#MeetTheTeam
! In this new tweet series we will be presenting all our amazing team members, in no specific order*
Follow the 🧵 to learn more about us, our work, and what keeps us passionate about research - starting Monday
*actually, in a very specific order. Details below!
🎉 We just hit 40 rejections (as a lab) which means time for our second
#Rejection
party! Scaling it up to a meal out this time 😋. Kudos for all the hard work submitting papers, applying to grants, and failing all the way! Only by trying can you success ✨️✨️
#AcademicChatter
🎊 Just had our first
#Rejection
Party! We collectively keep track of all our work that gets rejected (papers, grant applications...) and when we reach 20 we party to celebrate all our hard work! Featuring signature cocktails thanks to
@ChrBuettner
👏
🎊 Just had our first
#Rejection
Party! We collectively keep track of all our work that gets rejected (papers, grant applications...) and when we reach 20 we party to celebrate all our hard work! Featuring signature cocktails thanks to
@ChrBuettner
👏
So our little
#RejectionParty
post went viral, and we've juste been designed Basel-person-of-the-day (Basler*innen des Tages) by the local newspaper 🥲. Rejection is truly everywhere!
🎉 We just hit 40 rejections (as a lab) which means time for our second
#Rejection
party! Scaling it up to a meal out this time 😋. Kudos for all the hard work submitting papers, applying to grants, and failing all the way! Only by trying can you success ✨️✨️
#AcademicChatter
📢 Recruiting (again!) We are very happy to announce the opening of a second PhD position in our lab, this time on the topic of social exclusion (focus on societal aspects). Deadline for application: October 15, 2023. Full ad: 🔁RT appreciated!
Pint of Science
@pintofscienceCH
is coming to Basel! We're mega excited that our colleague Mariela Jaffé is participating with her talk "What is
#diversity
and when do we choose it?"
Join us at VoltaBräu on May 11th for her talks and many more! 🤓🍻
📢 The Bernoulli Network for the Behavioral Sciences at
@UniBasel_en
is pleased to announce the 10th
Bernoulli Lecture for the Behavioral Sciences. Prof
@Karen_Douglas
will speak on The Psychology of
Conspiracy Theories. Event free & open, please register
@StephenClift
Fully agree. Our general impression is that this 'rejection celebration' mentality has made us bolder and more willing to try higher journals / prestigious grants. Sometimes we fail, and we go elsewhere, but sometimes we're pleasantly surprised! I think that's the entire idea.
We're extremely excited that our very own Rainer Greifeneder
@R_Greifeneder
is now a
@SPSPnews
Fellow, joining the "group of trailblazers who have made major contributions to personality and social psychology" and "drive our field forward". Congratulations Rainer!!! 👏👏👏
Job alert 📢 we are recruiting for a full-time PhD position as part of an exciting research project on interpersonal and generalized
#trust
funded by the
@snsf_ch
. Deadline for application: Sept 30th. Detail in the ad below ⬇️
And...we're live! The Centre for Social Psychology at
@UniBasel_en
is excited to take its first steps on Twitter. We will be sharing news about social psychology, our team's research, and life in the lab in our beautiful city of Basel 🇨🇭 Follow us for more news to come soon!
This week we had the great pleasure of welcoming Prof.
@Karen_Douglas
to Basel for the 10th Bernoulli Lecture (organised by the Bernoulli Network for the Behavioral Sciences
@UniBasel_en
). Many thanks to Karen for a fantastic talk! 👏 - and until next year!
ESCON
#escon2022milano
starts tomorrow! Social Psych Lab Basel will be well represented with no less than THREE fantastic talks about social exclusion. Don’t miss the session, happening Tuesday morning in Room 9, to hear about
@EAlbath
@Melissa_Jauch
&
@ChrBuettner
's research! 📢
@Melissa_Jauch
GOT HER 1st FIRST-AUTHOR PAPER ACCEPTED 🎉 ! And this one was quite the monster, so we got Melissa an actual tiny monster to commemorate this day. And cake. And sunshine. All so well deserved 👏👏 It's a good day!
#AcademicChatter
Just a few more days before
@easp2023krk
🇵🇱! Many of us will be in Krakow to present our work and we're ALL very excited. Diverse talks on many topics so don't miss out 👇 !! See you all very soon 🤩🤩🤩
📣New paper out!
