Kai Sassenberg
@kaisassenberg.bsky.social
Leibniz Institute for Psychology @zipd.bsky.social & Uni Trier (Germany)- Open Science & social influence (conspiracy beliefs, power, social norms, competition) - views are my own
Immer auf dem Laufenden zur Uni Trier! 💯 Ab sofort findet ihr hier das Bluesky-Startpaket eurer liebsten Hochschule. Alle Profile von Mitarbeitenden und Institutionen auf einen Blick. Wer fehlt noch? Oder ist etwas nicht mehr aktuell? Schreibt einen Kommentar oder eine DM! bsky.app/starter-pack...
🙏 Unser Projekt Psy-Ai hat eine Förderung erhalten 🙏 Wir trainieren die KI mit Forschungsmaterialien & -daten, um menschliches Denken und Handeln abzubilden. Wir möchten damit herausfinden, wie zuverlässig das Vorhersagen menschlichen Verhaltens ist. leibniz-psychology.org/news/detail/...
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Psychologie
Wissenschaftsminister Clemens Hoch übergibt Förderbescheid an das Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID).
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Don’t miss your chance - deadline is July 31!
Marlene Altenmüller@marlephie.bsky.social · last mo.🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!
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Now at #EASP2026: The symposium organized by @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social and @kaisassenberg.bsky.social discusses how people high in conspiracy beliefs might be drawn to deviance such as trusting “outlaws” and supporting non-normative action. 👽
For our new project "SynDIKAT: Synthetic disinformation data, collaboration infrastructure, and an analysis toolbox for social media research" @dede1989.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for a shared position between @gesis.org and @cais-research.bsky.social: rrr.is/postdocsyndi...
Postdoc in Computational Social Science: Research Infrastructures und Synthetic Social Media Data (CSS-119) | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...
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@marlephie.bsky.social and I are searching for a postdoc in SciComm research. Feel free to contact us before applying!
Marlene Altenmüller@marlephie.bsky.social · last mo.🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!
LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour
Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...
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Come to our symposium with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and @marlephie.bsky.social on Transparency in the Reseach Cycle at #APS26BCN. Today 🕧12:30PM, 📍 Room 125 (P1 Level, CCIB). #psychscisky
Lena Hahn@lenahahn.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcited and looking forward to the symposium with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & @marlephie.bsky.social on Transparency in the Research Cycle at #APS26BCN. If you are interested in #openscience and #metasci save the date: 📆Firday, 29 May, 🕧12:30PM, 📍 Room 125 (P1 Level, CCIB) #psychscisky
Excited and looking forward to the symposium with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & @marlephie.bsky.social on Transparency in the Research Cycle at #APS26BCN. If you are interested in #openscience and #metasci save the date: 📆Firday, 29 May, 🕧12:30PM, 📍 Room 125 (P1 Level, CCIB) #psychscisky
Fellow Europeans, did you know about this alternative to COS/OSF? They have upload templates for the usual academic formats, but also data and even Bachelor's /Master's theses. www.psycharchives.org/en
Home | PsychArchives
PsychArchives is a disciplinary repository for psychological science and neighboring disciplines.
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PsyPost has covered our recent work on the impact of Nazi propaganda on the emotions of Germans nowadays. You can find the original paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions
The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorif...
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PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew study shows how Nazi-era propaganda influences present-day attitudes
Our #RegisteredReport investigating the restrictiveness of #preregistrations based on the PRP-QUANT Template, is now published in AMPPS!🎉 DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2515... @pci-regreports.bsky.social @zpid.bsky.social #OpenScience
Stage 2 Registered Report: Restriction of Researcher Degrees of Freedom Through the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative Template - Lisa Spitzer, Amelie Kroeger, Stefanie Mueller, 2026
Preregistration can help to restrict researcher degrees of freedom and thereby ensure the integrity of research findings. However, its ability to restrict such ...
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Lisa Spitzer@lspitzer.bsky.social · 9mo agoThrilled that our Stage 2 RR is now recommended by @pci-regreports.bsky.social!✨ We examined the restriction of researcher degrees of freedom in #preregistrations through the PRP-QUANT Template & found higher restrictiveness compared to a less detailed template! Link: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
New (free) workshop by the Paul Meehl Graduate School on agent-based modeling: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2026-04-24-a... The workshop will be exclusively in-person on May 27, 2026, in Eindhoven. Register before May 18th!
New workshop announced: Theoretical Agent-Based Models | Paul Meehl Graduate School
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the workshop, “Theoretical Agent-Based Models”. In this session, Matteo...
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New article shows something I expect will be a crucial topic for metascience moving forward: the adoption of best practices has reached a plateau, and P-hacking is still a problem. We have reached the limit of bottom-up adoption and it is not sufficient. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward
Building on Meyer, van Witteloostuijn, and Beugelsdijk’s (2017) editorial on best practices for conducting and reporting hypothesis-testing research in IB, we examine the extent to which their guidelines—and...
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How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions
The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorif...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum. This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵
Since April 1st, 2024, cannabis is legal in Germany – no April fool's joke! In our new publication (with @doomed-generation.bsky.social & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social), we ask: What are antecedents of recreational cannabis consumption? 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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New preprint available: Transparency and open data are important. In contrast to Elson et al. (2026) doi.org/10.31234/osf..., who have called for non-anonymized data in metascience, we argue for a more nuanced approach to prevent unjustified harm for authors of original work doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Geld für die Förderung von Atomkraft, das hat Ursula von der Leyen gestern locker gemacht. Die Abkehr von der Atomkraft sei ein strategischer Fehler gewesen. Ihre Aussage muss vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der militärischen Nutzung gesehen werden
If you are a published psychologist, please fill in our short questionnaire on academic freedom. We try to again a better picture of the community's perception of the situation.
Lena Hahn@lenahahn.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!
New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6mo agoAgainst Anonymising Meta-Scientific Data: https://osf.io/6eyjf
Dear colleagues - we want to better understand perceptions of data fraud and its detection and need your support! Are you currently a #researcher in #psych (or related fields) working with #data? Perfect - please respond to & share this short study (7min): sosci.rlp.net/detection/?r... Thank you!! 🫶
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Job alert! At Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID), we are searching for a postdoc who works with us toward a better understanding of the need for Open Science support of researchers in psychology and to improve the user friendliness of our products. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ylp9kss4
Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
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Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers
Oxford University ‘withheld information about harassment claims’
Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers
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Übrigens: Im digitalen Zeitalter könnt ihr mit eurer Aufmerksamkeit einen Unterschied machen. Medien messen die Klicks von Artikeln. Je mehr ihr Klimainhalte klickt, lest und teilt, umso größer der Antrieb sie zu veröffentlichen www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
(S+) Klimapolitik der Bundesregierung: Fünf Entscheidungen für die Energiewende 2026
Umweltminister Carsten Schneider wacht über die deutschen Klimaziele, doch seine Kabinettskollegen arbeiten oft gegen ihn. Was jetzt passieren muss, damit die Energiewende eine Chance hat.
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