Reposted by Frank EckerleJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology. 322484
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 05/04/2026What do allies think of privilege? How does being privileged fit into their activist identity? 💭 We asked! Key insight: privilege representations and activism motivation form a feedback loop, in their words, „a learning process that never ends“ 🤝🌱 New open access paper at: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryResearch shows that critically reflecting on ingroup privilege can motivate allyship. However, we lack a deeper understanding of how activists make sense of their privilege, how it contributes to the... 020
Reposted by Frank EckerleLarissa Knöchelmann @lknochelmann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026You wrote a BA, MA, or PhD thesis in peace psychology, conflict studies, or related fields? Or you know someone who just did? Consider applying for Gert-Sommer-Preis, an award by the German Peace Psychology association! Deadline: 31st January, 2026 Details: www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1584 055
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Call for contributions closes 18 Jan! Excited to read through the ideas you cooked up for the meeting 000
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 16/12/2025‼️Come visit us in Klagenfurt to help psychology engage with prefigurative politics 🐦🔥🌱 More info: shorturl.at/s0Tuh 020
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 23/10/2025On this episode of polpsy true crime: the left-right scale hides populists and other ideologies on its midpoint 🥷 Very happy this is finally out! 010
Reposted by Frank EckerleElif Sandal Önal @elifsandal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025#PaCT We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures" 📅 Monday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST 📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z 033
Reposted by Frank EckerleTijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :) @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social 0109
Reposted by Frank EckerleTijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · 12/09/2025What a way to kick-off vacation! 🤩 Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 151
Reposted by Frank EckerleProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...washingtonpost.comParis said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes. 292020743
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 20/08/2025New pub! 📝 Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @tijana-et-al.bsky.social @arothers.bsky.socialspssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSPSSI JournalsThis paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o... 057
Reposted by Frank EckerleMete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social 184
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 09/05/2025We got annoyed by people (mainly politicians) saying „Europe“ when they mean the „EU“. So we wrote a paper 🤓 052
Reposted by Frank EckerlePCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 23/04/2025The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipubpsych.peercommunityin.orgPCI PsychologyPeer Community in Psychology 04132
Reposted by Frank EckerleTijana Karić @tijana-et-al.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Happy to share we were awarded a Collaborative grant by the EASP to study the transformative effects of prefigurative politics in the context of the anti-corruption protests in Serbia! 😍 SO MUCH looking forward to this research with the most amazing people 👇 153
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Normative fit exemplified by a Kebab place in Oslo. Or is it a Trattoria? 040
Reposted by Frank EckerleProf Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say. 20338155
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 05/03/2025✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa. Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryResearch suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c... 086
Reposted by Frank EckerleAdrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025📖 New open access paper 📖 "The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #poliscisciencedirect.comThe poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systemsA challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s… 1116
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Amazing read. „Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“ 010
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Schreibt eurem/eurer CDU Abgeordneten und macht Druck für die Abstimmung am Freitag! 📧 Hier gibt es sogar eine Vorlage (die Email war mir aber etwas zu milde formuliert): action.lnob.net/kampagne/we-...action.lnob.netKeine Abstimmungen mit Rechtsextremen! - Social Action ToolIn der Woche des Holocaustgedenktags greift die CDU das Asylrecht an. Das ist geschichtsvergessen! Zahlreiche Jüdinnen und Juden versuchten, vor den Nazis zu fliehen und baten um Asyl- meist vergeben... 000
Reposted by Frank EckerleBethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Interesting special collection on "innovative qualitative research methods conducted across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging economies contexts." All the articles included in this volume are open access. 1155
Reposted by Frank EckerleErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/12/2024“Being mad isn’t activism” is something that basically everyone on social media needs to burn into their brains. 192207658
Reposted by Frank Eckerlefolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The structure of the present world will not lead to liberation. Luckily, this is not the only structure that is possible. 1164
Reposted by Frank EckerleInformation is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 03/12/2024If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime 310474
Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 07/12/2024He‘s arguing even better than me. In my head. After the argument took place. 030
Reposted by Frank EckerleWilly De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Why are we blind for the coming #apocalypse and how can we re-orient our thinking for the 'end times'? Brilliant must-read analysis @chrhentschel.bsky.social of the work of German philosopher Günther #Anders www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #anthropocene #lossdegruyter.comDenken in der Endzeit: Günther Anders für unsere apokalyptischen Zeiten lesenHow can Günther Anders’ concern with the threat of the atomic bomb enlighten current social thought about the Anthropocene? Building on Anders’ frustration with the “apocalypse blindness”, “laziness” ... 0114
Reposted by Frank EckerleBrooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024How to express the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? A million seconds from now, it will be December 18. A billion seconds from now, it will be August... in 2055. 78926
Reposted by Frank EckerleJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Applegate is legit one of my favourite writers because of how she handled warfare and its consequences. Not joking. Had no idea she wrote this explanation of the ending for Animorphs and it just amplifies my respect for her talent. 6829