@ChrBuettner
@FannyLalot
and
@SelmaRudert
bring you the Desire To Belong Publicly scale, a new instrument assessing how much people like to display social belonging on social media. Read it
#OpenAccess
here! 👇
Heading to
#SPSP2023
? Lab members
@ChrBuettner
and
@EAlbath
too! 🎉They'll happily tell you all about their research on
#ostracism
- Don't miss out their poster presentations on Sat, Feb. 25th. Poster session E from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Hyatt Grand Hall
The 9th Social Economic and Decision Psychology PhD Conference
@UniBasel_en
took place last week! Such a pleasure to finally meet again in person, welcome new members, and discover so many fascinating different topics, from individual semantic networks to sustainable behavior👏👏
HUGE congratulations to
@Melissa_Jauch
who defended her PhD thesis this week! 🎓 The entire lab is immensely proud 💙 It was a fantastic defense to conclude an equally fantastic PhD journey. Congrats Melissa!!
🥐 After a collectively CRAZY past week (involving TWO grant submissions, an official university visit, mini-conference + usual teaching & researching) the team gathered for breakfast this morning! Congrats to everyone for putting in such hard work. Y'all positively awesome 🧡
Did you ever flip a coin to make a decision 🪙 and then, looking at the coin, suddenly had a feeling of knowing what you ACTUALLY wanted? Our new paper
#openaccess
in Acta Psychologica
@ELSpsychology
investigates how a coin flip can impact decisions:
After months of planning, it is finally time for the 10th Bernoulli Lecture for the Behavioral Sciences
@UniBasel_en
! Join us this Wednesday for
@Karen_Douglas
talk on The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories! Info and link to registration below 👇
📢 The Bernoulli Network for the Behavioral Sciences at
@UniBasel_en
is pleased to announce the 10th
Bernoulli Lecture for the Behavioral Sciences. Prof
@Karen_Douglas
will speak on The Psychology of
Conspiracy Theories. Event free & open, please register
A week ago, our very own Elianne Albath
@EAlbath
brilliantly defended her PhD thesis 🎉. She will stay with us a bit longer as a postdoc and we couldn't be happier. Congratulations Elianne!!! 👏👏👏
We're very happy to officially welcome Anna-Marie Bertram
@ambbasel
as a new PhD student in the lab, starting today! Anna-Marie will be supervised by
@R_Greifeneder
and
@FannyLalot
. We're very excited to have you Anna-Marie, WELCOME! 👏
Delighted to welcome Anatolia Batruch
@Anatolia_b
to our SED-PSY research seminar today! Anatolia presented her fantastic work on the reproduction of social class
#inequalities
through
#school
meritocracy 🤓
New paper alert 🎉 Our very own Mariela Jaffé & former lab members Loris Jeitziner
@jeitzi93
, Matt Keller and
@mirella__walker
just had a paper published
#openaccess
in JESP! Link below 👇
🧠 Extremely happy to have
@VincentYzerbyt
visiting us in Basel this week! We organised a social psychology mini-conference to make the most of Vincent’s visit and pick his brain -- featuring presentations from
@EAlbath
,
@Melissa_Jauch
and
@FannyLalot
What a fantastic line of talks at
#SIBrussels
!
@FannyLalot
just presented her research on motivation and in- / out-group trust. Three studies in < 2 min. It's more than a Blitz - it's a Bullet talk!
The lab reunited! 😍 The four of us hadn't been all together for almost a year due to various (and overlapping) research stays abroad. YAY!! 🤩🤩
#easp2023krk
What's that? More conferences you say?! Sure! The Swiss Psychological Society Conference
#sps2022z
ürich starts tomorrow and
@FannyLalot
will be there to present her work on environmental behaviour, moral licensing and regulatory focus
➡️Poster 3.03, Monday Sept. 5th 15:30-17:00🕒
Our team met for Journal Club today, on the theme of
#Dehumanization
and
#Macaron
. First time we made the paper's keyword rhymes with the positive-reinforcement-treat we give ourselves... Might we be onto something?! 📰🤓🧁
Lab member
@FannyLalot
was recently interviewed by UniNews
@UniBasel_en
! Discover Fanny's portrait, research interests and other interesting facts in the article!
