CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: The registration process for ISPP’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Santiago, Chile is open! Please note that the early/presenter registration deadline is 28 March 2024. You can find other information at www.ispp.org/meetings. Please watch this page and your e-mail for additional information and reminders.
ACCEPT/REJECT NOTICES: The acceptance/rejection notifications for the 2024 Annual Meeting were sent out on 22 February 2024. They were sent to the individuals who made the submissions, so please make certain to inform your co-authors or others on your panel (if you submitted a full panel). If you did not receive your notification, please contact the ISPP Central Office so that we can re-send as applicable.
NO VIRTUAL: There will not be virtual presentations for the 2024 Annual Meeting. However, there is a section specifically for presentations that will be given in Spanish or Portuguese. There will be no translation into English for these sessions.
HOTEL: ISPP has a block of guest rooms at the conference hotel, the InterContinental Santiago, available at a discounted rate of $155 USD/night (single or double) plus taxes. You can make your reservation in our discounted room block HERE. Please be sure to book your room before 30 May 2024!
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Save the dates! ISPP's upcoming meetings
Our 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Santiago, Chile, from the 4th - 6th July 2024.
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.
Postdoctoral Associate – Duke University, North Carolina NC, United States
The Polarization Lab at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate. We seek a recent PhD with an interest in computational social science or data science (broadly defined). This individual will help design, execute, and analyze a series of field experiments on a platform created by the Polarization Lab for scientific research on social media. The ideal candidate will possess advanced knowledge of R and/or Python software, have experience performing statistical analyses on large datasets, have experience conducting survey research online, and have experience working with natural language processing and application programming interfaces, as well as prompt engineering, large language model training, and usage. They will also work with Lab directors to analyze data generated by these studies, write them up as scientific articles, and assist with grant-writing and other public outreach. The postdoc can be affiliated with one (or more) of Statistical Science, Sociology, or Political Science departments at Duke University.
Applicants should upload their CV, a brief statement of their background and interests and contact information only for at least three references to AcademicJobsOnline.org (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27242). The Polarization Lab will begin to review applications on March 15, 2024, until a candidate is hired.
Additional information about the Polarization Lab can be found at https://www.polarizationlab.com/.
Contact information for Polarization Lab Directors:
This is an exciting opportunity to apply for a full-time postdoctoral position to work on a large UKRI-funded interdisciplinary project on enhancing climate resilience among farming and pastoralist communities in eastern Africa, led by Dr. Anna Rabinovich. The postdoctoral researcher will lead on the Social Psychology stream, which will test a group-based intervention aimed at strengthening community resilience and group norms that support implementation of co-selected nature-based solutions to land degradation.
This is a great opportunity if you are interested in collaborating across disciplines and cultures, excited by the prospect of working in the field and making an impact, and keen on travel and working with non-academic stakeholders. You will also need an excellent grasp of social psychological theory and brilliant quantitative research skills.
The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.
Department Chair, Associate/Full Professor of Political Science – Stony Brook University, New York, United States
Stony Brook University (SBU) invites applications for Chair at the rank of Associate or Full Professor to begin September 1, 2025. The department comprises BA, MA, and PhD programs in Political Science, as well as an MA in Public Policy. Department members specialize in American politics, political economy, and political behavior/psychology (American and comparative) and take a quantitative approach to the study of political science. The Chair will be expected to undertake academic leadership, represent the department to the College of Arts and Science and higher-level university administration, manage departmental resources, lead departmental strategic planning, promote excellence in program instruction, and facilitate the professional development and advancement of faculty members. Candidates without academic leadership experience and a strong publication record in one of the department’s three main research areas will not be considered for the position.
Stony Brook University, one of two flagships within the State University of New York (SUNY) system, is one of America’s most dynamic public universities, a center of academic excellence, and an internationally recognized research institution. Stony Brook has nearly 27,000 students — including almost 18,000 undergraduates — and offers more than 200 majors, minors and combined-degree programs. Located approximately 60 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island’s beautiful North Shore, Stony Brook is situated on 1,454 wooded acres, encompassing 13 schools and colleges.
Application deadline: 18 March 2024 | More informationPostdoctoral Researcher in Political Science – Leiden University, Netherlands
The Institute of Political Science of Leiden University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites applicants for the position of Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science.
The Postdoctoral Researcher will be part of the project ‘EUROTYPES: The Impact of Cultural Stereotypes in European Multi-Level Policy Enforcement’, funded by the European Research Council (2024-2028) and led by Dr Adina Akbik. Cultural stereotypes are often present in the political and media discourse on European Union (EU) governance, e.g. ‘the lazy Greeks’, ‘the tax-dodging Italians’, and ‘the stingy Dutch’, and so forth. Yet, despite their frequency in public rhetoric, there is limited research on how such stereotypes affect the behaviour of civil servants working in EU institutions. The project aims to explore the role of cultural stereotypes among people involved in the direct implementation of policy (‘multi-level policy enforcement’) via EU agencies. More information about the project is available at https://www.adinaakbik.eu/projects/2702-eurotypes.
The ideal candidates will have strong quantitative methods skills (with a focus on survey experiments), specialized knowledge of EU institutions and/or European public administration, and a keen interest in the topic of the project. Together with the project team (the principal investigator, 2 PhD students, and 2 research assistants), the postdoc will be expected to investigate how stereotypes affect the willingness of officials to cooperate with each other and how they perceive the effectiveness of joint activities.
Responsibilities
participate actively in the research, publication, and communication activities of the project;
design, conduct, analyse, and interpret data from 2 survey experiments;
present research output at internal university seminars and (international) conferences;
collaborate with other members of the research team and of the Institute of Political Science;
support the administration and organization of project-related events.
Selection criteria
Applicants must hold (or be near completing) a PhD degree in political science, international relations, public administration/public policy, or EU studies.
Applicants must have expertise, preferably experience, designing and fielding survey experiments. Experience with elite surveys is a plus. Applicants must also have advanced knowledge of quantitative methods.
Applicants must be familiar with the workings of EU institutions and/or national public administration in the EU context.
Applicants should have a strong affiliation with the project theme of studying stereotypes.
Applicants must have excellent command of English; a working understanding of other EU languages is an advantage.
Call for Abstracts – Social Identity Small Group Meeting
The School of Psychology at the University of Kent, and the Department of Psychological Science at Northern Arizona University will be hosting a Small Group Meeting on Social Identity this summer, June 5th and 6th, 2024.
Social identity theory and related topics have been an area of interest for social psychology and political psychology for decades. The impact of group membership and our social identities on our social and political behaviors can not be understated. Current events, increased political polarization, and intergroup conflict in some areas of the world, reminds us of the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms of social identity. Recent research on cross-categorization and social identity complexity hints at how social identity research can help to overcome polarization and conflict based on group memberships. The current small meeting on social identity is designed to bring social identity researchers and theorists together to examine the current state of social identity research, and to foster collaborations and future work in the field.
Invited Speakers include Dr. Marilynn Brewer and Dr. Dominic Abrams.
The purpose of the meeting:
First: For researchers to present new, cutting edge research as it related to social identity theory, or the impact of group membership on political or social behavior.
Second: To help foster networking and collaborative research activities amongst researchers interested in social identity. To that end the meeting will have time reserved for group discussions on future directions for social identity research that can be addressed collaboratively in future research.
The small-group meeting invites submissions from participants of all career levels and diverse backgrounds who are currently conducting research on social identity, or are interested in expanding their research programs. We especially invite early-career researchers (i.e., pre- and post-doc researchers) and researchers from historically under-represented groups and contexts to participate.
Presentation types (all require an abstract submission, no more than 400 words):
Poster: poster presentations can either be on completed work, OR propose new work for which you would like feedback.
Research talk: talks focused on completed work or work in progress (data collection ongoing) on social identity, and/or examining the impact of social identity on political and social behavior.
