Adrian Rothers

SPSSI Journals This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o...

New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Exploring integration and migration dynamics: the research potentials of a large-scale longitudinal household study of refugees in Germany Abstract. Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle E

New interesting data brief paper about IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.

Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Ich gebe euch hiermit offiziell hitzefrei. Ein Retweet reicht und ihr seid rechtlich auf der "sicheren Seite".

Grundwasser in Deutschland: Kritische Lage in 201 von 401 Landkreisen - die Gründe Neben der Dürre tragen Landwirtschaft und Braunkohleabbau zur Knappheit bei. Daten zur Grundwassernutzung sind oft unzureichend.

Kurz: Die #Grundwasserneubildung💧 kackt vielerorts ab.
👉 Leider halt wieder sone Nachricht, die kaum Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wird, da es ja in den letzten 2 Wochen *etwas* geregnet 🌧 hat.
Und warum auch, geht ja grundsätzlich nur um unsere wichtigste Lebensgrundlage. 🤷‍♂️
#Dürre #Entwässerung

📣 Excited to share our new preprint:
"Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS)

osf.io/preprints/os...

We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.

Gleichfalls!

Attended my first agriculture-focused conference in Leipzig, great place, great talks and such a lovely crowd 🥰

Recognizing the financial pressures many academics experience in these trying times, we have waived the Article Processing Charge for this special issue. Kindly repost.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Amöneburg ist eine besondere perle!

Da wurden mir einige nicht anerkannt! Niederweimar Niederwalgern Cyriaxweimar... nur um einige der bedeutendsten zu nennen

Chapeau! Bin jetzt bei 250 aber viel mehr wird es nicht...

Koalitionsverhandlungen CDU/CSU/SPD AG 8 - Bildung, Forschung und Innovation Schwarzer Text: Einigkeit Blauer Text: nicht geeint, Union-Forderung Roter Text: nicht geeint, SPD-Forderung [Zu den Ergebnissen der anderen Arbeitsgruppen geht es hier.](https://fragdenstaat.de/ar...

Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“:

Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵.

Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert.

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I don't really get what this research is for. Of course you can't use LLMs in place of humans for social science research. osf.io/preprints/so...

Dear colleagues,

I invite you to sign a letter of support for Serbian students and professors and to share it within your academic community.

Thank you for standing with us! (600+ signatures at the moment)

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz, Lars Klingbeil und Saskia Esken bei der heutigen Pressekonferenz.

Ich habe in letzter Zeit Gespräche mit Mitarbeitenden der Agentur für Arbeit geführt. Sie schienen alle genervt vom Begriff der „Totalverweigerer“, weil es die praktisch nicht gibt.
Entweder hat niemand dieser Politiker:innen je mit Mitarbeitenden der Ämter gesprochen. Oder sie sagen die Unwahrheit.

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Research suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c...

✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa.

Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

That "polarization" from the right is more dangerous seems obvious given current world events. In order study such asymmetries in multiparty systems, we need an understanding of the dividing lines in them.

#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci

Shows a heatmap of correlations between affective polarization and four democratic attitudes (democratic satisfaction, turnout, institutional trust, attitude toward dictatorial rule). These four correlations are shown for the whole sample and for respondents of the six political camps identified before. Correlations differ starkly between those camps, with similar patterns for left, mainstream and center respondents and for right, rightwing populist, and extreme respondents.

depending on where people stand - for instance, more polarized ppl from the left, mainstream and center camps reject dictatorial rule more strongly (than their less polarized counterparts), whereas ➕polarization ~ ➕pro-dictatorship attitudes among right, rightwing pop, and extreme ppl!

Shows correlation networks between party ratings for each of the three divides

...people are polarized along one of three divides: left vs. right, mainstream vs. rightwing, and center vs. extreme.
On each divide, somewhat different issues predict membership in the opposing camps.

Importantly, affective polarization has diverging correlations with democratic attitudes...

In multiparty political systems, such as Germany, it's often hard to tell who is actually polarized against whom. I suggest a set of methods (correlational class analysis followed by latent profile analysis) and use it to answer this question using @gles.bsky.social data.

In Oct 2023 Germany...

The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems A challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s…

📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci

Mercator projection strikes again.

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

If you are keen to learn #Rstats and other coding techniques, here are some workshops and resources offered by a group of European academics in exchange for donations to #Ukraine.

See below for workshop contents and how to #DonateToUkraine
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

This is the position I did my PhD on - get in touch if you have questions!

"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war

Appeasement at Munich World Wars, Past and Possible

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

In diesen düsteren Zeiten braucht es dringend eine neue Debatte über Wirtschaftspolitik und greifbare Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus & zum Aufstieg der extremen Rechten.

Deshalb haben wir @surplusmagazin.bsky.social gegründet!

Adam Tooze @mauricehoefgen.bsky.social @lukasscholle.bsky.social