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Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup–Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements Objective In times of societal crises, it is pivotal to understand and share others' feelings. Yet, the role of empathy in fostering prosocial responses during societal crises has not gained enough ...

Although some differences persisted, the results show that empathy appeals could potentially facilitate the integration of refugees and strengthen social cohesion in diverse societies. The full paper (with more analyses and results) can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

perceived closeness as a function of empathic concern and perspective taking for various social groups

We asked participants how close they felt towards various groups of refugees and found that individuals with higher levels of empathy (empathic concern and perspective taking) perceived others as closer.

We found that higher levels of empathy were linked to more favorable views of refugees and pro-refugee policies, such as the admission of refugees, their access to social benefits, and the granting of work permits.

Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements

🚨 New Open Access Publiation! Under the lead of @ronjademel.bsky.social , David Schieferdecker, @hannaschwander.bsky.social , Swen Hutter, Jule Specht and I investigated the role of empathy on attitudes towards refugees and ingroup-outgroup dynamics

Figure 1 of the article showing the distribution of conspiracy beliefs

For this study, we developed a measure of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs with three items. It was implemented in a panel wave in summer/ fall 2020, and is available in the standard edition of the GESIS Panel.

We find only small effects of individual need for cognitive closure, but strong effects for pre-pandemic political trust and concurrent crisis trust in political and medical institutions.

Abstract of the article "Need for cognitive closure, political trust, adn belief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic"

📢 New Publication: @jedinger.bsky.social and I have explored the relationshop between need for closure, political trust and COVID conspiracy beliefs using data from the @gesis-panel.bsky.social . Open access: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Publication alert: lenamasch.bsky.social and I have explored the relationship between need for closure, political trust, and COVID conspiracy beliefs using data from the great @gesis-panel.bsky.social! Open-access doi.org/10.3389/frsp...

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It'd be great if you could add me too if there's enough space. Thank you!

Two political psych starter packs!

Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.

Check them out if you haven’t already

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Congrats Lisa! 💪🥳

Have you ever been sexually harrassed (e.g., catcalled, groped), and there were others around, but not one intervened to help you? Have you ever seen this happen and didn't intervene?

If you have 10 - 15 minutes, please take part in our survey:

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1/ I promised some research for team #Bluesky. Here we go.

Unpopular opinion: #Debunking doesn't stop #polarization. In fact, our research (and others') shows it can *add* to it. #Prebunking works better—timing is key.

Our #simulation studies shed light on this. 👉

Could you add me, too, on Sunday :)?

Thank you!

Could you add me too?

vielen Dank :) !

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The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

ja, wir arbeiten gerade an der detaillierten Darstellung in einem Paper, das teilen wir dann gerne.

A map of German states with the average evaluation of people from each state.

Today is German Unity Day. But how unified is Germany? To celebrate, I want to share some data from a project with @lenamasch.bsky.social, @jos38.bsky.social and Antonios Souris on how "popular" people from different German states are - and how this evaluation differs. Here is it for everyone:

Large Language Models | Johannes B. Gruber Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a significant advancement for the field of political communication. Their capabilities for the study of language vastly surpass previous approaches, enabling a w...

@favstats.bsky.social and I wrote a piece about LLMs for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication (forthcoming '25, edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social and @dominiquewirz.bsky.social). Happy to share the accepted version!

www.johannesbgruber.eu/publication/...

Screenshot of Posit's new R + Python IDE

HELLO POSITRON #rstats

Read about it: www.infoworld.com/article/3715...

Download it: github.com/posit-dev/po...

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD? Or know someone who might be looking for a 5 year PhD position at FU Berlin (teaching + research in political sociology)?👇

An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on #RStats, #Python & more. So far, we have raised >73k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 3300 ppl! you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report.
All info on workshops: bit.ly/3wBeY4S 1/n

The German Political Psychology Network is currently seeking hosts for its sixth "24hours of Political Psychology" meeting scheduled for 2025. (1/3)

Paris schafft gerade 70.000 Parkplätze ab. So sieht das dann z.B. aus❤️