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Figure 1: Coefficient plots: NFC and AE as a function of national CN and IS (Study 1). Plot based on estimates in Table S2.

Figure 2: Coefficient plots: NFC and AE as a function of GN, VN, national CN, and national IS (Study 2). Plot based on estimates in Table S5.

Figure 3: Coefficient plots: NFC and AE as a function of GN, VN, national CN, and national IS (Study 3, Wave 1). Plot based on estimates in Table S8.

Is narcissism bad for democracy? Federico et al. examine the relationship between collective narcissism and politically contrarian attitudes ("need for chaos" & "anti-establishment"). Read the full piece for their full findings and what they mean for democracy. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

0.8 FTE 2-year postdoc in social psychology and communication sciences at the University of Groningen looking at "the conversational dynamics of polarization."

Deadline: 16 February 2026

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Postdoc Position in Social and Organisational Psychology at University of Cologne

Application deadline: 15 February 2026

More info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

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Find out more and apply Summer School of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, University of Bologna, 6 – 10 July 2026

📣 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social invites applications for it's Summer School on Extremism and Democracy!

🗓️ 6 – 10 July, University of Bologna
🎓️ Present your research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the field
✅️ Open to all students enrolled in a PhD programme
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they ma...

Loyalty to favoured groups trumps the effects of causal structure in making causal judgments on issues of politics.
When identities are not provided, causal structure matters; when they are known, they are almost all that matters.
Here is the link to our study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our article with @honoratam.bsky.social on ✨motivated causal judgements✨ is out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social!

When something bad happens, whose actions produced the outcome and who bears responsibility? It depends much more on the identity of the actors than on the details of the situation.

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Psychology The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Psychology and a Lecturer in Psychology focusing on Cognition and Neuroscience  to join a collegial, supportive, and intellectually vibrant...

Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!

Ambivalence is good actually

Asian Americans have long histories of violence, discrimination, & exclusion.

Much of this behavior is poorly understood. The literature on discrimination against other racial groups is much larger than the literature on anti-Asian animus.

A group of my coauthors and I are trying to fill that gap.

The ego depletion research program is one example. Some argued there were 100’s of replications across many labs and so should be trusted. But high powered, preregd studies found estimates essentially at 0.

I might be missing something in your argument; if so, apologies!

The issue is that selection on results, especially when distributed across many researchers (as can be the case with programs) can lead to spurious at both the paper and research program level

I’m not certain that building in even lower powered rep would necessarily mean we should trust in broader research programs. This is what (some in) social psych thought protected their findings. I don’t think that it did.

Maybe! But that wasn’t my point

Put together a quick starter pack for political methodologists (broadly defined) who have made their way over to BlueSky. If I've missed folks, please let me know!
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Someone should simulate this to test, but until then it’s maybe useful to know ( if you didn’t already) that this the argument for why pre-2012 social psych could be trusted. I think the evidence speaks against the argument.

Reminder: Applications for the Early Career Scholar Travel Awards are open until 17th February!

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Postdoc position!

Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.

Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination

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ISCON and PMIG call for nominations for the Ostrom Award for Career Contribution to Social Cognition.

Eligibility: 25 years post PhD (awards are not given posthumously).

More detail here:
www.socialcognition.net/ostrom-award

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Welp. Never hearing Yodas voice the same again

Jenny?

February is here, and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! We'll be highlighting all 12 special issue articles and 14 original articles throughout the month, but if you can't wait to see what's in store, check out the full issue now! buff.ly/l4gb7cg

And it may be the latter disconfirms the former. In which case, cool! Good to know

I am both sold on the idea that (for some of psych) there is a fair amount of unexplained heterogeneity worth explaining AND the type of study necessary to test this properly is nowhere near the modal (nor even the "best of the best") study in psych

OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

📣 Applications Now Open: ISPP 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards

ISPP is pleased to announce the 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards, supporting early career researchers to attend ISPP's Annual Meeting in Newcastle.

For more information and to apply, visit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Values and Political Preferences in Childhood Christopher Johnston, Martín Opertti, Turgut Keskintürk February, 2026 Studies of youth political development focus primarily on political socialization and salient events, while paying relatively less attention to important individual differences among children themselves, such as values. We administer an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year-olds and show that the distribution of their values is similar to that of their parents and a diverse sample of adults; that children's value priorities strongly predict their political preferences; and that one dimension of value priorities continues to predict political preferences even after adjusting for parental values and political preferences. Taken together, our findings suggest that pre-teens already use their own value priorities to organize their political attitudes, which emphasizes the importance of children's independent attributes in their political development, and lends support to the idea that personal values provide a foundation for political ideology.

estimated value positions in Schwartz value space.

the effects of conservation and self-enhancement values on political evaluations and issues.

a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1!

we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.

we find that values structure political preferences among children.

Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review Misinformation has been demonstrated to pose a great risk to society, demanding action from policymakers and educators. Inoculation theory is a theory of resistance to influence, which in recent ye...

🚨New paper in Popular Communication! 🚨 "Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review". (1/9)🧵🔽
dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540....
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New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

PhD Candidate on The Future of Mixed Methods Research /Junior Lecturer in Methodology and Statistics Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is looking for a PhD Candidate on The Future of Mixed Methods Research /Junior Lecturer in Methodology and Statistics, for the Dep...

Are you open science-minded, technically savvy, and interested in mixed methods? Come build the future of mixed methods with Tamarinde Haven and @mariestadel.bsky.social. Our campus is green, our colleagues supportive, and our research excellent!
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Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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