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Mario Gollwitzer
@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social
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social psychologist (@LMU Munich) fascinated by antisocial behavior
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mariogollwitzer.bsky.social
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
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abitter.bsky.social
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
FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop.

Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 17
The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n
Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
We used to speak of ‘sloppy science’ when there were QRPs. Now we have slop science 😔
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 4
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
October 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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chriscrandall.bsky.social
Ecologist Jeremy Fox considers transparency and trust, and their observed *negative* correlation. Are we motivating better science?

H/t @MarkRubin.Bskyk.social

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/e...
#metascience
Transparency vs. trust
Over the years, this blog often has been praised by readers for making the unwritten “rules of the game” (aka “hidden curriculum”) of academia explicit and transparent. Espe…
dynamicecology.wordpress.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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zpid.bsky.social
Unser Direktor @kaisassenberg.bsky.social hat zusammen mit @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social einen spannenden Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Komplexer als gedacht" zum Thema Replizierbarkeit von Forschungsbefunden veröffentlicht.
#forschung

▶️Forschung und Lehre
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/a...
Cover des Magazins Forschung und Lehre 9 2025
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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fabianneuner.bsky.social
New preregistered report @jepsjournal.bsky.social

"Thin" populism treatments manipulate perceptions of people-centrism + anti-elitism

But: some treatments (e.g., "American people") affect perceptions of host ideology, complicating causal analyses of impact of populist rhetoric

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Abstract for paper: Scholars increasingly conceptualize populism by whether politicians use people-centric and anti-elite appeals that pit a homogeneous people against a corrupt elite. These appeals reflect “thin” ideology because they offer no programmatic content and thus politicians must pair these appeals with more substantive positions, termed their “host” (or thick) ideology, which often consists of nativism on the right (e.g., espousing anti-immigrant positions) and socialism on the left (e.g., prioritizing redistribution). An emerging literature has thus sought to estimate whether populists garner support due to their thin ideology or their substantive host ideology. To date, no research has validated whether populism treatments (1) truly operationalize populist thin ideology, and (2) do so without manipulating host ideology. Results from three conjoint validation experiments fielded in both the United States and the United Kingdom show that thin ideology treatments successfully manipulate the underlying concepts but caution that some operationalizations also affect perceptions of host ideology. Shows that thin populism treatments shift perceptions of people-centrism and anti-elitism as expected Shows that thin populism treatments can also affect perceptions of host ideology. In particular, using treatments such as "American people" affects perceptions of a candidate's position on immigration Shows suggestive evidence that people are less likely to use populist thin ideology appeals as heuristics for inferring host ideology when partisan information is included
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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socpsyjournal.bsky.social
New:

Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...
Combining Moral Foundations and Justice Sensitivity Perspectives to Understand Political Orientation Lucas J. E. Köhler , Ulf Steinberg , Maxim Egorov , Claudia Peus , and Mario Gollwitzer Abstract: Political orientation is systematically related to individuals’ endorsement of different moral domains. Yet, current findings suggest that differences between conservatives and liberals can also be explained by a sensitivity to self-oriented or other-oriented moral transgressions. We argue that conceptualizing moral foundations as perspective-specific advances our understanding of differences in moral judgments across the political spectrum. We test a new instrument measuring perspective-specific moral foundations in a nationally representative German sample (N = 2,042). Our findings indicate that (a) an Integrated Foundations × Perspective Model fits the data better than models only representing moral foundations or moral perspectives and (b) a self-oriented moral sensitivity is related to right-wing political orientation, while an other-oriented moral sensitivity is related to left-wing political orientation across all moral foundations.
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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lenahahn.bsky.social
How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...
Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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jinxungoh.bsky.social
Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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syeducation.bsky.social
New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements
Reflections from meetings of Metascience 2025 and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
getsyeducated.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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renkew.bsky.social
🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich!
Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology.
Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python.
📅 Apply by July 15
🔗 shorturl.at/939tP
🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD
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Research Associate (m/f/x)
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June 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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hu-rmz.bsky.social
In next week's Jour Fixe, @devezer.bsky.social (University of Idaho) presents her work on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" www.rmz.hu-berlin.de.... Join us on Wednesday, 25.06.25, 11am online or in person in Berlin. @ibi-hu.bsky.social
RMZ Jour fixe/ Claims about scientific rigour require rigour
Berna Devezer (University of Idaho, United States)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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michelenuijten.bsky.social
📣New Preprint Alert!

Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates.

💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping
💡bad: publication bias
💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
mariogollwitzer.bsky.social
**NEW COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER IN MUNICH** In October 2025, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @tum.de will start a new joint CRC on Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education (www.trr419-sharp.de). 29 PIs, 21 individual projects, 11 Mio Euros funding for the first 4 years.
Collaborative Research Centre - SHARP (TRR419) - Munich Center of the Learning Sciences - LMU Munich
www.trr419-sharp.de
June 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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irsp-rips.bsky.social
🔔‼️ New papers alert

In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social
takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology.
Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed.

A must-read for every psychology researcher!

Available in #OA 👇👇
May 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
mariogollwitzer.bsky.social
🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kaisassenberg.bsky.social
Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM.
leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs
April 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
mariogollwitzer.bsky.social
🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!
Research Associate (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
April 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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mkfeeney.bsky.social
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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robertboehm.bsky.social
Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!
Project staff (Phd candidate)
Project staff (Phd candidate)
jobs.univie.ac.at
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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abitter.bsky.social
Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision?

In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community.

👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy...

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March 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.
February 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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fredguttenberg.bsky.social
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM