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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

📣 Dear #CitizenScience crowd! 📣 This October (5+6), we are organizing a SYMPOSIUM in collab with @pcstnetwork.bsky.social at the wonderful @mfnberlin.bsky.social in Berlin. We welcome PRACTICAL and RESEARCH perspectives on "Building Knowledge Together: #CitizenScience, #Communication & #Trust".

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Building Knowledge Together: Citizen Science, Communication, and Trust

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A highly attractive position in a prolific, vibrant environment (...and a very pretty city 😊)!

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop. Why do people keep needing empirical tests?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We used to speak of ‘sloppy science’ when there were QRPs. Now we have slop science 😔

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Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Unser Direktor @kaisassenberg.bsky.social hat zusammen mit @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social einen spannenden Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Komplexer als gedacht" zum Thema Replizierbarkeit von Forschungsbefunden veröffentlicht. #forschung ▶️Forschung und Lehre www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/a...

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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

New preregistered report @jepsjournal.bsky.social "Thin" populism treatments manipulate perceptions of people-centrism + anti-elitism But: some treatments (e.g., "American people") affect perceptions of host ideology, complicating causal analyses of impact of populist rhetoric cup.org/4n3DvZm

Abstract for paper: Scholars increasingly conceptualize populism by whether politicians use people-centric
and anti-elite appeals that pit a homogeneous people against a corrupt elite. These appeals
reflect “thin” ideology because they offer no programmatic content and thus politicians
must pair these appeals with more substantive positions, termed their “host” (or thick)
ideology, which often consists of nativism on the right (e.g., espousing anti-immigrant
positions) and socialism on the left (e.g., prioritizing redistribution). An emerging
literature has thus sought to estimate whether populists garner support due to their thin
ideology or their substantive host ideology. To date, no research has validated whether
populism treatments (1) truly operationalize populist thin ideology, and (2) do so without
manipulating host ideology. Results from three conjoint validation experiments fielded in
both the United States and the United Kingdom show that thin ideology treatments
successfully manipulate the underlying concepts but caution that some operationalizations
also affect perceptions of host ideology.

Shows that thin populism treatments shift perceptions of people-centrism and anti-elitism as expected

Shows that thin populism treatments can also affect perceptions of host ideology. In particular, using treatments such as "American people" affects perceptions of a candidate's position on immigration

Shows suggestive evidence that people are less likely to use populist thin ideology appeals as heuristics for inferring host ideology when partisan information is included

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Social Psychology - Hogrefe @socpsyjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New: Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone. Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

Combining Moral Foundations and Justice Sensitivity Perspectives to Understand Political Orientation
Lucas J. E. Köhler
, Ulf Steinberg
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, Claudia Peus
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Abstract: Political orientation is systematically related to individuals’ endorsement of different moral domains. Yet, current findings suggest that differences between conservatives and liberals can also be explained by a sensitivity to self-oriented or other-oriented moral transgressions. We argue that conceptualizing moral foundations as perspective-specific advances our understanding of differences in moral judgments across the political spectrum. We test a new instrument measuring perspective-specific moral foundations in a nationally representative German sample (N = 2,042). Our findings indicate that (a) an Integrated Foundations × Perspective Model fits the data better than models only representing moral foundations or moral perspectives and (b) a self-oriented moral sensitivity is related to right-wing political orientation, while an other-oriented moral sensitivity is related to left-wing political orientation across all moral foundations.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements

Reflections from meetings of Metascience 2025 and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Frank Renkewitz @renkew.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich! Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology. Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python. 📅 Apply by July 15 🔗 shorturl.at/939tP 🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD 👇🧵

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RMZ HU @hu-rmz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

In next week's Jour Fixe, @devezer.bsky.social (University of Idaho) presents her work on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" www.rmz.hu-berlin.de.... Join us on Wednesday, 25.06.25, 11am online or in person in Berlin. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

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RMZ Jour fixe/ Claims about scientific rigour require rigour

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

📣New Preprint Alert! Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates. 💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping 💡bad: publication bias 💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

**NEW COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER IN MUNICH** In October 2025, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @tum.de will start a new joint CRC on Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education (www.trr419-sharp.de). 29 PIs, 21 individual projects, 11 Mio Euros funding for the first 4 years.

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Collaborative Research Centre - SHARP (TRR419) - Munich Center of the Learning Sciences - LMU Munich

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irsp_rips @irsp-rips.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🔔‼️ New papers alert In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology. Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed. A must-read for every psychology researcher! Available in #OA 👇👇

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!

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Research Associate (m/f/x)

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

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Project staff (Phd candidate)

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision? In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community. 👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🧵1/4

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A Guide to Multiverse Analyses "The large array of defensible options available for researchers to select along the workflow creates what is known as the ‘garden of forking paths’." Preprint: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Alone but not Lonely! New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone." Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am sooo proud and grateful. But ... what do they mean by "provisionally"...???

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Maia George @maiageorge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Überlegt bitte taktisch zu wählen! 🗳️ "[kleine progressive Partein zu wählen wie Volt, die Tierschutzpartei usw.] schwächt SPD, Grüne und Linke. Schlimmer noch: CDU und AfD würden davon bei der Sitzverteilung im Parlament überdurchschnittlich profitieren" www.campact.de/bundestagswa...

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Bundestagswahl: Taktisch wählen und AfD schwächen | Campact

Erfahre, wie strategisches und taktisches Wählen hilft, progressive Parteien zu stärken und die AfD und die Union zu schwächen

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"I have a dream..." New work by @drmorganalw.bsky.social, @lindaskitka.bsky.social and colleagues considers how people's imagined utopias and dystopias affect their willingness to engage in social change. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/bjso... Few quotes...

