Our ISPP community is coming together on July 14th to celebrate knowledge exchange, teaching accomplishments, new publications, and novel research projects. After two years of being apart, we are looking forward to our in-person meeting, despite the challenges of pandemic travel and the recent flight disruptions.
Like a village, we come together to meet again, gathering in one place, in person and virtually, from around the world. Our four-day conference has over 750 on-site and 90 online registered participants. Our program is packed with fascinating panels, stimulating roundtables, thought-provoking posters, and punchy blitzes. In our commemorating roundtables we will honour the contributions of our colleagues that are no longer with us; in our ‘regional political psychology’ roundtable we will learn about developments of our field around the world; in our ‘political psychologists living through war and conflict’ roundtable we will listen and share personal experiences of displacement, loss, the challenges of war and visions of hope; in our awards ceremony we will celebrate achievements and contributions; in our business meeting we will welcome our new elected governing council members and recognise the work of our officers that complete their terms; in our keynotes we will engage with inspiring contributions delivered by leading scholars in our field; in our informal lunch and dinner outings we meet to unwind, share meals and enjoy each other’s company. Don’t miss any of it!
Our four days together come with responsibilities. To deliver our presentations, to help with the organization of our sessions, to be courteous and respectful, to be mindful of each other’s needs, and to keep each other healthy and safe. We came together to prepare proposals, review submissions, put together panels, manage hotel room changes, sign and update contracts, accommodate scheduling requests, facilitate standby acceptances, arrange volunteering posts, allocate virtual room access, update program cancelations, consider more proposals to fill our program to capacity, take on chair and discussant roles, plan social events, and deal with unexpected travel disruptions. The generous and tireless efforts of our program and section chairs ensure we have a fantastic academic program to enjoy. The hard and never-ending work of our central office ensures we remain organised and able to tackle challenges as they come, daily! Your commitment and generous supports make our ISPP conference possible. To provide, to help, to develop, to support, to engage, it takes a village!
And we do all this, together, while the pandemic is not over. As we mingle inside the hotel, please remember that not everyone can benefit from vaccination protection; vulnerable members of our ISPP community take personal health risks to join the conference rather than stay away; for them, for the benefit of hotel staff, and for people outside the conference who we might visit and interact with socially while in Athens and beyond, taking basic steps to protect against Covid-19 is not just desirable - it is the right thing to do. Please remember to bring masks with you as you pack for Athens, please wear your mask at all times when indoors, and if you have to take your mask off to deliver your presentation, make sure you respect social distancing guidelines. Covid-19 regulations in Athens require 5-day isolation for people testing positive, to reduce community transmission. We do not want anyone to get sick and miss out on the conference; and we do not want our conference to be a super-spreader event for the city that hosts us. Masks protect us from contracting the virus and passing it on to others; wearing our masks we can all enjoy being together and stay healthy.
Like a village, we care for each other, we support each other, we challenge each other, and we improve each other. Like a village, we contribute to the wellbeing of our ISPP society, academically, collectively, and personally. This is what our annual gathering is about. Τhe ‘Kleinon Asty’ (κλεινόν άστυ), the celebrated city of Athens, awaits us! Safe travels and see you soon!
Tereza Capelos
President
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 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.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Social Psychology, with preferred focus on diversity, California State University - East Bay, USA
California State University, East Bay - The Department of Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Social Psychology to begin Fall 2023. Candidates must have a PhD in Psychology or related field (or foreign equivalent) and a record of peer-reviewed publications relevant to social psychology, with preference given to candidates with expertise in diversity, social justice, and/or multiculturalism. The candidate is expected to mentor primarily undergraduate students and have an active program of research. Duties include teaching undergraduate lecture and laboratory courses including Experimental Psychology and Social Psychology; major and career advising; and departmental, college, and university service.
Post-Doc Position in Social and/or Political Psychology, University of Kent, UK
We are seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Social and/or Political psychology with expertise in conducting survey research for a project focusing on the antecedents and consequences of political attitudes. The post is funded by a 5 year European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to Dr Nikhil Sengupta, titled “The psychology of public policy: Inequality, immigration and international relations (PSYPOL)."
The successful candidate will be highly familiar with major theories and research in political psychology, and will have extensive experience with quantitative research methods (in particular, multilevel and longitudinal modelling) Additionally, familiarity with experiments, experience sampling, and network analysis, as well as applying multiple methods to given research question are desirable.
2-year (with extension) Post-doc Position on Youth Peacebuilding, University College Dublin, Ireland
The post-doctoral researcher would be part of the Helping Kids! lab for a new project, GENERATION PEACE, supervised by PI Laura K Taylor, School of Psychology, University College Dublin.
I am welcoming post-doctoral applicants from diverse and international backgrounds to be part of the Helping Kids! lab, working on a new project: GENERATION PEACE.
