Our newest paper presents a novel and accessible approach using LLMS to analyze texts for positive (national identification, patriotism) & defensive (nationalism, national narcissism) national identities We tested 13 million words from social media, surveys, and political speeches in 25 languages.

Thank you @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social for the invitation. Looking forward!

Pedro Magalhães @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

March 17th, at 10.30am, @alekscichocka.bsky.social will give a talk at @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social: "Making the Personal Political: The Role of Narcissism in Political Attitudes and Behaviours". Open to everyone, do drop by if you can.

National identity drives a range of actions, from civic engagement to intergroup violence. Our new paper presents a novel approach using LLMs to code expressions of positive (national identification, patriotism) & defensive (nationalism, national narcissism) identities. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📚Preprint📚 Gregson, Nikadon, Formanowicz, @chiarazazzarino.bsky.social, Kitchin, Kosinski, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @alekscichocka.bsky.social ➤ osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/9jcvr_v1 Tasked LLMs to label national identities in social media posts and political speeches (25 languages, 13M words) 🧵 1/8

Out now and open access! A new scale to gauge support for intergroup violence, including in (post-)conflict settings. With @ramziabouismail.bsky.social, @alekscichocka.bsky.social, @hakancakmak.bsky.social, @samicoksan.bsky.social, and Nikhil Sengupta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵

Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence

Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are r...

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Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Psychology

The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Psychology and a Lecturer in Psychology focusing on Cognition and Neuroscience  to join a collegial, supportive, and intellectually vibrant...

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In these difficult times, here’s some quick advice from my dear friend Sonja, the happiness expert, on one thing you can do today to feel happier 🧡 www.ted.com/talks/sonja_...

1 thing you can do today to be happier

Can anyone become happier? Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky studies this question in her lab, doing experiments on "happiness interventions" to see what kinds of actions elicit this sought-after emotion...

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Best part of the job! Congratulations Dr @chiarazazzarino.bsky.social 🎓

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

Thank you so much for having me @hansalves.bsky.social et al.! Always great fun to hang out with German social psychologists!

Hans Alves@hansalves.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Keynote by Aleksandra Cichocka at #FGSP2025 What an impressive research program, @alekscichocka.bsky.social !

Moral outrage spreads petitions online—but doesn’t always inspire people to sign them

Moral outrage spreads petitions online—but doesn’t always inspire people to sign them

Posts expressing moral outrage were more likely to go viral but did not lead to more petition signatures, while posts using agentic, group identity, or prosocial language attracted more signatures despite receiving less online engagement.

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The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏 Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

Spending your weekend with @polpsyispp.bsky.social in Prague? Join us for these talks: SAT, July 5 11:05am – 12:20pm S93: @alekscichocka.bsky.social The energy island: Texan collective narcissism predicts support for an independent power grid

Just like individual narcissists, who have an exaggerated sense of self-importance and grandiosity, national narcissists believe that their nation is exceptional and entitled to special treatment. We explain the dark side of social identity in our latest newsletter: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Healthy vs Harmful National Identities

Issue 171: This July 4th, we explore different forms of national identity and how they shape democracy, solidarity, and collective responsibility in profoundly different ways.

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Don’t miss our lab’s Friday talks at @polpsyispp.bsky.social in Prague: 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM S53 Tamino Konur: Does Gender Identity Compensate for Ethnic Discrimination? Alessia Bacigalupo: Women, Borders and the Nation: How Sexism Predicts Nationalism and Immigration Policy Support

Heading to @polpsyispp.bsky.social in Prague? Check out these awesome talks from our lab tomorrow (Thu, Jul 3): 11:40 AM - 12:55 S21: Daniel Toribio-Flórez: Examining the political consequences of conspiracy theories around general elections: Evidence from the UK, France and US

New: Adamczyk & colleagues compared national identification to national narcissism & found that the former is related to support for democracy & voting intentions, while the latter was associated with anarchism & lower voting intentions. doi.org/10.1027/1864...

Proud to celebrate with @chiarazazzarino.bsky.social her fantastic PhD defense yesterday 🥂Chiara’s research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk examined how leaders use national identity rhetoric to gain political support. Congratulations Dr Zazzarino 🎓

A popularizing version of joint work with Liz Mancuso, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social , and others. psyche.co/guides/how-t...

"Platforms are calibrated to capture attention by amplifying moralized and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as raising awareness of injustices by propagating expressions of outrage," explains @stefanleach.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-05...

Examining the relationship between moral outrage on social media and activism

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science examines how expressions of moral outrage on social media are linked to online activism, specifically petition-signing behavior.

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A new study finds that expressions of moral outrage increase the virality of online petitions but not signatures. Statements about helping others, on the other hand, do predict a greater number of signatures but aren’t linked to virality. @spspnews.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Moral Outrage Predicts the Virality of Petitions for Change on Social Media, But Not the Number of Signatures They Receive - Stefan Leach, Magdalena Formanowicz, Jan Nikadon, Aleksandra Cichocka, 2025

Social media is a powerful tool for activists to share their perspectives, but concerns persist that the viral spread of online moral outrage may undermine coll...

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Social media is a great tool for activists but can the viral spread of moral outrage sometimes undermine collective causes? We examined this in a new SPPS paper led by @stefanleach.bsky.social analyzing 1,286,442 posts on X with URLs to petitions on change.org journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Out now, open access at Psychology of Violence! How do authoritarianism and social dominance orientation affect attitudes toward collective violence in Lebanon? (with @ramziabouismail.bsky.social, @alekscichocka.bsky.social, and @sengupta.bsky.social) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... 🧵

Seems timely to highlight recent work by @genaveebrown.bsky.social and @gaellemarinthe.bsky.social In two studies they found that national narcissism in France and the US was associated with more favourable views of Putin and seeing the war as less immoral rips-irsp.com/articles/10....

Our meta-analysis "Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs" is now published at Psychological Bulletin! Please refer to this thread, ResearchGate, and PsyArXiv for details! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Mikey Biddlestone@mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Our meta-analysis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs has been accepted at Psychological Bulletin!🚨“Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 1/16

My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information

True to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” t...

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Special Issue Alert! How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis? Submit your work exploring their role in propaganda, misinformation, and reshaping society! ispp.org/wp/wp-conten... @polpsyispp.bsky.social #polisky

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Next on my “when the baby sleeps on me” reading list!

Nour Kteily@nourkteily.bsky.social · 2y ago

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...