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Cassandra Chapman

@cassandrachapman.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at University of Queensland researching the psychology of generosity: philanthropy, fundraising, & all things nonprofits | Kiwi who loves hiking, latin dance, art, architecture, & F1 | www.donorpsych.org

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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
DONOR PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH ROUND-UP Here's a roundup of our latest research findings on donor psychology & effective and ethical fundraising: * Meta-analysis shows identification w (1) other donors, (2) beneficiaries, & (3) fundraisers can all promote charitable giving: doi.org/10.1177/0899...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Emma & I had the pleasure of working with @cassandrachapman.bsky.social, our lead-author, & Matthew Hornsey, on this article on ethical tensions in nonprofit fundraising. Part of a joint ARC Linkage Project it involved cross-disciplinary learning & adjusting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Freya Mills @freyamills.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So excited to share the second paper from my PhD: a systematic review of 100 papers looking at the effects of online support groups on the health and wellbeing of people with chronic conditions www.nature.com/articles/s44... @profjohndrury.bsky.social
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A mixed studies systematic review on the health and wellbeing effects, and underlying mechanisms, of online support groups for chronic conditions - Communications Psychology
Online support groups for people with a chronic condition may positively impact social welleing, behaviour, and adjustment, but they may negatively influence anxiety and distress. The effects on physi...
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our new research on the role of identification in charitable giving is out now in NVSQ. I recorded this short video summarizing key findings & giving ideas to fundraisers & nonprofit managers about how they can effectively harness identification in their campaigns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNXu...
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Harnessing the Power of Identification in Fundraising
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
EXPLAINER: How the media influences disaster giving #fundraising #nonprofits www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMQ...
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How the media influences disaster giving
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
News coverage boosts generosity in response to disasters like the LA fires theconversation.com/news-coverag...
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News coverage boosts giving after disasters – Australian research team’s findings may offer lessons for Los Angeles fires
All told, donors gave more than US$397 million to support recovery from the ‘black summer’ bushfire disaster.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Across 80 groups, intergroup contact was consistently associated with lower prejudice. The type of group and type of contact did not matter.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Findings from depth interviews with fundraisers shows that actively listening & employing empathy are essential for communicating effectively with donors. Authenticity is also integral for developing a genuine connection. New #fundraising research > www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Active Empathetic Listening a Process View in Developing Relationships Between Fundraisers and Major Donors
Active Empathetic Listening (AEL) was first published as a theoretical model to explain the role that active listening, and empathy play in developing relationships between buyers and sellers. It w...
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Interested in teaching people about social identity, group dynamics, intergroup conflict, & social psychology? We made a syllabus with free content: -Course schedule -Videos -Readings -Chapter summaries -Slides -Tests -Activities -Interactive class Q&A www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...
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The POWER OF US Course: A syllabus for teaching about social identity
Issue 123: Calling all educators: we have new free educational materials for teaching about the Power of Shared Identity
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is a big problem, regarding methods & also disciplinary norms. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I often face crossness from reviewers who think their way of doing things is the only valid one. Let's normalize admitting when something is outside our wheelhouse & remaining open minded.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So proud of the ever-enthusiastic, hard-working, whip smart, & funtastic Abigail Edwards for submitting her PhD thesis, which applied the concept of psychological ownership to the context of blood donation. #psychology #generosity #PhDsky #AcademicSky
Thesis cover page for Abigail Edwards: "An application of psychological ownership in blood donation"Abigail Edwards giving a research talk on blood donation
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How cute are these fundraising affirmation cards that I just received as a holiday gift from Fundraising Nest for my contribution as a maven! Apt to randomly draw this quote about ethical fundraising today because I've spent the whole morning writing up a project on this very topic!
Fundraising affirmation cards with quotes from Fundraising Nest mavens
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Prosocial Motives ❤️🧠📘🔎 In this 5-min video Arvid Erlandsson summarizes his and Stephan Dickert's thinking on four categories of prosocial motive: ❤️ heart, 🧠 head, 📘 book, and 🔎 binoculars. www.donorpsych.org/post/prosoci...