Group discussions on future directions: develop and propose an area of future research on social identity you would like to discuss with others. You would help to moderate the session with one of the conference organizers. The purpose of these discussions is to foster creativity and innovation in research methodology, expand our knowledge of social identity, and collaboration amongst the participants.
Conference registration (Registration will open March 10th):
£100 for faculty, £55 for pre-doctoral students
Included: Conference dinner at local restaurant one evening, and continental breakfast and afternoon coffee break each day the conference.
Call for Papers – Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition
Social cognition has always been an area of Psychology that welcomes the use of cutting-edge data collection procedures and statistical methods. This quality is arguably a central aspect of our identity as a sub-field. In recent years, these tools – and the researchers developing them – have grown in sophistication to the point that there exists the potential to artificially limit their broader application. The utility of these remarkable advancements remains muted if they are not accessible to the audience of motivated researchers who stand ready to apply them to a broad range of questions.
To that end, in this special issue of Social Cognition, we invite papers that help others discover and use novel and/or challenging methodological and analytical techniques to address questions related to the foci of Social Cognition: the processes underlying the perception, judgment, and memory of social stimuli; the effects of social and affective factors on the processing of information; and the behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes. The intended audience for this special issue includes researchers who may have interest in applying these techniques in their own work, or those who seek to understand and evaluate the work of others who are using these techniques.
Considering the potential audience, submissions should go beyond the typical explanation of a new technique that may be found in an empirical method section. Articles selected for this special issue will (1) seek to break down barriers to entry through an active tutorial of the technique, (2) elaborate the strengths and weaknesses of a measurement or analytical procedure (ideally in comparison to potential alternatives), (3) direct readers to existing or newly-developed tools when possible, and (4) highlight potential domains of application including those that emphasize ecological validity. In keeping with the journal’s focus on broadening inclusion and participation in social cognition research, submissions should also consider efforts to address these challenges through composition of the authorship team, consideration of the audience, topics for application, and/or accessibility of resources (see editorial here).
Manuscripts may have a quantitative or qualitative focus and are not required to include data. If data will aid in exposition, those data may be “real” (i.e., from participants) or simulated, and may be unpublished or published (with appropriate citation). There is a 5000-word limit for contributions to the special issue (excluding references). Given potential space limitations, submissions are also encouraged to make use of supplemental materials in stable, publicly-accessible domains on the internet.
In order to align editorial and author visions, we will use a two-tier review process. Namely, we first invite Letters of Intent (maximum 1000 words) summarizing the planned contribution and how it will address the criteria described above. We welcome authors to contact the co-editors regarding the potential suitability of a manuscript before submitting a Letter of Intent. The co-editors of the Special Issue will then invite full submissions based on their review of the Letters of Intent. Authors invited to submit will also be asked to serve as peer reviewers alongside those selected through traditional methods.
The expected timeline of the issue is as follows:
March 31, 2024 – Letters of Intent due
submit via https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_81hWBIvGXeqq2iy
May 1, 2024 – Authors contacted for invited full submissions
August 1, 2024 – Full submissions due
September 15, 2024 – Reviews due
October 15, 2024 – Review decisions sent to authors
December 1, 2024 – Revised manuscripts due
January 15, 2025- Final manuscripts due to journal
Calendar Year 2025- Issue published
We are excited about this opportunity to increase the usability of some recent advances in the field of social cognition. We look forward to reading your work! Again, please contact any member of the guest editorial team (below) via email with questions.
Call for Papers – Special Issue: Promoting Social Change Through Collective Action Locally, Nationally, and Globally
The Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology is inviting papers for a special issue on ‘‘Promoting social change locally, nationally and globally”.
Rationale of the Special Issue
Recent years have been characterized by several collective action protests, such as the Black Lives Matter and the “Me Too” movements, which have raised awareness of social injustices and moved a step toward social equality. Some collective action movements may involve millions of people all around the world, while other movements may be situated within local communities, but all have the potential to empower individuals and improve our society, giving voice to disadvantaged groups and creating the conditions for their full social inclusion. The aim of this special issue is to better understand the psychological processes that allow disadvantaged, advantaged, and other groups to engage in actions to improve the conditions of individuals from disadvantaged groups in the direction of social equality. We are also interested in critical articles that reflect on and examine the negative impact that some solidarity movements may have. Understanding the conditions and psychological mechanisms that foster social change in our small or large communities is important to empower individuals and create better and more inclusive societies, and therefore it is also important to understand how these processes foster empowerment and (perceived or actual) change.
