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Kai Sassenberg
@kaisassenberg.bsky.social
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Leibniz Institute for Psychology @zipd.bsky.social & Uni Trier (Germany)- Open Science & social influence (conspiracy beliefs, power, social norms, competition) - views are my own
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marlephie.bsky.social
Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
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Redirecting
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November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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mariannesaam.bsky.social
Wir haben eine Promotionsstelle an der @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social ausgeschrieben, Vollzeit, ohne Lehrverpflichtung, mit Einbindung in das @econbiz.econtwitter.net.ap.brid.gy Team.
Bewerbungen bis 14.11. möglich. Fragen gerne auch an mich.
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter:in (Doktorand:in) zum Thema Veränderungsprozesse durch KI in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Die ZBW sucht eine/n Doktorand:in (w/m/d) für Forschung zu KI in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Hamburg/Kiel. Jetzt bewerben! Frist: 14.11.2025.
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

IMO, academics spend too much time on social media relative to having a basic, solid, useful website.

Some tips here from @gribblelab.org

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour
An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, inc...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
In a new preprint led by @abitter.bsky.social we tested whether open data is useful for reproducibility and usage based on automated and human assessment of data FAIRness. The short answer is: in the majority of cases not really. For more information 👇
abitter.bsky.social André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 21d
How FAIR is shared data in psychology?

We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!

What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.

👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci
FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
#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...
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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lakens.bsky.social
Very cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/
PreReg: Deviation Template
PreReg: Deviation Template
apps.leibniz-psychology.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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lpummerer.bsky.social
Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics.
-> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach
Beliefs in conspiracy theories are seemingly hard to dispute through facts. Researchers have partly attributed this resistance to certain information processing styles that are associated with cons...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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zpid.bsky.social
🌟 From now on we are active with three pages at Bluesky! 🌟

@zpid.bsky.social
@zpidjobs.bsky.social
@psychopengold.bsky.social

#OpenScience #leavingX
January 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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andytseng.bsky.social
@nature.com finds science posts on #Bluesky are more original, and earn far higher engagement. Need we say more!?
#Twitter #X #SocialMedia #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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grigolus.bsky.social
One week left to apply.
grigolus.bsky.social Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 24
Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
York. View from the river Ouse.
August 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
August 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
New paper alert: @kwinter.bsky.social Laura Henn, and I show in 3 studies (N = 1005) that flexibility mindsets (induced by cognitive conflicts) enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those initially low in pro-environmental attitudes.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Flexibility mindsets enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those with a low pro-environmental default tendency
Environmental psychology provides several promising approaches to enhance pro-environmental behavior. However, these are usually only effective within…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
Strong conspiracy beliefs about COVID = lower perceptions of procedural justice

Study: Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
Delighted to see our new paper led by @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social out. In a 5-wave longitudinal study (conducted in 2022/23), we tested whether the feeling of procedural justice returned for those high in conspiracy beliefs towards the end of the pandemic. Short answer: No! For more details👇
svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · Aug 19
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.
August 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
Do preregistrations in psychology live up to minimum standards? We argue in a new paper that they should at least contain the hypothesized pattern, the measures, the planned sample size and analyses, the exclusion criteria, and a time stamp. But do they? For more details read Lena Hahn's threat! 👇
August 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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richarddmorey.bsky.social
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397 Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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marlephie.bsky.social
🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
1/8 🧵
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....
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July 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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abitter.bsky.social
Today, my dear colleague @annameret.bsky.social presented our work on data sharing in psychology at @icssi.bsky.social ✨We show that open data is findable, but less reusable.
Preprint coming soon, preregistration available on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

#Metascience #SciSci #ICSSI2025
June 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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sonja-utz.de
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
www.psychjob.eu
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...
Elektromobilität: Warum es so viele Vorurteile gegenüber E-Autos gibt
Fehlinformationen über Elektroautos sind in Deutschland besonders stark verbreitet – auch bei Gebildeten. Wie kommt das? Und was hilft dagegen?
www.zeit.de
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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sciencex.bsky.social
Surveys across four countries indicate that misinformation about electric vehicles is widespread and often linked to conspiracy mentality, but fact sheets and AI dialogues can help reduce these misconceptions. doi.org/g9psj2
Most people believe misinformation about electric vehicles, international survey finds
More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US.
techxplore.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
🥳New paper on belief in #misinformation about electric vehicles led by Chris Bretter w Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Belinda Wade & Kevin Winter out in @natenergy.nature.com. Conspiracy beliefs are the strongest predictor and #ChatGPT helps to reduce belief in misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles - Nature Energy
Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interac...
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June 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
kaisassenberg.bsky.social
Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
June 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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acmay.bsky.social
🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy
Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany
Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social
New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social
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May 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM