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Senior Lecturer at the University of York working on political psychology & political behavior. pvasilopoulos.weebly.com

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2 two-year postdocs on childrenโ€™s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

๐Ÿ”ฅ POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...

10.03.2026 08:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 62 ๐Ÿ” 53 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great paper- and an impressive dataset indeed!

10.03.2026 08:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why do some people want to migrate while others donโ€™tโ€”even in similar conditions?๐ŸŒ

My new #openaccess article in IMR shows how psychology๐Ÿง โ€”notably values, risk tolerance, and personalityโ€”predict both aspiration and irregularity willingness.๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿ”“
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEJZT...

10.03.2026 08:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Authoritarian Persuasion at Home and Abroad: The Partial Effectiveness of Foreign Influencers in Propaganda Work - Siyu Liang, Lachlan McNamee, 2026 How do authoritarian regimes make propaganda persuasive? This study evaluates the impact of foreign influencers in propaganda. Social media videos and state bro...

Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

06.03.2026 07:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is a fantastic teaching resource for anyone covering Zaller (and I sincerely hope it still is many of us)

04.03.2026 10:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for your comment. The authoritarianism items are not scales, they are binary choices (e.g. obedience or creativity). That said, we were surprised with the findings ourselves.

05.03.2026 07:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a fantastic teaching resource for anyone covering Zaller (and I sincerely hope it still is many of us)

04.03.2026 10:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ฮฃฯ…ฮณฯ‡ฮฑฯฮทฯ„ฮฎฯฮนฮฑ!!

04.03.2026 10:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They want January 6 in Britain. They're actively rooting for it.

01.03.2026 07:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Immigrantsโ€™ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization? After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

2025 #Throwbackpaper

Immigrantsโ€™ attitudes towards immigration in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

African and non-European origin immigrants are strongly more supportive of immigration compared to those of European origin, regardless of immigrant generation & other individual-level factors

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.02.2026 09:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ‘‡

27.02.2026 10:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Immigrantsโ€™ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization? After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

2025 #Throwbackpaper

Immigrantsโ€™ attitudes towards immigration in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

African and non-European origin immigrants are strongly more supportive of immigration compared to those of European origin, regardless of immigrant generation & other individual-level factors

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.02.2026 09:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are r...

Out now and open access! A new scale to gauge support for intergroup violence, including in (post-)conflict settings. With @ramziabouismail.bsky.social, @alekscichocka.bsky.social, @hakancakmak.bsky.social, @samicoksan.bsky.social, and Nikhil Sengupta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ๐Ÿงต

23.02.2026 12:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

21.02.2026 16:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 601 ๐Ÿ” 489 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 77
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ฮฮฑฯ…ฮฌฮณฮนฮฟ ฮผฮต ฮผฮตฯ„ฮฑฮฝฮฌฯƒฯ„ฮตฯ‚ ฯƒฯ„ฮฑ ฮฝฯŒฯ„ฮนฮฑ ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฮ—ฯฮฑฮบฮปฮตฮฏฮฟฯ…: ฮคฯฮตฮนฯ‚ ฮฝฮตฮบฯฮฟฮฏ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮดฮตฮบฮฌฮดฮตฯ‚ ฮฑฮณฮฝฮฟฮฟฯฮผฮตฮฝฮฟฮน ฮคฯฮตฮนฯ‚ ฮฌฮฝฮธฯฯ‰ฯ€ฮฟฮน ฮฑฮฝฮฑฯƒฯฯฮธฮทฮบฮฑฮฝ ฮฝฮตฮบฯฮฟฮฏ ฮฑฯ€ฯŒ ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮธฮฌฮปฮฑฯƒฯƒฮฑ, 27 ฮฑฮบฯŒฮผฮท ฮฑฮณฮฝฮฟฮฟฯฮฝฯ„ฮฑฮน ฮตฮฝฯŽ 20 ฮดฮนฮฑฯƒฯŽฮธฮทฮบฮฑฮฝ

And another refugee shipwreck, 15 miles off the coast of south Crete. 3 dead, 20 rescued, 27 missing. www.neakriti.gr/kriti/irakle...

21.02.2026 10:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Vicente! Well deserved!!

20.02.2026 10:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

19.02.2026 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1060 ๐Ÿ” 172 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.

Child poverty, unemployment, depopulation, and acute local deprivation. Every factor that research highlights as contributing to the Reform vote is there.

Does Labour seriously think that these voters are gonna be swayed by the latest net migration figures?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

18.02.2026 12:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Developing higher education for driving social change โ€“ The social change blog

I've written for The Social Change Blog on 'Developing higher education for driving social change'.

It's a short piece inspired by finding a small newspaper cutting at my grandmother's house a few years ago - a front page story about my mum graduating university.

blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...

18.02.2026 08:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - Volume 55

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access)

Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice?

Drawing on an 11-year panel from ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

17.02.2026 10:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Residential diversity in young adulthood and later life attitudes toward immigration | LSE III Event
Residential diversity in young adulthood and later life attitudes toward immigration | LSE III Event YouTube video by LSE International Inequalities Institute

Catch up now on our Inequalities Seminar with Dr Haley McAvay (@lsesociology.bsky.social)

She explores the enduring relationship between residential diversity in adolescence and political behaviour later in life.

youtu.be/kh3EyPWzeG0

06.02.2026 15:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - Volume 55

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access)

Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice?

Drawing on an 11-year panel from ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

17.02.2026 10:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

17.02.2026 07:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 597 ๐Ÿ” 228 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 35
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

System justification is authoritarian regimes is strongly associated with preferences for authoritarian governance & systemic threats mobilize high system justifiers, further increasing support for authoritarian governance.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

13.02.2026 09:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social

Your neighbours shape your politics โ€” but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?

We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out

doi.org/10.1086/740816

11.02.2026 09:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the British Electorate - Political Behavior The nature, measurement, and correlates of the psychological trait of authoritarianism have spurred an intense and long-lasting debate in political psychology, dating back to the 1950s. This article a...

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access)

Authoritarianism in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง is positively associated with anti-immigration attitudes yet within-person changes in immigration attitudes precede changes in authoritarianism

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10.02.2026 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the British Electorate - Political Behavior The nature, measurement, and correlates of the psychological trait of authoritarianism have spurred an intense and long-lasting debate in political psychology, dating back to the 1950s. This article a...

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access)

Authoritarianism in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง is positively associated with anti-immigration attitudes yet within-person changes in immigration attitudes precede changes in authoritarianism

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10.02.2026 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

10.02.2026 07:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 320 ๐Ÿ” 145 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Congratulations!! This looks fantastic!!

PS. I cannot even fathom how one even starts organising such as a mega project

09.02.2026 12:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“š Three volumes
โญ 431 entries
๐ŸŽ“ 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short ๐Ÿงต

10.12.2025 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 175 ๐Ÿ” 63 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 18