The submission process for the 2023 ISPP Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec is open! The submission deadline is 1 November 2022. This earlier deadline will allow ISPP to provide acceptance status notifications earlier and allow attendees more time to apply for funding and visas. The visa process for Canada can be somewhat lengthy, so don’t delay! ISPP can provide letters confirming acceptance of submissions to help with the visa process – just contact the ISPP Central Office to request a letter once acceptance notices have been sent.
Save the date for our 2023 Annual Meeting in Montréal: 9-11 July at the Omni Mont-Royal. The ISPP Academy will take place at the Omni on 6-8 July.
The 2022 Annual Meeting page is now posted under Past Meetings and includes the program PDF.
The ISPP YouTube Channel is populated with some content, and we are continuing to add more! You can check it out HERE. Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel – it’s FREE!
Have you checked the ISPP website Announcements page lately? This is where we post job openings applicable to our members, along with some other announcements of interest. Check back regularly!
Are you aware of the ISPP Virtual Seminar Series? We have a series running monthly seminars (virtual) live in the Asia-Pacific region. They are free, and if you cannot attend live, recordings will be posted to the ISPP YouTube Channel, with approval.
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 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.
Psychology Lecturer Position at the University of Aberdeen, UK
As part of the continued development of the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, applications are invited from candidates who have a track record of outstanding independent research, as evidenced by high-quality publications in leading academic journals and have interests which extend the School’s existing research strengths.
We have a particular research expertise on the perceptual, cognitive and social dimensions of human behaviour, drawing on research across the three themes. We are looking to build upon our existing strengths in this domain, with a goal to model mechanisms of human interaction through the application of behavioural science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience techniques. We welcome applicants with expertise that can extend and enhance our research portfolio, including, but not limited to, the use of data science techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and computational modelling to advance psychological research.
Postdoc in Psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
The department of social psychology and methodology at the Institute for Psychology of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, invites applications for a postdoc position (100%, salary level TV-L 13, duration 3 years). The position is placed in the context of a research project, funded by the German Research Society (DFG), involving mathematical modeling of social-cognitive decisions. The position starts as soon as possible. The project is supervised by Professor Dr. Christoph Klauer.
Candidates for the postdoc position will have a PhD in Psychology or a related discipline. Experience in designing and conducting psychological experiments in the laboratory as well as on the Internet and in quantitative statistical methods is required. Skills in mathematical modeling are a plus as are skills in programming Internet experiments and in associated programming languages (JavaScript, C++, Python). Some of these skills can however also be acquired on the job.
Full-time Assistant Professor/Research Associate, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Hitotsubashi University, a national university in Tokyo that boasts the best social science research and education in Japan, established the Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) in 2014 as an interdepartmental research organization directly under the President. HIAS aims to be (1) a hub for international joint research that brings together researchers from inside and outside the University, as well as (2) a center for interdisciplinary research that addresses social issues. Since its establishment in 2014, HIAS has engaged in various international research projects and has seen many first-rate academic achievements. Building on these accomplishments, HIAS is now launching a new project, “ HIAS BRIDGES,” with the aim of enriching the academic community by extending its capacity as a research hub and supporting young researchers. As a part of this project, we are seeking young, next-generation scholars to join HIAS in the role of “ Assistant Professor / Research Associate with a full-time research commitment for five years.” Successful candidates will be expected to engage in cutting-edge research in our focus research fields, such as International Relations and Politics, Legal Innovation, Social & Cultural Psychology, Social Neuroscience, and Data Science at HIAS.
PhD Opportunity in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University, UK
Applications are invited for a part-time PhD studentship (4 years) to begin before 31st January 2023 at Liverpool Hope University. A requirement of the PhD studentship is that the successful applicant will undertake a fixed term Demonstrator role. This will be a paid position within the Psychology department and is offered on a 0.5 FTE basis. The role is a fixed term position for 4 years, or until you have successfully submitted your PhD (whichever is soonest).
