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Sofia Stathi
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Professor of Social Psychology | Research: intergroup relations, prejudice, collective action | Director of Social Psychology Lab - Uni of Greenwich | #FirstGen #Immigrant Born 🇬🇷🇪🇺 Living 🇬🇧

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Sep 30
Sabbatical mode on. What I most look forward to? Reading!

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Sofia Stathi

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 4d
This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there!
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#JoinIn on Christmas Day

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · 16d
As a social psychologist working on intergroup relations, I am very grateful to have the opportunity to explore issues related to (tackling) poverty disadvantage and hostility toward people who are poor. More information about our interdisciplinary EU-funded project 👉 www.gre.ac.uk/articles/pub...
www.gre.ac.uk

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · 17d
Wow, congratulations Laura!!! What a fantastic achievement!

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 18d
So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers.

Here's what happened:

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The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis | Scientia Psychiatrica
Introduction: The proliferation of social media has raised significant concerns about its potential effects on the mental health of adolescents. This meta-analysis aims to provide a comprehensive asse...
scientiapsychiatrica.com

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Sara Vestergren @swedishprotests.bsky.social · 25d
The last session in the collective action series hosted by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and organised by @drselintekin.bsky.social and @merveozturkey.bsky.social is this Thursday 4th Dec 1-3pm GMT.

The webinar is free to attend but registration needed www.bps.org.uk/event/precar...
Precarious Solidarities: Collective Action during and after disasters Under Authoritarianism or repression | BPS
The final instalment of this series, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field. Time may be subject to change.
www.bps.org.uk

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Carl T. Bergstrom, Mark J. Brandt , and 13 more

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 29d
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · Nov 24
We have a new paper in Science Advances proposing a simple test for bias:

Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?

Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Nov 17
What a kick off meeting for our Horizon project! 🇪🇺 Funded by the European Commission, in the next three years we will be exploring how to build trust across communities and reduce poverty-related hostility. Follow us on Linkedin! www.linkedin.com/posts/btl-co...
#trust #leadership #crime #communities #europe #ncp #btlcop #trustandleadership #safercommunities #horizoneurope | BTL-COP Project
On 13–14 Nov 2025, our consortium gathered in Zagreb, Croatia, to kick off the Horizon Europe BTL-COP project. Two days of partners’ presentations, inspiring discussions, and shared ideas marked the...
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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Nov 16
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#btlcop #zagreb #trust #leadership #innovation #europe #croatia #uk | Rafael Popper
👮#BTLCOP Takes Off in #Zagreb! 🇭🇷 The BTL-COP consortium gathered in Zagreb this week for an energising kick-off that set a clear and ambitious course for strengthening #trust, #leadership, and #inno...
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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · Nov 11
In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Nov 6
Awesome! Well done to everyone for putting this series of events together 🙌

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Nov 6
Unfortunately I cannot attend today but it’ll be a great event!! I look forward to hearing about it!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Nov 6
-- Call for Papers --

Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk · Nov 4
🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱

#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈

#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults
This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal links between one of the least known dimensions of wellbeing—hope—and long-term outcomes in a range of life arenas. Hope has agentic properties w....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Nov 2
'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:

'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It felt like forever’: passengers recount mass stabbing on Cambridgeshire train
Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding
www.theguardian.com

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Oct 31
Listening to Lewis tonight was so refreshing.

drsofiastathi.bsky.social
Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Oct 29
Good luck, Gordon!! (but also, a bit of an awkward thing for an Editor to say?!)

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi, Sofia Stathi, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · Oct 24
New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷

We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.

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

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Kai Sassenberg, Mark Rubin , and 6 more

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Oct 17
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Our new paper out in American Psychologist.

Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.

Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · Oct 15
The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) is hosting an on-line conference 11/7-11/8: Any interested attendees are welcome! Speakers include Paul Bloom, Daryl Cameron, Joshua Greene, Melton Yecel, Abigail Cassario, and others (including me). For more details see sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
the word morality is written in red glitter
ALT: the word morality is written in red glitter
media.tenor.com

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Theofilos Gkinopoulos @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social · Oct 14
Our new paper(with Eva Walther & Malgorzata Kossowska)in Current Opinion in Psychology introduces a group-based motivational framework showing that willful ignorance, beyond individual, is also a group strategy shaping identity & conspiracy beliefs.Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs
This paper explores willful ignorance as a socially motivated, group-based phenomenon closely tied to conspiracy beliefs. While prior research has emp…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Oct 13
"Extremism at the Centre"

"Uncovering political diversity amongst midpoint responders on the left-right self-placement item"

By...
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The midpoint of the left-right self-placement item is the most populated of all response options. While genuinely centrist responders opt to self-place there, it is also a convenient response option for those that cannot easily fit their politics to the left-right spectrum. Those with populist attitudes may also see the midpoint as an appropriate self-placement option, due to the thin-centred nature of populist ideology. In support of this, midpoint responders score similarly to the extreme ends of the spectrum on variables related to political system attitudes, including conspiracy beliefs and institutional trust, resulting in W-shaped relationships. Our research investigated the extent to which midpoint bumps exist across common political issues and political system attitudes, and whether subgroups of populist midpoint responders explain them. Using data from the Australian Election Study (N = 2179) and the American National Election Study (N = 8280), we found W- and M-shaped polynomial relationships primarily on attitudes towards the political system and toward immigrants. We then conducted Latent Profile Analyses on midpoint responders, using these items, finding at least one profile in each sample that represented a response pattern indicative of populist belief strands.

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Oct 13
Early afternoon sabbatical trail in south east London #HelloAutumn

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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · Oct 13
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐

Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!

October 28, 1pm GMT.

Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...

@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens
Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Oct 9
Thank you for all your efforts, Laura ❤️ your work teaches children and grown-ups alike 😁

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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Oct 9
So lucky that the brilliant @laurahallain.bsky.social visited my daughter’s school today! Little one came home excited and inspired 💫 📕

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Oct 9
Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com

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Take Sipma @takesipma.bsky.social · Oct 3
Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial?

In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries
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Sofia Stathi @drsofiastathi.bsky.social · Sep 30
<3 I feel I have so much catching up to do, Gordon! Any cool research you uncover, please carry on sharing!