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Zahra Rahmani

@zah-rahmani.bsky.social
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PhD Student @Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change in Basel studying pro-environmental decision making and how (dis)information influences climate beliefs.

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Finanzwende @finanzwende.de · 18/09/2026
Kein Geld für Schwimmbäder - was ist mit den #CumCum-Milliarden? Würden die Länder 28,5 Milliarden aus illegalen #CumCum Steuermaschen effektiv zurückholen, könnte man damit die Sanierung aller Bäder sofort finanzieren.
Oben: Hier fehlt Geld.
Darunter Schlagzeilen: "Die Lage unserer Bäder ist desaströs."
"Abkühlung im Hitzesommer? Fast jedes zweite Freibad sanierungsbedürftig - Gelder fehlen"
"Bäderschlißungen: Auf dem Weg ins Nichtschwimmerland"

Unten: "Hier ist Geld!"
Darunter Schlagzeilen:
"Finanzaufischt BaFin prüft Bücher der DekaBank"
"Cum-Cum-Geschäfte: Milliardenschwere Steuerabzocke ohne Folgen?"
"Es geht noch immer um Milliarden"

Kleiner Störer: Das lässt sich ändern!
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
[As promised some details on our new preprint] What happens when people freely choose information about climate policies? For 4 climate food policies, participants from 15 countries from the Global South and North sampled arguments: either for or against the policy, or unrelated trivia.
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have a really cool new preprint out: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... More details will follow but if you are at the DGPS in Lux, make sure to come to my talk about it: Monday 8:30am in room AT. It will be worthwhile =)
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Self-directed information search reinforces climate policy evaluations and polarization across 15 countries
Public discourses surrounding demand-side climate policies create complex and conflicting information environments. Yet, little is known about how citizens actively select climate  information, h...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/ Doomism means saying it's too late and nothing can be done. It doesn't mean saying things are bad. One recent high profile paper in @pnas.org treats conflates this. Whilst another paper in the British Journal of Psychology treats naming who funded climate delay as conspiracism. A thread 🧵
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
People agree which climate advocating messages they like best. Good climate communication can be powerful. This is the bottom line of our new publication: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Check out my interview with PLOS Climate, and while you are at it, the other editions of this cool series on young climate researchers. I particularly enjoy reading what others think about the future of climate research: a mix of interesting ideas with a dose of optimism.
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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 Cooperation Colloquia! With @yanchenl.bsky.social @minhuayan.bsky.social @saptarshi.bsky.social @aronszekely.bsky.social @shafenbraedl.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social @smconstantino.bsky.social and more Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
List of speakers: 
2026-01-30 | Caroline Graf (University of Zürich)
2026-02-13 | Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
2026-02-27 | Taylor Kessinger (University of Pennsylvania)
2026-03-13 | Manon Schweinfurth (University of St Andrews)
2026-03-27 | Minhua Yan (Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse)
2026-04-10 | Saptarshi Pal (Harvard (University)
2026-04-24 | Aron Szekely (UCL)
2026-05-08 | Sebastian Hafenbrädl (IESE Business School)
2026-05-22 | Shuxian Jin (Peking University & University of Sussex)
2026-06-19 | Sara Constantino (Stanford University)
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
📯 New Preprint out 📣 Honestly, this started out as a side project that I had put on the back burner for a while. Then, I realized I could combine the original data with the data from our climate (dis)information sampling study, and found quite unexpected and cool results: doi.org/10.21203/rs....
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Message Quality and Audience Characteristics Shape Evaluation and Impact of Real-World Social Media Climate Communication
To improve climate communication, it is crucial to understand how different audiences respond to pro-climate messages, particularly in information environments where accurate information competes with...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences? Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate impact perceptions and associations with reported behaviors and policy support in three countries
To accelerate climate change mitigation, substantial lifestyle changes and more ambitious climate policies are urgently needed. However, realizing beh…
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ungleichheit.info @ungleichheitinfo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Neue Zahlen von @oxfam-de.bsky.social zeigen: Ein Mensch der reichsten 0,1% verursacht mehr CO2 am Tag als eine Person der ärmsten 50% im ganzen Jahr. #Ungleichheit @surplusmagazin.bsky.social
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The relationship between the climate change narratives a person holds and which type of climate messages this person consumes and trusts is a two-way street. 1/4 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PSCA Joint Research Group @psbclab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨 Another open postdoc position "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana in Lüneburg 🚨 ✏️ Apply here: s.academiccloud.de/Thqqfi (5 years, 100%) 🔗 The position is related to this PhD position: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 🧠 More information on the postdoc position:
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Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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DFG Research Unit 5389
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Really excited to be giving a guest lecture on the human factor in climate mitigation at ETH Zurich today.
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I published my 1st PhD paper @Judgment and Decision Making in January. Yay 🎉! Soon, there was frustration. I hope the research community will move beyond for-profit publishers. The Open Access publication fee was $3,450: public money going straight to private publishers. How was their service?
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
[German only] Had the pleasure to answer some SRF audience questions on lying alongside social psychologist @fannylalot.bsky.social who is an expert on lying and trust. www.srf.ch/news/srf-new...
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Antworten zum Thema Lügen
Eine Fachrunde hat Ihre Fragen zum Thema Lügen beantwortet.
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... Maybe consider making it a video call? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New preprint alert with @tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth, Kim-Pong Tam and Ulf Hahnel! What messages about climate change do people consume? In our pre-registered three-country study, we find that people prefer to read messages that are aligned with their initial climate beliefs. (1/5)
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PSCA Joint Research Group @psbclab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
10 lucky winners get to take home the groceries they selected during a food choice study. Our master student Lara is all smiles as she rewards the participants. Lara did a great job leading this research project with an incentive-compatible food choice task.
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🌱 Want to become a PhD student in our research group? 🌟 CBS Sustainability Centre is inviting applications for a #PhD scholarship in 'Green Transition and #Sustainability'. This is an open call, but a project focusing on #BehavioralScience will join our research group. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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PhD scholarship in Green Transition and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant PhD scholarship in Green Transition and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication.  The expected start date...
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New joint research with Doron Cohen and Ulf Hahnel out! doi.org/10.1017/jdm.... Can carbon labels increase sustainable choices? We find that, yes, labels significantly increased carbon-neutral choices. (1/4)
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