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Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV?

Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you!

Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images

Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥

Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Call for Papers: “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology”: A Special Issue of Social Psychology: Social Psychology: Vol 0, No 0

📃 Call for Papers 📃

“Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology”

Abstracts due: 01 May 2026

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Job ad🌱: PhD position on climate change and cooperation in rural Asia, with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) & Nina Hansen (University of Groningen) in an interdisciplinary project. Deadline: April 1, 2026. socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games

We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis!

Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients.

All tips and data very welcome!

🚨 “Perceiving Protest” by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March!

Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

Psych Jobs

Postdoctoral Position in Social Psychology at the University of Bonn (3 years)

Research in moral psychology and related area

I need a postdoc for my project “Panel Studies of Optimism Bias and Positive Mood”.

I need someone with an interest in affective science, very strong English and writing skills, and experience of using SEM with longitudinal data.

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What motivates people to engage in climate advocacy?

In a new PNAS Nexus megastudy [https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf400] led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social we tested 17 theoretical interventions on a large US sample (N=31,324) to increase public, political, and financial climate advocacy.

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📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS)

🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments

📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026

Feel free to share with anyone 🌱

🌍🇺🇸 Published Today in PNAS Nexus 🌍🇺🇸

How can we foster collective climate action?

- led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social & @madalina.bsky.social
- 17 behavioral interventions, designed by 50 experts
- tested on >30000 US participants

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵 1/11

First Cooperation Colloquium of the year:

Caroline Graf (University of Zürich):
Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies

Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC

Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

The Psychology of Crowd Behavior This review describes the social identity approach to crowd behavior. Research based on the social identity approach to crowds has grown significantly in the last 20 years, both quantitatively and qua...

'The Psychology of Crowd Behavior', Annual Review of Psychology

Final, peer-reviewed version now available open access.

Please share.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Check out this very interesting tool from Giving What We Can that relies on our data!

I'm thrilled to share news about this new EMP Lab pre-print on empathic AI--led by my student @jdweng.bsky.social & with the amazing @mgreinecke.bsky.social. We lean into meta-science & philosophy of science to consider what empathic AI means for *empathy* as a construct, now & into the future. 1/n

I’m glad to share our new paper on fossil fuel reliance and climate change mitigation. Higher perceived reliance is associated with lower support for systemic climate policies. (1/4)
@jolanda-jetten.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oxford University ‘withheld information about harassment claims’ Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers

“We requested information about the case to at least protect attendees of our future events and potentially act against Hewstone, however, Oxford University never provided any information.”

Open Access: archive.is/ue5k8#select...

Paywall: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨

Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.

Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching

Deadline: Jan 23

Please share and spread the word!

www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏

Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8

Please share it widely!

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries - Nature Human Behaviour Social norms approaches are widely applied in health promotion. This pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs using social norms messaging in developed countries aimed to evaluate th...

Meta-analysis: After correcting for publication bias, there is no effect of “social norm messaging” nudges on health behavior

We need theories that explain *why* these interventions don’t work

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Think society is in decline? Research gives us some reasons to be cheerful If we look at people’s values - abstract ideals that guide our behaviour - there are reasons to be positive about society.

'People who wrongly believe that others care more about selfish values ... are less likely to volunteer...
experiments have found that showing people that others share similar values and beliefs to them can make them more trusting & hopeful for the future.'

theconversation.com/think-societ...

A journalist asked me about public behaviour during the Bondi Beach attack:

The Development of Morality and Conventionality Across Cultures: Implementing a Two‐Stage Model for Cross‐Cultural Research Establishing a shared sense of right and wrong is an essential milestone for human cooperation, raising the question of whether a universal set of moral intuitions exists. However, tests of universa.....

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Call for submissions_Molho&Jin_modified.docx Call for submissions EASP Pre-Conference on ‘Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods’ Deadline: January 5, 2026 Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the pre-con...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨

Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026.

We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages.

📝 Deadline: January 5 2026

🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There are 10 (!) #PhD positions available through the ECCO project (which our colleagues Lise Jans and Ellen van der Werff are part of) on #sustainable transitions - deadline to apply is 15 February: www.collectievekracht.eu/ecco/ecco+pr...

@collectievekracht.bsky.social

🚨STOP, replication time!🚨
Does Feeling “Right” Make the Good More Good (and the Bad More Bad)?
Achar & Lee found that when people experience regulatory fit, moral predispositions get amplified—moral folks act more moral, less moral folks act less moral. Big, exciting claim!

Human cooperation in changing groups in a large-scale public goods game - Nature Communications Little is known about the dynamics of human cooperation in groups with changing compositions. Using data from a large-scale and long-term online public goods game, this study shows how group changes a...

🧠💡 This feat of study by Kasper Otten and colleagues analyzed 1.5M decisions from 135K people in online public-goods games. Takeaway? When group membership changes (people leave, newcomers join), cooperation drops. Stable groups = stronger cooperation.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...