Hans Alves

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"'Stop the Count!' - How Reporting Partial Election Results Fuels Beliefs in Election Fraud"

Why are people taken in by election conspiracies? It is down to cumulative redundancy bias (CRB), which makes it difficult to ignore projections/hype not matched by poll results.

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New paper in PsychScience: Partial election results fuel fraud beliefs via cumulative redundancy bias. Early leaders are favored; late flips spark suspicion. 7 studies, including 2020 GA data, show this persists despite explanations. @moritzingendahl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative? Various theories on intergroup bias predict that stereotypes about minorities are more negative than those about majorities. Although there is clear evidence that specific minorities are often subjec...

Are stereotypes about minorities more negative?
The short answer: Yes. @johannawoitzel.bsky.social @hansalves.bsky.social
More details in our new paper at EJSP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨 Koch, Dotsch, Imhoff, Unkelbach, & @hansalves.bsky.social (2025). Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration behavior.@jexpsocpsych.bsky.social . https://buff.ly/4gGQsoW
This paper has a long story to it. Sorry, but I will not spare you.

EASP Summer School 2025 - Applications are open Social Psychology News Articles

So excited to be organising the EASP 2025 Summer School at Kent and leading a workstream on “Moral Psychology and Artificial Intelligence” with Kathryn Francis 🤖🧠
www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

Yes please!

My wonderful former grad school is recruiting two PhD students for the DAAD-funded program “Contentious Politics in the Digital Age”

#academicsky #phdsky

www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-pro...

3-year PhD position (75%) in Social Cognition

Come join us for a three year PhD position on Evaluative Conditioning in our group at the Ruhr Uni Bochum.
Primary advisor is @moritzingendahl.bsky.social

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

We are looking for a new colleague - please share 👇

Full #professorship in general #psychology at TU Dresden

It's a great psych department with fantastic resources and colleagues. Get in touch w/ questions
@dgps.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/vacancy/11075

We (@zpid.bsky.social) are hiring 3 assistant profs (GER Jun-Prof) with tenure track and reduced teaching load in
-Science Acceptance,
-Psychological Metascience, and
-Big Data in Psychology
An attractive startup package is available. Questions? Feel free to contact me!
l.ead.me/zpid_w1_prof