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Prosocial motives: Helping with the Heart, the Head, by the Book, or through the Binoculars
Arvid Erlandsson summarizes a recently published review article proposing a new typology for understanding prosocial motives.
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Lucy Holmes McHugh @lucy-rhm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Most agree climate change is the biggest threat to the #GreatBarrierReef 🪸 - but what about solutions? Our new study identifies a range of perspectives - from adaptative to transformational & we suggest how to navigate divergence of solutions🧭 👉https://rdcu.be/d2vwe
Radar chart shows three rings—the low score in the centre of the chart, the medium score represented by the ring in the middle, and the high score represented by the outer ring. Each line from the centre represents one dimension of wickedness—contestation, complexity, and uncertainty. The scores for the problem space are represented by the colour purple and the scores for the solution space are represented by the colour blue. The graph shows the blue solution space triangle is bigger than the problem space triangle. Both score the same on complexity, but the problem space scores lower on uncertainty and contestation.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Christmas card season🎄 I love snail mail so much! Do others still send holiday cards?
A pile of holiday cards
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our panel at #ARNOVA24 was enigmatically titled "Hot Topics in Philanthropy". I presented data from work with Matt Hornsey & Jess Spence comparing the relative influence of empathy & effectiveness information on charitable giving. Spoiler: both are positively associated but only empathy is causal.
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Annayah M.B. Prosser @annayahprosser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thank you to everyone following me here on Bluesky! Welcome! 👋 A little re-introduction to me and my research for those who are new, I'm Annayah! ☺️ I'm a social scientist whose research falls into three branches: environmental identity, open qualitative research, & the power of collective events...
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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
📣📣📣Call for Papers📣📣📣 This is a pivotal moment to study justice philanthropy, using philanthropic foundations providing a focusing lens. Full call below. Let me know if you have questions. #nonprofitsky #pasky #academicsky www.istr.org/news/684919/...
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CFP: Voluntas Special Issue on Philanthropic Foundations and Justice Philanthropy - www.istr.org
Over the past decade, there have been growing criticisms that philanthropic foundations, which include a variety of grant making organizations, are elitist and inattentive to the needs of marginalized communities. While private foundations and community-based grant makers across the globe have slowly responded to these critiques, COVID-19 and the racial justice movement of 2020 have highlighted the imperative of addressing issues of inequality and structural racism. This convergence is propelling what may be the most substantial change in philanthropy in generations—a commitment to systematic change and the adoption of philanthropic practices that seek to redistribute philanthropic power to previously marginalized communities.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 11/12/2024
SERVICE UPDATE We normally don't ask you to "share like and subscribe" but please distribute this. You are now able to delete the link after it embeds on your post so you can get those precious extra characters, and we will catch your post mentioning research. #AcademicSky #Medsky #HigherEd
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@jobarraket.bsky.social challenges us to think differently about hybridity and social enterprise. I’ve been enjoying the thoughtful discussions about all things social impact at our strategy day hosted by UQ Business School
Professor Jo BarraketJo Barraket gives a talk on rethinking hybridity and social enterprise
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sharyn Rundle-Thiel sharing her expertise about how to map social impact & the incredible work she’s doing co-creating social marketing campaigns to generate positive social impact. They’re helping to save koalas! 🐨🐨🐨 Part of a Social Impact strategy day hosted by UQ Business School 🌈✨
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Interventions that enable individuals to circumvent obstacles, offers social support, provides incentives, and highlights healthy social norms are very effective at changing behavior. Changing emotions, attitudes, and beliefs, doesn't help much. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
FAILURE IS NORMAL I fail a lot. My work is constantly rejected. Reviewers sometimes thrash my work harshly. And I've also had successes. People mostly see the success. Let's avoid comparing our insides to other people's outsides. #AcademicSky #PhDSky Full post: www.linkedin.com/posts/cassan...
