EJSP is looking for contributions to a special issue on “Remembering Climate Disasters, Imagining Climate Futures: Collective Memory, Identity, and Action in a Changing Climate”. More information: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Deadline for expressions of interest: November 30, 2026

European Journal of Social Psychology Call for Papers Remembering Climate Disasters, Imagining Climate Futures: Collective Memory, Identity, and Action in a Changing Climate

The European Journal of Social Psychology is an international social psychology journal for research at the intersection of psychology, sociology & behavioural science.

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The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is looking for proposals for a special issue. Deadline: September 1, 2026. More information can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

European Journal of Social Psychology

The European Journal of Social Psychology is an international social psychology journal for research at the intersection of psychology, sociology & behavioural science.

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📌 #TealHelix held its 3rd 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐚 on 27-28 April bringing partners together to discuss WP progress, pilots plans and priorities & GoGreen Hub co-creation activities. As we move further into the project's second year, we are excited for what's ahead! 🌱

A piece about recent findings on what-if thoughts in political contexts: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...

When Disaster Almost Strikes, Who Takes the Heat?

People are harder on political leaders of the opposite party for near catastrophes, from threats of war to financial bubbles.

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New paper: We examine the role of counterfactual thoughts in bereavement and prolonged grief. Thoughts about how the death could have been prevented, increased levels of grief illustrating dysfunctional aspects of counterfactuals in such situations. doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

How can counterfactual thinking help tackle conspiracy theories? The short (~3 minute) answer is in our @spspnews.bsky.social blog post (with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social, and Bob Fennis): spsp.org/news/charact... 1/2

Voting in an old water tower. Only in the Netherlands. #gemeenteraadsverkiezingen

Looking forward to meeting everyone at the EASP small group meeting on "Counterfactual thinking and its role in cognition and communication" starting later today here in Groningen sites.google.com/rug.nl/count...

We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

New paper just published with @valentinmang.bsky.social and Bob Fennis looking at how people view someone who shares conspiracy theories

Valentin Mang@valentinmang.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What do laypeople think causes conspiracy beliefs? We (@kaiepstude.bsky.social, Bob Fennis, and I) look at this and other questions in a new PSPB paper combining six correlational studies and a qualitative one. Read the open-access paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A 🧵 1/5

Great piece by Anna Kende and Joszef Pantya on how do defend academic freedom in illiberal times. Their insights from working in Hungary are (unfortunately) increasingly relevant elsewhere: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Our paper investigating the action/inaction distinction in the context of group-based regret has just been published (w/ Xin Wang and Martijn van Zomeren) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are leaders blamed for disasters that eventually did not occur? The answer points to the crucial impact of partisanship in assigning blame for events that almost happened. @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social w/ Matejas Mackin, @danieleffron.bsky.social, and Neal Roese authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New paper out in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social ! We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles). A 🧵 1/n

For the German speakers interested in listening to a conversation on nostalgia: Ich hatte ein interessantes Gespräch mit @tobiasbecker.bsky.social und Magdalena Nowicka, moderiert von Eva Röder. von SWR Kultur.

Tobias Becker@tobiasbecker.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“‘Früher war alles anders’ – Warum sind wir so nostalgisch?” SWR Kultur Forum moderiert von Eva Röder, mit @kaiepstude.bsky.social, Magdalena Nowicka und mir, anzuhören hier: www.swr.de/kultur/gesel...

The deadline for the meeting on counterfactuals is coming up. Don't forget to send in your contribution.

Kai Epstude@kaiepstude.bsky.social · last yr.

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

How complete are preregistrations? Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...

Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...

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The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is inviting proposals for a special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Deadline: September 1, 2025.

European Journal of Social Psychology: Call for Special Issue Proposals

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Great interview!

Rutger Bregman@rutgerbregman.com · last yr.

Such an honor to sit down with David Marchese for The Interview in the @nytimes — I loved this conversation about my new book, The School for Moral Ambition, and much more. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...

TealHelix consortium met in Amsterdam to align efforts, discuss progress, and collaborate! 🤝A key highlight was engaging with our Stakeholder Board, whose expertise adds great value to the project. A huge thank you to VU Amsterdam for hosting—excited for the next steps! 💚

New paper on responding to negative feedback: We find different profiles of people differing in their responses to negative feedback. Whether the goal to actually perform better is crucial. Led by Felix Grundmann, and in collaboration with @sussch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multiple goal salience and emotion regulation in negative-feedback situations: A latent profile analysis

People react very differently to negative feedback. From an emotion-regulation perspective, this can be explained by reference to their salient goals,…

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Out today! Our Editor (@akfetterman.bsky.social) lays out his vision for the journal. Specifically, he calls for daring research that refocuses on the human experience, tackles real-world issues, & causes (good) trouble in the field. Free Access: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

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Jannis Kreienkamp received the 2024 dissertation award of the Dutch social psychology association (ASPO) for his work on the challenges studying how individuals adapt to a new culture. The work resulted in 3 excellent papers: doi.org/10.1177/1088... doi.org/10.1177/0146... doi.org/10.1080/0027...

We kick off the annual ASPO conference with a welcome from Hedy Greijdanus at Groningen Forum

New paper led by Jannis Kreienkamp: A Gentle Introduction and Application of Feature-Based Clustering with Psychological Time Series www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Congratulations, Jannis!

A Gentle Introduction and Application of Feature-Based Clustering with Psychological Time Series

Psychological researchers and practitioners collect increasingly complex time series data aimed at identifying differences between the developments of participants or patients. Past research has pr...

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If you're interested in research on misinformation and conspiracy beliefs, I can highly recommend checking out this special issue!

Advances.in@advances.in · 2y ago

🌟We are thrilled to announce the publication of our Special Issue: From Vulnerability to Vigilance. This issue brings together 11 impactful articles on psychological resilience against misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. advances.in/psychology/1...

The conference program for the annual meeting of the social psychologists in the Netherlands (ASPO) is online now: sites.google.com/rug.nl/aspo2... Registration for conference participation is still possible until the end of the week.

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The European Journal of Social Psychology is looking for junior consulting editors www.easp.eu/news/itm/ejs...

EJSP seeks Junior Consulting Editors

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