Our 2022 Program Chairs, Stavroula Chrona and Alexander Theodoridis, and our numerous Section Chairs are approaching the end of the submission review process for ISPP’s upcoming conference, planned for July 2022 in Athens, Greece. If you submitted a proposal, please watch your e-mail this month for notification if it has been accepted.
If circumstances are such that an in-person gathering will have a negative impact on ISPP, or it is impossible to meet in person, we will again switch to a virtual meeting. We will keep you apprised of the decisions as they are made, so please watch your e-mail and the ISPP website for announcements and updates.
The calls for nominations for our various awards for 2022 is out! Please see the web pages for the specific awards for the committee Chairs if you want to submit a nomination. You can access all of the awards pages from HERE.
The application process for the 2022 ISPP Academy is also open. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2022. Please see THIS PAGE for full details and a link to the online application form.
The application process for Early Career Scholar Travel Awards for our 2022 conference in Athens is also expected to become available in February. Please watch for an e-mail in your Inbox and updates on the ISPP website.
Have you checked the ISPP website Announcements page lately? There are a number of job openings posted on the page, along with some other announcements of interest.
Are you aware of the ISPP Virtual Seminar Series? We currently have a series running monthly seminars (virtual) live in the Asia-Pacific region.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns regarding your ISPP membership or ISPP benefits or events, please feel free to contact the ISPP Central Office.
Sev Bennett, CMP, PMP
Executive Director, ISPP
Save the dates! ISPP's upcoming meetings
Our 2022 Annual Meeting is planned to be held 14-17 July 2022 in Athens, Greece.
Our 2023 Annual Meeting is planned to be held 9-11 July 2023 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
If you are interested in hosting a future conference of ISPP, please contact the Central Office to obtain the necessary guidelines and materials.
Call for the Twinning Program
Call for the Twinning Program in English [see below for the call in Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish]
We are happy to announce that we are still accepting applications for our New Twinning Program among Scholars under Threat (ISPP members who lost their academic positions or their income in direct connection with political persecution and/or to members who have been displaced as a result of political persecution). The New Twinning Program has been set up with the aim of facilitating scholarly collaborations between threatened political psychologists and program partners. These collaborations can offer the opportunity for threatened scholars to continue their academic activities, maintain and advance their careers, and integrate into international political psychology; furthermore, partners can engage in political advocacy on behalf of threatened scholar. We are grateful to the 24 scholars who have already expressed their interest to work together with a scholar under threat as partners. We would kindly like to ask our members to reach out to those scholars within their networks around the world who may benefit from participating.
You can find more information about the Twinning Program here.
ISPP is committed to the protection of its members whose academic freedom is at risk anywhere in the world due to the political context where they work and/or live. Therefore, we offer emergency funds to members who lost their academic positions or their income in direct connection with political persecution and/or to members who have been displaced as a result of political persecution and are without an official affiliation or income in their current location. You can help by donating to the ISPP Scholars under Threat fund through this link.
We are currently collecting donations in order to be able to reopen the emergency fund.
Assistant/Associate Professor Position in Social/Personality Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
The psychology department of Université du Québec à Montréal (QC, Canada) is inviting applications for a full-time position in social/personality psychology. Please note that UQAM is a French-speaking university and that applicants need to be functional in French.
Summary of job description:
Teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs in psychology
Post-doctoral Researcher Position on Moral Inclusion, Sentience Institute
We're looking for researchers to work with us on understanding moral circle expansion and related social phenomena. This position offers a lot of flexibility with few requirements other than the production of high-quality research that fits within our mission. We are open to a variety of research methods: qualitative (e.g. historical case studies, interviews, conceptual analysis), quantitative (e.g. nationally representative surveys, behavioral experiments, analysis of existing industry and survey data), or mixed methods.
We are also hiring a generalist, and the application form allows you to apply for one or both positions.
