The submission process for ISPP’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Santiago, Chile is open! Please note that the submission deadline is 15 November 2023. You can find the Call for Papers, dates, venue, Program Chairs, Section Chairs, registration rates/deadlines, and other information at www.ispp.org/meetings. Please watch this page and your e-mail for additional information and reminders.
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.
Would your university (and city) be a great place to hold ISPP’s Annual Meeting? Let us know! ISPP is now taking suggestions for future (2026 and beyond) conference locations and venues. Please send the ISPP Central Office the contact information for your university’s conference office/coordinator so that we can get in touch and see what might be possible to bring ISPP to your campus!
All attendance and presentation certificates for the 2023 Annual Meeting have been sent out; if you did not receive the e-mail with the links and need one of these certificates, please contact the ISPP Central Office.
If you need the program booklet PDF or other information on the 2023 or another past ISPP Annual Meeting, please see our Past Meetings web page at https://ispp.org/meetings/past/ and click on the link for the year that you need. PDFs of all of ISPP’s meeting programs are available online.
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 web site 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 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.
Search for New Editor for Advances in Political Psychology
Advances in Political Psychology (see http://www.ispp.org/news/Advances) is looking for a new editor. The new editor will serve for 5 years starting August 1, 2024, immediately after the current editors’ term expires July 31, 2024. The editor will be approved by the ISPP Governing Council in January 2024. The transition from the current to the new editor will start in February 2024. A short description of Advances is below. For more information about the editorial position and duties, please contact the current editors (Stephen P. Nicholson, snicholson@uga.edu, and Efrén O. Pérez, perezeo@ucla.edu). For questions about the search process, contact the search committee Chair (Tali Mendelberg talim@princeton.edu). To apply, please email your CV and a proposal that discusses your motivation, previous editing experience, areas of expertise and familiarity with political psychology (and its various disciplinary homes), and vision for Advances. This vision should include your plans for how to maintain high quality and increase the disciplinary, thematic, and regional/cultural diversity of the journal, and any other ideas for innovation and increasing the readership. Please send applications to the committee Chair by October 15, 2023, totalim@princeton.edu.
Background information
Advances in Political Psychology, inaugurated in 2014, is an annual supplement to Political Psychology, sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology and published by Wiley. Its purpose is to serve as an outlet where theoretical developments, cumulative research findings, and discussions of important controversies in the field are presented in a form accessible to the scholar, student, and practitioner. Articles for Advances are intended to be longer than typical journal articles, up to twice the length.
Articles may take a variety of forms, including exposition of a research program over time, broader literature reviews, symposia, and extended theoretical pieces. The incoming editor is free to experiment with other formats as desired. Each annual volume contains six to ten articles capturing the diversity of subject matter in the field. Submissions are primarily solicited from authors who have published an innovative program of research on a given topic or theory, or who are in a position to adjudicate an important controversy in the field. To maximize the success of Advances, manuscripts are typically solicited from authors doing important and highly visible work in political psychology. To reach a broad audience going forward, Advances should continue to deliver diversity of subject matter, methodological orientation, discipline and region.
The 2-year Impact Factor rating for Advances can be calculated based on citations that are recorded directly from the Social Science Citation Index, which Thomson Reuters uses to create the ratings. Advances is not listed as a separate entity in the JCR index. It shares an ISBN with Political Psychology, and citations to Advances articles contribute to Political Psychology’s overall IF score. Advances in Political Psychology’s 2-year IF rating for 2017 is 6.10 (61 citations in 2017; 10 articles published in 2015 and 2016). Advances *would be* ranked 1st of 169 journals in political science, and 4th of 64 journals in social psychology.
Application deadline: 15 October 2023| More informationPolitical Psychology Seeks New Editors
The International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) invites proposals from individuals or teams to succeed the current editorial team for the journal, Political Psychology. The journal currently receives approximately 450 to 500 original submissions per year. It is edited by an international and multi-institutional team of 15 editors (editors-in-chief, co-editors, and associate editors). The editors work closely with the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, to ensure timely submissions, report annually to the ISPP Governing Council and submit an annual budget that is consistent with their Memorandum of Understanding and ISPP’s budgeting procedures. The new editors will assume a five-year term from February 1, 2025 – January 31, 2030, and begin the six-month transition on July 31, 2024. ISPP seeks prospective candidates who have a proven record of scholarship and demonstrated leadership in the field of political psychology, and have the capacity and judgment to carry out the varied editorial roles. Teams with members from multiple institutions, as well as teams from within the same institution, are encouraged to apply. Moreover, to ensure an editorial team with a breadth of views, interests, and expertise, proposals featuring chief editors drawn from multiple disciplines (e.g., political science and psychology) will be strongly favored.
