Frank Eckerle

You wrote a BA, MA, or PhD thesis in peace psychology, conflict studies, or related fields? Or you know someone who just did?

Consider applying for Gert-Sommer-Preis, an award by the German Peace Psychology association!

Deadline: 31st January, 2026

Details:
www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1584

Call for contributions closes 18 Jan! Excited to read through the ideas you cooked up for the meeting

Thanks for pointing that out! I wasn‘t aware that one is more common than the other. Too late to change here, not too late for upcoming stuff 📝

‼️Come visit us in Klagenfurt to help psychology engage with prefigurative politics 🐦‍🔥🌱

More info: shorturl.at/s0Tuh

🚧Disrupt by embodying utopia!🌟
People react more positively to direct (e.g. bicycle lane) vs indirect (e.g. paint) disruptive traffic actions. Mechanism seems to be access to cognitive alteranatives.
New paper with @eddieclarke.bsky.social & @helenlandmann.bsky.social 🌄

doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Yes, ideology is definitely more multidimensional than the scale (and the french national assembly) makes us belief.

On this episode of polpsy true crime: the left-right scale hides populists and other ideologies on its midpoint 🥷

Very happy this is finally out!

#PaCT
We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures"
📅 Monday, October 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST
📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z

Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)

@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social

What a way to kick-off vacation! 🤩

Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social

If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!

Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

We got annoyed by people (mainly politicians) saying „Europe“ when they mean the „EU“. So we wrote a paper 🤓

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

Happy to share we were awarded a Collaborative grant by the EASP to study the transformative effects of prefigurative politics in the context of the anti-corruption protests in Serbia! 😍 SO MUCH looking forward to this research with the most amazing people 👇

A kebab/pizza place slapping an italien flag onto their kebab sign

Normative fit exemplified by a Kebab place in Oslo. Or is it a Trattoria?

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.

Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.

What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

<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....

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

Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is

This nicely illustrates why it’s important to think about probability as a useful shortcut that helps understanding reality instead of an objectively „real“ property of the world.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Amazing read.
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“

Have you heard of the police tho

There is no "common ground" with fascism.

Keine Abstimmungen mit Rechtsextremen! - Social Action Tool In der Woche des Holocaustgedenktags greift die CDU das Asylrecht an. Das ist geschichtsvergessen! Zahlreiche Jüdinnen und Juden versuchten, vor den Nazis zu fliehen und baten um Asyl- meist vergeben...

Schreibt eurem/eurer CDU Abgeordneten und macht Druck für die Abstimmung am Freitag! 📧 Hier gibt es sogar eine Vorlage (die Email war mir aber etwas zu milde formuliert):
action.lnob.net/kampagne/we-...

unexpected beauty in track changes 🌈