The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars. Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist?? ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test 🧵👇 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory

Newly Published: @ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time - Yuthika U. Girme, Nickola C. Overall, 2025

Attachment insecurity is characterized by chronic concerns about whether partners can fulfil core relatedness needs, including feeling loved and cared about. In...

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This is a really apt analogy to narcissism and I look forward to reading this paper in full.

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · last yr.

Global Narcissism vs. Global Warming "Through the metaphor of 'global narcissism' this paper explores how humanity’s response to ecological crisis mirrors narcissistic defense mechanisms and suggests a collapse is taking place." By @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

It's always a proud day celebrating a PhD graduation and this year our research group is lucky, and quadruply proud, to have 4! Big congratulations to you all, I know you have wonderful futures ahead 👏👏👏

Social Psychology Surrey @socialpsychology.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our PhD graduates, Drs. Rose Brett, Federica Case, Chuan-Ren Isaac Chuang, and Fatima Ozeto.

Starting university doesn’t mean students already know how to use academic language. Our new blog explores why learning discipline-specific academic language is vital for student success and a healthy democracy. srheblog.com

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The Society for Research into Higher Education

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Who's ready for more Expanding Empathy? Through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making & @rockethics.bsky.social, I'm bringing it back for year 6. Now more than ever, we need to highlight why empathy can be strength, not weakness. And why universities, interdisciplinarity, & outreach matter. 1/n

We're recruiting new RRIG grad student, junior, and senior committee members! Join @rosieshrout.bsky.social, Kori Krueger, @bogolsky.bsky.social, Judith Gere, and Laura Machia to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 5th. Please share widely!

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CALL FOR JUNIOR MEMBER The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) seeks an application for one new junior committee member. You may self-nominate or nominate others for this role. The committe...

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Narcissistic people are more likely to feel ostracized and misread social cues

Narcissistic people are more likely to feel ostracized and misread social cues

Despite their swagger, narcissistic individuals often misread social interactions as rejection, reinforcing feelings of exclusion and insecurity.

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📈Research shows people can accurately track personality changes across situations. We're better at noticing shifts in extraversion and conscientiousness than emotional stability or agreeableness. Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights! Read more: ow.ly/qLG750VAQCZ

It was fun bringing my 10yo daughter to participate in a research study @surreypsychology.bsky.social last week. Bonus highlight was that she drew me this portrait on my whiteboard, which I can now never erase! ❤️ #academicparent

Helpful tips from @theloveconsortium.bsky.social on communicating research in the media and to the public, from both academic and journalist's perspective. Bookmarking for later! go.unc.edu/y4K8W

The Love Consortium@theloveconsortium.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in learning about how to communicate your research to the public? Award-winning journalist @richardsima.bsky.social shares his top tips in the latest issue of the TLC newsletter. Read the full interview here:https://go.unc.edu/y4K8W

I'm so excited to have started our ESRC funded project on Dyadic Nostalgia in Couple Relationships @surreypsychology.bsky.social. Many years in the making and now we finally get to do the research! V happy to have the brilliant @gloriawsma.bsky.social as our lead postdoc gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

I am delighted to announce that we will be hiring a social psychologist: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please contact me with any questions!

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Social Psychology

Exciting Opportunity in Social Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...

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Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media

Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media

As attention spans shrink, storytelling — and truth — may be the greatest casualties of digital culture.

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Really enjoyed today's UK Attachment Network meeting at the University of Bristol. Such a great range of inspiring relationship research talks and discussions.

Very helpful blog post on mediation analysis... I am determined to find valid ways of doing and interpreting it despite the many pitfalls!

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

This @BPSOfficial funded secondment at the Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology is an excellent opportunity for a PhD student post.parliament.uk/british-psyc...

British Psychological Society Fellowship 2025/26

Application deadline: 4 May 2025 (23:59).

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New OA paper in Compass with @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social, and a number of non-blue-sky students and colleagues. If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Renewal of Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling With Latent Variables: Clarifications, Methodological Advantages, and New Directions

Researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of data from dyads must select a preferred statistical framework. In this review, we focus on one option that has seen relatively modest adoption: ...

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Should You Break Up with Dating Apps? Here I covered for @psychologytoday.com a debate about the pros and cons of dating apps #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky🩺#HiSciSky #dating www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...

Should You Break Up with Dating Apps?

Should you break up or continue your relationship with dating apps? Here are takeaways from a recent debate about the value of dating apps.

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We're hiring! Three new Lecturer posts @surreypsychology.bsky.social including one dedicated to Social Psychology jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... (There's a list of Uni priorities but candidates in more traditional social psych areas also v encouraged!)

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Social Psychology

Exciting Opportunity in Social Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...

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It might be Valentine's Day but, as @vlamarche.bsky.social says, few people can boast a 100% success rate when it comes to attracting love interests. Her psychology-backed tips in the @uk.theconversation.com are here to help you cope with romantic rejection. theconversation.com/how-to-cope-...

Enjoyed talking to #BBC Radio Surrey for their #ValentinesDay breakfast show! 💝 It was nice to have the chance to talk about research (including our ongoing work on #nostalgia) as well as societal trends in #relationships. @surreypsychology.bsky.social

EMA/Daily Diary researchers! Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis Email Karina.vanbogart@northwestern.edu with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky

New blog post! I highlight JEP: General research on a trait-like style of interpreting emotional cues! Happy to get feedback on it here! Appreciate any thoughts or feedback. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-... #Psychology #socialpsych #emotion #nonverbalBehavior

How Do You Read Emotional Cues?

Why do people often disagree about others' emotions? New research reveals we have stable individual differences in how much we rely on faces versus context.

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Listening to music during memory recall can alter the emotional tone of memories, making them more positive or negative, by activating emotion- and memory-related brain regions. This discovery suggests potential… #MusicTherapy #EmotionalHealing #MentalHealth #MusicAsMedicine #TherapeuticMusic

Can music heal emotional wounds? New research suggests it might

Listening to music during memory recall can alter the emotional tone of memories, making them more positive or negative, by activating emotion- and memory-related brain regions. This discovery suggests potential therapeutic uses for reframing difficult…

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Here's what's coming in PROCESS v5, to be released very soon. • Regression analysis without a mediation or moderation component • Regression diagnostics • Breusch-Pagan test of heteroskedasticity • Standardized and semi-standardized regression coefficients for all models 1/4

This is a US centric article, but interesting reading and many of the trends apply to the UK as well. Environmental and technological changes often promote solitude and discourage real social interactions, harming relationships and well-being.

David A. Sbarra@dsbarra.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incredible reporting by @dkthomp.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com in: www.theatlantic.com tinyurl.com/2rpuab66 . IMO, very few articles cover the deep history of this trend well. Lots of interesting ideas, and I agree with the thesis about the disintegration of the village ring. Read or listen!

#AcademicSky I still see many students taking notes by hand Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis: Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform. Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say! Listen, think, capture the key essence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"nationally representative samples of German and Dutch couples...followed for 37 or 14 years...within each couple, the happier partner experienced most dramatic well-being declines; unhappier partner’s well-being either did not change or increased slightly" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples - Olga Stavrova, William J. Chopik, 2025

There is a notable similarity in psychological well-being among romantic partners. Drawing on valence asymmetry research (e.g., negativity bias), we tested whet...

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