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Chris Hopwood
@chopwood.bsky.social
UZH Psychology Professor
Personality, Interpersonal Processes, Human-Animal Intergroup Relations

Editor https://phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/phair
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New preprint!

Many claim that first sex is a huge risk for teens. We tested that claim in a large, nationally representative German sample. Core question: Do first sexual experiences harm adolescents, or do they reflect prior well-being?

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November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Special Issue 'Personality Dynamics'! We are happy to share this special issue from the Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie looking at interpersonal dynamics, motivational conflicts, and personality functioning in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
October 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Interested in finding out about how people think about plant-based meat alternatives across 23 countries? Well look no further (doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...)! Interesting gender, age, and meat consumption effects! #PBMA #futurefoods @chopwood.bsky.social @joaograca.bsky.social
Redirecting
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October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al.

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September 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Wie verändert sich unsere Persönlichkeit über ein Jahr? Dazu starten wir heute eine neue Studie und suchen nach Teilnehmenden zwischen 18-40 Jahren, die Interesse haben, Einblicke in ihre Persönlichkeit, Wohlbefinden und Verhalten über ein Jahr zu erhalten und bis zu 173 CHF (~185€) zu verdienen.
August 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Awesome discussion with Editor-in-Chief of @phair-society.bsky.social, Prof. Hopwood (@chopwood.bsky.social) of @ethz.ch
Listen on youtube and all major podcast platforms or on our website:

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#humans #animals #psychology #podcast
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July 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Podcast recommendation: Listen to @chopwood.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of our journal "Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations", over at @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social. Chris discusses the journal’s focus as well as his research on how we perceive and treat animals.
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Check out this chat about the psychology of human animal intergroup relations on the smooth brain podcast

@phair-society.bsky.social
@smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social

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#66. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations – Prof. Dr. Christopher J. Hopwood – Smooth Brain Society
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June 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. We're looking for unpublished research such as theses, unpublished manuscripts, conference submissions etc.
Full call for data: tinyurl.com/4hur45cw
Please reskeet, or message me if you know unpublished research!
MA solitude: Call for unpublished data
Meta-analysis on solitude: Call for unpublished data Dear colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. Currently, we are looking for unpublished r...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy.

First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium.

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Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues
This essay introduces a symposium on two books that engage in debates in both liberal political philosophy and food ethics, Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s Healthy Eating Policy and Political Ph...
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May 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📚In an interview with Dominic Lemken, we discuss the nuances of nudging in practice, when aiming to reduce meat consumption.

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#nudgetheory #foodchoice #vegan
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
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April 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Interpersonal assessment enables reliable distinctions between problems, sensitivities, values, and efficacies along the same elevation/agency/communion dimensions

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Distinguishing Interpersonal Problems, Sensitivities, Values, and Efficacies
Covariation among the octant scales of Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) measures can be accounted for by a general elevation factor and two stylistic factors that can be rotated to reflect dominance ...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hard agree with @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social

I value feedback from students a lot and regularly change my approach based on their helpful suggestions, but the way they do teaching evaluations in North America are really bad for both equity and education.

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It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Nature Reviews Psychology - Student teaching evaluations are discriminatory against women and racialized groups, exhibit poor construct and predictive validity, and undermine teaching and learning...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Congratulations to @renemottus.bsky.social on receiving the National Science Prize in Social Sciences for his research on personality psychology. Well-deserved recognition for impactful research! Read more here: edin.ac/3E0xN9s
#psychology #research #impact #researchimpact #personalitypsychology
Psychology Professor ‘Honoured’ to Receive Prestigious Award
Congratulations to Professor of Personality and Social Psychology René Mõttus who was awarded the National Science Prize in the Field of Social Sciences by the Government of Estonia.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Translating clinical
psychology research to practice could improve mental health care but it is challenging. Researchers often frame the problem in terms of uptake failure by clinicians. But are they doing clinically useful research? In press, American psychologist

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April 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
People with more interpersonal problems have poorer therapy outcomes, consistent with interpersonal model of PD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interpersonal problems as a predictor of treatment outcome in adult depression: An individual participant data meta-analysis
Interpersonal problems are a fundamental feature of depression, but study-level meta-analyses of their association with treatment outcome have been li…
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March 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
demographic correlates of attitudes about plant based proteins weaker in eastern v western countries and they are not seen as competing with animal foods as much; important implications for animal advocacy across cultures

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Familiarity and satisfaction with plant-based meat alternatives around the world
Meat consumption around the world is increasing, especially in economically developing countries (e.g., China). There is compelling evidence that the …
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March 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Uncovering the structure of psychopathology through large scale text analysis

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March 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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New preprint!

Ever heard that personality doesn't change? Do you believe that? (you shouldn't)

Using data from an online survey (n = 887) & eight longitudinal datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences (1/8)
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March 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM