Thrilled to share that I've started as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland with Prof. Matthew Hornsey! 🎉 I look forward to expanding my work on how people engage with climate and biodiversity challenges, while also continuing my work on climate change and brain health.🧠🌱

🎉 I'm excited to share that I've joined the core team of the Neuro Climate Working Group as a Research Coordinator! We are a global, interdisciplinary alliance of neuroscientists, clinicians, and policy experts working at the intersection of brain health and climate change. neuroclimate.org

Awesome postdoc position available (3 years + possibility for 2 years extension)! Couldn’t recommend more working with @magdalenaboch.bsky.social 👇🏼

Magdalena Boch 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇦🇹@magdalenaboch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

1/ Excited to share our new paper in the Journal of Environmental Psychology examining how trust in science and different forms of worry relate to pro-environmental behavior and support for climate mitigation policies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

I’m thrilled to share that our paper “Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs. pro-environmental decisions” is now published in Communications Psychology! 🌿 OA link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/6

Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...

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🎉 New paper alert! In this collaboration across 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 (n = 3,055), we developed a new pro-environmental behavior task and tested which psychological interventions actually make people more willing to put in real effort for mitigating climate change. Fully OA: tinyurl.com/2s46fppb

Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology

Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...

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So happy to see this out! 🎉 We surveyed people from 68 countries about how they encounter and engage with information about science! See the thread below for a summary of the main findings 👇 Congratulations to the whole team, especially @nielsmede.bsky.social and @colognaviktoria.bsky.social 👏

Niels G. Mede@nielsmede.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"! You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper out in NYAS! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝 w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social (thread below)

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Protecting others from harm is critical for societal well-being but is often effortful. We examined how individuals choose to exert physical effort to reduce their and another person's pain. Results ....

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Claudia Massaccesi@clamassaccesi.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint from my postdoc work @scanunit.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... “Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy” w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance

Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...

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PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41... “The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that moderate increases in cumulative heatwave exposure increase a person’s biological age — to an extent comparable to regular smoking or alcohol consumption.”

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking

Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

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📢 🥳 New paper alert! We developed a new task (RateME) for studying the effects of personal and group rejection and showed that both types of rejection can be linked to radicalization via increased hostility. 🔗 Link to the paper: shorturl.at/uJiDa

Group and personal rejection are similarly linked to extreme intergroup attitudes

Perceived marginalization of social groups has been identified as one of the main drivers of violent extremism across countries. However, most psychol…

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What an excellent and truly important commentary on the clashes between bottom-up and top-down neuroscience and how we can move forward www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

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🎉 Our paper is now out in Communications Psychology! We explore how effortful leisure (like puzzling) can be a source of meaning in daily life. Across 5 studies (N = 2,569), we find: - Effort makes leisure feel more meaningful - But not necessarily less enjoyable 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life - Communications Psychology

Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can...

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Excited to share our new paper on individual victimhood and conspiracy beliefs across 15 countries! 🌍 Check out the 🧵 below 👇🏼

Marlene Altenmüller@marlephie.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 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 🧵

Very excited to see this paper out! Grateful I had the chance to contribute to data collection in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Austria 🇦🇹. My home country Bulgaria is rarely included in such surveys, so I’m especially happy we got data there. Stellar effort by the team, especially @colognaviktoria.bsky.social! 👏

Viktoria Cologna@colognaviktoria.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎 Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...

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Why Social Psychology Needs to Stop Rushing to Explain

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🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁

Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

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Enjoying stunning Brisbane and its amazing wildlife while waiting for #OHBM2025 to start 😍@ohbmofficial.bsky.social Looking forward to a week of inspiring talks and fruitful discussions! DM me if you are attending and want to chat 😊

Awesome talk by @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social on how the emergence of radical climate activists (Last Generation) impacted portayals of moderate activists (Fridays for Future) 🤩👏 See also our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to see that our International Neuro Climate Working Group is featured by the World Economic Forum as one of the top global initiatives addressing climate change & mental health 🌍🧠 Grateful to be part of this inspiring, growing movement! 📰 Read more: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Environmental disruption is impacting people's mental health

Communities around the world are using innovative programmes like youth-led support schemes to address the mental health impacts of environmental change.

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1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯 🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists. My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

Do radical climate protests influence portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes? 🤔 We analyzed 2,376 news articles and 193k user comments to answer this question! Check out our new preprint 👇🏼

Lukas Mayrhofer@lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social · last yr.

One month into my phd and my first preprint is out - at this pace I'll be done by the end of the year, right? 🥳 "Radical climate protests shaped portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes in German news media" Read here or the🧵: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/7

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

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New preprint 📄 We tested how good are experts in predicting the effectiveness of behavioral science interventions aimed at increasing climate-relevant beliefs and behavior 🌱🌍 Spoiler alert: they’re better than the public! But… (check out the 🧵 below for more ⬇️)

Kim Doell@kimdoell.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵New preprint! Can experts accurately predict real-world effectiveness of 11 climate change interventions? We ran a preregistered forecasting study with 862 participants and compared their predictions to real-world outcomes from 6,954 Americans. What we found surprised us. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Why do people fight for or against climate action? Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Our new paper analyzes 19 predictors of climate change beliefs & action across 55 countries (N=4635) 4 predictors had consistent effects across all outcomes: 1) environmentalist identity, 2) trust in climate science, 3) internal environmental motivation, 4) the Human Development Index

Gut wrenching footage from the new David Attenborough movie showing the devastating impact of industrial trawling on ocean life. Entire ecosystems ripped out from the seafloor and destroyed in minutes, absolutely devastating…

spencer roberts 🦈@unpopularscience.bsky.social · last yr.

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

🌍 So excited to share our new paper “Machine learning identified key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors”, just out in npj Climate Action! 🔗 Fully Open Access: rdcu.be/ele9s 1/