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Thomas Schubert

@schubert.bsky.social
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Social psychologist studying emotions: www.kamamutalab.org. Teaching at University of Oslo & European Master Global-MINDS. Dad to a rocket scientist. Born at 323 p.p.m.

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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Open position alert: Associate Professorship in Quant methods in psych department at University of Oslo. Deadline 1 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
the football euphoria seems strong in Oslo. thousands doing the RO-tual on the streets. We got interviewed by NRK and VG and explained the tears and euphoria www.vg.no/nyheter/i/16...
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Kama muta-effekten: – Aldri har jeg kjent landet vårt så samlet
Vi synger, ror, jubler og gråter sammen. Forskerne har gitt følelsen et eget navn: kama muta.
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
German weekly Der Spiegel on our emotion concept Kama Muta www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... #kamamuta
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(S+) Wissenschaftler geben Emotion einen Namen: Was ist Kama Muta?
Wissenschaftler untersuchen eine Emotion, für die es lange keinen englischen Ausdruck gab. Bis ein deutscher Psychologe ins Kino ging.
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
me, answering press inquiry: "We don’t claim to have discovered a new emotion. ... I have seem comments under previous articles along the lines of 'scientists again discover obvious thing'." Headline writer of the Daily Mail: "Psychologists reveal a brand-new emotion" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Do you feel kama muta? Psychologists reveal a brand-new emotion
If you've ever felt choked up at the end of a happy film, or found yourself tearing up at a wedding, scientists say you might have been feeling 'kama muta'.
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
a short piece on kama muta in reading fiction, from the Catalan newspaper ara llegim.ara.cat/opinio/kama-...
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Què és el 'kama muta', l'emoció que ens estreny la gola quan llegim?
Quan era petita un dels meus llibres preferits era L'illa dels dofins blaus, d'Scott O'Dell (publicat per La Galera, amb traducció de Josep Vallverdú i il·lustracions d'Isidre Monés), un llibre d'aven...
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
beautiful anecdote and note on kama muta in psyche.co/notes-to-sel... by @hannahseo.com
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Why kama muta is an emotion worth seeking | Psyche Notes to Self
I wasn’t quite sure what this moving, warm-and-fuzzy feeling was, until research put a name to it: ‘kama muta’
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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EASP members open letter to EU
If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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EASP members open letter to EU
If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
slowly compiling this list. I don't believe in linkedin. message me to be added.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
theguardian.com
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives. Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
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Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup
The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...
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Kama Muta: The Powerful Emotion Everyone Has But No One Has Heard Of
It's a universal feeling so now you can put a name to it.
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Make 🥄 not 🍴
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is what the rest of our lives will look like: We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to. Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.
nytimes.com
Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.
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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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Changes to the classification
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Kama muta: the powerful emotion you didn’t know you had
Goosebumps, tears, a sense of solidarity… There’s a name for that feeling, and its manifestations – from Swifties handing out friendship bracelets to strong responses to political messaging – can brin...
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