We just concluded our first MovieNight, an event with and for our psychology students, screening & discussing movies from a psychological perspective 🧠🎥 Many thanks to all involved! Until next time 🎬
👏 Immensely proud of
@bogatyreva_nat
who just published her first first-author (and in fact solo-author!) paper! Natalia investigated pro-state
#conspiracy
theory beliefs in
#Russia
. You can discover her fascinating paper here 👇. Congratulations Natalia!
Almost two years ago, on 24 February 2022, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began. On 23 February 2024, my paper on the belief in prostate conspiracy theories in Russia was published, linking these events closely.
Mentally bracing for bad outcomes can help to make the experience of a bad outcome less aversive. Does this also apply in the case of social exclusion? Our latest research together w/
@ChrBuettner
,
@SelmaRudert
&
@R_Greifeneder
suggests not. (1/2)
Today, we had the honor to have Michael Bernstein
@PsychDocB1
as a guest speaker in our colloquium! Michael presented fascinating research on issues of exclusion and evaluation of single-group protesters
🪧👥📢
Bringing some Geneva traditions to the lab! Today we celebrated L'Escalade, the commemoration of a failed attempt from the French to invade Geneva in 1602. Celebrating is easy: you just need to smash this chocolate "Marmite" (soup pot) into pieces and eat it! With Glühmost oc 😋
🎬 And that's a wrap! Congratulations to all lecturers and readers and other teachers on ending another successful semester! And now to the summer ☀️ (please?!)
Our team had a blast tonight at the
@pintofscienceCH
evening in Basel! And our research assistants NAILED the pub quizz that followed and finished 1st and 2nd 🎉. What more can we ask for?! Thanks to the Pint of Science organisers for a great evening! 🍻🧠
Hello 2023, we're back! 2⃣0⃣2⃣3⃣✨ Starting strong this week: Our very own
@R_Greifeneder
gave a talk to
@LPS_Paris5
, presenting his work on social exclusion ! 👏
🤓🧑🏫 For the first seminar of 2023, the
@LPS_Paris5
was thrilled to listen to Pr.
@R_Greifeneder
's fascinating presentation about social exclusion.
Thank you very much Rainer! 👏
📊 PhD students from the
@UniBasel_en
PhD program Society and Choice presented their work in the 10th PhD Conference today! Congrats to all and especially to lab members
@bogatyreva_nat
,
@annamariebrtrm
and
@ChrBuettner
for wonderful presentations 👏
👏 Congratulations to
@FannyLalot
who's joining the editorial board of
@GPIR_SAGE
! GPIR is a fantastic journal so...consider sending them your best work! 🤓
@GPIR_SAGE
are thrilled to welcome
@FannyLalot
as our newest Associate Editor. We look forward to the expertise and experience Fanny will bring to our editorial board!
Job alert 📢 we are recruiting for a full-time PhD position as part of an exciting research project on interpersonal and generalized
#trust
funded by the
@snsf_ch
. Deadline for application: Sept 30th. Detail in the ad below ⬇️
We're very excited for our 8th PhD conference of the common PhD Programme
@UniBasel_en
happening today! Our PhD students have the opportunity to present their work in progress and share experiences with the larger group 👥👥👥
Elianne Albath
@EAlbath
presents her work on social exclusion experiences among (un)employed individuals at
#SASP2022
! Congrats to Elianne on a great talk 👏👏
Melissa Jauch
@Melissa_Jauch
will present research that explores why reactions to social exclusion by a computer are similar to reactions to exclusion by other humans (w/
@SelmaRudert
&
@R_Greifeneder
) 🤖🤖
🎄 The Social Psychology Lab wish you all a restful break and a happy holiday season!
(Illustration courtesy of DALL-E, who thought this reflected "social psychology" and "the holidays". We'll let you judge... 🤓)
It's conference season! 📢 This week, lab member
@FannyLalot
will present her work on motivation, self-licensing, and environmental behaviour at
@icep2023
in Aarhus! Don't miss her talk: Motivation session, June 22nd (Thursday), 15:00-16:15 in the Richard Mortensen Stuen room 🍃
🎬 And that's a wrap! We concluded our lecture "Understand the world with social psychology" for this term - a team effort with a different lecturer every week presenting a different topic 🤓. Well done all!
Our "Christmas" turned "new year" turned "spring" team event could finally happened! We had a lovely cooking class evening at CO13, followed by a delicious dinner. A multitalented team! 👨🍳👩🍳🍲
And last but not least, Christiane Büttner
@ChrBuettner
will talk about narcissism as a risk factor for more frequent ostracism (w/
@SelmaRudert
&
@R_Greifeneder
) 👨🦱🪞. See you there!
