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Bojana Većkalov

@bojanaveckalov.bsky.social
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Current postdoc political psych @Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. Social psych PhD @UvA. Interested in attitudes & persuasion, belief systems & sustainability

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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our wonderteam @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social & Matthew Hornsey have a new preprint out for misinformation researchers out there: Six insights from climate psychology for the study of misinformation osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/
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Roderik Rekker @roderikrekker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences. The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
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Justus Schmidt @justusschmidt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
1/8 🧠 New study out! We analyzed data from 10,000+ people across 26 countries on trust in climate scientists — and how political ideology shapes it. Here’s what we found ⬇️ #ClimatePsychology #TrustInScience 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg100.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A common challenge in communicating about climate data is that differences can seem small or noisy on the graph but are actually hugely consequential. An interesting new paper shows that making it binary (e.g., lake froze vs. did not freeze) can increase the perceived climate impacts.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
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Ingrid Gercama @ingridgercama.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, was summoned to the criminal police in New Belgrade. Faculty staff, students, and many other citizens have come out to support him. #studentprotests
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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵
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Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of inter...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
HELP PLEASE 🙏 🛫✈️ We’re designing a conjoint experiment to test public support for a more ambitious air travel #carbon tax in Denmark—varying tax levels, revenue use, and progressivity. We're now deciding which three tax levels to test—each reflecting different levels of ambition. Any suggestions?
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Research shows that people are more likely to reject science when they feel psychologically distant from it—when it seems abstract, irrelevant, or conducted by people unlike them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Bojana Većkalov @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How can we improve public attitudes towards contested science domains? In a new paper featuring 4 highly-powered experiments (3 preregistered), we show that psychological closeness (vs. distance) can help! The paper is published OA in the Journal of Social Issues: lnkd.in/dFN8_8KA
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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another job posting from the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami just dropped, this one in the psychology of climate change communication and psychological inoculation against misinformation... More info and application form here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
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Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami
Apply for Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami
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Sandra Geiger @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Exciting news 😊 Our new paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! Across 27 countries, scientific consensus on climate change reduces misperceptions and increases belief in (human-caused) climate change and worry, also among those with low trust and on the right. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change - Nature Human Behaviour
Across 27 countries, Većkalov and Geiger et al. find that scientific consensus messaging on climate change is an effective, non-polarizing tool for changing misperceptions, beliefs and worry but not s...
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Kai Ruggeri @ruggeri.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy. Out today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bojana Većkalov @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate. With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social #socialpsyc #PsychSci
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No evidence that priming analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories: A Registered Repor...
Analytic thinking is reliably associated with lower belief in conspiracy theories. However, evidence for whether increasing analytic thinking can redu…
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
New study on system justification: "An underperforming system can threaten one’s belief that the social world is a just and safe place, consequently, misperception of such a dysfunctional system can protect our psychological well-being." 🧪 #SocialPsyc #Psychology
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Belief in a Just World as a Basis for Biased System Attitudes and Their Palliative Effect: The Conte...
Although system-justifying beliefs can have a palliative effect on citizens, the underlying mechanisms and contextual moderators of this association are relativ...
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