GENERATION PEACE is an interdisciplinary, multilevel project with three goals. First, to identify which factors and conditions predict youth peacebuilding, or persistent prosocial action ranging from helping outgroup members to participation in nonviolent social movements. Second, to assess the long-term, generational impact of youth peacebuilding across the globe. Third, the project’s unique analytical approach integrates interdisciplinary frameworks from developmental psychology and peacebuilding, which will ultimately be synthesised into a comprehensive model of youth peacebuilding. To achieve these goals, the project measures constructs at different levels (individual, societal, cross national). To assess causal processes and change over time, the project combines cross-cultural qualitative focus groups, a longitudinal survey, and field experiments, with historical cross-national data. The project’s case selection also provides strategic variability, including both conflict-affected countries, with varying intensities of violence and time since peace agreements (e.g. Colombia, Israel, Northern Ireland), and non-conflict countries (e.g. Switzerland; all UN member states). In addition, the field experiments compare real social groups to ‘novel’ groups; this design enables teasing apart commonalities and specificity across individuals, groups, and contexts. The inclusive age span (ages 14-24) not only examines changes and processes across traditional developmental periods, such as adolescence and young adulthood, but also across generations using historical data.
Application deadline: July 29th, 2022 | More information (Scroll down to Search by Reference Number: 014644)
Multiple Assistant and Associate Professor positions, University of Birmingham, UK
The University of Birmingham is seeking multiple posts for research and teaching psychologists (broadly defined). These will be at Grade 8 (£42,149 to £50,296) and Grade 9 (£51,799 to £60,022).
We are looking for creative, thoughtful and collaborative colleagues who would like to develop their academic careers with us, and who will welcome the opportunity to be part of our research and education teams.
We will consider outstanding applicants in any area of Psychology and/or Neuroscience who align with our school profile and areas of research strength and teaching needs. We are open to appointments at Associate or Assistant Professor level.
Application deadline: August 8th, 2022 | More informationfor Assistant & Associate Professor positions
Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Psychology and Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Department of Psychology and the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invite excellent candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Psychology and Social Data Science. The position is available from 01/01/23, but an earlier or (slightly) later starting date might also be negotiated. It is a joint position equally shared between the Department of Psychology and SODAS.
The ideal candidate for the advertised position holds a PhD in Psychology, Social Data Science, Computational Social Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field, and has a strong academic record across these fields.
Post-doc Position: Social Psychology of Human-Animal Relations, University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia is advertising a full-time job opportunity to join an exciting international and interdisciplinary research project as a post-doctoral researcher in social psychology, based in the School of Psychological Science at UWA in Perth, Western Australia.
The successful applicant will undertake collaborative research as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project “Remaking One Health: Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies prevention in India” (ROH-Indies). This interdisciplinary project investigates why rabies persists as a public health problem in India, building on research that suggests the answer might lie in insufficient understanding of everyday people-dog relations. It combines social psychology with human geography, history, and behavioural ecology to study the socio-cultural and environmental factors that structure people-dog interactions, dog ecology, and rabies prevention efforts in urban and rural India.
Tenure-track academic position: Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the field of Social Psychology, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
The University of Cyprus invites applications for one (1) tenure-track academic position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, in the field of “Social Psychology.”
Research experience in the field of political psychology (e.g. minorities, intergroup relations/conflict, collective action, social inclusion/exclusion, extremism/polarisation) is considered desirable. Additionally, knowledge of innovative methods (e.g., participatory action research, mathematic modelling, multilevel social research analysis, social network analysis) is considered desirable.
Lecturer, Australian National University, Australia
The Lecturer is expected to undertake work in all three areas of academic activity – research, education and service (including outreach). The allocation of time to each area will be discussed with the position supervisor annually and be reflective of the appointee’s research agenda, school and interdisciplinary teaching requirements and leadership opportunities within the School environment. The Lecturer may also be required to supervise or mentor junior staff and undertake leadership roles as applicable. The Lecturer will contribute to the overall intellectual life and positive culture of the School, College, and University.
Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
A Research Fellow is needed to help with the final stages of an ESRC-funded research project at the University of Sussex. The project aims to provide a new theoretical understanding of the social psychology of crowd flight, which occurs in response to perceived hostile threats. The work will involve using archive, news media, and interview data to understand key historical and contemporary ‘stampede’ incidents to help develop the new theoretical model.
The project is led by Professor John Drury (School of Psychology). The post will involve being the lead researcher of the project. Specific duties will include: helping to organize Impact events; helping in the production and dissemination of an accessible end-user report on the project; data archiving at UK data-service; assistance with publication preparation; assistance with ResearchFish; associated research support. Skills and experience required include publication experience, impact/ public engagement experience; data archiving experience.
Call for unpublished data for a meta-analysis on the role of emotions in collective action
We are currently conducting a meta-analysis on the role of emotions in collective action participation in democratic vs. authoritarian political regimes. We have already identified a number of published studies on this topic and we are now looking for unpublished data.
If your study used a measure that pertained to any type of emotions (exemplary items: anger, fear, disgust, sadness, hope, happy, contempt, admiration), and collective action (exemplary items: I would be willing to participate/participated in protests on social media, protests on the streets), we would be very grateful if you could share some information about your unpublished or soon to be published data (including manuscripts and theses/dissertations) with us. We will need:
Emotion items (together with the instructions given to participants; e.g., participants were asked about how much they would feel each emotion in response to their government)
Collective action items (together with the instructions given to participants; e.g., participants were asked they are to engage in five different collective action behaviors against racial injustice)
Context where the study was conducted (e.g., Turkey, South Africa)
When the study was conducted (e.g., 2017)
Sample characteristics (including sample size & type of sample such as students, activists, Germans, women, etc.)