Expected contributions for the Special Issue
We welcome papers addressing broad topics in the context of collective action (e.g., against racism, climate change, poverty, not-in-my-backyard events) toward social equality spanning local, national, or global community relations. In particular, we welcome empirical and theoretically grounded review articles that focus on the conditions and psychological processes that facilitate solidarity-based actions and/or the effectiveness of social change movements in building social justice within and beyond local communities. We also welcome research on how such efforts may empower the individuals who take action as well as the individuals these actions are showing solidarity for.
Interdisciplinary papers that extend beyond social, political, and community psychology are also encouraged under this call, as long as they clearly address the target audience of this journal.
In line with our commitment to research transparency and reflexivity, authors will be encouraged, but not required, to include a positionality statement in their submission, as well as a constraint on generality statement (Simons et al., 2017). These statements should note how the identities of the authors, individually or collectively, relate to the research topic and to the research context and participants, and explicitly identify the theoretical and empirical boundaries of the claims made in terms of generalizability of the specific research findings.
Timeline of the Special Issue
The timeline for the special issue is as follows:
Submission of manuscripts: May 31, 2024. Manuscripts should be up to 7,000 words for empirical papers and 10,000 words for reviews and meta-analyses, and theory papers and will be submitted through the Scholar One system.
First decisions on papers, following peer-review: 30th June 2024.
Submission of revised manuscripts: 31st August 2024.
The special issue is scheduled for publication between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.
Pre-registration, transparent disclosure of full measures, and sharing of data, although not mandatory, are all encouraged
Call for (unpublished) papers on the interpersonal effects of emotional tears
Dear colleague,
We are conducting a meta-analysis to analyze the interpersonal effects of emotional tears. We are interested in studies that focus on manipulating emotional tears and measure perceiver’s inferences, affective states and/or behavior.
We are currently gathering data of published or unpublished studies that meet the following criteria:
IV: Experimental, between/within-subjects manipulation of emotional tears
Manipulation of emotional tears by using pictures with tears added/removed, video stimuli with or without tears, vignettes describing someone shedding tears or no tears, or real-life encounters with people shedding tears or no tears.
DV: Measure of perceiver’s inferences, affective reactions, behavior/behavioral intentions.
These include: (1) inferences of criers’ agency, such as assertiveness (e.g., perceived sadness/helplessness, perceived aggressiveness) or ability (e.g., perceived competence) or communion, such as friendliness (e.g., perceived warmth) or morality (e.g., perceived honesty, perceived sincerity); (2) affective reactions such as felt compassion, felt distress, felt sadness, or felt anger;and (3) social support intentions or behavior (e.g. willingness to help or approach the crier).
Studies that meet these criteria include for example:
Hendriks, M. C., Croon, M. A., & Vingerhoets, A. J. (2008). Social reactions to adult crying: The help-soliciting function of tears. The Journal of Social Psychology, 148(1), 22-42.
van de Ven, N., Meijs, M. H., & Vingerhoets, A. (2017). What emotional tears convey: Tearful individuals are seen as warmer, but also as less competent. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 146-160.
Zickfeld, J. H., van de Ven, N., Pich, O., Schubert, T. W., Berkessel, J. B., Pizarro, J. J., ... & Vingerhoets, A. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104137.
We would like to include all published and unpublished studies that meet the criteria above.
If you have any relevant studies or datasets please send your manuscript or dataset (including a codebook) to Janis Zickfeld (jz@mgmt.au.dk) by the 15th of March.
If possible, we would like to include the raw dataset in the meta-analysis.
Kind regards,
Janis Zickfeld, Paweł Ciesielski & Monika Wróbel
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