Sofia Stathi
@drsofiastathi.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology | Research: intergroup relations, prejudice, collective action | Director of Social Psychology Lab - Uni of Greenwich | #FirstGen #Immigrant Born 🇬🇷🇪🇺 Living 🇬🇧
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Sofia Stathi
@drsofiastathi.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Sabbatical mode on. What I most look forward to? Reading!
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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We have a new paper in Science Advances proposing a simple test for bias:
Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?
Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?
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Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?
Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?
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November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We have a new paper in Science Advances proposing a simple test for bias:
Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?
Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?
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Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?
Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?
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What a kick off meeting for our Horizon project! 🇪🇺 Funded by the European Commission, in the next three years we will be exploring how to build trust across communities and reduce poverty-related hostility. Follow us on Linkedin! www.linkedin.com/posts/btl-co...
#trust #leadership #crime #communities #europe #ncp #btlcop #trustandleadership #safercommunities #horizoneurope | BTL-COP Project
On 13–14 Nov 2025, our consortium gathered in Zagreb, Croatia, to kick off the Horizon Europe BTL-COP project.
Two days of partners’ presentations, inspiring discussions, and shared ideas marked the...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What a kick off meeting for our Horizon project! 🇪🇺 Funded by the European Commission, in the next three years we will be exploring how to build trust across communities and reduce poverty-related hostility. Follow us on Linkedin! www.linkedin.com/posts/btl-co...
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In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...
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-- Call for Papers --
Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
-- Call for Papers --
Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
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🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults
This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal links between one of the least known dimensions of wellbeing—hope—and long-term outcomes in a range of life arenas. Hope has agentic properties w....
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November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
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'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It felt like forever’: passengers recount mass stabbing on Cambridgeshire train
Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷
We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization?
After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷
We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) is hosting an on-line conference 11/7-11/8: Any interested attendees are welcome! Speakers include Paul Bloom, Daryl Cameron, Joshua Greene, Melton Yecel, Abigail Cassario, and others (including me). For more details see sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
the word morality is written in red glitter
ALT: the word morality is written in red glitter
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October 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) is hosting an on-line conference 11/7-11/8: Any interested attendees are welcome! Speakers include Paul Bloom, Daryl Cameron, Joshua Greene, Melton Yecel, Abigail Cassario, and others (including me). For more details see sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
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Our new paper(with Eva Walther & Malgorzata Kossowska)in Current Opinion in Psychology introduces a group-based motivational framework showing that willful ignorance, beyond individual, is also a group strategy shaping identity & conspiracy beliefs.Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs
This paper explores willful ignorance as a socially motivated, group-based phenomenon closely tied to conspiracy beliefs. While prior research has emp…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Our new paper(with Eva Walther & Malgorzata Kossowska)in Current Opinion in Psychology introduces a group-based motivational framework showing that willful ignorance, beyond individual, is also a group strategy shaping identity & conspiracy beliefs.Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Extremism at the Centre"
"Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item"
By...
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social
@scicomguy.bsky.social
@srhastraea.bsky.social
@lingtax.bsky.social
@mdmarques.com
@matthewmatix.bsky.social
"Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item"
By...
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social
@scicomguy.bsky.social
@srhastraea.bsky.social
@lingtax.bsky.social
@mdmarques.com
@matthewmatix.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Extremism at the Centre"
"Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item"
By...
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social
@scicomguy.bsky.social
@srhastraea.bsky.social
@lingtax.bsky.social
@mdmarques.com
@matthewmatix.bsky.social
"Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item"
By...
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social
@scicomguy.bsky.social
@srhastraea.bsky.social
@lingtax.bsky.social
@mdmarques.com
@matthewmatix.bsky.social
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When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens
Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration
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October 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
Early afternoon sabbatical trail in south east London #HelloAutumn
October 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Early afternoon sabbatical trail in south east London #HelloAutumn
So lucky that the brilliant @laurahallain.bsky.social visited my daughter’s school today! Little one came home excited and inspired 💫 📕
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So lucky that the brilliant @laurahallain.bsky.social visited my daughter’s school today! Little one came home excited and inspired 💫 📕
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Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪
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Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial?
In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries
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October 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial?
In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sabbatical mode on. What I most look forward to? Reading!
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Sabbatical mode on. What I most look forward to? Reading!
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Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online!
www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...
www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online!
www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...
www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...
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“Democrats think 45% of Republicans support partisan murder, 20 times larger than what data show. Similarly, Republicans think 42% of Democrats support partisan murder, which is 25 times larger than reality. Americans have a fundamentally incorrect understanding of support for partisan violence.”
Study: Most Americans Do Not Support Partisan Violence | Dartmouth
home.dartmouth.edu
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Democrats think 45% of Republicans support partisan murder, 20 times larger than what data show. Similarly, Republicans think 42% of Democrats support partisan murder, which is 25 times larger than reality. Americans have a fundamentally incorrect understanding of support for partisan violence.”
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ISPP’s Scholars Under Threat Committee call for proposals:
September 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
ISPP’s Scholars Under Threat Committee call for proposals:
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Republicans perceive more discrimination against people who are: White, evangelical, men & religious.
Democrats are much more likely to perceive discrimination against people who are: gay or lesbian, Black, immigrants in US legally, Hispanic, & women.
Democrats are much more likely to perceive discrimination against people who are: gay or lesbian, Black, immigrants in US legally, Hispanic, & women.
September 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Republicans perceive more discrimination against people who are: White, evangelical, men & religious.
Democrats are much more likely to perceive discrimination against people who are: gay or lesbian, Black, immigrants in US legally, Hispanic, & women.
Democrats are much more likely to perceive discrimination against people who are: gay or lesbian, Black, immigrants in US legally, Hispanic, & women.
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🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Interested in state-of-the-art methodologies to study social change? My brilliant colleague @drfbzen.bsky.social is hosting Dr. Agnieszka Rychwalska next week, funded by British Academy! 👉 resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in... Come and learn all things functional connectivity analysis! 🧐
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Interested in state-of-the-art methodologies to study social change? My brilliant colleague @drfbzen.bsky.social is hosting Dr. Agnieszka Rychwalska next week, funded by British Academy! 👉 resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in... Come and learn all things functional connectivity analysis! 🧐