Post-doctoral Researcher Position, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is seeking applicants for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for a period of two to three years. The lab’s research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of long-term intergroup conflicts, and emphasizes the development and implementation of psychological interventions that promote social change in favor of democracy and peace. The successful candidate will work together with Prof. Eran Halperin, and will be on the team spearheading the ERC project titled: “Personalized Interventions to Improve Intergroup Relations and Promote Peace.”
American Psychological Association International Student Scholarships (Student
Membership Scholarship + APA Convention Registration Scholarship)
This needs-based scholarship will provide ten students with a free, one-year membership to APA's Division 52 (International Psychology)—specifically for international students and students living outside of the United States.
This needs-based scholarship will provide two students with free registration to the annual APA Convention—specifically for international students and students living outside of the United States who are not members of APA or Division 52.
Psychology Doctoral Research Scholarship (Intergroup relations in the context of the Arab region), University of Sussex
Dr. Rim Saab is seeking PhD candidates in the following areas of intergroup relations in the context of the Arab region, particularly but not exclusively in Lebanon.
1) The social psychology of collective action has typically neglected the study of popular uprisings or revolutions. The Arab region presents ample opportunities to delve further into such contexts. Projects in this area can focus on the development of existing models of social psychological drivers and dynamics of collective action to uprisings/revolutions, and/or the exploration of novel questions which existing models do not address.
2) The social psychology of prejudice and discrimination has tended to focus primarily on racism and sexism. Less is known about the psychology of sectarianism, which is an important feature of intergroup relations in some countries (e.g., Lebanon, Iraq, Syria). Examples of questions in this area include the conceptualization and measurement of sectarianism, social-psychological factors that help promote sectarianism and interventions to address it.
Knowledge of spoken and written Arabic and English is essential, in addition to background knowledge of the social-political contexts in the region. The PhD project can employ quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
For informal discussion and to request further details about the project, please email Dr. Rim Saab.
Call for papers: Morality and Ethical Conduct (or Their Absence) in Groups, Politics, and Society
Recent societal changes and critical times prompt a renewed interest in morality. Amid ongoing crisis and uncertainty, people make moral choices with multiple consequences. But, how and when do people reflect on their identity-based moral values? This special issue of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations provides a forum for empirical research on social psychological and political understandings of morality.
We focus on: (a) the mechanisms by which people’s thoughts about moral behaviors and moral actions can inform their self- and intergroup perceptions, as well as condition their emotional responses to various situations; (b) how self and group perceptions as well as emotional reactions to social-contextual challenges, can inform people's understandings of morality, moral values and principles.
We look forward to receiving appropriate manuscripts, which should be emailed to the Lead Guest Editor, indicating that they are for the “Special Issue on Psychology and the Climate Emergency.”
Call for published and unpublished data on anti-Gypsyism and contact
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently conducting a meta-analysis about the relationship between anti-Gypsyism and contact (frequency and quality). We would be grateful for any data that we can include in our analysis. We are interested in studies that are either unpublished or published in another language than English (for example published in a local language scientific journal or book).
Specifically, those which fit the following description:
1. The research is quantitative and includes measures of intergroup contact or interactions (frequency or quality) and anti-Roma attitudes among non-Roma majority group members (e.g. stereotypes about, prejudice against Roma, discrimination, social distance, feeling thermometer)
2. We are collecting correlational data, but we can use data from pre-test or control group results from experiments as well.
We need the following information to be included in the meta-analysis:
Information on sample (sample size, country of data collection, language of the study)
Measure of anti-Gypsyism
Measure of contact
Correlation coefficient (r value)
If you have access to such data or be aware of the existence of such data, please contact us Boglárka Nyúl or Anna Kende.
