Frank Eckerle
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social
Social/community psychologist at University of Klagenfurt. Interested in morality & privilege, politics of the act, and unreasonably loud drums
On this episode of polpsy true crime: the left-right scale hides populists and other ideologies on its midpoint 🥷
Very happy this is finally out!
Very happy this is finally out!
Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self‐placement item
The midpoint of the left-right self-placement item is hiding important political diversity, and may be conflating moderate responders with populists and other political sub-groups. Survey researchers...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
On this episode of polpsy true crime: the left-right scale hides populists and other ideologies on its midpoint 🥷
Very happy this is finally out!
Very happy this is finally out!
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#PaCT
We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures"
📅 Monday, October 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST
📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z
We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures"
📅 Monday, October 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST
📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z
October 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#PaCT
We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures"
📅 Monday, October 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST
📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z
We're happy to host Dr. Sandra Obradovic for the 20th Peace and Conflict Talk with her talk "The Political Life of Memory: Remembering, belonging and imagining different futures"
📅 Monday, October 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00–15:30 BST
📍 Join here - shorturl.at/J9R2z
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Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
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What a way to kick-off vacation! 🤩
Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What a way to kick-off vacation! 🤩
Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our paper on the role of ideology and national glorification in selective solidarity with refugees (finally) got published in the International Journal of Social Psychology (y también está disponible en español)!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social
SPSSI Journals
This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social
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If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!
July 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!
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Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social
We got annoyed by people (mainly politicians) saying „Europe“ when they mean the „EU“. So we wrote a paper 🤓
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Happy to have our paper published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies! With truly one & only amazing @fmsmallfield.bsky.social, and Christopher Cohrs
👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy to have our paper published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies! With truly one & only amazing @fmsmallfield.bsky.social, and Christopher Cohrs
👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We got annoyed by people (mainly politicians) saying „Europe“ when they mean the „EU“. So we wrote a paper 🤓
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The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub
PCI Psychology
Peer Community in Psychology
psych.peercommunityin.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub
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Happy to share we were awarded a Collaborative grant by the EASP to study the transformative effects of prefigurative politics in the context of the anti-corruption protests in Serbia! 😍 SO MUCH looking forward to this research with the most amazing people 👇
April 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy to share we were awarded a Collaborative grant by the EASP to study the transformative effects of prefigurative politics in the context of the anti-corruption protests in Serbia! 😍 SO MUCH looking forward to this research with the most amazing people 👇
Normative fit exemplified by a Kebab place in Oslo. Or is it a Trattoria?
April 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Normative fit exemplified by a Kebab place in Oslo. Or is it a Trattoria?
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Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
March 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
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I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa.
Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Research suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c...
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March 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa.
Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems
A challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
Amazing read.
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“
I spoke with Kristin Ross about her recent book "The Commune Form," and about the joy and pleasure of building non-accumulative forms of life. May a million communes bloom www.e-flux.com/journal/151/...
The Commune Form: A Conversation - Journal #151
Kristin Ross interviewed by Andreas Petrossiants about her recent book The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life.
www.e-flux.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Amazing read.
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“
„Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you‘re not following the state‘s agenda or terms.“
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There is no "common ground" with fascism.
February 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
There is no "common ground" with fascism.
Schreibt eurem/eurer CDU Abgeordneten und macht Druck für die Abstimmung am Freitag! 📧 Hier gibt es sogar eine Vorlage (die Email war mir aber etwas zu milde formuliert):
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Keine Abstimmungen mit Rechtsextremen! - Social Action Tool
In der Woche des Holocaustgedenktags greift die CDU das Asylrecht an. Das ist geschichtsvergessen!
Zahlreiche Jüdinnen und Juden versuchten, vor den Nazis zu fliehen und baten um Asyl- meist vergeben...
action.lnob.net
January 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Schreibt eurem/eurer CDU Abgeordneten und macht Druck für die Abstimmung am Freitag! 📧 Hier gibt es sogar eine Vorlage (die Email war mir aber etwas zu milde formuliert):
action.lnob.net/kampagne/we-...
action.lnob.net/kampagne/we-...
unexpected beauty in track changes 🌈
January 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
unexpected beauty in track changes 🌈
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"Questionable gesture", "strange gesture", "supposed "hitler salute"". What's wrong with German media. It does not matter if this person is a sick meme Idiot or whatever you interpret into this.
Cowards.
Cowards.
January 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"Questionable gesture", "strange gesture", "supposed "hitler salute"". What's wrong with German media. It does not matter if this person is a sick meme Idiot or whatever you interpret into this.
Cowards.
Cowards.
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
January 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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Interesting special collection on "innovative qualitative research methods conducted across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging economies contexts." All the articles included in this volume are open access.
January 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Interesting special collection on "innovative qualitative research methods conducted across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging economies contexts." All the articles included in this volume are open access.