Call for unpublished data for a meta-analysis on intergroup contact and political ideology
We are a team from the University of Toronto working on a meta-analyses on the effect of intergroup contact on affective polarization, or dislike toward political others (or partisan animosity, political prejudice etc.). This meta-analysis is part of a larger project led by Zi Ting You, a PhD Student, and Dr. Elizabeth Page-Gould, a Professor, in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto. We are seeking your help in including your unpublished research.
Inclusion criteria:
The groups must be explicitly political in nature (e.g. Democrats/Republicans, conservatives/liberals). That is, the intergroup contact in question must be participants interacting with their political outgroup.
Affective polarization must be the dependent variable (negative attitudes towards political outgroup e.g. prejudice, feelings thermometer, social distance, stereotypes).
Contact must represent face to face interactions with the political outgroup. Direct, manipulated, vicarious, extended, imagined, and indirect contact will all be included but contact in the form of exposure to outgroup ideas (e.g. reading outgroup speeches or social media posts) are outside the scope of our analysis.
What do we need from you?
We will need the raw correlation coefficient (Pearson's r) between intergroup contact and affective polarization. We will use this measure as an indicator of effect size and compare them between studies. If you calculated effect size a different way (e.g. Cohen's d), please provide your metric and statistic and we can convert it. If you did not calculate a full effect size but you are willing to provide the raw data and coding guide for us to calculate r ourselves, that would be great as well.
What format do we need the data in?
We prefer CSV files, but we can also handle SPSS or STATA data files. We are primarily R users, but we can use different packages to read your data. If you are concerned that we may not be able to read your data, please let us know through the open question in the Qualtrics form or by emailing louisa.you@mail.utoronto.ca.
How will you get the data to us?
Please fill out our Qualtrics form. There are opportunities in the form to type in statistics or to upload raw data.
When do we need the data by?
December 1, 2022.
What if your work is already published?
We've scoured the literatures for already published work, but there is a chance we missed your paper. Please let us know of your work by emailing louisa.you@mail.utoronto.ca or fill out the Qualtrics form and provide the citation of your published paper.
If your work matches these criteria, please click here to submit your statistic or data. Thank you so much!
Best wishes,
Zi Ting You and Elizabeth Page-Gould
Call for Special Issue Proposals to be Managed by Guest Editor Teams: Political Psychology
Political Psychology is keen to receive expressions of interest from teams that are interested in editing a special issue or section.Managing a special issue is a great way to make an impact on the field and to provide other researchers with a sense of the research that has been undertaken on a particular topic to date. It can be a milestone for research on any topic. Special issues can have considerable impact. But make no mistake, editing an issue though rewarding can take considerable investment of your time.
Here are some tips before you proceed:
1. If you have an idea for a special issue, please feel free to contact us at any time of the year at this email address: politicalpsychology@ul.ie.
2. Be realistic about your timelines. Put together a timeframe for your issue or section. This should include when you propose to advertise your call for papers, how you will advertise your call for papers and ensure a good range of quality submissions, when you would anticipate expecting decisions on summary submissions, date of first paper submission and deadline for all resubmissions as well as proposed final date of publication. Build in some extra time for unforeseen contingencies.
3. Generally bringing the issue to completion is the key challenge. Early career researchers are welcome to manage special issues and sections. It may be helpful if you can co-opt someone more experienced in editing and reviewing to offer advice and support about meeting the challenges inherent in the peer review system.
4. Many hands make light work. So, find some fellow travellers. Don’t look for replicas of yourself. We encourage mixed gender teams involving those who cross disciplinary, national, methodological and/or theoretical boundaries.
Formal Proposal Stage
We will need a document addressing the five points below to formally consider the issue or section and to progress the call for papers.
1. An outline of the issue or section you are proposing together with evidence that the special issue (or section, which would be shorter) would make a strong theoretical contribution to the field.
2. Include how the issue or section fits the aims and scope of the journal and in particular connects knowledge from political scientists, psychologists, and other disciplines or practitioners.
3. We particularly welcome special issues that are able to point towards practical implications and applications of their scholarship. Highlight the value of the learning that will accrue from the issue or section.
4. A framing of your issues that allows an understanding of the issue that emerges in the Global North and the Global South (i.e., developed and developing countries) and that ensures a diversity of authors across gender, location and discipline.
