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Fabian Hutmacher

@fabianhutmacher.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology of Communication and New Media, University of Würzburg. Interested in digital media, misinformation, motivated reasoning, autobiographical memory, metascience & more. Desperately trying to learn Hungarian.

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 New preprint Excited to share new work led by Raluca Rilla, showing how cheap, open agents threaten online data collection and how open-text analysis beyond conventional traps can help mitigate this threat. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2609.31054 With @Anne-Marie Nussberger and @ruimata.bsky.social .
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you study disinformation? Now there is a peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to understanding it. journals.sagepub.com/home/DIN
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New "Research Handbook on the Replication Crisis" Edited by David Trafimow with 17 chapters covering issues such as results-blind publishing, preregistration, theory development, and statistical inference. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...
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Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de · 28/09/2026
🎶 New paper in Communication Research! Ever listened to a song and suddenly you’re back at that summer, that road trip, that concert with friends? We examined biographic resonance, when music connects with our memories. 📄 The paper: doi.org/10.1177/0093... 💛 Open Access: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do we miss when the science of judgment & decision-making mostly begins in adulthood? A new Psych Inquiry target article by Santhanagopalan, @bskybymidge.bsky.social , Risen & Kinzler argues that childhood should be central (vs. supplemental) to JDM. doi.org/10.1080/1047...
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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reference limits can exacerbate biased citation behavior! In my current commentary article on the work of @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, et al. (2025), I provide empirical support for this thesis. Now published #OA @collabrapsychology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Psychology needs better theories. Sure. But how do we build such theories? And what actually makes a good theory? Together with Alexander Wendt, I have edited a collected volume, "Theory and Model Building in Psychology," which tries to answer some of these questions. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Client Challenge
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Do you think about doing a PhD? Are you interested in understanding how individuals use digital technologies to cope with the prospect of their own mortality? Then let’s get morbid together. www.mcm.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...
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Jan-Philipp Stein @jpstein.de · 11/08/2026
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Ich freue mich riesig, ab 2027 das DFG-geförderte Projekt #digitalfterlife (gemeinsam mit @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social) zur Nutzung von digitaler Technologie und KI im Trauerfall zu leiten. 🕯️🤖 Dafür ist nun an der TU Chemnitz eine Promotionsstelle (75%, 3 Jahre) zu besetzen! (1/3)
Titelbild für die Stellenausschreibung, zeigt eine Frau die einen "Erinnerungsavatar" nutztInfoslide, der die Informationen des Posts nochmal grafisch mit Icons und Bildern aufbereitet
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you interested in motivated reasoning? Do you want to try some unconventional submission formats? Then this might be for you … Together with @marlephie.bsky.social, Aileen Oeberst, & @kwinter.bsky.social, I will be editing a special issue of @socpsyjournal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yc2jyadx
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Call for Papers: “Motivated Reasoning Revisited: New Perspectives on a Well-Established Phenomenon”: A Special Issue of Social Psychology: Social Psychology: Vol 0, No 0
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I‘m glad you‘re enjoying the read!
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Psychological Science is running a special issue on "Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models", co-edited by me and @ruben.the100.ci. Check out the calls for submissions below! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models”
Editors: Jamie Cummins and Ruben C. ArslanPsychological Science invites submissions for a special issue on psychological science involving large language models. We welcome theoretically and empirical...
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.
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S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Media shape our memories - but how? Our editorial launches the special collection Memory and Media in the Twenty-First Century, exploring how literature, film, social media, digital archives, and other media influence personal and collective memory. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s436...
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Memory and media in the twenty-first century - cultura & psyché
cultura & psyché -
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses
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When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Do people watch the news they do not trust? We tried to bring nuance to this question in a new paper (w Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier). Like others before us, we argue that “media distrust” comes in two flavors: skepticism and cynicism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Metascience uses a scientific approach to understand and improve science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question metascience’s common assumptions, methods, problems, and solutions. In this article, I aim to raise the profile of critical metascience and offer a rationale for viewing it as a distinct area of multidisciplinary inquiry. I define critical metascience, explain why it is important, and address some potential concerns about it. I also consider some emerging themes in the area and evaluate its potential relationships with metascience. I conclude that there needs to be greater recognition of critical metascience and greater interaction between metascience and critical metascience in order to improve metascience’s objectivity and approach.
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Larissa Knöchelmann @lknochelmann.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
✨The art of being wrong ✨ My friend & former colleague Lisa Hartke and my former PhD supervisor Christopher Cohrs have published a systematic review on promoting intellectual humility 🌱 Here's what I like about the publication ⬇️
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is both very funny and barely distinguishable from rationalizations I’ve heard people offer absolutely in earnest.
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@marlephie.bsky.social and I are searching for a postdoc in SciComm research. Feel free to contact us before applying!
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So excited that this joint project got funded - already looking forward to getting started! 🎉
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Jan-Philipp Stein @jpstein.de · 12/06/2026
Time to get morbid... but also a bit hopeful? 🕯️😇 I'm beyond thrilled that the DFG has decided to fund the 3-year project "#digitalafterlife"—in which @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and I will scrutinize the use of existing and emerging digital technologies (#genAI) to cope with mortality and grief 🙌
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Scatter plot showing that Fast & Fair peer review reached first decision with reviews much faster than conventional peer review: mean 5.5 versus 37.7 working days. Most Fast & Fair manuscripts met the 7-working-day target, while conventional manuscripts were slower and more variable, up to 116 working days.
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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨THREATENED BY SCIENCE🚨People often reject science at odds with their prior beliefs. In three studies, we now show that much of this can be explained by feelings of threat and we test how affirmations in #SciComm might help alleviate such threats. Now out in Public Understanding of Science! 🧵1/4
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Joseph Sommer @bayesandbounds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*
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In the Mind or in the World? Types of Beliefs and the Locality of Evidence
People’s beliefs appear to be divisible into two distinct types. Some beliefs refer directly to the observable world, readily guide behavior, and are easily revised when challenged. Others, includi...
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵
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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Fascinating deep dive into the characteristics of papers and peer reviews at a journal, with a lookback pre-COVID and pre-chatGPT. Papers and reviews showing more signs of AI over time, but also lower writing quality. orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu... orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu...
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More Versus Better, Part I
AI Is Overwhelming Academic Peer Review. What Next?
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 03/04/2026
Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...
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How citations ruined science
The making and breaking of scientific life
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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions
The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorif...
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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some lovely diagrams and contrasts in Ziman’s (1981) “Science: The New Model”: doi.org/10.1177/0270...
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🔴🔴 dear hive mind: what are your favorite experimental (partisan) identity primes? I only know of a few papers that primed partisan identities, and even fewer that did it successfully.. Any hints would be greatly appreciated 🙏
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...
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Science under changing ideological conditions: Hungarian psychology in the twentieth century - cultura & psyché
Creative academic thinking and research are inconceivable without academic freedom. This applies to all academic disciplines, including psychology. A concrete example that illustrates this fundamental...
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...
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Science under changing ideological conditions: Hungarian psychology in the twentieth century - cultura & psyché
Creative academic thinking and research are inconceivable without academic freedom. This applies to all academic disciplines, including psychology. A concrete example that illustrates this fundamental...
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Oleg Urminsky @olegurminsky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Great post elaborating on how (not) to use AI (and technology) in scientific research!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
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A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
@in-mindmagazine.bsky.social provides such a great platform for science communication! We wrote a short piece about autobiographical memory in the digital age - take a look (before you scroll through your past next time)!
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Caspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this post
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Conference –
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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!
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Raunak Pillai @rmpillai.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New preprint with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social: Novel social identities shape belief in true and false information In 3 exps (N = 1,459) we randomly assigned people to one of two novel groups. People trusted (and then believed claims more from) their in-group osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵
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Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Are Conspiracy Theorists Confabulating? - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
In this paper, I outline the mechanisms of confabulation and how these mechanisms facilitate not only the maintenance of belief in conspiracy theories, but also their initial adoption. I argue by infe...
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Screenshot of a preprint titled “Digital Behaviourism: A functional approach to behaviour in digital environments”
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great thread. Definitely worth reading!
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