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Marlene Altenmüller
@marlephie.bsky.social
Jun. Prof. for Science Reception @ Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). PI of #SciReLab. Social Psychologist & Art Historian. Formerly @ LMU Munich. Studying #TrustInScience, #SciComm, #MetaScience, #ArtReception & More.
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Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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🚨New publication in JEP:G!🚨 We find that, even when a belief serves as a marker of ideological identity, people do not think it is good to engage in partisan motivated reasoning. Instead, people endorse the pursuit of accuracy motives even if these lead to adopting outgroup beliefs. bit.ly/498S8Xk
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 @marlenevoit.bsky.social...

𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀!

doi.org/10.1111/pops
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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....
Victimhood claims in German political manifestos
Political campaigns often work with victimhood claims—stories construed around an (alleged) injustice that needs to be redressed or retaliated against. Notably, scholars have argued that victimhood c...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Reposted by Marlene Altenmüller
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!

Brief 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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If you are interested in research on prisons or prisoners in the UK, there is an incredible & largely untapped dataset with 20 years of prisoner survey data that was recently released.

It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪

hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...
Bringing closed worlds into the open – HM Inspectorate of Prisons
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
👀 The 2025 German Science Barometer went online today. This survey allows yearly glimpses into trust in and attitudes towards science and its role in society within the German public. This year there was a special focus on polarization.
Das Wissenschaftsbarometer 2025 ist jetzt verfügbar!

Alle Ergebnisse, ein Hintergrundpapier zum Schwerpunkt Polarisierung, Ergebnisse nach Subgruppen, Einzelgrafiken und Hintergrundinformationen zum Methodenwechsel findet ihr auf unserer Website:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/projekte/wis...
#Wisskomm
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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‘It is surprising how little we still now about “what works” in science communication and why.’
Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Speaking for myself, I definitely prefer and find more credible scientific (including social scientific) presentations that don't dwell much on the researchers themselves. Job talks, journal articles, news coverage, whatever.
Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Die Geisteswissenschaften und die Öffentlichkeit – Szenen einer Legitimationskrise

Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access).

brill.com/edcollchap-o...
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Great work by @abitter.bsky.social @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @t-1m.bsky.social et al. on FAIR data sharing in Psychology.

They also suggest 6 simple checks that can be implemented in the editorial process to improve data FAIRness.
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Welcome!
This is the official account of the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology 2026.
Here, we'll be sharing all the important updates and information related to the upcoming congress.
Feel free to visit our official website for more details: easp2026strasbourg.com
Get ready to present your research, engage with cutting-edge research in the field, connect with the social psychology community, find new collaborators, expand your network, and much more!
easp2026strasbourg.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Have you ever tried explaining your research with ... a short story?! 🤔

Believe me, it's extremely gratifying to change your perspective and let your creativity run loose. 💙

Then YOU can be a guest author for @scienceandfiction.net! 😱

DM me for more info 😁
This is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙 where scientific results & fictional stories intersect.

A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨

🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de

Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...

#scicomm #wisskomm
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The ZPID visits Trier University of Applied Sciences:

Global Challenges in PhD Support in Higher Education — with our junior professor @marlephie.bsky.social

👉 www.hochschule-trier.de/hochschule/a...
Internationaler Austausch und neue Impulse für Promotionsstrukturen: Rückblick auf die International Staff Week an der Hochschule Trier
Eine Woche voller Austausch, Innovation und internationaler Vernetzung Vom 22. bis 26. September 2025 richtete das Team des Projekts GIRO die International Staff Week 2025 an der Hochschule Trier aus.
www.hochschule-trier.de
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Climate science is facing significant opposition in the US. Today we are launching the collaborative Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists Megastudy 📈 Find out more and join our efforts 👇🧵
October 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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New paper!

One of the things I love about our findings in this paper is that even children who thought they knew a lot about a topic in absolute terms sometimes recognized that an expert would know a little or a lot more than them. That's a start!
🚨New publication alert: How do children think about how much they know in absolute terms and relative to what an expert knows? with @candicemmills.bsky.social
@ajwilliamsgant.bsky.social
@patelkhushboo.bsky.social @nataliequint3ro.bsky.social

Currently free at authors.elsevier.com/a/1lknv51Y-X...
authors.elsevier.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Hi Bluesky! 🦋

We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨

Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
August 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics.
-> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...
“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach
Beliefs in conspiracy theories are seemingly hard to dispute through facts. Researchers have partly attributed this resistance to certain information processing styles that are associated with cons...
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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[Admin] Hallo alle miteinander, hier bei @realscientists.de ist spontan eine Woche frei geworden: die ab dem 20. Oktober. Wenn ihr schon immer mal eine Woche lang diesen Account bespielen wolltet, ist JETZT eure Gelegenheit dazu.
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🚨Promotionsstelle "Antisemitismus am Arbeitsplatz" - TVL-13 75%, 4 Jahre 🚨

Bitte gerne eifrig weiterleiten: ab März 2026 (vorbehaltlich finaler BMFTR-Zusage) ist in unserem Team eine Stelle im Projekt von @zakfio.bsky.social zu vergeben. Näheres in der Ausschreibung:
www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (d/w/m; 75% TV-L E13)
Am Psychologischen Institut der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Abteilung Sozial- und Rechtspsychologie, ist zum 01.03.2026 (oder 01.04.2026) folgende Stelle befristet für 4 Jahre zu besetzen: W...
www.psychjob.eu
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This weekend, the #SciReLab is at Trier #CityCampus - if you’re in the area, drop by and have a chat with @lenazohm.bsky.social and me about our research at @zpid.bsky.social on #TrustInScience and #ScienceReception! :)
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM