Larissa Knöchelmann

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 @marlenevoit.bsky.social...

𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀!

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#PMIG2025 and #SESP2025 were great: inspiring talks, plenty of time for networking, and taking place in beautiful Lisbon.
Hopefully the two conferences will continue to take place in Europe from time to time..? 😇

Home - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and prac...

On the theme of interdisciplinary research, I'll be hosting a hybrid retreat of the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Monday, October 20, 12:15-3:15pm EST at Penn State. Open to our internal and external affiliates, in person & online. To join the conversation, contact me!
moralconsortium.psu.edu

If your at SESP, check out our symposium on intellectual humility on Saturday!

Back in Portugal 🇵🇹 for #SESP2025 — and for the first time, #SESP itself is happening in Europe (Lisbon).

This Saturday, 3:45–4:45 PM → Room Milão

Chairing a symposium on #intellectual #humility in the #wild: #polarization, rural disputes, and #forecasting #societal #progress.

📢 Call open!
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns...

🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (d/w/m; 75% TV-L E13) Am Psychologischen Institut der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Abteilung Sozial- und Rechtspsychologie, ist zum 01.03.2026 (oder 01.04.2026) folgende Stelle befristet für 4 Jahre zu besetzen: W...

🚨Promotionsstelle "Antisemitismus am Arbeitsplatz" - TVL-13 75%, 4 Jahre 🚨

Bitte gerne eifrig weiterleiten: ab März 2026 (vorbehaltlich finaler BMFTR-Zusage) ist in unserem Team eine Stelle im Projekt von @zakfio.bsky.social zu vergeben. Näheres in der Ausschreibung:
www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...

Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization The study of political polarization, in both its ideological and its affective expressions, has garnered significantly more interest over the last years. But despite recent research on the conceptual....

@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social wrote a nice piece how to make the polarization research better by adding context info and power difference considerations: doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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Combining Moral Foundations and Justice Sensitivity Perspectives to Understand Political Orientation Lucas J. E. Köhler , Ulf Steinberg , Maxim Egorov , Claudia Peus , and Mario Gollwitzer Abstract: Political orientation is systematically related to individuals’ endorsement of different moral domains. Yet, current findings suggest that differences between conservatives and liberals can also be explained by a sensitivity to self-oriented or other-oriented moral transgressions. We argue that conceptualizing moral foundations as perspective-specific advances our understanding of differences in moral judgments across the political spectrum. We test a new instrument measuring perspective-specific moral foundations in a nationally representative German sample (N = 2,042). Our findings indicate that (a) an Integrated Foundations × Perspective Model fits the data better than models only representing moral foundations or moral perspectives and (b) a self-oriented moral sensitivity is related to right-wing political orientation, while an other-oriented moral sensitivity is related to left-wing political orientation across all moral foundations.

New:

Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

That sounds great, I'll take a look! Did you only investigate one least liked party or did you also allow for several outparties per participant?

Five is my favorite number—and now the article has been published in Volume 55, Issue 5. This just made my day 🤩

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

@nadineknab.bsky.social
@lucas91.bsky.social

Presenting the certificate was one of the last official acts of nadineknab@bluesky.social, who handed over the chairmanship after 5 years of leading the association.
In addition, lucas91@bluesky.social presented our joint project on the winner-loser gap around this year's German federal election.

An intensive weekend at the Peace Psychology Conference in Bremen lies behind us.
I am delighted to have received the Gert Sommer Award for my dissertation on addressing problems of affective polarization.

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣
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wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣

#Polisky
@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen?

Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte:

In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

But: The intervention did not have an effect on participants reading more opinions counter to their political opinion. Despite self-report and behavior being positively correlated. Thus, future work should seek to enhance effect sizes 🤓

Igor Grossmann, PhD (@igi.bsky.social) Professor of psychology. Study culture and societal change, wisdom, good judgment (and lack thereof), forecasting, and new methods. Forecasting Collaborative founder | 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦 Psych Inquiry Editor. i...

The information text intervention also enhanced the probability of participants expressing their opinion with IH in a written text. For coding, we used the "AI Coder" application developed by igi.bsky.social

We replicated the information text intervention even after adding a cover story and with a better powered sample (N › 1600), thanks to a power simulation study by @daniel.heck.bsky.social :)

We conducted an intervention tournament (N = 1503) and tested 5 interventions suggested in the literature:
Growth mindset, self-distancing, explanatory depth, listing unknowns, and an information text.
Only the information text enhanced participants self-reported political IH.

✨✨New publication ✨✨

Enhancing intellectual humility about political views?
Challenging.
4 out of 5 interventions did not conceptually replicate...
BUT: one did - providing information about the benefits of IH! 🤓

Details ⬇️

Podcast: Zusammenhalten - Wie wir mehr Gemeinsinn lernen können Zuhören, andere Meinungen aushalten, darüber nachdenken, sich einfühlen, mutige Lösungen verhandeln. Das alles ist: Gemeinsinn. Wir müssen uns nicht miteinander anfreunden. Aber respektieren. Von Silv...

Und im SWR Das Wissen Podcast zu Gemeinsinn in unserer Gesellschaft 🤝 von Silvia Plahl
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/das-...

Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen?

Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte:

In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.

Two-year postdoc in political psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany

Enquiries: @jorislammers.bsky.social

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

#SocialPsyc #PoliPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project:

"Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models"
(funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de)

📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years
🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen
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European Journal of Social Psychology: Call for Special Issue Proposals The European Journal of Social Psychology is an international social psychology journal for research at the intersection of psychology, sociology & behavioural science.

The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is inviting proposals for a special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Deadline: September 1, 2025.

"Google Scholar is manipulatable... we analyze over 1.6 million Google Scholar profiles and identify instances of citation manipulation to boost an author’s citation metrics. In many cases, this was done through a previously undocumented practice of 'citation purchasing' "