Such an honour to host Linda Steg tonight for a Bernoulli Lecture / 10th anniversary of our PhD program! We have a full room in the beautiful Klingental Museum for Linda's talk on Encouraging Climate Action 🌏
We have a new(-ish) recruit in the lab! Natalia
@reservoir_reine
joined us in December 2022 - the occasion to revive our members-presentation-thread. Discover Natalia's description and self-defining meme here 👇
...and WELCOME again Natalia! ☺️
#MeetTheTeam
!
@reservoir_reine
Natalia Bogatyreva joined the team in December 2022 to work on a large survey data concerning the frequency of ostracism in Europe. Besides that, she likes to study conspiracy beliefs and get confused with Bayesian analysis.
Happy to have just reached 200 followers here on Twitter 🎉 - but even more excited by who those 200 are (quality > quantity, we think 🤓). We have some exciting news and tweets coming up soon so don't hesitate to share and follow us!
#psychology
#AcademicChatter
🎬 This concludes the second
#Ostracism
Landau Basel Small Group Meeting with special guest
@Fayant_MP
in the beautiful Black forest region! Well done everyone - until next time!
In her
@snsf_CH
DocCH project, Christiane investigates everyday experiences of social exclusion using
#experiencesampling
📱🤓
When she is not in the lab, she enjoys aerial acrobatics 💃, gin tonics 🍸, and slowly killing plants on her balcony 🪴...!
ICPS 2023
@PsychScience
is just around the corner! Lab members
@Melissa_Jauch
and
@FannyLalot
will be in Brussels to share their work on long-term social exclusion (Melissa) and political trust (Fanny). Don't miss their talks (info on time and place in the 🧵 below) !
The day continues! Just before a coffee break,
@Melissa_Jauch
treats us with a Blitz presentation on Willingness to Engage with Different Others. Key to understanding affective polarization ⚡️
#SIBrussels
📢 Job alert! The Faculty of Psychology at
@UniBasel_en
is seeking to fill a tenure track assistant
#professorship
Digital Lives. Job ad accessible via the link below 👇. Please RT and share!
We were delighted to welcome
@WiebkeBleidorn
in our research seminar earlier today! Wiebke presented some of her fascinating research on
#personality
development and how personality changes through the lifespan
👏 Congratulations to
@ChrBuettner
and
@R_Greifeneder
on their new publication on social exclusion and depression! Now available in J of Affective Disorders Reports. Check it out 👇
📢 New study w/
@R_Greifeneder
on
#ostracism
and
#depression
now out in J of Affective Disorders Reports!
🌧️Depressed individuals often feel ostracized in everyday life and attribute that to others' hostility and to being burdensome.
#openaccess
paper:
Our very own
@ChrBuettner
is spending a semester abroad, joining
@Purdue_PsychSci
for a 6-month indoc visit. Such a fantastic opportunity! Good luck Christiane!!
Although the weather needs some getting used to 🌧️🌨️, I couldn't have asked for a better start at
@Purdue_PsychSci
! 🤩
I am so excited for the next 6 months of working with Kip Williams and his lab on my
@snsf_ch
PhD project on ostracism!
We had the great pleasure to welcome Sonja Lyubomirsky
@slyubomirsky
to the Faculty of Psychology
@UniBasel_en
for a fantastic talk tonight on
#wellbeing
,
#happiness
, and what can/cannot make people happier. Spoiler - happiness isn't easy!
🙌 Lab member
@FannyLalot
is joining the speaker lineup for the upcoming
#TEDxBasel
event! If you're in Basel, don't miss out on the evening. You can book your ticket here:
🎤 Sooo it's official! I'm extremely excited and completely terrified to have been invited to give a TED talk for
#TEDxBasel
about my research on
#trust
and betrayal! 🤩🤩
If you're in town, join us on May 29th for the live event:
📣 JOB ALERT! The Faculty of Psychology
@UniBasel_en
is looking for a new Associate Professor for
#Statistics
&
#DataSciences
(starting Autumn 2023). Job description below, DEADLINE NOV. 15th. Please RT and share! 👇
Congratulating
@FannyLalot
and her co-authors from
@ps_unige
on publishing this super interesting paper
#openaccess
in
@JEnvPsych
👏. In 4 studies, they show how regulatory focus moderates the impact of past
#environmental
behaviour on intentions to act proenvironmentally🌍
World, please say hello to our newly published paper, aka The Monster 👻 - now available
#openaccess
in
@JEnvPsych
! I am very excited to finally be able to talk about what's actually inside!
