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A highly attractive position in a prolific, vibrant environment (...and a very pretty city 😊)!
All materials (i.e., analysis code, coding instructions, dictionary, text excerpts, and supplemental analyses) are available for re-use: osf.io/hc9rv. The political manifestos we analyzed are also stored and documented on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy...
We analyzed manifestos and programs of all 69 political parties that ran for German Federal Elections between 2002 and 2021 and found: (1) Victimhood claims increase over time; (2) Parties at the left and right end of the ideological spectrum use more victimhood claims than those at the center.
Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....
FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare
How FAIR is shared data in psychology?
We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!
What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.
👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...
@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci
We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop.
Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
We used to speak of ‘sloppy science’ when there were QRPs. Now we have slop science 😔
Ecologist Jeremy Fox considers transparency and trust, and their observed *negative* correlation. Are we motivating better science?
H/t @MarkRubin.Bskyk.social
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/e...
#metascience
Cover des Magazins Forschung und Lehre 9 2025
Unser Direktor @kaisassenberg.bsky.social hat zusammen mit @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social einen spannenden Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Komplexer als gedacht" zum Thema Replizierbarkeit von Forschungsbefunden veröffentlicht.
#forschung
▶️Forschung und Lehre
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/a...
Congratulations, Karolina! So well-deserved!😊
Abstract for paper: Scholars increasingly conceptualize populism by whether politicians use people-centric and anti-elite appeals that pit a homogeneous people against a corrupt elite. These appeals reflect “thin” ideology because they offer no programmatic content and thus politicians must pair these appeals with more substantive positions, termed their “host” (or thick) ideology, which often consists of nativism on the right (e.g., espousing anti-immigrant positions) and socialism on the left (e.g., prioritizing redistribution). An emerging literature has thus sought to estimate whether populists garner support due to their thin ideology or their substantive host ideology. To date, no research has validated whether populism treatments (1) truly operationalize populist thin ideology, and (2) do so without manipulating host ideology. Results from three conjoint validation experiments fielded in both the United States and the United Kingdom show that thin ideology treatments successfully manipulate the underlying concepts but caution that some operationalizations also affect perceptions of host ideology.
Shows that thin populism treatments shift perceptions of people-centrism and anti-elitism as expected
Shows that thin populism treatments can also affect perceptions of host ideology. In particular, using treatments such as "American people" affects perceptions of a candidate's position on immigration
Shows suggestive evidence that people are less likely to use populist thin ideology appeals as heuristics for inferring host ideology when partisan information is included
New preregistered report @jepsjournal.bsky.social
"Thin" populism treatments manipulate perceptions of people-centrism + anti-elitism
But: some treatments (e.g., "American people") affect perceptions of host ideology, complicating causal analyses of impact of populist rhetoric
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Combining Moral Foundations and Justice Sensitivity Perspectives to Understand Political Orientation Lucas J. E. Köhler , Ulf Steinberg , Maxim Egorov , Claudia Peus , and Mario Gollwitzer Abstract: Political orientation is systematically related to individuals’ endorsement of different moral domains. Yet, current findings suggest that differences between conservatives and liberals can also be explained by a sensitivity to self-oriented or other-oriented moral transgressions. We argue that conceptualizing moral foundations as perspective-specific advances our understanding of differences in moral judgments across the political spectrum. We test a new instrument measuring perspective-specific moral foundations in a nationally representative German sample (N = 2,042). Our findings indicate that (a) an Integrated Foundations × Perspective Model fits the data better than models only representing moral foundations or moral perspectives and (b) a self-oriented moral sensitivity is related to right-wing political orientation, while an other-oriented moral sensitivity is related to left-wing political orientation across all moral foundations.
New:
Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...
How complete are preregistrations?
Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications
Medium answer: 🧵
Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏
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🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich!
Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology.
Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python.
📅 Apply by July 15
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🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD
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In next week's Jour Fixe, @devezer.bsky.social (University of Idaho) presents her work on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" www.rmz.hu-berlin.de.... Join us on Wednesday, 25.06.25, 11am online or in person in Berlin. @ibi-hu.bsky.social
📣New Preprint Alert!
Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates.
💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping
💡bad: publication bias
💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal
osf.io/preprints/ps...
In the project that I am involved in (B05: "Problem Solving in Teams"), we are looking at whether personality distributions in teams predict collaborative problem solving above&beyond individual-level personality traits. Interested in working with us?? Check out: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/c...
...and now we are looking for early-career researchers (pre-doc and post-doc) who would like to work with us in Munich! Check out our job posts: www.en.mcls.uni-muenchen.de/research/sha.... And submit your applications on our portal: www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/sharp
**NEW COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER IN MUNICH** In October 2025, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @tum.de will start a new joint CRC on Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education (www.trr419-sharp.de). 29 PIs, 21 individual projects, 11 Mio Euros funding for the first 4 years.
You really deserve this, Emily -- your work is so important! Looking forward to collaborating with you on this!!
🔔‼️ New papers alert
In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social
takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology.
Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed.
A must-read for every psychology researcher!
Available in #OA 👇👇
English version (of the job ad) here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d...
🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*
Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM.
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🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