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Are you currently a lecturer teaching in the UK? I'd love you to consider taking part in my PhD research looking at humour in higher education! Please consider reposting if you know others who may be interested, thank you! Questionnaire link: staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1A…

📉Do you use quantitative methods in research with human participants? 🧠Are you a researcher in Psychology, either an academic or working in the research field? 📣Consider taking part in my study exploring researchers' opinions and research practises! staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08…

Currently researching existential risk, and this is my sentence of the week [from a 1981 paper on nuclear war]: 🤯 "In the warning period before an attack people may not behave as calmly or as rationally as their governments would like" 🤯

Presenting the work by Megan Birney and I on spite and spiteful behaviour Staffs Uni Psychology

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Maybe AI isn't so bad after all 😅 in this situation I imagine not having blood pressure or the ability to develop a headache is a great help science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Very pleased to announce my paper with Megan Birney "Self-Reported Spite Predicts Spiteful Behavior in an Online Crowd-Sourced Sample" was published today BPS West Midlands Staffs Uni Psychology Staffs Uni Health, Science and Wellbeing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

3 favourite parts of last night's BBC Panorama 1) Nurses can't work at home [farmers work outside, should we take the roof off the office?] 2) You need to start buying avocado toast again 3) Every 'boomer boss is now a mental health expert

Our new paper, with many other researchers from across the globe: #PLOSONE: Higher education students’ perceptions of ChatGPT: A global study of early reactions dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… UoC Psychology

Remake #Titanic, but where 30% of the passengers demand the ship goes faster because a White Star Line influencer told them a steady pace was #Communism

We (Megan Birney and I) have a paper in the SPSSI (spssi.bsky.social) special issue on #science denial: "Spite and Science-Denial: Exploring the Role of Spitefulness in #conspiracy Ideation and COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs" Staffs Uni Psychology BPS West Midlands. Open access @ spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

Want to learn more about our (Megan Birney) research on the role of spite in #conspiracy theory beliefs? See the press release below! BPS West Midlands Staffs Uni Psychology BBC Stoke & Staffordshire James O'Brien staffs.ac.uk/news/2025/03/s…

I made a silly meme about conferences for my private FB account and it was flagged as false information... about billionaires paying tax? Two questions. 1) didn't Facebook stop fact-checking? 2) given the c**p in my newsfeed, why is it so sensitive to info about billionaires? 🤔

Thanks to Sir Graham Balfour for inviting us to your #careers event today! Chris Smyth PhD had a great time sharing details of our #psychology #undergraduate courses. We wish all the students every success & are looking forward to welcoming students joining us University of Staffordshire in the future😊

Just re-posting this reminder of our upcoming workshop on March 28th. Places still available, and free & open to all! Book your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/darwinizing-… BPS West Midlands Dr Mani Singh Bhogal David Gordon Gonzalo Palomo Vélez

In preparation for next year's anomalistic #psychology lecture on #UFO and #alien encounters, updated my lovely sightings/smartphone graph with #drone sales 😅👽🛸📱(data from the USA) Staffs Uni Psychology BPS West Midlands

We all want a fairer society, but is 'fairness' just what you can get away with? To find out the answer to this and many other questions, come to our Pint of Science UK, #pint25 events in Stoke-on-Trent on the 19th - 10th May 2025 BPS West Midlands Staffs Uni Psychology pintofscience.co.uk

Another shameless plug for my and Richard Cooke Pint of Science UK #pint25 events in Stoke-on-Trent on the 20th and 21st May 2025 BPS West Midlands Staffs Uni Psychology 😁🍻 staffs.ac.uk/news/2025/04/q…

All set for Pint of Science UK evening Staffs Uni Psychology BPS West Midlands

Had a great time presenting recent work conducted with Joshua Crawford on so called "dark personality traits" at the BSPID conference. We must be doing something right because Josh received an award! Staffs Uni Psychology