Yasin Koc

I remember Winnifred Louis presenting some data years ago that believe in democracy among young people was the lowest. Look at this and tell how it’s surprising. Millions of people are outside and governments give zero fuck and condone israel for committing a genocide. Unbelievable.

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws."

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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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I went to a play yesterday for 90 mins and it was impossible to sit still and come to the end of it. How do we expect students to sit in lectures for 45mins x 2?

Many thanks to my co-authors @yaraalnajjar.bsky.social
@cbadea.bsky.social
Verónica Benet-Martínez
@spyasin.bsky.social
for their valuable help in making this work possible!

📊 Results showed that identity affirmation interventions (vs. control) and identity integration increased well-being.
However, we found little evidence that dual-identity affirmation was more effective than single-identity affirmation.

🔍 We examined whether affirming a dual identity provides additional benefits compared to affirming a single identity.
With a sample of 401 LGB-religious individuals, we tested the effects of dual- vs. single-identity affirmation interventions on well-being and collective action intentions.

✨ Happy to share our new publication!

Are Dual- (vs. Single-) Identity Affirmation Interventions More Effective for Enhancing Well-Being and Collective Action Intentions Among Minorities?

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1528...

#socialpsyc
@lapps-enosis-up8.bsky.social
@lapps-upn.bsky.social

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 Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

MS is unsubmitted. Why? The abstract did not have the four sections marked explicitly: objective, method, result, conclusion. I had to go, change the docs, reupload, wait for the PDF approval, resubmit. Waste of everyone's time.

Day #1 Run #1. London. Do me good!

Thank you! I have lots of adversaries, so that’s a relevant wish ;) thank you.

Thanks Erin🥰

Birthday morning coffee.

One question we need to be asking ourselves every day: What have you done to stop the genocide in Gaza?

🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG

Bookmarking has finally arrived in BSKY!

I love leftover lunch. Cooking helps my soul recover.

A huge thank you to our teachers @spyasin.bsky.social, @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social & @kellykirkland.bsky.social, organisers Filip Boen & @radhikabutalia.bsky.social, & fellow participants.

I am so grateful for the insights, friendships & (potential!) collaborations that I've gained from #SISS2025💞

I had SUCH an incredibly enriching and inspiring week at the 2025 Social Identity Summer School at KU Leuven.

In the #Politics stream, we took a deep dive into #SocialIdentityTheory, its premises and applications.

These conversations will doubtlessly be integral to my #PhD research.

#SocialPsyc

We cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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New in PSPB: In six studies, we found that economic inequality undermines our trust in politicians' concern about our interests, thus diminishing how much we care about political leaders' competence. #socialpsychology #politicalpsychology
doi.org/10.1177/0146...

❗ These double standards reveal serious threats to civil rights, hence carrying societal implications: freedom of speech and assembly appear safeguarded for some groups, but repressed and contested for others.

❗ Political psychology must focus more on elite hypocrisy, political leaders who violate liberal principles, even at the cost of alienating some of their voter base (e.g., the Biden administration), rather than solely on voter asymmetries.

❗ Protest evaluations depend not just on tactics, but on who is using the so-called effective protest tactic and whether they challenge the status quo (in this case, historical dispossession and genocide led by Israel and openly aided by the US, the UK, and the EU).

left-wingers rated the policing as far more unfair, while right-wingers did not.

There are couple of key implications from this research:

The only difference was whether the protest was led by pro-Israel or pro-Palestine Jewish groups. Findings showed that while both left- and right-wingers judged the policing of pro-Israel protests as unfair, polarisation emerged around pro-Palestine protests:

Thus, across two experimental studies, we presented non-Jewish British and American participants with an identical protest scenario: an authorised silent sit-in with the banner “Never Again”, followed by police detainment of protesters.

At the societal level, however, it is less clear whether citizens endorse these discrepancies or whether they depend on ideology.