Type of study (e.g., experimental, correlational, longitudinal)
r for the relationship between emotion & collective action participation (e.g., r = .12)
Citation of your work (APA format)
If you have more than one emotion (e.g., anger and hope) OR one type of collective action (e.g., violent and non-violent collective action) in your study(ies), please mention each separate emotion OR separate collective action in the survey (and their relationships).
Here is the link to the survey to enter the requested information. The deadline to submit information about your study is August 1, 2022.
Thank you for your time and for considering our request. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Özden Melis Uluğ, University of Sussex
Nevin Solak
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, University of Dundee
Maria Chayinska, University of Studies of Messina
Nicole Tausch, St. Andrews University
Call for Papers: "It always seems impossible, until it is done": Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post-conflict societies
This Special Section aims to offer a multifaceted look at reconciliation, drawing on research that has employed a wide variety of both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and focusing on different countries where intergroup tensions have risen to prominence in the recent past. A focus on reconciliation is especially timely given the current geopolitical climates in, for example, Europe (Brexit, immigration, war in Ukraine), the USA (immigration), Africa (increased migration and xenophobia), and Asia (oppression of the Uyghur in China and the Rohingya in Myanmar), among others. A key question to be answered through this Special Section is whether the reconciliation processes within and between groups involved in violent conflicts in different contexts and geographical locations are shared. As such, this Special Section aims to offer perspectives and empirical research on reconciliation from both the Global North and the Global South.
Call for Papers Special Issue in CRESP: The Social Psychology of Forced Migration
Submissions are invited for a Special Issue titled “The Social Psychology of Forced Migration: New Perspectives on Refugee Inclusion and Integration” in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. The Guest Editors are Gerald Echterhoff (WWU Münster), Julia Becker (University of Osnabrück), and Eva G. T. Green (University of Lausanne).
Contributions should address one or more of the following questions:
Which psychological and social factors impede or foster integration, inclusion, autonomy and wellbeing of refugees, and willingness in the receiving society (majority residents, policy-makers, administration, and other stakeholders) to support and include migrants?
What integration-relevant responses are triggered or influenced by the experience or perception of migration forcedness and related perils among refugees, residents, and other stakeholders? Which psychological processes mediate such effects?
How are the above processes shaped by the interplay between refugees’ and residents’ thinking, affect, motivation, intentions, and behaviors?
How do social, environmental, institutional, and political factors as well as media and public discourse affect the above processes?
Call for Papers: Researching Attitude-Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
Understanding the coordination of attitudes in societies is vitally important for many of today's most pressing challenges (i.e., global warming, migration, social cohesion, peacekeeping). While shared attitudes have the power to unite individuals and mobilize collective actions on the streets and online, intergroup conflicts rooted in attitudinal disagreement can spread mistrust and polarization. Despite evidence demonstrating the importance of attitudes for such macro-level dynamics, relatively little is known about how attitude patterns emerge from social interactions and eventually translate into identities. This special section seeks to address these gaps and calls for research proposals that explore attitude-identity dynamics in pressing social contexts.
The main contribution of the special section will be to a) highlight the dynamic character of attitudes (e.g. as elements that are shaped by social interaction and that can act as strategic tools to pursue identity goals), b) to advance innovative and transdisciplinary methodological approaches suitable to research attitude-identity dynamics in different interaction contexts (e.g. lab, field, offline, online), and to c) foster the understanding the relevance of attitude-identity dynamics for social conflict and change.
ISPP is seeking for a new Director of Communications, for a three-year term starting in September 2022 with the transition from the current Director of Communications starting as soon as possible. The Director of Communications is a member of the Communication Committee within the ISPP Governing Council, which is chaired by the Vice President for Publications. The Director of Communications also works closely together with the Executive Director of ISPP and the Early Career Committee.
The Director of Communications is responsible for putting together the monthly newsletter ISPPNews, and coordinates with the social media team of the Early Career Committee and provides them with information for dissemination. In addition to these regular, ongoing tasks, the Director of Communications works on various other tasks pertaining to the society’s communication goals as needed. The Director of Communications follows ISPP policies as established by the Governing Council in carrying out these tasks.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your initial expression of interest as soon as possible. If you submit your expression of interest before July 13th, and you are attending the ISPP Annual Meeting in Athens on July 14-17, we can arrange to meet and chat during the conference. After July 17 we can set up informal meetings via Zoom or Skype. A full application, including your CV and a letter describing your motivation, experience, and ability to commit time to this position as well as ideas for diversity and inclusion related to ISPP's communications, are due by September 1, 2022. Please send your application or any questions you have to the VP of Publications, Joanne Miller, and the current Director of Communications, Özden Melis Uluğ.
The next ISPPNews will be published in August 2022.
To submit your contributions for ISPPNews please send an email to the ISPP Central Office.
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