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Dr Cassandra Chapman on LinkedIn: THE BIGGEST LOSER Inspired by a recent post from Claire van Teunenbroek… | 36 comments
THE BIGGEST LOSER Inspired by a recent post from Claire van Teunenbroek, and recognizing that the ARNOVA conference is next week and conferences can really… | 36 comments on LinkedIn
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New research compares the linguistic features of mission statements from nonprofit vs commercial orgs & finds: * Marketization driving overlap, * Nonprofits more similar to for-profits prioritize tasks over values, * Inherent trade-off btwn values vs task orientation www.linkedin.com/posts/dsmeie...
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Dominik Meier on LinkedIn: 🌟 Excited to share our latest research published in Nonprofit and…
🌟 Excited to share our latest research published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly! 🌟 🔍 How distinct are the nonprofit and for-profit sectors in…
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Shoutout to Elizabeth-Rose Ahearn for submitting her PhD: "The social impact of social impact evaluation". It has been a pleasure to play a small part in Rose's supervisory team. I've so enjoyed witnessing her development as a practice-oriented scholar. Watch this space, folks, great things to come!
Cover page of a PhD thesis from the University of Queensland. "The social impact of social impact evaluation: A meta-evaluation" submitted by Elizabeth-Rose Ahearn.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out this digestible two-page research note summarizing our research on how the method of recruiting donors affects longer-term donor value. Spoiler: face-to-face recruitment is associated with lower donor value 😱 #fundraising #philanthropy #nonprofits 🙏ERNOP www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
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European Research Network On Philanthropy on LinkedIn: Research Note September 2024/27
🚨 Research note of the WEEK! 🚨 Face-to-Face and Door-to-Door Fundraising Is Associated with Lower First Year Donations and Higher Cancelation Rates 📄…
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Love this: a special issue of Nonprofit Management & Leadership journal curating impactful research published by people who were still early career (PhD candidates or pre-tenure faculty): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Important topics like accountability, leadership, & entrepreneurship.
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NML Best of Early Scholars: Nonprofit Management and Leadership
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Páraic O'Súilleabháin @paraic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We have a call open for editor for Psychological Bulletin. Deadline is Monday January 13, 2025. If you know someone or you are interested see the link below. Its a great journal to be involved with. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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Call for editor nominations
Find out which APA-published journals are seeking nominations for new editors or associate editors.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
As a Kiwi living in Australia, I’m excited that an American friend is hosting “Friendsgiving” tomorrow. I’m told that these are the entire ingredients for a classic midwestern Thanksgiving “salad”. Make it make sense 🙃😂 And wish me luck! 🦃
Tubs of sour cream, cans of crushed pineapples, packets of lime jelly, and pecans in a pile on a table
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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Dear colleagues who work on leadership, crowds, collective action, resistance, power and more, we are super excited to invite you to our small group meeting in Exeter on June 27-28. More information is below. Spread the word, and let me know if you have any questions! www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id...
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EASP Meeting on Crowds and Leaders: Towards Integration and Innovation for Crowd Psychology, Collective Action and Leadership-Followership Research
Social Psychology News Articles
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New study suggests program evaluations do not affect policy decisions. If so, what ARE policy makers influenced by?
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
So nice to be in the same room with @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social, Jo Carman, & the rest of the Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly Associate Editors & Editorial Board members at the #ARNOVA24 conference in Washington DC last week. I love my work as AE & helping to shape the development of our field.
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Alex Haslam @alexhaslam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Congratulations to Jolanda Jetten for winning the award for lifetime contribution to social psychology at #SASP2024. Hugely well deserved and a really fantastic achievement.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our panel at #ARNOVA24 was enigmatically titled "Hot Topics in Philanthropy". I presented data from work with Matt Hornsey & Jess Spence comparing the relative influence of empathy & effectiveness information on charitable giving. Spoiler: both are positively associated but only empathy is causal.
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Cassandra Chapman @cassandrachapman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Kia ora! I'm a social psychologist by training, marketing academic by job title, nonprofit scholar by identity, & former professional fundraiser & aid worker. I research phenomena at the intersection of psychology, generosity, & social change. Follow me for latest research insights on these topics.
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