Theofilos Gkinopoulos
@tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Does research in social and political psychology, conspiracy beliefs, intergroup relations and trust in contexts of crises.
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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
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
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
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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...
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Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars.
Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!
Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!
This time in two weeks, we will launch our autumn/winter seminar series. We have an exciting line-up of four online talks covering a range of topics in political psychology.
All presentations are on Thursdays at 12:00 UK.
Sign up to attend here!: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...
All presentations are on Thursdays at 12:00 UK.
Sign up to attend here!: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...
Political Psychology | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Political Psychology is a multi-disciplinary group established to provide a forum for collaboration, discussion and support for political psychology scholars and practitioners as well as to facilitate...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars.
Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!
Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!
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🎈Thrilled to share my first ever solo author work🎈
In this chapter I uncover the relationship between social media, political polarization, and their downstream effects on political censorship.
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In this chapter I uncover the relationship between social media, political polarization, and their downstream effects on political censorship.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🎈Thrilled to share my first ever solo author work🎈
In this chapter I uncover the relationship between social media, political polarization, and their downstream effects on political censorship.
osf.io/preprints/os...
In this chapter I uncover the relationship between social media, political polarization, and their downstream effects on political censorship.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Folks working on the social/interpersonal consequences of conspiracy beliefs, check our call for papers in our new special issue in Frontiers in Social Psychology. With the great colleagues Ricky Green, Paul Bertin, and Marta Marchlewska. Info about the topic and timeline here: shorturl.at/Wlbn9
September 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Folks working on the social/interpersonal consequences of conspiracy beliefs, check our call for papers in our new special issue in Frontiers in Social Psychology. With the great colleagues Ricky Green, Paul Bertin, and Marta Marchlewska. Info about the topic and timeline here: shorturl.at/Wlbn9
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🚨 New paper out in JEP: General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Does adversity make us wiser?
Spoiler: Not by default.
Does adversity make us wiser?
Spoiler: Not by default.
August 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨 New paper out in JEP: General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Does adversity make us wiser?
Spoiler: Not by default.
Does adversity make us wiser?
Spoiler: Not by default.
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Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP!
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August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP!
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If you're attending #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki next week, join us for panels on nationalism and the far-right in Europe and Latin America.
August 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
If you're attending #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki next week, join us for panels on nationalism and the far-right in Europe and Latin America.
Hot off the press in Social Influence, in collaboration with @iborinca.bsky.social! Across 2 studies (U.S & U.K), we showed that exposure to gay men’s non-traditional roles can soften rigid masculinity in straight men, boosting emotional openness and inclusivity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Challenging traditional masculinity: minority norms and the reimagining of male gender roles
Rigid traditional masculinity norms are linked to emotional suppression and relational strain, particularly among heterosexual men. This research examined whether sexual orientation shapes masculin...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Hot off the press in Social Influence, in collaboration with @iborinca.bsky.social! Across 2 studies (U.S & U.K), we showed that exposure to gay men’s non-traditional roles can soften rigid masculinity in straight men, boosting emotional openness and inclusivity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🌳 Preprint Alert 🌳
You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.
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You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.
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July 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🌳 Preprint Alert 🌳
You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....
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July 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Grateful to work on this with @drsofiastathi.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
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Ameliorating War’s Shadows: The Role of War-related Memories and Meta-humanization on Intergroup Reconciliation - Islam Borinca, Sofia Stathi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, 2025
People in post-conflict settings often carry traumatic memories that exacerbate dehumanization and obstruct reconciliation. We investigated these processes thro...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Grateful to work on this with @drsofiastathi.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
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Dags för en ny krönika i @dagensarena.bsky.social. Temat är vandelsutredningen och var den hör hemma, men också den större frågan om att inget parti – med visst undantag för SD – är tydligt med vilken målbild de egentligen har för sin politik.
Släng vandelsutredningen i papperskorgen | Dagens Arena
Vad ser de politiska partierna för mål? Vilket samhälle vill de forma?
www.dagensarena.se
April 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dags för en ny krönika i @dagensarena.bsky.social. Temat är vandelsutredningen och var den hör hemma, men också den större frågan om att inget parti – med visst undantag för SD – är tydligt med vilken målbild de egentligen har för sin politik.
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Throwing it back to 2024 with a #mustreadmonday recommendation 📖😊
Social Norms and Peace; how social norms influence peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
Guest edited by @iborinca.bsky.social, @mariosainz.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
Check it out! doi.org/10.1037/pac0...
Social Norms and Peace; how social norms influence peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
Guest edited by @iborinca.bsky.social, @mariosainz.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
Check it out! doi.org/10.1037/pac0...
