Trots op Jasper en Emiel!!

June 1 was a sad day for cross-cultural psychology, losing two of its giants.

Always a pleasure to have @kristof_dhont and his fellow SHARKLab_Kent members visiting us Social Psychology - Ghent University .

Congrats Dries Bostyn ! Being awarded an #FWO postdoctoral grant is well-deserved. Looking forward to working with you for another 3 years (at least) Social Psychology - Ghent University

Our new Current Directions paper is online, highlighting that ethnic diversity is not good or bad in itself, though it does trigger anti-immigration and anti-establishment sentiments in authoritarians, which pushes them towards populist political parties: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117….

Back from a wonderful visit to NYU Abu Dhabi . Quite an impressive place! Thanks Jocelyn J. Bélanger for the invite and the great hospitality.

** New Article ** by Jonas De keersmaecker, Dries Bostyn, Alain Van Hiel, & Arne Roets — Disliked but Free to Speak: Cognitive Ability Is Related to Supporting Freedom of Speech for Groups Across the Ideological Spectrum #spps_journal Dries Bostyn Arne Roets doi.org/10.1177/194855…

New paper (OA) with Social Psychology - Ghent University Title pretty much sums it up: n minimal group allocations, people are reluctant to make 'utilitarian' decisions when equality is also an option. And if they do, it is limited to minimizing harm, and partial to the ingroup. rdcu.be/b58iF

New paper (OA)with Social Psychology - Ghent University. Title pretty much sums it up: in minimal group dilemmas, people are reluctant to make 'utilitarian choices if equality is also an option. And if they do, it's generally to minimize harm and when beneficial to the ingroup. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Out in JESP: are moral judgments independent or do we consider our prior moral judgments relevant to new moral problems that we face? We explore this issue in the context of sacrificial harm, i.e. with trolley dilemmas. 1/18

Our new paper on sequential and iterative moral dilemmas in JESP. It was definitely most enthralling and fun research to work on. Obviously a big shout-out to Dries Bostyn as the PI and the one who devised the whole paradigm!

Meanwhile on a hilltop watching down on the vineyards and sunflowers in Slovenia... Book 9 finished, starting book 10: the finale of this epic series #MALAZAN ...perfect holiday

Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Full theatre @FilmfestGent , but you could hear a pin drop all throughout the end credits (I guess that was the minimum duration for everyone to pull themselves together)

Zeventig jaar onderzoek samengebald in een nieuw boek door Alain Van Hiel. Zoektocht naar de mindset van aanhangers van links en rechts. De maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen hierin, en een blik op de neergang van het politieke establishment. borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/shop/boeken/li…

Finally got around to reading these. 2 down, 2 to go (for now). Very good; very Brandon Sanderson

New paper out! "Deontologists are not always trusted over utilitarians: revisiting inferences of trustworthiness from moral judgments" published open access in Sci Reports here: rdcu.be/c4rE8. What is the gist of it? 1/X

Two more climbs to go in 4h #KarelSabbe Video of his arrival ar the Watertower credits to Steven Janssens Never seen Belgians so enthousiastic for seeing someone drinking water #BM100

Congrats to Barbara Valcke, our newest PhD Social Psychology - Ghent University. Great public defense ... with a somewhat unusual photo at the end...

Ever wonder why repetition makes things seem true? Jonas De keersmaecker, Christian Unkelbach, and Arne Roets discovered this "truth-by-repetition" effect works even in non-native languages! #JARMAC APA Journals buff.ly/4by8nLX

Psychologists love asking people how they think about trolley dilemmas to study moral decision-making: "Should you kill a person to save five?". But thinking about a dilemma is not the same thing as actually confronting one in real life. We developed a lab-based real-life