Proposals from the prospective editorial team should provide a multidisciplinary vision for the future of Political Psychology, its intellectual support of the ISPP membership, and international research on political psychology in general. Proposals of no more than 6,000 words should include a statement of the goals and rationale for editing the journal, the prospective editor(s)’s plans to lead the journal over the next 5-year term, ideas for special issues, forums, debates, securing timely reviews, innovative ways to disseminate the journal’s content, and strategies to increase Political Psychology’s scholarly impact. The proposal should include plans for increasing the number of submissions and published articles. In addition, the proposal should include a description of the proposed editorial team, and explain how this group will ensure diversity of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives in the field as well as geographic diversity (in regard to editors and editorial board, authors, and journal content), be inclusive of the multitude of theoretical and methodological approaches, maintain the quality of scholarship, and support representation of emerging content, topics and methodological approaches. The proposal should also contain an editorial operations strategy (e.g., dispute mediation). Supporting documentation should include letters of institutional support, CVs of the editorial team, and a proposed budget.
Applicants should submit preliminary proposals (expressions of interest) by January 15, 2024. The search committee will conduct a timely, limited review of expressions of interest submitted, and provide comments on the organizational aspects of preliminary proposals to assist candidates in submitting the full proposals. The deadline for full proposals is April 15, 2024. Members of the search committee are available to meet with those who intend to submit full proposals; potential editorial teams are encouraged to contact the committee. The search committee will recommend new editors to ISPP’s Governing Council, which will vote on the recommendation at its July, 2024 meeting.
We strive for an editorial team that represents both disciplinary and geographic diversity. We strongly encourage applications from the Global South, and other regions and institutions that are often underrepresented in academic publishing. Applicants are also strongly encouraged to obtain financial support from their home institutions, and teams who can secure support from their institutions will be at an advantage in the search process. Such support from the team’s home institutions can come in various forms and might include one or more of the following: release from teaching for the editor(s), funding editorial assistants, additional travel costs. The prospective editorial team should have colleagues or students on site in at least one of the institutions involved to assist the work of the main editor. A description of the institutional support available and demonstrated feasibility of editorial staff workloads, given other obligations such as teaching, is a necessary part of the proposal and is one of several criteria that will be used to evaluate it. ISPP provides some financial support for the journal editorial team, the details of which should be negotiated with the search committee. Please contact the chair of the Search Committee, Leonie Huddy (leonie.huddy@stonybrook.edu) to discuss the journal’s budget.
Please submit applications electronically to the Search Committee Chair, Leonie Huddy, leonie.huddy@stonybrook.edu. General questions regarding the application procedure can also be directed to any member of the selection committee: Paul Nesbitt-Larking (paul.nesbitt-larking@huron.uwo.ca), Joanne Miller (jomiller@udel.edu), Christopher Federico (federico@umn.edu), and Felicia Pratto (felicia.pratto@uconn.edu).
Application deadline: 15 January 2024
Call for jobs & fellowships
Postdoctoral Researcher– SWPS Uniwersytet, Warsaw
Can strong identification harm the ingroup? Secure and defensive forms of group identification in intragroup relations and group goal-attainment
This project seeks to offer insight into consequences of different forms of identity for the ingroups themselves.
Studies are conducted in different contexts (national, party, organizational), using a variety of methods and covering a wide range of potential effects: interpersonal relations, group productivity, willingness to act for or against one’s own group, group loyalty, short- and long-term group decisions.
Project granted by National Science Center (2018/29/B/HS6/02826)
Responsibilities:
Conducting statistical analyses of survey, experimental and multi-level data (already gathered);
Preparing (co-author) articles for publication;
Helping develop the potential academic and non-academic impact of this work by identifying and contacting relevant audiences;
Managing their own research and administrative activities, with guidance if required.
