The notifications for the 2023 ISPP Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec went out on 13 February 2023. If you did not receive a notification regarding your submission, please contact the ISPP Central Office immediately. We have extended the presenter registration deadline/early registration to 19 March 2023.
ISPP is aware that the Canadian government web site shows lengthy visa processing times for some countries. However, ISPP did register our conference with the Canadian government in 2022, and filed necessary documentation and received a specific event code that should be included in all visa letters, to indicate you are coming to Canada for the conference. We encourage those who wish to attend to apply for a visa as soon as possible. A link to the necessary visa letter was included in the submission notifications. If you (or the author who submitted the abstract with which you are associated) did not receive a notification e-mail, please contact the ISPP Central Office and let us know the presentation with which you are associated, and that you need a visa letter to attend the conference.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CONFERENCE! ISPP utilizes volunteers to help staff our conferences as much as possible. In exchange for 6-8 hours of volunteering across the whole of the main conference, volunteers pay only $35 USD to attend. A refund of your full registration fee, less $35 USD, is given once you have completed your volunteer hours. This is a great way for students and Early Career Scholars to save money on registration! Please contact the ISPP Central Office and let us know if you are interested in volunteering!
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Sev Bennett, CMP, PMP
Executive Director, ISPP
Save the dates! ISPP's upcoming meetings
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 protecting its members whose academic freedom is at risk anywhere in the world due to the political context where they work or live. ISPP's Scholars Under Threat (SUT) Committee has been working to support ISPP's members at risk. Academic freedom as it relates to both research and teaching is absolutely essential for the advancement of scientific knowledge. The SUT can support academics by providing free membership to ISPP, access to emergency funds for scholars under threat to continue their livelihoods, and access to the ISPP twinning scheme for academics who wish to have mentorship or support from colleagues in less risky contexts. If you or someone you know has had their academic freedom put at risk and feel that you would benefit from ISPP support, please contact us.
Dr. Andrea Vial is hiring a Post-Doctoral Associate to join the Social Roles and Beliefs Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). The Post-Doctoral Associate will be expected to work on a range of projects focused on the psychology of gender segregation, including topics such as such as gender stereotyping, bias, and prejudice; self-stereotyping and identity threat; and gender identification and in-group bias. For more information about the lab’s research please see www.socialroleslab.com. In addition to contributing to research led by the PI, Post-Doctoral Associates at the Social Roles and Beliefs Lab are encouraged to start and lead new projects on related topics.
The start date is flexible, but ideally no later than September 1, 2023. The position is for two years, renewable up to five years based on performance. The terms of employment are highly competitive and will include housing and travel subsidies. This position is not located in the United States or in Europe. You must be willing to relocate to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
To be considered for this position, full applications must be received no later than March 15, 2023. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom.
Qualifications
Candidates must hold (or be close to completing) a Ph.D. in social psychology or a closely related field (e.g., I/O psychology, general psychology), and must be able to demonstrate a strong background in experimental methodologies and an interest in understanding and mitigating gender segregation.
Application Instructions
Applicants will need to provide (1) a CV, (2) a cover letter that describes the applicant’s research interests, (3) two writing samples, and (4) contact information for three references. Submit your application here: https://apply.interfolio.com/119726
Post Doctoral Researcher in Social Psychology, Social Identity and Opinion Dynamics - University of Limerick
Professor Mike Quayle is seeking a postdoctoral researcher (1 yr) to join an ERC-funded project developing a network theory of attitudes & social identity. The successful candidate’s primary responsibilities will be to provide project management and support of activities required to achieve the project goals and deliverables for the “Network Theory of Attitudes” project. The post-doctoral researcher will also engage in administration, project management, grant-writing, ethics review, data collection, data management, statistical modelling, writing up papers, liaising with collaborators, providing support to software users, delivering methods training, records management, and other research activities to achieve the successful completion of the project.