5. Include short research biographies of the editorial team (max 1 page each). We will look for evidence that you have the ability to bring projects to completion in a timely way even if you haven’t managed or edited a special issue previously.
Not including CVs, your proposal addressing points 1-4 should be around 500-600 words, and absolutely no more than 1000 words.
Upon receipt of the proposal, we will provide your team with feedback, suggestions, or (less commonly) a straight approval. Following this, we are happy to arrange an online conversation if you have further questions.
One last important note
All special issues submissions are subject to the peer review process overseen by the Editors in Chief. The Editors in Chief reserve the right to make final judgement on all editorial decisions, but normally will be on hand only to offer advice and support. Full papers are invited after an open call for abstracts reviewed by the special issue editors with the support of the Editors in Chief. Submissions can only be managed within the ScholarOne system.
Each of the editors of the proposed special issue can be an author on only 1 paper in the special issue (plus a special issue introduction, if the authors intend to write one). If it is the intention of any member of the guest editorial team to submit a paper for their own Special Issue, this should be noted and justified in the proposal. If the proposal is accepted, such a submission will be handled by the Editors in Chief.
Call for papers: 17th European Spring Conference in Social Psychology
We (Wilhelm Hofmann, Richard Slatcher, Marino Bonaiuto, Antonio Chirumbolo, Jochen Gebauer, and Anja S. Göritz) are happy to invite contributions for the 17th European Spring Conference in Social Psychology to be held in Sils-Maria, Switzerland on March 13-19, 2023. Keeping with the tradition of this small group conference, the aim of this conference is provide a casual and relaxed setting for the exchange of new findings and ideas on a broad range of social psychological and related topics. We wish to attract participants from all areas of social psychology and related fields rather than feature one specific field. Based on past meetings, we expect approximately 20-30 attendants. Next to the talks, there will be plenty of time to discuss and brainstorm the details of one’s research in informal interactions with other conference participants in an inspiring setting.
Call for Contributions: 19th Meeting of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)
The 19th biennial conference of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) will be held from July 23 to July 26, 2023 in Munich. Contributions to the conference can now be submitted online.
Scholars from all scientific disciplines are invited to present their latest work on social justice issues, including morality and ethics. We invite poster presentations, symposia (i.e., 4-5 thematically related presentations), and/or individual research talks.
Call for Papers for special issue "Living with Environmental Change”
This special issue will explore how people are affected by and responding to environmental and climate change around the world. We welcome articles that explore short- and long-term implications of environmental change for human behaviours, lifestyle and wellbeing.
Potential topics include, but are not restricted to:
Behavioural reactions to environmental change such as adaptation of individual behaviours to changing temperatures and climate patterns, biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental toxicity, and extreme weather.
Lifestyle reactions to climate change including changes on larger societal scale (e.g., mobility patterns) as well as resource distribution and availability (consumption patterns); or changes in ecologically-relevant social practices and traditions with psychological implications.
Effects on psychological wellbeing such as psychosocial reactions (e.g., increased aggression during heatwaves), phenomena in the realm of mental health (e.g., eco-anxiety and solastalgia); changing nature experiences and connectedness.
We also invite contributions on other reactions such as climate change denial.
Contributions from the Global South are strongly encouraged, illustrating different dimensions of environmental and climate change adaptation.
Call for Editor for the International Journal of Social Psychology
The International Journal of Social Psychology, IJSP, is looking for its next Editor-in-Chief.
Deadline: December 1st, 2022, or until Editor is named. The Editor elect and his/her office should be fully operational by June 1st, 2023 in order to begin reviewing new manuscripts.
Term: Three years, renewable by mutual consent for further terms, starting in 2023.
Journal Scope: IJSP publishes original works of empirical research, and exceptionally theoretical reviews, from all fields of Social Psychology. All published papers are peer-reviewed and published in both English and Spanish.
Publisher and journal info: It is published by Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje (FIA), in association with Routledge / Taylor and Francis, showcasing new lines of research and theoretical-methodological approaches in Social Psychology from all over the world.
The next ISPPNews will be published in December 2022.
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