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New prerpint. In a paper lead by @LaffineurCeline and co-authored with @GijsSchumacher we theorize that political interest is a social identity, develop new scales and show the construct and predictive validity of these interest as identity scales. Part of ippad project

What do Americans think about Political Scientists? Our latest Path to 2024 report finds middling perceptions of contributions and intentions, & 71% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats agree political scientists should remain politically neutral. prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Septem…

I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post…

Today @HotPoliticsLab we will zoom in on the relation between belief in conspiracy theories & political attitudes with our next great guest Myrto Pantazi ( @[email protected] ) Join us at 15:00 in REC-C10.20 | online. If you missed a talk you wish you could attend have a look at youtube.com/@hotpoliticsla…

🚨🚨Being smarter is always a good thing right? Well not necessarily. In our new paper just accepted at BJSP, we find that people higher in cognitive ability express more political animosity and favoritism than people lower in cognitive ability.🚨🚨 1/9 osf.io/preprints/psya…

In a survey of over 6,000 Dutch researchers, ca. 50% said they frequently engaged in at least one questionable research practice in the last three years. Ca. 8% reported having falsified or fabricated their research at least once.

The APSR is now accepting Registered Reports submissions! You can find detailed information about Registered Reports here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Our DCs engaged in an exciting talk by the City Office expert on Youth Social Activity program in Krakow! #MSCA #HEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Krakowtraining

DCs learning all the ins and outs of grant writing today! 📝Manos Tsakiris #MSCA #HEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Krakowtraining

Important new work by Vin Arceneaux showing what happens when people deactivate facebook. Another illustration of the importance of replication and extensions in the social sciences!

Super excited about this Winter School - some of the best meta-scientists, methodologists, and generally some of my favorite people together for a week. Sign up! It will be a blast!

💥PNAS Nexus Special Feature: Polarization & Trust💥 In 2023, we hosted a workshop (co-organized with David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Yphtach Lelkes Kati Kish Bar-On) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a result, Michele J. Gelfand, Erik Kimbrough & I led a Special Feature at Nexus comprised of those talks. Short🧵with all contributions:

🎓Ik ben aangesteld als Honorary Fellow aan de afdeling Politicologie UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag AISSR (no longer active on X). Ik ga mij richten op sociale en politieke ongelijkheid, samenleven en de democratie, met thema's zoals vertrouwen in elkaar en de politiek, meedoen en erbij horen uva.nl/shared-content…

New programme by Dutch Research Council NWO Funding: academic journals that wish to 'flip' from a subscription model to diamond open access (no fees for readers - no fees for authors) can apply for funding to transition: nwo.nl/en/news/fundin…

🇺🇸With the US elections only 2 weeks away, negative campaigns are running at full speed on both sides. Posivity seems to be more effective. But... do they really have a choice?🤔 Our experts Alessandro Nai and @GijsSchumacher beg to differ👇 go.uva.nl/3YdaU8F

Are you interested in the field of political psychology? And are you interested in doing a PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)? Check out this great project on personality traits and political ambition by Marc van de Wardt. Supervision by Marc, Loes Aaldering, and me. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…

Voor de eerste keer is nu aangetoond dat jongere gevoeliger zijn voor social media feedback (likes) dan volwassenen. Dat heeft directe impact op hun humeur. 🤳📱👉 go.uva.nl/4fe2QLS

New insights on sexism & attack politics (and the US election) Sneak peek of our latest research with the formidable (and twitterless) Loes Aaldering 🔥 👇👇👇

Political concerns can affect our health in many different ways (think US elections...) With Mariana von Mohr from Centre for the Politics of Feelings we show that better body-awareness make us more resilient to the impact that politics have on our health osf.io/preprints/psya…… via Center for Open Science

Looking forward to this event by European Research Executive Agency on #democracy . Together with Bert Bakker we will represent ippad to talk about democracy’s future : today’s young people | Do join us if you can 👇