Gregg Sparkman
@greggsparkman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor studying social psychology & social change in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Boston College (he/him). Director of the Social Influence and Social Change Lab: sisclab.bc.edu
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
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Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
July 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
How can norms address climate change?
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science
@tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social
& I spotlight 3 goals:
1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission
2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches
3) Target change-accelerating outcomes
Full article in 🧵...
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science
@tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social
& I spotlight 3 goals:
1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission
2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches
3) Target change-accelerating outcomes
Full article in 🧵...
July 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
How can norms address climate change?
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science
@tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social
& I spotlight 3 goals:
1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission
2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches
3) Target change-accelerating outcomes
Full article in 🧵...
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science
@tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social
& I spotlight 3 goals:
1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission
2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches
3) Target change-accelerating outcomes
Full article in 🧵...
Hot off the 🌍 press: How will we solve climate change?
Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change!
But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change!
But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action - Communications Earth & Environment
Americans support a range of climate solutions, including both policy and behavioral changes, but the public and elected policymakers often underestimate the popularity of these solutions, according t...
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hot off the 🌍 press: How will we solve climate change?
Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change!
But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change!
But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
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1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯
🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.
My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.
My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯
🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.
My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.
My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
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Climate journalists broke a big story during Earth Week with the launch of The 89 Percent Project: Between 80% and 89% of people around the world want their governments to do more on climate change, but, critically, this overwhelming majority doesn't realize its the majority.
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Climate journalists broke a big story during Earth Week with the launch of The 89 Percent Project: Between 80% and 89% of people around the world want their governments to do more on climate change, but, critically, this overwhelming majority doesn't realize its the majority.
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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trevorredcap.trvr.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Hot off the press!
Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?
Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...
Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?
Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...
May 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hot off the press!
Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?
Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...
Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?
Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...
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This is huge 👀
A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997.
When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action.
#ClimateChange
A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997.
When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action.
#ClimateChange
April 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is huge 👀
A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997.
When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action.
#ClimateChange
A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997.
When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action.
#ClimateChange
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🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS
Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally
representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
For those looking for encouragement to protest against ICE detentions: "a fury of protests across U.S. cities and airports... prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Change of Heart? Why Individual-Level Public Opinion Shifted Against Trump’s “Muslim Ban” - Political Behavior
Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may gener...
link.springer.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
For those looking for encouragement to protest against ICE detentions: "a fury of protests across U.S. cities and airports... prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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There is a rally tonight in Somerville at 5:30.
March 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is a rally tonight in Somerville at 5:30.
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Are you working on social simulations of #structuralChange, #transformations or (social) #tipping points?
Consider submitting your work to the Special Track on Modeling Transformative Change at #SSC2025!
ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl
Deadline for submissions is April 11th!
Consider submitting your work to the Special Track on Modeling Transformative Change at #SSC2025!
ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl
Deadline for submissions is April 11th!
March 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Are you working on social simulations of #structuralChange, #transformations or (social) #tipping points?
Consider submitting your work to the Special Track on Modeling Transformative Change at #SSC2025!
ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl
Deadline for submissions is April 11th!
Consider submitting your work to the Special Track on Modeling Transformative Change at #SSC2025!
ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl
Deadline for submissions is April 11th!
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Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today.
Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...
Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...
March 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today.
Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...
Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.
buff.ly
February 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things
Americans are deeply divided when it comes to the details of President Trump's sweeping crackdown on immigration, according to a new @npr.org / @ipsosus.bsky.social poll.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
February 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things
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📖New research suggests that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in healthcare and education access, they become more likely to support policies addressing economic inequality.
Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/hEaj50UYxse
Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/hEaj50UYxse
February 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
📖New research suggests that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in healthcare and education access, they become more likely to support policies addressing economic inequality.
Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/hEaj50UYxse
Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/hEaj50UYxse
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🔑WRI has identified 6 key opportunities that leaders must embrace to unlock a global #energytransition at the pace and scale the world needs👉 https://buff.ly/4hT9WGK
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🔑WRI has identified 6 key opportunities that leaders must embrace to unlock a global #energytransition at the pace and scale the world needs👉 https://buff.ly/4hT9WGK
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Years of research suggested that Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests.
The 8 talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action
New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.
grist.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Years of research suggested that Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests.