster collective climate action? - led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social & @madalina.bsky.social - 17 behavioral interventions, designed by 50 experts - tested on >30000 US participants academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵 1/11
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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
First Cooperation Colloquium of the year: Caroline Graf (University of Zürich): Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Abtract: Prosocial behavior is key to addressing global collective-action challenges. Two prominent tools to promote prosociality are incentives and the use of conditional preferences, yet existing evidence is mixed and largely based on WEIRD populations. We study how incentives and conditionality shape prosocial behavior across diverse cultural contexts, and how cultural characteristics moderate these effects. 15,600 participants from 42 countries completed an online experiment in which prosociality was measured as the donation of earned bonus points to international charities (e.g., UNICEF). In the incentive condition, donors received additional points worth half of the donated amount. In the conditionality treatment, participants could condition their donation on the share of other donors in their country. Preregistered analyses show that incentives increase prosocial behavior overall, but that their effectiveness varies across societies. Incentive effects are stronger in societies where the reputational costs of benefiting personally from prosocial acts are lower, that is, where incentivized donors are perceived as relatively more likable. Conditional giving also increases prosocial behavior, yet the effects are larger in societies characterized by a higher prevalence of conditional preferences and stronger generalized fairness concerns. Together, these findings highlight that the effectiveness of behavioral interventions depends systematically on cultural context, underscoring the importance of moving beyond WEIRD samples not only for advancing theory, but also for culturally tailored policy design.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
'The Psychology of Crowd Behavior', Annual Review of Psychology Final, peer-reviewed version now available open access. Please share. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Psychology of Crowd Behavior
This review describes the social identity approach to crowd behavior. Research based on the social identity approach to crowds has grown significantly in the last 20 years, both quantitatively and qua...
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 20/01/2026
Check out this very interesting tool from Giving What We Can that relies on our data!
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I'm thrilled to share news about this new EMP Lab pre-print on empathic AI--led by my student @jdweng.bsky.social & with the amazing @mgreinecke.bsky.social. We lean into meta-science & philosophy of science to consider what empathic AI means for *empathy* as a construct, now & into the future. 1/n
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Christoph Klebl @chrisklebl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’m glad to share our new paper on fossil fuel reliance and climate change mitigation. Higher perceived reliance is associated with lower support for systemic climate policies. (1/4) @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“We requested information about the case to at least protect attendees of our future events and potentially act against Hewstone, however, Oxford University never provided any information.” Open Access: archive.is/ue5k8#select... Paywall: www.thetimes.com/uk/education... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
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Oxford University ‘withheld information about harassment claims’
Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers
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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching Deadline: Jan 23 Please share and spread the word! www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Meta-analysis: After correcting for publication bias, there is no effect of “social norm messaging” nudges on health behavior We need theories that explain *why* these interventions don’t work www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries - Nature Human Behaviour
Social norms approaches are widely applied in health promotion. This pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs using social norms messaging in developed countries aimed to evaluate th...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
'People who wrongly believe that others care more about selfish values ... are less likely to volunteer... experiments have found that showing people that others share similar values and beliefs to them can make them more trusting & hopeful for the future.' theconversation.com/think-societ...
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Think society is in decline? Research gives us some reasons to be cheerful
If we look at people’s values - abstract ideals that guide our behaviour - there are reasons to be positive about society.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A journalist asked me about public behaviour during the Bondi Beach attack:
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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Development of Morality and Conventionality Across Cultures: Implementing a Two‐Stage Model for Cross‐Cultural Research
Establishing a shared sense of right and wrong is an essential milestone for human cooperation, raising the question of whether a universal set of moral intuitions exists. However, tests of universa.....
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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026. We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages. 📝 Deadline: January 5 2026 🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call for submissions EASP Pre-Conference on ‘Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods’ Deadline: January 5, 2026 Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the pre-con...
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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
There are 10 (!) #PhD positions available through the ECCO project (which our colleagues Lise Jans and Ellen van der Werff are part of) on #sustainable transitions - deadline to apply is 15 February: www.collectievekracht.eu/ecco/ecco+pr... @collectievekracht.bsky.social
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Christoph Schild @schildchristoph.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨STOP, replication time!🚨 Does Feeling “Right” Make the Good More Good (and the Bad More Bad)? Achar & Lee found that when people experience regulatory fit, moral predispositions get amplified—moral folks act more moral, less moral folks act less moral. Big, exciting claim!
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🧠💡 This feat of study by Kasper Otten and colleagues analyzed 1.5M decisions from 135K people in online public-goods games. Takeaway? When group membership changes (people leave, newcomers join), cooperation drops. Stable groups = stronger cooperation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human cooperation in changing groups in a large-scale public goods game - Nature Communications
Little is known about the dynamics of human cooperation in groups with changing compositions. Using data from a large-scale and long-term online public goods game, this study shows how group changes a...
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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📣 Excited to share new work led by @anneleh.bsky.social and Star Hartley in @spssi.bsky.social's Journal of Social issues! We report studies w/ indigenous iTaukei and Indo-Fijians (displaced under colonial rule) investigating how each reasons about equal rights and democratic governance in Fiji.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
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"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high"
As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...
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Björn E. Hommel @bjoernhommel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
In case you can't access the original article in full: archive.is/M2wK8
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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."
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Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
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Yoonseo Zoh @yoonseozoh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I’m thrilled to share that our paper is now published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!🧵👇 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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