👉
📢 Excellent special issue now out in Zeitschrift für Psychologie on
#Conspiracy
Mindsets and
#Conspiracy
Beliefs. Featuring a piece by our very own
@bogatyreva_nat
about pro-state conspiracy beliefs in Russia, and many other fascinating papers. Check it out! ⬇️
NEW! Our Zeitschrift für Psychologie Special Issue: "Are All Conspiracy Theories Created Equal? The Form, Functions, and Consequences of General Conspiracy Mindsets versus Specific Conspiracy Beliefs" with
@olivier_klein
@alekscichocka
Biljana Gjoneska!
We had the great pleasure to welcome
@GioTravaglino
in our SED PSY seminar today! Giovanni presented some of his work on organised criminal groups and political trust - truly fascinating. Thank you for a great talk! 👏
Today we welcome our newest lab member: Natalia Bogatyreva
@reservoir_reine
! Natalia will investigate ostracism experiences in everyday life using panel data, expanding our knowledge on who is likely to experience ostracism! We wish Natalia a great start and warm welcome to 🇨🇭!
Our lab member
@FannyLalot
talks to the BBC about the field experiment aiming to reduce air pollution she conducted with former colleagues at
@KentPsychology
. Applied psychology leading to real-world change!
I had the pleasure to talk with
@claudiahammond
about our research tackling engine idling in Canterbury tonight in All in the Mind (BBC 4 Radio).
@Group_Lab
@KentPsychology
's infamous field experiment at the railway crossing! Interview here (start 16:20)
Excited to present our research
@MidwesternPsych
on the link between
#ostracism
and
#impostorsyndrome
tomorrow!
Curious why Neil Armstrong 🧑🚀 is in my presentation? 🤔
You'll have to join me tomorrow 9.15 am, Chicago room to find out!
#2023MPA
Extremely happy to host Prof. Dr Peter Dayan as our special lecturer for the 11th Bernoulli Lecture for the Behavioral Sciences
@UniBasel_en
!
To know more:
It's been one year since we joined Twitter! Very happy to be here and to exchange with so many great people. If you've joined us recently we're the social psychology lab at
@UniBasel_en
🇨🇭 tweeting about our own and others' research 🔎📑🤓
#MyTwitterAnniversary
#MeetTheTeam
! Rainer Greifeneder has been around since Sept 2012. He loves designing experiments and thinking about new + old puzzles to solve. His main research interests center around fluency and social exclusion
📢 Check out the latest paper by lab member
@FannyLalot
and her collaborators from
@Group_Lab
@KentPsychology
. All you ever wanted to know about social cohesion and volunteering in this brand-new literature review 📚📚 available
#OpenAccess
here:
📰 Very excited that our
#OpenAccess
review of the relationship between social cohesion ↔️ volunteering is now published in
@APA
Translational Issues in Psychological Science! In a nutshell: we find evidence for relationship in both directions but their strength varies ⬇️
We had the great pleasure of welcoming
@emanuelepoliti1
this week in our SED-PSY Research Seminar! Thanks for the inspiring talk on
#refugees
’ experiences and all the fruitful discussions we had during your visit
@UniBasel_en
🎤 Lab member Natalia Bogatyreva
@bogatyreva_nat
presents her project on Ostracism & Voting at the Computational Social Science summer school at Lake Como - where
#social
and
#computer
sciences come together! Congrats Natalia, and good continuation of the week to all participants
Basel famous carnaval (Fasnacht) is coming to an end tonight, after three full days of festivities! Some of our lab members could be spotted enjoying the music, parade, and overall craziness that took over the city! 🎺🤡👹
Political trust matters for law-abiding attitudes and behaviour...especially when other motivators are lacking! New paper
#OpenAccess
by
@FannyLalot
and colleagues illustrates the positive impact of trust & concern on compliant behaviour during
#COVID19
😷
Yesterday Jim Wirth (
@OhioState
University) gave a fascinating talk on ostracism as social tool for managing burdensome others at our SED-PSY Research Seminar. We're extremely grateful for the opportunity to meet and for all the time taken to exchange about research ideas! 👏