Postdoc opportunity to work with me in the UK! We're looking for a PhD (submitted or awarded) to work on a social psychology grant for 2 years, investigating the moral role of heroes. See the job ad here (jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH266/res…) and pass it on- deadline 18 Sep!

Postdoc position in social psychology at the University of Kent easp.eu/job-offers/itm…

What is going on at Cochrane? Can someone explain? Is this a general trend?

Researchers have ignored patient experiences for too long, prioritizing careers and fragile frameworks over care. It's time for change. Cochrane must lead, not obstruct, this shift toward truly patient-centered research.

Dear colleagues, The first ever joint IAIR and IACCP conference is fast approaching. Call for symposium proposals are open today! As space is limited, please make your submission as early as possible. You can find the relevant information in the attached flyer.

I am hiring a part-time lab manager for my new lab Bard College ! If you are interested in the psychology of gender (and gendered bodies/appearances in particular) and want to work with me to build a lab from the ground up, please apply at bard.edu/campus/departm… 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🪞👁️💄💪

If you want to make a dent into rates of mental health problems, make sure people have a roof over their heads, health insurance coverage, enough food to eat. Let's start there. And let's not forget Kendler: "You would not explain hypertension at the level of quarks".

⚡️ New article in Journal of Anxiety Disorders together with Gordon J. G. Asmundson: Scaling Up Psychological Interventions Into the Daily Lives of Patients with Anxiety and Related Disorders A 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.janx…

New article by Benningstad, Rothgerber, & Kunst introduces the Passive and Active Meat-Animal Dissociation Scale phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/phai… PHAIR Society Jonas R. Kunst (@kunstjonas.bsky.social) Hank Rothgerber

In this cool new paper led by Jonas R. Kunst (@kunstjonas.bsky.social) we find that the Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) predicts real-world engagement with conspiracy theories online. Notably, "rejecting true information" showed no relation, but believing *false* info did! nature.com/articles/s4146…

This is a great primer for using different designs to assess causality in misinformation and conspiracy theory research!

Study: Politics & polarization > embrace of conspiracy theories "...polarized individuals are more engaged in propagating information related to conspiracy theories..." "...right-leaning individuals show a greater tendency towards conspiracy theories targeting marginalized

Does power corrupt equally? A striking set of studies shows that both Democrats and Republicans show more prejudice than the other party when they are in power. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-17…

🚨 New paper in Nature Communications 🚨 We created deepfakes of the current & former President Biden giving speeches (w/ voices from voice actors & ElevenLabs) to study what drives how well people can tell fake speeches from real ones Time to update the "Seeing is Believing" narrative 👇

📢 New article in advances.in/psychology! Simran K. Johal & Mijke Rhemtulla explore how network-derived metrics can predict psychological variables. Their study evaluates five metrics across longitudinal datasets. Hudson Golino Mijke Rhemtulla advances.in/psychology/10.…

A new paper suggests that telling members of marginalized groups that the future will be equitable changes how they remember the past. In particular, it reduces their tendency to remember the past as being unfair (e.g. sexist, racist). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This is from one of the foremost textbooks of psychotherapy. Isn't this quite questionable? To estimate the effect of psychotherapy for depression vs. pill-placebo, the authors averaged SMDs *only* for psychotherapies with *statistically significant SMDs* vs. pill-placebo?