Matt Hancock says 6 cases of voter fraud is ‘6 too many’. Wait until he hears that 5 million children in the UK live in poverty.

Call me an optimist but I like to think that David Cameron's reputation was already "in tatters" before Greensill when he sold out the UK and called for a referendum that he didnt believe in and was bad for UK, to heal internal party conflicts theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

Interested in learning how to use R to prepare, analyze, and visualize data? Join me during my two week summer school course! More info can be found here: tilburguniversity.edu/education/summ…

Seeking additional collaborators for a large-scaled replication of cognitive dissonance! The manuscript is Stage 1 accepted in AMPPS. We are particularly interested in labs from unrepresented regions to join, but everyone is welcome. Willem Sleegers easp.eu/news/itm/-1324…

I couldn't wait any longer so I'm excited to share our (w/ Nikhil Sengupta) meta-analysis on the so-called 'ironic', 'sedative', 'paradoxical', or 'demobilizing effects of intergroup contact as a preprint (🧵).

Presenting what we hope will be a very valuable resource for academics, practitioners, journalists, & policy makers. Go on, have a look👇🏾

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

Woot! Our new monograph (@regulliver, Coffee and crackers, Kelly Fielding, and I), _The Psychology of Effective Activism_, is out now and *available free* until July 30 from Cambridge University Press. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

🚨Call for Submissions🚨 “The Strengthening Democracy Challenge,” a large-scale project testing interventions to reduce (a) anti-democratic attitudes, (b) support for partisan violence, and/or (c) partisan animosity, is open for submissions NOW 1/ strengtheningdemocracychallenge.org

Our new article is out (and open access) in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations! 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/136843… In three studies, we examined how the perceived opinions of others (i.e., perceived societal norms) are related to sexual minorities’ collective action. (1/4)

This is a great PhD opportunity with two inspiring scholars and lovely people! (You'll find former more often than the latter, and the combination of both is 👌)

Awesome stuff by Mark Brandt and colleagues on political belief systems, which can be loosely translated to: We should be measuring individual-level belief systems people!

I’m very much looking forward to start my Professorship for Personality Psychology Uni Greifswald👩‍🏫⛵️ Come work with me on personality & well-being in life events and daily life! 📈🤩 1 Postdoc (1 y.+poss.perm. A13) German: uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/i… Engl.: uni-greifswald.de/en/university/…