Folks working on the social/interpersonal consequences of conspiracy beliefs, check our call for papers in our new special issue in Frontiers in Social Psychology. With the great colleagues Ricky Green, Paul Bertin, and Marta Marchlewska. Info about the topic and timeline here: shorturl.at/Wlbn9
Theofilos Gkinopoulos
🎈Thrilled to share my first ever solo author work🎈
In this chapter I uncover the relationship between social media, political polarization, and their downstream effects on political censorship.
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Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP!
@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
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🚨 New paper out in JEP: General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Does adversity make us wiser?
Spoiler: Not by default.
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
Emily Kubin
Mikey Biddlestone
🌳 Preprint Alert 🌳
You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.
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Hot off the press in Social Influence, in collaboration with @iborinca.bsky.social! Across 2 studies (U.S & U.K), we showed that exposure to gay men’s non-traditional roles can soften rigid masculinity in straight men, boosting emotional openness and inclusivity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you're attending #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki next week, join us for panels on nationalism and the far-right in Europe and Latin America.
Rigid traditional masculinity norms are linked to emotional suppression and relational strain, particularly among heterosexual men. This research examined whether sexual orientation shapes masculin...
Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars.
Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!
Igor Grossmann, PhD
Our new paper(with Eva Walther & Malgorzata Kossowska)in Current Opinion in Psychology introduces a group-based motivational framework showing that willful ignorance, beyond individual, is also a group strategy shaping identity & conspiracy beliefs.Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
