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Nations are more divided than ever and politically divided into two camps. They are polarised. Why? New blog about polarisation on https://lnkd.in/ek2pyyyV   #polarisation #polarization #MuzaferSherif #politicalscience #politicology #philosophy #blog #RobertCaveExperiment #Sherif #division

Our new paper is in the British Journal of Social Psychology. This is my first time as the corresponding author, guidance and participate in the project. We explored the relationship between economic inequality and conspiracy theories in the context of China. Welcome to read, retweet and quote. Here's the link to the article: https://lnkd.in/eEE465ku

Honoured to have had the opportunity to contribute to this valuable text Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice: Resisting the politics of mainstream edited by Catrina Brown. A book that explores trauma through the lens of discursive and political resistance with a distinct focus on responses to gendered violence. My piece is Chapter 18: How Critical Performance Pedagogy Reinvigorates Feminist Social Work in The Context of Gendered Violence. https://lnkd.in/gUXSMZ5a

We’ve just updated our Page. Visit our Page to see the latest updates. While political events continue to astound, there has never been a more critical time to further our understanding of how political processes interact with psychological thoughts, feelings and behaviours at all levels. It is arguably our most pressing need and Political Psychology is about doing exactly this. Whether you're interested in everyday politics in your workplace, community or your home, or indeed in party politics, then this new section aims to reach out to all BPS members, including practitioners, academics and students, in order to promote the exchange ideas, to foster research and collaboration, and to share events with like-minded organisations, such as the UK's Political Studies Association with whom we have already developed a fruitful relationship. It is hoped that through the section we can give Political Psychology a basis for critical reflection and a 'home' for discussion appealing to all within our discipline. While there has been an International Society for Political Psychology for over 40 years, there has been no national equivalent within the BPS until now. We aim to facilitate a range of activities and interests for all BPS members, for whom political issues in psychological and other work are of daily importance. Political psychology is not just about those we recognise as 'politicians', but also about the politicians we don't always recognise – all of us. We do hope you'll join.

Our morals change with the seasons? According to this short article we are more focused on conformity to group norms in the spring and fall and more focused on individual rights and welfare in the summer and winter. This has a great deal of implications in Canada where most of our elections occur in the spring and/or fall. It also aligns nicely with our major breaks in work and school. It does make me wonder if there is a causal relationship moving in one or both directions. I look forward to more research from the social psychology researchers out of UBC on this topic. https://lnkd.in/g_PAMdBR

Personality traits and political opinions: New study sheds new light on our reactions to opposing views #psychology #personaldevelopment #personalitydevelopment #traits #humanperformance https://flip.it/72acNs

Social psychologist Stanley Milgram was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx August 15th, 1933. It was a time when millions of Eastern European Jews — including many of his relatives — faced the horrors of the Holocaust. His historical proximity to these events had a profound impact on his work, and most particularly, on his academic interest in authoritarianism. Most notably, Milgram would secure his legacy and cast a shadow over his own reputation with the very same achievement. In 1963, while serving as a Professor at Harvard, Milgram submitted his “Behavioral Study of Obedience” to the APA. In the study, subjects were told that they were part of a test of memory and learning, and that they were to administer electric shocks of elevating intensity to unseen subjects for each wrong answer supplied. As part of the experiment, the unseen subject could be heard crying out in pain, also with greater intensity, even as the experimenter urged subjects to continue administering shocks. Milgram was startled by his own findings, which revealed that subjects were more likely to engage in behavior that was harmful to others if goaded by an authority. 65% of participants administered shocks to the highest level ordered. The study caused an uproar, with many decrying Milgram’s methodology as unethical — participants were not made aware that they were being studied. Many others expressed shock over the findings. Such behavior may perhaps help to explain, Milgram suggested, how ordinary Germans helped perpetuate the Holocaust. It is noteworthy that Milgram was a one-time classmate of Phillip Zimbardo, who would become equally influential and notorious for his controversial experimental methods surrounding authoritarianism. Milgram would explore other compelling concepts, including the idea that every person in the world is connected through personal acquaintanceship by an average of six degrees of separation; and the theory that violent media consumption can contribute to anti-social behavior. By and large, Milgram was a controversial figure in his time, but his studies in obedience to authority remain central to our understanding of fascism and the willingness of otherwise ethical individuals to behave unethically under instructions from perceived authorities.

🇪🇺🔍 How do European immigrants navigate their sense of home post-Brexit? Our Senior Lecturer, Dennis Nigbur, together with colleagues from Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology, offer insights on this question in their latest publication. The study contributes to the literature on migration and acculturation, shedding light on how Brexit has—and sometimes hasn't—affected people's feeling of being at home in the UK. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gFqs2x48 We'd love to hear your thoughts! Share them below. 👇 #cccupsychology #canterburychristchurchuniversity #psychology #canterbury #uni #student #psychologystudent #psychologyuk #academia

💡New Research💡Higher perceived inequality increases perceived prejudice against a wide range of outgroups. Furthermore, zero-sum beliefs and perceived competition serially mediate this relationship. Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/M1tg50R4sCs

  Call for papers: Critical social work stream There are many threats to social work’s espoused mission and values, including ongoing structural inequities and hyper-managerialist approaches to social work and social services. These forces reinforce social work as an individualistic practice rather than a discipline that engages simultaneously at the micro, meso and macro levels. New technologies, AI, education paradigms and contexts, accountability processes and organisational constraints all delimit the boundaries of social work practice towards a new conservatism. This provokes serious questions about the growing disjuncture between values and reality. The continuing downgrading of social work’s social justice agenda alongside increasing (limited) professionalisation has led to debates about the future of social work in its current form. At the same time, we see practitioners and academics building new practices and knowledge aimed at equity and social justice. This complex moment presents us with the opportunity to reimagine social work and how it can meet or respond to its own social justice agenda in new ways. In these fast-changing times, how can social work keep up? We invite papers that grapple with this theme in any field of social work or social policy.   Please send abstracts to: [email protected] by 15 September. Queries regarding the Critical Social Work stream should be directed to Liz Beddoe: [email protected] Donna Baines: [email protected] or Emily Keddell [email protected]   https://lnkd.in/ejTXq6_X