April 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Throwing it back to 2024 with a #mustreadmonday recommendation 📖😊
Social Norms and Peace; how social norms influence peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
Guest edited by @iborinca.bsky.social, @mariosainz.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
Check it out! doi.org/10.1037/pac0...
Social Norms and Peace; how social norms influence peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
Guest edited by @iborinca.bsky.social, @mariosainz.bsky.social and @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
Check it out! doi.org/10.1037/pac0...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We are happy to announce an deadline extension for abstract submissions for our special issue until 9th May, please share/consider submitting your work!
@ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bcrisislab.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bcrisislab.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social
Still enough time to submit your work to our special issue in @ispp-pops.bsky.social , about online extreme narratives and alternative identities! @easpinfo.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers–Special Issue Alert!
How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis?
@polpsyispp.bsky.social invites you to submit your work!
🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/4gqPgop
📅 Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis?
@polpsyispp.bsky.social invites you to submit your work!
🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/4gqPgop
📅 Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
April 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
We are happy to announce an deadline extension for abstract submissions for our special issue until 9th May, please share/consider submitting your work!
@ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bcrisislab.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bcrisislab.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social
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🚨 Save the date! On Friday, 30 May 2025, the Behavior in Crisis Lab will host its Annual Meeting at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
This year’s theme: “Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response”
👉 Please register by Saturday, 10 May 2025
umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...
This year’s theme: “Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response”
👉 Please register by Saturday, 10 May 2025
umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 Save the date! On Friday, 30 May 2025, the Behavior in Crisis Lab will host its Annual Meeting at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
This year’s theme: “Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response”
👉 Please register by Saturday, 10 May 2025
umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...
This year’s theme: “Facing Crisis: Preparedness and Social Response”
👉 Please register by Saturday, 10 May 2025
umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...
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What fuels support for the Last Generation & other non-normative collective action? New paper w @lpummerer.bsky.social Lara Ditrich & @kwinter.bsky.social suggests beliefs in a climate-related conspiracy between politicians and industry
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Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action
Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non-normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non-normative. Alternatively, it might be the cas...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What fuels support for the Last Generation & other non-normative collective action? New paper w @lpummerer.bsky.social Lara Ditrich & @kwinter.bsky.social suggests beliefs in a climate-related conspiracy between politicians and industry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
March 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
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New Publications Alert! 📝🎉 Our lab members have contributed to two recent studies. Read them here:
@tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
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@tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
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March 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New Publications Alert! 📝🎉 Our lab members have contributed to two recent studies. Read them here:
@tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tgkinopoulos.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Glad to contribute to the book "Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation & Withdrawal" with a chapter on "Ostracism in the Era of COVID-19:Intrapersonal, interpersonal & intergroup perspectives" with Evangelia Galanaki.Thanks to the editors Matthew Bowker & Amy Buzby! shorturl.at/C1CHD
Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal by Matthew H. Bowker
Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal by Matthew H. Bowker at Karnac Books
www.karnacbooks.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Glad to contribute to the book "Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation & Withdrawal" with a chapter on "Ostracism in the Era of COVID-19:Intrapersonal, interpersonal & intergroup perspectives" with Evangelia Galanaki.Thanks to the editors Matthew Bowker & Amy Buzby! shorturl.at/C1CHD
Still enough time to submit your work to our special issue in @ispp-pops.bsky.social , about online extreme narratives and alternative identities! @easpinfo.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers–Special Issue Alert!
How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis?
@polpsyispp.bsky.social invites you to submit your work!
🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/4gqPgop
📅 Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis?
@polpsyispp.bsky.social invites you to submit your work!
🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/4gqPgop
📅 Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
March 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Still enough time to submit your work to our special issue in @ispp-pops.bsky.social , about online extreme narratives and alternative identities! @easpinfo.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp25.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
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Just over a week left to submit your abstract for @qmip.bsky.social conference!
We have fab speakers for you: @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social, Paul Flowers and @ginnybraun.bsky.social!
Come and join us for our 20th anniversary!
www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...
We have fab speakers for you: @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social, Paul Flowers and @ginnybraun.bsky.social!
Come and join us for our 20th anniversary!
www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...
Qualitative Methods in Psychology Conference 2025 | BPS
This year we make our way to Leeds for a gathering of academics dedicated to advancing research in our field.
www.bps.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Just over a week left to submit your abstract for @qmip.bsky.social conference!
We have fab speakers for you: @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social, Paul Flowers and @ginnybraun.bsky.social!
Come and join us for our 20th anniversary!
www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...
We have fab speakers for you: @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social, Paul Flowers and @ginnybraun.bsky.social!
Come and join us for our 20th anniversary!
www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...