Requirements:
Doctoral degree in psychology or related discipline, with specialization relevant to the research project;
Up to date and advanced knowledge of social, personality or organizational psychology;
Advanced experience in statistical analysis (including large-scale surveys and multi-level studies), including experience in packages such as MPlus or R;
Experience in publishing research in psychology journals;
Experience working with multiple groups of research collaborators;
Experience with open science practices;
Fluent English skills at a level that enables cooperation with an international team, preparation of publications and conference speeches in this language, documented by previous experience in this field.
We offer:
Employment contract for a period of 6 months (negotiable up to 9 months);
Salary in the amount of PLN 10 000 gross gross/monthly;
Work in a professional and friendly environment, among excellent scientists and influential experts.
Postdoctoral Researcher – Millennium Institute for Care Research, Chile
The Millennium Institite for Care Research (MICARE) is looking for researchers from various disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, nursing, education, and engineering. We seek to generate scientific knowledge about dependent older people and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and about the care and support of these people.
In MICARE, we understand care from an integrated perspective and promote the development of appropriate evidence-based interventions. MICARE is a research centre financed by the National Agency of Research and Development (ANID) through the Millennium Scientific Initiative.
We offer a position of postdoctoral researcher for a maximum of 24 months, to develop research in the line of care versus accompaniment around intellectual and developmental disabilities. We invite applicants to propose research from any discipline, related to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, formal or informal caregivers and/or aspects related to care, support or self-care in said populations.
Requirements:
1. Doctoral degree in any discipline relevant to the topic of this call. The degree must have been awarded between 2019 and 2023.
2. A high level of oral and written Spanish and English.
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology – University of Hull
The School of Psychology and Social Work is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and successful scientist in Environmental/Social Psychology, or a related discipline, with research interests in socio-psychological models of behavioural change towards major global ecological issues (e.g., climate change, human-wildlife conflict, urbanisation). The successful candidate must demonstrate a firm commitment to research-led teaching and will be expected to teach, supervise and coordinate modules on our BSc Psychology programme as well as supervise postgraduate research students at Master’s and PhD levels.
About you (requirements):
You will have a track record of publishing in international journals, enabling you to further enhance the research profile of the School. You will have the vision and drive to develop an internationally competitive research portfolio and a clear view of how your research can achieve impact. Experience in obtaining research grants, as well as establishing collaborations with public sector organisations would be advantageous. We are particularly interested in candidates who can further strengthen the Behavioural & Ecology research group (weblink here) with research interests related to human-nature connectedness and/or people’s attitudes and behaviour towards the natural world.
About the Behaviour & Ecology Research Group:
Members of the Behaviour & Ecology research group seek to understand the complex relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Questions addressed include how humans connect with nature, how animals adapt to their environment, and whether cognitive processes present in humans can also be observed in other species. Examples of the group’s recent outputs include perceptual and associative learning, the impact of urbanisation on problem-solving in wild foxes, exploration and tool use in wild raccoons and voice perception and decision-making in dogs. The group has a network of students, researchers, and external stakeholders, including The Wildlife Trust, Forestry England, Forestry & Land Scotland, and the National Trust. The group also has strong collaborative ties with the University’s flagship Energy & Environment Institute (https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/research/institutes/energy-and-environment-institute).
Call for Submissions – Online SPSP Pre-Conference on "Advancing LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe"
You can now submit your poster/talk for our SPSP Online Pre-conference on “Advancing LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe”, which will take place on February 7, 2024. This pre-conference is dedicated to the study of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, and sex characteristics, and provides a forum for scholars doing research on these topics across the globe to present new findings, discuss future research directions, and consolidate and extend their scholarly networks. Our preconference is guided by four themes: 1) diversity of research methodologies/approaches, 2) differences in socio-political climate between and within countries/regions, 3) differences between the experiences and priorities of different subgroups within the LGBTIQ+ community, 4) laying the groundwork for cross-national research projects.