Description
The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated capacity to learn and apply multiple methods, to work creatively, and to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will join an ERC-funded project to develop a network theory of attitudes (see mq.ie/index.php/dafinet/ and www.ul.ie/dafinet). This interdisciplinary project is developing a new theory for understanding attitudes, how attitudes and groups co-constitute each other in networks, and how group identity structures and is structured by attitude transmission in networks. This phase of the project is especially interested in applying this method to understanding how bots (automated agents, e.g., on social media) impact on human attitudes.
This is an ideal opportunity for an early career researcher interested in social psychological approaches to identity and interested in developing skills like social network analyses, agent-based modelling, and computational social science more generally. The project will provide ample opportunities for training and skills transfer. We are looking for a curious and creative person willing to try new things, as evidenced by outputs and activities to date.
This is a specific purpose contract; however, the successful candidate will be given time and support to develop their own research trajectory within the scope of the project and will be expected to mentor junior researchers. The project will have a strong open science ethos.
Essential Criteria
A Doctoral degree (level 10 NFQ) in Social Psychology, Social Identity, Opinion Dynamics or a closely related area (e.g. sociology; computational social science). Applicants that passed their PhD viva or examinations before the application deadline will also be considered – evidence of viva date should be included with application).
At least one relevant publication in a reputable peer-reviewed journal.
Excellent interpersonal and communication (both oral and written) skills.
Demonstrated capability to work independently and as part of a team.
Application deadline: 23 March 2023 | More informationLecturer in Social Psychology - University of St Andrews
We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Social Psychology in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews.
We are particularly interested in candidates who use mixed methods to study group processes. We would welcome applicants with an interest in exploring how group processes relate to, and can help address, societal and global challenges associated with issues such as health, the climate crisis and migration.
This is a standard appointment, with a start date of 1 August 2023.
Candidates should hold a PhD in a cognate discipline and have a clear track record of excellence in research and teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to establish a world-leading research group with links to other researchers across our School’s four major research themes (see: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychology/research/) and with other School’s at the University. They will also contribute to the development and delivery of teaching at all levels and fulfill administrative roles within and beyond the School of Psychology & Neuroscience.
Applications are particularly welcome from people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in academic posts at the University. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience. We strive to create a fair and inclusive culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer Positive, LGBT Charter, Race Charters and Stonewall). We celebrate diversity by promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and the Staff Parents & Carers Network. Full details available online: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/
Application deadline: 9 March 2023 | More informationPost Doctoral Research Fellow – Social Science at Jackson State University
Jackson State University’s Division of Research and Economic Development invites candidates to apply for a full-time social science post-doctoral researcher position.
The post-doctoral researcher will be an essential member of a grant-funded research team investigating the impact of high-stakes testing on the sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and teaching and learning success of STEM students and faculty at Jackson State University. The post-doctoral fellow will serve as the key liaison for all project participants; will play an essential role in recruitment, data collection, and monitoring; will actively participate in all research team evaluations of findings and implementation of project improvement; and will assist in the reporting of project findings to University, local, and national audiences.
Job Duties & Responsibilities: Assist the research team in recruitment, collection, monitoring, and IRB compliance of all project data. Participate in meetings to share findings with research team members in a timely manner, and assist in evaluating and interpreting the data to improve overall program efforts and outcomes. Assist in the reporting of all findings to the College, University, funding agency, and national professional organizations aimed at increasing equity in testing, in STEM, and in other disciplines.
An application should include (1) a cover letter detailing qualifications, interests, and experience for the position, with special attention to experience in current and novel assessment approaches of use in setting and reaching goals that may involve behavioral change; (2) an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae including publication record; and (3) three reference letters.
Application deadline: 11 April 2023 | More information Doctoral Researcher in the Realm of Sustainability Sciences and Psychology
This position is part of the EU-HORIZON funded project Impetus4Change (running from Nov 1st 2022-Oct 31st 2026). The aim of Imeptus4Change is the development of seasonal to decadal climate projections. In collaboration with climate scientists, a team of social scientists will work on how to make such projections accessible for local actors who need to adapt to a changing climate. Together with local actors in different European cities, knowledge will be co-produced by transforming data to information, information to knowledge and knowledge to action. This includes studying the propagation, understanding and communication of seasonal to decadal climate projections, as well as how to make such projections accessible and usable for end users. Research at Leuphana will focus on how users interpret climate projections and associated uncertainty, how such information flows through knowledge networks and how such information translates into action.
