Social class:

New study finds that, 'in line with our theorizing that lower-class individuals appraise other people as more relevant,...lower-class individuals are better at spontaneously remembering faces compared with their higher-class counterparts.'

doi.org/10.1177/014616…

How should we study belief systems?

This is a question I've been working on the last few years. The last of a trilogy of papers is now officially published.

1: osf.io/q5y9c
2: osf.io/4yg7t
3: osf.io/bxd7m

Pro tip: You can take a pizza from the restaurant opposite of Bel Ray, and take it back into the cocktail bar.

We look forward to meeting you for the first time or catching up from where we left it! Please share the word with fellow academics who have a keen interest in political psychology, emotions, cognitive neuroscience and psychophysiology. Also, please feel welcome to bring your +1

The #Hotpoliticslab and the Centre for the Politics of Feelings will co-host a reception at #ISPP2022 on Friday July 15 at 20.00 in one of Athens' coolest, speak-easy cocktail bars, Bel Ray (a 12-min walk from the conference hotel). Free drinks, if you arrive early enough!

.Bianca Nobilo right now on CNN about #BorisJohnson : 'His whole career has been about his personality. [...] He does not bring stability.'

Below the #personality profile of Johnson from our upcoming 'Dark Politics' book, out soon at OUP with Jürgen Maier

Inhaled Toxic Particles Take Direct Route From Lungs to Brain

Inhaling air pollution could result in toxic particles being transported from the lungs to the brain via the bloodstream, ultimately resulting in neurological damage.

#neuroscience #science

neurosciencenews.com/pollution-lung…

Job Alert: Post-doc to join Royal Holloway Psychology & Centre for the Politics of Feelings ARTIS & investigate how art influences social-political attitudes. Background on psychology & aesthetics and/or political communication. Deadline : 20/06 & 🙏🏽 RT jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Job Alert: Post-doc to join Royal Holloway Psychology & Centre for the Politics of Feelings ARTIS & investigate how art influences social-political attitudes. Background on psychology & aesthetics and/or political communication. Deadline : 20/06 & 🙏🏽 RT jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Actors #viaberlin , students #UvA , & researchers #hotpoliticslab , all one great team! #Oerol #theater #actsofcitizenship #fieldexperiment

🚨 Fantastic job opportunity at my former work place in Germany, the Institut für Publizistik! I can highly recommend working with Michael Scharkow | @[email protected] and the colleagues in Mainz, so do apply! 👇👇👇

Interview (recorded last year) on #musicality by The Dissenter
See youtu.be/QNiN2ncRU3s
UvA Faculty of Science UvA Geesteswetenschappen ILLC

Happy to say that my article on sleep and political ideology (Conservative Larks, Liberal Owls) is up Journal of Politics @[email protected]. doi.org/10.1086/705927

Field experiment in action: real 🙌🏼hands on #socialscience with our great team #HotPoliticsLab at #Oerol festival 2022 #viaberlin #politicalscience #uva #terschelling
Matthijs Rooduijn Gijs Schumacher Bert Bakker Isabella Rebasso Christian Pipal Maaike Homan

It’s a wrap: Today I finished my #PhD – with the defense of my thesis on science-related #populism 🎓

I’m a bit overwhelmed, so no #emojiabstract this time. Just a big thank you to my supervisors Mike S. Schäfer + Frank Esser and a shout-out to the IKMZ #scicomm team 🫶🏻
#PhD one

I‘ve had my fair share of unusual office set ups during Covid but this one by far beats them all! #Hotpoliticslab Matthijs Rooduijn Gijs Schumacher Bert Bakker Maaike Homan Diamantis Petropoulos Petalas Christian Pipal

Our lab at Yale Univ. will be hiring up to 2 postdoctoral associates to investigate the neural mechanisms of social interaction in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits. Lab: changlab.yale.edu. Contact: [email protected]. Timeline: the earlier the better. Please RT! Thanks!

Share your ideas: what could be an EFFECTIVE way to decrease gun violence?

bignerve.com/challenges/wha…

After reading widely in preparation for talks I was giving on preregistration, I decided to distill what I have learnt into a reading list. I curated ten papers that I think give a complete overview of preregistration, wrote brief summaries and found related videos and articles!

⚠️New paper at JPSP⚠️

A lot of my work has shown that posing smiles can make people feel happy.

But what if this is just a placebo effect? Or demand characteristics?

Contrary to our own predictions, my team’s new paper suggests it is NOT!

doi.org/10.1037/pspa00…

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