Helenor Tormis

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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New paper, expertly led by Matthew Ivory, on whether ChatGPT could pass a psychology degree. The answer was pretty much yes (albeit a low scoring pass). A lot to unpack in the paper but tldr is we really need to rethink how we assess our degrees and what we want students to get out of university.

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Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

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Explore our October edition
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For the final talk of the symposium, @helenortheorymis.bsky.social discusses how microecological segregation is practiced in action by walking interview participants who negotiate social avoidance (and contact) in an urban context 🧵4/4

Next, Ira Frejborg presents her critical discursive psychological analysis of news media comments to understand negotiations of everyday intergroup relations and the right to the city in a changing urban 🧵3/4

The symposium starts with Sointu Leikas talking about experience of sampling the microecology of interethnic contact in Helsinki 🧵2/4

With social psychologists joining us from Helsinki, their symposium features studies bridging the methodological divide – particularly by offering complementary approaches to
studying microecological
ethnic segregation and contact
in an urban context 🧵1/4

Thank you for having us! It was such a lovely conference!! ☺️

We cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1987 is probably my favourite year for social psychology -- I can't think of a better one for books on exciting new theory.

First page of the paper Being really confidently wrong by Victoria Clarke et al.

Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

w/ @ginnybraun.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social & @joannasemlyen.bsky.social

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**Updated #EMCA Starter Pack**

We're almost at the 150 max and therefore onto a second! Please repost to keep building our 🦋 community.

If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below.

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I’m also interested in joining! 😊

A three-step approach to the critical discursive psychological analysi This methodological chapter presents a pragmatic three-step procedure based on critical discursive psychology (CDP) that allows for analysing the content (what

Link to the chapter: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Qualitative Approaches to the Social Psychology of Populism | Unmaskin This edited volume presents a social psychological exploration of populism and provides a unique qualitative understanding of the phenomenon’s appeal, bringing

The chapter is open access in the book Qualitative approaches to the social psychology of populism (2025): www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

For these reasons, it may intimidate and frustrate students who might otherwise be interested in more critical approaches (as I was 5 years ago). This approach hopefully provides some clarity and is a small step forward towards more structured and clearer (though not easier) analysis.

This approach breaks it down into the analysis of content, form, and function. I hope it will be useful to anyone interested in studying social psychological phenomena through the analysis of language. Any discursive analysis is challenging, time-consuming and involves many false starts.

As a student interested in discursive and rhetorical social psychology, I often struggled with the analysis. There were few practical guides on how to do it. Now, exactly 3 years later, we have outlined a pragmatic three-step approach to the critical discursive psychological analysis.

I’m recruiting a 3-year PostDoc at Kent in the moral psychology / experimental philosophy of AI to work on my five-year UKRI/ERC project on trust in moral machines 🤖. If you know anyone interested, please encourage them to get in touch 🌻

📢 Call for Papers 📢

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

"Promoting social change through collective action locally, nationally, and globally"

BlueSky Editors:
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Hello Bluesky people! My first article on #populist #environmental #discourse from a lay perspective has been published in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Please take a look, leave a comment, or share this article with someone who might be interested! 👇

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