The project is part of the "Sustainability Science and Psychology” working group at ISEP. The working group draws on central theories of decision-making and practically develops these in the area of climate and sustainability research. We study risk perception and communication. This includes individual differences in risk perceptions, how different communication formats shape the understanding, as well as how users perceive uncertainties. We also study mechanisms of climate relevant behaviours, including simple rules people may use for navigating the large and complex amounts of information related to sustainability challenges. Our findings help people to make informed decisions regarding sustainability and to effectively adapt to challenges such as climate change.
Your tasks:
You will focus on empirical research about the communication of climate projections, including:
scientific research in Work Package 1 "Knowledge networks towards societal transformation“ and 6 "Co-production of I4C Demonstrators“ of Impetus4Change;
reviewing literature about the communication of climate projections in systematic reviews or meta analyses;
design, implementation and data analysis of quantitative survey studies, experiments, and/ or qualitative interviews;
authoring scientific publications for peer-reviewed international journals;
participation at scientific conferences and regular project meetings;
knowledge transfer: Publication of research results in outlets such as blogs, podcasts and journals
contributing to project reports, documentation of research results and impact management of work packages and the overall project
Requirements profile:
A completed Masters degree in psychology and/ or sustainability sciences or a related behavioral or natural science;
Great interest in empirical, interdisciplinary research regarding climate and sustainability; for over-coming these challenges with empirically validated tools;
Profound knowledge of psychological research methods and inference statistics;
Very good English language skills, in both speaking and (scientific) writing;
Great interest to work with different groups and institutions, including both scientists and practitioners;
Excellent communicative and team working skills
Applicants interested in pursuing a PhD in addition to working on the project are encouraged to apply. Their PhD will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Astrid Kause. Potential candidates will also become members of the Leuphana graduate school.
EASP small group meeting: Social Cohesion in Divided Societies
In today’s world, societies face issues such as conflict, polarization, inequality, and divisions, making social cohesion difficult. A divided society is different—it doesn’t function as well, it is already divided along some ethnic, religious, sectarian, or cultural lines. What distinguishes divided societies from others is their inability to agree on a common process for decision-making and to forge a common identity, making social cohesion an even more challenging goal to achieve. Therefore, our understanding of a divided society not only refers to those usually known as ongoing or post-conflict societies (like Northern Ireland or Turkey) but also to those relatively conflict-free (like Belgium). Moreover, these challenges in divided societies not only impact the respective parties of those societal divisions but also those migrating to a divided country. Some of the questions that we seek to address in this meeting include: What is the role of national/religious/ethnic identities in conflicts? What divides us and what unifies us? How can we tackle the problems of division in society? What kind of interventions and policies may be useful? What is the role of narratives or shared representations of conflict and victimhood in ongoing- or post-conflict societies? What are the social-psychological effects of these divisions on individuals and groups? Where do immigrants belong in such societies? What promotes and prevents social cohesion in divided societies?
This small group meeting will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland as a post-conflict divided society and build on research undertaken in the Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations (CIIR), School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with the School of Psychology, University of Sussex. Together with colleagues from around the world, we will discuss how current theorizing and research in the psychology of social cohesion, societal divisions, conflict, and immigration can increase our understanding of these challenges and how such an understanding can be translated into an actual societal change in these societies.
To apply for this small group meeting, please send an abstract (250 words max) by 15 March 2023 to both Dr. Gülseli Baysu (g.baysu@qub.ac.uk) and Dr. Özden Melis Uluğ (omu20@sussex.ac.uk). The registration will cover conference fees, lunch, and dinner. We will offer a few registration fee waivers for early career researchers and scholars from low-income countries who would not have been able to attend otherwise. Please indicate in your email if you would like to be considered for this option.
