Correction for extended deadline for EASP Meeting: The Psychology of Attitudes: Social Processes of Evaluation (June 24-27th, 2020; University of Bath, UK) - The correct extended deadline is February 5th, 2020! Please RT. Lukas J. Wolf #easp_meeting easp.eu/news/itm/-1019…

New research with Paul Hanel:

New paper - read online today! Wolf, L. J., Karremans, J., & Maio, G. R. (2020). Seeing and treating the out-group like family: Transference effects in an ethnic context bit.ly/2Hfp55Y Lukas J. Wolf

Very happy to see our commentary on Covid-19 online: "(shared) human values are well suited for developing effective, global interventions to combat the #Covid_19 pandemic" @GregoryRMaio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I wrote a thing on the upcoming US elections! US Americans need to find a way to work together again and there are good reasons why that's achievable blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2020/1…

Read the latest IPR blog 'Republicans and Democrats: There is more that unites than divides them' Whether Trump is re-elected or vacates the oval office to Joe Biden, the election will bring triumph to the winner(s) and despair to the loser(s)⤵️ blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2020/1…

New paper: Our well-being can be impacted by quite a few things, including whether our values match with those of the country we are living in. However, value type moderates whether person-country fit is positively or negatively associated with well-being nature.com/articles/s4146…

Incongruence between individuals’ values and those of where they live may be distressing. Here, the authors show that person-country and person-region value congruence predict six well-being outcomes. Paul Hanel @GregoryRMaio nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great stuff and aligns well with our own findings that an overwhelming majority has very similar fundamental values.

spot on..

We review recent research investigating the effect of shared human values. We also report new data showing that alignment between people's own and perceived values tends to result in higher well-being. New review paper with Lukas Lukas J. Wolf and Greg Maio tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Twitter is experimenting with ways to humanise other users before people reply to others they don't know –by showing things that both have in common. A tiny nudge in the right direction. Will be valuable to see if it has any impact: adweek.com/digital/twitte…

** New Article ** by Lukas J. Wolf, Paul H. P. Hanel, & Gregory R. Maio — Measured and manipulated effects of value similarity on prejudice and well-being Lukas J. Wolf Paul Hanel #ersp_journal Routledge Psychology doi.org/10.1080/104632…

New findings from our very own Lukas J. Wolf and Greg Maio show that we are more compassionate and donate more money when in the presence of children

Very happy to see this published! 8 experiments show that children elicit greater compassion towards others, not only towards children. On a shopping street, adult passers-by also donated more often when more children were present.

"thinking about children or being in the presence of children elicited greater compassion with others in a range of people: parents and non-parents, men and women…even among those who had relatively negative attitudes towards children" ow.ly/EF9s50EFNkt via The Conversation U.S.

Does the abstract concept of ‘values’ make us think our society is more divided than it really is? EssexPsychology is #SmashingSterotypes at the The Royal Society #SummerScience essex.ac.uk/research-proje… #SummerScienceEssex

Researchers from Psychology at Bath, inc Prof Greg Maio, Lukas J. Wolf + Paul Hanel (EssexPsychology), were part of last week's The Royal Society summer exhibition, smashing stereotypes about divisions in society. Learn more & play their interactive game⤵️bath.ac.uk/announcements/… (1/3)

Postdoc in Social/Environmental Psychology, University of Bath easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…

New paper! We found that a) US-Democrats and Republicans have much more in common than they think, b) showing these similarities reduces polarisation and (c) elicits hopefulness for the future and trust in the other group. With Paul Hanel EASP doi.org/10.1177/194855…