Given that international and minoritized scholars are underrepresented within science, we aim to increase the diverse representation across geographic locations, speakers, and attendees. We hope to see many of you there! A primary goal is to connect scholars interested in LGBTIQ+ topics across the globe, network, and develop cooperatively guidelines for best practices (to be shared with SPSP, EASP, and other scientific communities):
- Conducting research with LGBTIQ+ communities
- Conducting research in the international context
- Making science inclusive for LGBTIQ+ communities
- Making science inclusive for international scholars
Best
Mik Bartels, University of Canberra, Australia
Rafael Bastos, Universidade São Francisco, Brazil
Diana Cherian, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Mar Fournier Pereira, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Tabea Hässler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Annalisa Myer, City University of New York, U.S.
Yvonne Otubea Otchere, Psyccare, Ghana
Call for Abstracts – Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, is hosting the Third Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy. The conference aims at building bridges and finding commonalities among young scholars whose research is addressing the complex linkages between economic, political, and social action. It will give doctoral students at all stages the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive and well-informed feedback.
Reflecting the School’s broad multi- and interdisciplinary program, the two-day conference will bring together junior researchers in the fields of economic sociology, political economy, and related disciplines. It aims to foster dialogue and promote synergies among those studying the mutual interdependence and complex interactions between the economy and society by providing a platform for interdisciplinary exchange. We invite doctoral students to submit abstracts, especially addressing the following or related topics:
Call for Papers – Transformation of Social Sciences and Humanities with Generative AI, Human Affairs
Human Affairs, an indexed journal published by De Gruyter, invites proposals for the symposium on the Transformation of Social Sciences and Humanities with Generative AI.
Generative AI, with its ability to mimic human creativity and generate content autonomously, has a potential to bring transformative changes in various domains. This symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions on the implications, challenges, opportunities, and limitations presented by Generative AI in shaping the future of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Generative AI encompasses a wide range of techniques, including language models, image synthesis, music composition, and more. This symposium invites researchers, practitioners, and scholars from diverse backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities to submit their original theoretical contributions, research papers, and case studies on topics related to Generative AI.
We welcome original, unpublished papers that contribute to the theme of the symposium. Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:
Papers are to be submitted online: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/humaff. In the comment to the editor, please refer to the symposium “Generative AI in the Social Sciences and Humanities”
All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process by an international panel of experts.
Accepted papers will be published in the symposium issue 2/2024
Call for Papers – The Generalization of Intergroup Contact: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Transfer Effects, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
Intergroup contact is widely recognised as successful means to improve intergroup attitudes. However, we know surprisingly little about its more distal consequences. It has recently been argued that contact with outgroups can draw into question one’s own set of beliefs and provide impetuous for mental change and integration of new ideas (Hodson, Crisp, Meleady & Earle, 2019). As such, intergroup contact is expected not only to improve attitudes towards the encountered outgroup (i.e., primary transfer effect), and other non-contacted groups (i.e., secondary transfer effects), but also to promote more flexible and open-minded ways of thinking generally (i.e., tertiary transfer effects, Meleady, Crisp, Hodson, & Earle, 2019).
The aim of this special issue is to consider new evidence for the generalized consequences of intergroup contact at each of these levels – primary, secondary and tertiary transfer effects. Understanding how contact, in its multi-faceted forms (e.g., face-to-face, indirect, simulated), also impacts multifaceted outcomes is key to establishing contact’s fuller potential. We hope that this special issue will serve as a call for contact researchers to expand the range of outcomes under investigation to better capture the power of contact not only to increase social harmony, but to change the way people think about the world and solve problems more generally. This special issue may also help understanding how changes in intergroup harmony relate to more generalized outcomes, showing the interconnection between intergroup attitudes and the general functioning of individuals. It will also allow to better define the potential of intergroup contact beyond intergroup relations to foster community’s well-being in its broadest sense, designing new paths for research in intergroup contact.
Expected contributions for the Special Issue:
We welcome papers exploring the generalization of intergroup contact effects. Papers that consider outcomes that move beyond intergroup relations are of particular interest. We are interested in papers that consider the mechanisms that underlie and condition each of these generalization effects, as well as papers that test causal or temporal predictions. We are also interested in critical articles that reflect on and examine the limitations of existing evidence of intergroup contact generalization effects.
In line with our commitment to research transparency and reflexivity, authors will be encouraged 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.
The next ISPPNews will be published in November 2023.
To submit your contributions for ISPPNews please send an email to the ISPP Central Office.
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