Participant fees: Full members £90, Postgraduate members: £40, non-member £110, non-member postgraduate £50
Organizing Committee:
Gülseli Baysu, Queen's University Belfast
Özden Melis Uluğ, University of Sussex
Rhiannon Turner, Queen's University Belfast
Call for submissions for Trust and Distrust in Governance: Exploring the Impact of Social and Political Dynamics
Trust in governance is considered a pivotal element for democracy. In light of multiple and interrelated crises of recent years an increase of distrust in governance came to the fore and became a highly debated issue, both within the public and the academic field. At the same time, however, scepticism and distrust themselves are productive elements within the democratic arena, as it is a key role of democratic citizens or social movements to critically scrutinise the actions and decisions of governmental actors. This indicates a complex interrelation between trust and distrust, the factors that are responsible for these interrelations, and the ways how trust and distrust need to be evaluated. All these issues contribute to puzzling questions that still await clarification.
The processes of the construction of dis/trust take place on different levels (such as the local, national, European) and involve the individual citizens, collective actors such as social movements and political parties, political institutions, and public spheres. To unfold the dynamics of dis/trust and their consequences for democracy it is therefore indispensable to consider a variety of factors. These include socio-economic, political, cultural, and psychological aspects on the individual level, but also reciprocal relations and practices between citizens and various governance actors, political contestations and public debates on the collective level. Likewise, the heterogenous historical legacies or cultural contexts of (European) nations and regions need to be taken into account.
The conference takes up the overarching topic of trust and distrust in democratic governments and institutions and aspires to explore it in all its various dimensions and aspects.
During the two-day conference in Siena, Italy, two distinguished experts, Pippa Norris (Harvard University) and Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham), will hold keynote speeches. Additionally, different panels will be held to present and discuss ongoing research on the various topics and questions identified above.
Researchers from all disciplines indicated above are invited to submit abstracts for talks as of now. We are particularly interested in empirical-driven proposals using a quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approach.
Call for unpublished data for systematic review on inequality framing
We are currently conducting a systematic review of studies that have examined the effects of framing inequality as advantage (or privilege) versus disadvantage.
In addition to published studies, we are looking for unpublished manuscripts or preprints, dissertations, conference presentations, unpublished raw data, and work in progress that match the following criteria.
Experimental manipulation of whether inequality is presented as advantage (descriptions of inequality with a focus on advantaged groups, advantaging mechanisms, or privilege) vs. as disadvantage (descriptions of inequality with a focus on disadvantaged groups, disadvantaging mechanisms, discrimination, or oppression)
Any form of social inequality or inequity
Any outcomes
If you have any studies or data that may match the above criteria, we would be very grateful if you were willing to share them regardless of the study’s results. Please send any relevant work and any queries that you may have to annette.malapally@fau.de.
Please also let us know how you would like your data to be cited in our resulting manuscript.
If you know of colleagues who are working on studies relevant to our review, we would be grateful if you could forward this call to them.
Thank you very much, in advance, for your time and consideration of our request.
Call for unpublished data: Meta-analysis on the relationship between gender essentialism, system justification and gender violence
Dear colleagues,
We are seeking published and unpublished data on the relationship between a) gender essentialism and system justification or b) gender essentialism and gender violence and gender identification for a meta-analysis that colleagues and I are conducting.
Our inclusion criteria include data/results that meet the following:
1. Contain a measure of:
a. gender essentialism or heteronormative ideology or cissexism in either disadvantaged (e.g., LGBTQIA+) or advantaged groups (cisgender men and women);
and
b1. system justifying ideologies, such as general system justification, just world belief, specific system justification (e.g., gender justification), social dominance orientation or sexism;
or
b2. gender violence or gender identification;
2. Permit to compute an index of association (e.g., Pearson’s r) between gender essentialism/heteronormative ideology and system justification or other measure indicated above;
3. Being quantitative (experimental or survey design).
If you have unpublished or nearly published data/results (including thesis) that might meet these criteria, please let us know by emailing Francesca Rossi (francesca.rossi@unipr.it) or Luca Caricati (luca.caricati@unipr.it) preferably by March 19th, 2023.
We are hoping to include as many relevant studies as possible and every single study helps! If you are unsure if your data fit our criteria or if you have any other questions, please write us.
With kind regards,
Luca Caricati, Francesca Rossi (University of Parma, Italy)
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