🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Ever wondered why people endorse censoring others? In our new paper accepted at Political Psychology (osf.io/preprints/psya…), we find that people censor ideas they FEEL are harmful and untrue. We then examine ways to reduce willingness to censor 🧵👇

We are looking so much forward to tomorrow's lecture series #politicalcommunication with Vladimir Bojarskich from IfKW Universität Jena presenting his work on online hate and political ideology. Open to everyone!🕒Start 12:15 CET

The Big Five test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs test for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology—literally. When we use personality tests that impose categories—like the Meyers Briggs or

🚨Now published in AESP 🚨. Learn about how feelings of victimhood shapes morality and conflict. By myself and the awesome Kurt Gray For an overview see thread below. Article Open Access until July 14th. Download now! authors.elsevier.com/a/1j90bErgEWa%…

Übermorgen (31.05.) endet die Frist zum Einreichen der Abstracts, um sich an unserer #Wahlstudie zu beteiligen. Wir freuen uns über weitere Einsendungen! #ltw #Landtagswahlen #Thüringen #Sachsen #Brandenburg #KomRex Infos: komrex.uni-jena.de/forschungsproj…

We're looking for a future PhD student interested in the intersection of social and consumer psychology the University of Groningen for a project focusing on how to motivate individuals to purchase sustainable products: rug.nl/about-ug/work-… (deadline: June 26, 2024)

Marking the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, the first podcast episode of our Hatecast is now online. This limited series explores issues surrounding hate. Well done, Sherry!

🚨 New Article Alert! "Identity is key, but Inoculation helps – how to empower Germans of Russian descent against pro-Kremlin disinformation" by Carolin Ziemer, Philipp Schmid, Cornelia Betsch & Tobias Rothmund. #Disinformation #Russia #Ukraine advances.in/psychology/10.…

So happy to see this project being published! Together with Philipp Schmid, Cornelia Betsch and Tobias Rothmund I examined the influence of Russian social identities on susceptibility to disinformation and how inoculation can protect from falling prey to Kremlin propaganda. 1/6

Spend less time stereotyping and scapegoating “the outgroup” and more time addressing the roots of the problem.

New publication on predictors of #HateSpeech with #German representative survey data by IDZ check it out! NETHATE MSCA Tobias Rothmund IfKW Jena #openaccess #socialpsychology

Episode #2 with Sophie Litvak and Boaz Hameiri on psychological interventions against prejudice.

🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨 Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇

#machdeinkreuz bei der LTW in #Brandenburg, #Sachsen und #Thüringen. Künstler:innen, die in Sachsen leben und arbeiten, haben Plakate gestaltet, die auf die Wahlen hinweisen. Gerne teilen! machdeinkreuz.de

Was sind alternative Medien und welche Rolle haben sie bei den Thüringer Landtagswahlen gespielt? Diese und andere Fragen durften Ines Engelmann und ich im Podcast Thüringen, was geht?! beantworten. Thanks for having us Thüringer Allgemeine thueringer-allgemeine.de/podcast/articl…

The editorial of this year's special issue is publicly available: "Online hate: A European communication perspective" by Heidi Vandebosch & Tobias Rothmund degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

#DGPs2024 Raus aus der Blase 🫧! Diskutiert heute Nachmittag mit uns über psychologische Ansätze zur Reduktion von Polarisierung und Desinformation. 🕓 16 Uhr im Audimax Universität Wien mit Christine Finn, Vladimir Bojarskich, Larissa Knöchelmann, Friederike Stock & LottePummerer