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petarlukic.bsky.social @petarlukic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thank you, @markrubin.bsky.social, for sharing our paper! Others, please have a look at our paper where we discuss a bias in research of (dis)trust in science!

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Screenshot of the OpenMoji project homepage. The text says OpenMoji 16.0.0 Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! with a Search emoji box below and a lot of random emojis scattered on the page.

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi: tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Over the next couple of years, I’ll be studying how political ideology, intergroup relations, and economic beliefs are shaped by broader societal structures like neoliberalism and neocolonialism. Excited to see what’s ahead (and if Jennifer regrets her decision)!

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

✨Who says dreams can’t come true?✨ 5 yrs ago, I emailed Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington asking if she'd take me on as a PhD student. She rightly declined. 5yrs later, she is taking me on as a postdoc in Psychology in Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (probably shouldn't have)!

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Good question! Yes, that's basically what the graph shows though we got calculations estimated from the mixed model!

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

✨On a personal note, this has been the most ambitious and rewarding project I’ve ever led (started in 2022 on the shores of Egypt). Even better, I carried it out with some of my closest and beloved people, and many new colleagues who became friends. Special thanks to Prof. John Jost for co-leading!

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

💡Takeaway: global structural inequalities can override the usual ingroup favoritism. Sometimes nations admire powerful outsiders more than their own. Full paper here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🔎What did we find? • Advantaged outgroups = seen as more competent, but less warm. • Disadvantaged outgroups = less competent, no difference in warmth. • In poorer & more exploited countries, outgroup favoritism on competence was strongest.

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📊Our team of 76 researchers studied 12,339 participants across 45 non-Western countries. We asked how people stereotype: • their own nation • a relatively advantaged outgroup (Western Europeans) • a relatively disadvantaged outgroup (Western Africans)

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior? Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression. 🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This also marks the last empirical chapter of my PhD with great supervisors Gerben Van Kleef & Bastiaan Rutjens! 🎓 For those unable to access the paper behind the paywall, I uploaded the free preprint version (link should be working soon): 🔗 osf.io/v6pbg_v1

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Speaking of systemic issues, with science cuts looming across the West (UK, US, NL), what can scientists do? Petitions/statements have their place, but can’t match the bargaining power of organized workers. Join a union, talk to colleagues, and organize to defend science 🚩

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

More broadly, we argue that low trust in scientists goes beyond political ideology. Neoliberal policies (privatization, commercialization) have damaged science. Corporations with vested interests (e.g., tobacco, climate change) and the "publish or perish" mentality don't help.🏢

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Furthermore, we tested interventions to boost conservatives' trust in scientists (N = 7,800). Unfortunately, none worked. This raises concerns about the effectiveness of short, one-time interventions in increasing trust in science. 😕

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In our registered report (two years in the making ⏳), we find that liberals trust scientists more, not just in fields like climate change, public health, & social sciences, but also in neuroscience, biology, & nuclear science.

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵

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Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of inter...

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Excellent study by @vukasin.bsky.social (2025) finds US liberals trust scientists more than conservatives across all fields. Despite generally high trust levels overall, the gap is largest for climatologists. 5 interventions failed to increase trust, suggesting attitudes resistant to interventions 🧪

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

To academics in Netherlands (and especially Amsterdam), we are organizing a symposium *Social sciences and the System: Challenging or Upholding the Status Quo* that includes John Jost, Enzo Rossi and Marija B. Petrović on 18th February in Amsterdam! register here: forms.gle/NSzoNxu2EKMf...

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Social Sciences and the System: Challenging or Upholding the Status Quo? It is widely acknowledged that neoliberal capitalism has led to rampant socioeconomic inequalities, wars, and ecological crise...

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Psychological stimulus sets and datasets

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Our latest research on who is likely to harass scientists has been featured in two recent interviews! 📰✨ 📌 PsyPost: Psychopathy, cynicism & threat perception linked to harassment www.psypost.org/heightened-p... 📌 Folia: Who is behind hate mail to scientists? www.folia.nl/en/wetenscha...

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Heightened psychopathy, cynicism, and threat perception linked to harassment of scientists

New research indicates that distrust in scientists, perceiving them as threats, and personality traits like narcissism and psychopathy contribute to the harassment of scientists.

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We also measured behaviors - voodoo doll, petition signing and donation. Started as a Master's student project and now we're here! Kudos to all the collaborators and supervisors on this one. Happy to say it's my fourth PhD project that is published 🎊

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Across two studies (N=749), we investigated a number of predictors. We found that science cynicism (belief that scientists are incompetent and corrupt) drives harassment of scientists. Perceiving scientists as threatening and dark personality traits also play a role!👇🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In the past several years, and especially in the first few years of COVID-19, scientists have experienced harassment - from unwanted emails and doxxing to death threats and even lynching attempts. But who wants to harm scientists? Find out in our new paper just published in Scientific Reports! 🎉💥✨

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

So sing, thou psychological science! And celebrate your children's null results because your children are children no more I have the right to shitpost because I have no followers (yet)

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

In that particular project, we found no experimental effects. Naive and puzzled, we didn't know what was going on. As we learned about the replication crisis, we always had a soft spot for replicating this project. Six years later, our dreams came true - we did a replication and found no effects.

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

This has to be the project filled with the most innocence and purity I've ever taken part in. It all started ab 6 years ago while we were still undergraduates and were starting our very first research project on analytic/intuitive thinking and conspiracy theories... 1/2

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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

test, is anyone using this network, test

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