Political Apologies across Cultures - Seminar Series
The burden of the past weighs on many countries, which some may choose to deny but which an increasing number of countries have started to acknowledge through the offering of an apology. Although apologies are often seen as essential to redress past human rights violations, this global trend of ‘reckoning with’ or ‘coming to terms’ with the past has also raised questions. What is it, that countries try to convey in these apologies, and for the benefit of whom? Do political apologies really mean anything? And what role, if any, can or do apologies play in processes in healing and reconciliation? These and other questions will be addressed by scholars from different disciplines in these online seminar series, organized by the ERC-funded Political Apologies team from Tilburg University.
The seminars (SEMINAR 1 – The impact of political apologies - February 4, 2022; SEMINAR 2 – The value of political apologies in dealing with past wrongdoings - March 3, 2022) are free to attend online and will take place from 14:15 - 16:00 CET. Dates and description below. The Zoom link(s) can be found at the bottom of the confirmation email that you receive once you have registered. Here is the link to register.
Obituary for Sam McFarland
With great sadness and love, ISPP acknowledges the passing of Sam McFarland on January 11, 2022. Sam served ISPP in numerous roles, including as President in 2009-2010, on the Editorial Board of Political Psychology, as a member of the ISPP Caucus of Concerned Scholars, and on so many other initiatives and committees that he was awarded the Jeanne Knutson award for service in 2001. Sam was in active service to ISPP and to our discipline up until his death.
Sam spent his post-PhD career at Western Kentucky University, where he was a Distinguished Professor, but his interests and reach were global. Sam was granted a Fulbright fellowship to spend time in the USSR in 1989, and through ISPP he developed collaborations and friendships with fellow ISPP members from numerous countries. Sam published work in several languages and in numerous international journals. He was an active scholar through retirement to the end of his life, and was pleased to have just published a book, Heroes of Human Rights (Cingella).
A deeply caring person, Sam was always concerned with the darker sides of political psychological behavior, including repression, torture, and human rights violations. He has a body of work investigating the psychology of religion, including political psychological orientations of Christian fundamentalists, a politically significant group in the U.S. since the 1980s. With undergraduate and graduate students, he published important empirical critiques of interpretations of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Implicit Attitudes Test. He conducted some of the earliest work comparing authoritarianism across the East-West divide, thereby resolving the 40-year debate about the existence of “left-wing authoritarianism.” Those on the Governing Council when Sam was President recall fondly the difficulty he had with using the gavel to bring the room to order; his predilection as a leader was to build consensus rather than to exercise authority and dominance. Sam was instrumental in bringing attention to and support for respect for human rights through his advocacy in professional associations and his research.
Despite studying general prejudice and authoritarianism through much of his career, Sam advocated that rather than focusing only on prejudice and dominance tendencies, political psychological research should examine what makes people refuse to participate in repression, what makes them anti-prejudicial, and indeed what makes them more fully human. In the latter stages of his career, he drew attention to the concept that some individuals identify very broadly with all humanity, a more psychologically inclusive stance than group-focused identification or group-focused prejudice. His work developing the Identification with All Humanity scale, a review of which was published in the 2019 issue of Advances in Political Psychology, shows the scientific care and thoroughness that characterizes his publications. In several papers and his recent book, he strove to highlight individuals who took extraordinary expansive steps towards promoting human rights and international humanitarian law, such as Henry Dunant. Sam was also instrumental in the American Psychological Association’s response to reports that trained psychologists had facilitated torture of American captives in Abu Ghraib.
Sam was the epitome of hard work, graciousness and restraint, whether presenting research, being ISPP Program Chair for the 1999 meeting, chairing the ISPP Governing Council during his term as President, or reviewing a colleague's manuscript. Indeed, through 2021 Sam continued to offer warm and encouraging reviews for our journal, providing respectful and thoughtful feedback to each paper he reviewed. Sam served and led ISPP as an active member and in many official capacities, yet after his friendliness and wit, his most apparent quality might well have been his modesty. Sam McFarland was the exemplar of humility and humanity, and when we remember our better selves, we will honor his gifts to us.
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