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oh lord. This is dystopian. Or Orwellian. Or something really not good. I teach students that science can speak truth to power, and that if authoritarian rulers want to dominate knowledge where science is valued, science poses an extra barrier that must be attacked. And so it is. On multiple fronts.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is a preview of just one field-wide consequence if we elevate preregistration from a useful tool into a mandate or norm. I call it “File-drawer 2.0”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Psychology - Hogrefe @socpsyjournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

While the standard submissions are still welcome, he specifically lays out the types of submissions & special issues that will be prioritized at the journal, as well as his policies surrounding transparency.

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

New OA #metascience paper by @xenia_ks, @drfollowmario, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, @TimoRoettger, and me: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-…

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“There is no theory crisis in psychological science” Few quotes…🧵

Numerous scholars believe that there is a crisis in psychology because of the “poor quality” of our theories. However, we believe that it is misleading to suggest that psychology is going through a “theory crisis” because the major shortcomings of theories in the field have been recognized for decades. More fundamentally, there is nothing temporary about the current state theory in the field. Theories in psychology and other social and behavioral sciences will always fall short of traditional scientific benchmarks because of the complexity of the topics that are studied and the problem of generality. In our view, the most recent recommendations for improving theory in psychology are limited in feasibleness. Following many scholars, we suggest that psychology should turn more to formal modeling to increase rigor and improve prediction. However, while models are potentially of great value to the field, they are not theories. Researchers need to accept the limitations inherent to the study of the complexity of social and behavioral phenomena and stop the unhelpful criticism of our field. They also need to recognize the cumulativeness of psychological theory and the enormous body of knowledge of psychological processes, structures, and effects that have been generated by research. Although theories in our field are often sketchy, they are indispensable in providing explanations for important phenomena, suggesting interventions and treatments for critical social and behavioral problems and facilitating the development of predictive models.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships @josoperrel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

OnlineFirst publication: Schwade, Sophie Altenmüller, & @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social explore how the use of informal communication impacts the degree of trustworthiness and closeness in professional and private relationship dynamics. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcasemicSky #SocialPsychology

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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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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Since we’re talking about trust in science right now (shout out to the TISP project!), here’s the updated „Trust in Science Scholars“ starter pack once more! Please share and reach out if you identify as a trust in science researcher and want to be added! #trustinscience #scicomm

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

👉PAPER ALERT👈: To all the folks who are interested in justice/forgiveness/revenge: Tyler Okimoto and I just published a chapter in Annual Review in Psychology on "the (social) psychology of justice repair": doi.org/10.1146/annu.... It's open access!😊

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The Social Psychology of Justice Repair | Annual Reviews

Justice scholars have elaborated a variety of social psychological mechanisms that contribute to our desire to see some action following an injustice, to see justice done. Research over the past 20 ye...

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 05/01/2025

#Psychology publication "transparency increased moderately from 2017 to 2022 [but] continues to be widely neglected in psychology" (N = 400 peer-reviewed articles). #OpenAccess paper below. How will you incentivize transparency in #science? #PhilSci #MetaScience #OpenScience #Publishing #Academia

The quote in the post summarizes Figure 1, but here is the pasted caption of the figure "Prevalence of transparent research practices in empirical psychology articles. The field-wide and prominent samples (2022) from the present study each have sample sizes of 200 articles. The 2014–2017 sample is from a prior study (Hardwicke et al., 2022)the sample sizes were open access (n = 237), conflict of interest and funding (n = 228), materials (n = 183), and all other practices (n = 188). Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Functional availability means that the research artifact could be accessed, downloaded, and viewed without contacting authors or third parties. Conflict-of-interest statements and funding statements include articles that disclosed a potential conflict or funding source and those that stated there was no potential conflict or no funding (see main text for details)."

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🗣Job alert:🧑‍🎓 Postdoc-Stelle in einem rechtspsychologischen Projekt zum Thema "Vertrauen in Ko-Kreation mit generativer KI im Rechtssystem" an der LMU München: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/8.... (geleitet von Friederike Funk). Bewerbungsschluss 20.01.25

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Post-Doc (m/w/d)

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Behavioral responses depend on need threat: 📉Lower threat ➡️ prosocial/approach behaviors like helping others, talking to others, or actively using social media 📈Higher threat ➡️ withdrawal/antisocial intentions Figure 1:

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This conference has been incredible for #metascience and #openscience the past two times. I highly recommend it @cos.io metascience.info/call-for-pro... 🧪

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Call for Proposals - Metascience

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

(3) Policy-free metascience by @jbakcoleman.bsky.social

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This paper is part of a special issue on “What makes a good theory?” bsky.app/profile/deve...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

✨ So proud of this special issue and deeply grateful for my wonderful co-editors, all contributions at the workshop by participants, and the amazing resulting papers in the special issue. Check it out! You will not be disappointed, I promise 😊

Table 1 in editorial, giving overview of all 8 papers in the special issue, including teaser quotes.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New paper: buff.ly/3ZcAz30 During the Covid-19 pandemic, many researchers felt the urge to contribute to the societal goal of curbing infection rates and alleviating the stress people experienced. Many thus (hastily) did "Covid Research".

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Although it is frequently discussed, AfD support appears only weakly correlated with objective economic conditions. The unemployment rate or the disposable income per capita of a municipality correlate only weakly with the AfD's vote share and its gains compared to 2019.

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