How a Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.

WSJ story on pardon of Honduras' drug-trafficker ex-president notes his role in “Próspera, a libertarian ‘startup city’ backed by Silicon Valley investors including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.”

“A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.”
🎁 link:
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New working paper about a question that’s been a splinter in my brain for years – and I know I’m not alone: can researchers draw conclusions about “belief in conspiracy theories” while our research samples consist mostly of people who reject such beliefs? 1/10

link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info

Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency | BPS Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized.

Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir

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The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...

🚨 New paper out in the European Journal of Social Psychology!

Across one study using aggregated nation-level data and four preregistered experiments, we examined how freedom of speech within a society influences belief in conspiracy theories.

YouTube video by Stüdyo Recap Yıldız Tar değerlendirdi: LGBTİ+’lara dönük tasarı muğlak ve kötücül

@studyorecap.bsky.social
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Yıldız Tar, nefret suçlarını yasalaştırma çabasındaki iktidarın, birimize sahip çıkmazsak toplumdaki en savunmasızından başlayıp sırayla hepimizi nasıl hedef alacağını çok güzel anlatmış.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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YouTube video by Ekrem İmamoğlu TUTUKLU AİLELERİ NELER YAŞIYOR?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwX...

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

@alexhaslam.bsky.social @pallavi28.bsky.social @dannagalher.bsky.social @micavarela.bsky.social @christinamaxwell.bsky.social @andrewlivingstone.bsky.social @yaseminulusahin.bsky.social

Stay tuned ⌛ @yasemingacar.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social

It will be available for pre-order starting in September!
www.routledge.com/Social-Psych...

Updated flyer without typo in the time of the last session:

[Resharing with a typo on session time fixed in flyer:] Join us for several discussions and talks in the Palestine solidarity track at ISPP in Prague this week if you are attending! For more information about "Political Psych 4 Palestine" sign up here (same as QR code): tinyurl.com/PolPsy4Palestine

I am so excited to announce the publication of my first PhD paper, written in collaboration with Laurent Licata and amazing participants!

“We Are No Longer the First to Lead the Dance”: Analysing Intergroup Conflicts Within the French-Speaking Belgian Feminist Movement

doi.org/10.1002/casp...

Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system and bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes in...

10 years work has led to this:
Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system & bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them. European Review of Social Psychology. @polpsyispp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1046...

The POWER OF US Course: A syllabus for teaching about social identity Issue 167: We have new free educational materials for teaching about the Power of Shared Identity

The POWER OF US Course: A syllabus for teaching about social identity
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Confrontational collective actions are neither uncontrolled outbursts of initially pacifist resistance nor mere reactions to helplessness and lack of viable political options. Instead, they serve str...

‘Nothing to lose or a world to win’: Reconsidering efficacy, in confrontational collective action
New from @metesefauysal.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social & me

Funding: @polpsyispp.bsky.social Scholars Under Threat

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