NEW: last week a group of US hardline conservatives brought the National Conservatism conference to London. It fell completely flat. Why?
Because Britain and America are completely different societies.
Key chart: UK Cons are *way* more liberal than US Reps on ~every measure.
A seminar looking at how health information can be more accessible to ethnic communities & inequalities can be addressed, following #Covid19 challenges takes place later this month.
@KUHSSCE's @Psych_Tush will lead the session - places remain available 👇 https://t.co/fURCabV5y8
1/ Calling all researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in #MutualAid and community responses to the #COVID19 pandemic. Join us for our book launch on March 28th at 6PM BST/1 pm EST @UniofGreenwich and online https://t.co/puPR4H9kJR
Pay has been stagnant since the financial crisis, with especially poor growth in the public sector
But plot the real-term wage growth of striking workers on a chart, and it's clear teachers and nurses have had a particularly rough ride...
The methods course I designed, Qualitative Research Methods in Psychological Science, was finally approved at SDSU :')
Unclear if/when I will be teaching it, but here is the syllabus: https://t.co/NX6LAGOvVU
🚨New WP: How can we reduce partisan animosity & anti-democratic attitudes in US?🚨
We share results of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge: N=32k megastudy testing 25 depolarization interventions
Shows effective treatments for many neg outcomes!
🧵👇https://t.co/2LrfQtS5Fa
2. The (moderating) role of candidates’ ideology matters more than candidates’ party affiliation, except during the final stage of a presidential race. and 3. Citizens’ party identity function “symbolically”, and their ideology likely has “substantive” function. 5/6
Political psychologist Dr Kesi Mahendran who founded the Public Dialogue Psychology Collaboratory within the #OPRC - recently spoke with Ella Rhodes at the Psychologist about her work at the interface between psychology and political science.
Small Group Meeting: Intergroup relations in face of contemporary challenges; taking place from August 24th - 26th, 2022 at the University of Limerick, Ireland; Extended submission deadline: July 14th, 2022
https://t.co/nOGVObC2C7
In psychology, we usually try to explain between-individual differences in prejudice and largely ignore the question of why some dimensions of social categorization give rise to ingroup bias while others do not. Our new #PSPB paper addresses this question: https://t.co/ezNlQiKWrb
I will never stop being appalled by the fact that "only working contracted hours & duties and not volunteering to do more" = Action Short of Strike in UK Higher Education
Literally *doing the job you are paid to do in the hours you are paid to do them* = industrial action
I train researchers in policy engagement and very few are aware of quite how many routes to engage there are, so here is a 🧵 of ways to engage with UK Government and Parliament
I'm delighted to announce that @khanson002 has just passed her PhD viva @KUpsychology for her thesis exploring the identity content of US liberals and conservatives - congratulations Dr Hanson! Thank you to Leonie Huddy & @LouisaPavey for examining 1/2