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Is social cohesion good for all?
Can everyone fit into a cohesive society?

These questions are guiding our ongoing research, thanks to @fgz-risc.bsky.social

This piece offers a glimpse into our results, but our framework shows great potential

More insights coming — stay tuned!👍
@azick.bsky.social

I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism.

@ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

While academic associations are supposed to represent us, they fail to do so and keep showing hypocrisy. Here is a petition to ISPP demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine. Hold them accountable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Current Approaches in Psychiatry » Submission » Social Representations Theory: Principles, Mechanism and Methodology

My very first single-author paper on Social Representations Theory (SRT) has just been published as an open-access, bilingual review article in Current Approaches in Psychiatry

Here is the link: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/pgy/i...

Why people reclaim words meant to insult them – and how this has become a powerful tool for protest Saying ‘yes, I’m queer’ or ‘yes, I’m fat’ isn’t just resistance, it can be the start of a political identity.

New from me and @yasemingacar.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com, summarising our recent work on the role of reappropriation/reclaiming stigmatising labels in identity politicisation, empowerment, and collective action.

theconversation.com/why-people-r...

Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora People make sense of their group's collective victimisation in different ways. These different collective victimisation beliefs may be linked to distinct resistance strategies against the ingroup's v....

Now published: "Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora" (Ünal & Vollhardt). Article is open access and available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Machtmissbrauch in der MPG. Einschließlich einer konkreten Definition von Bullying, die infolge eines konkreten Falles von der Website genommen wurde. #IchBinHanna #IchBinTina @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social

Migration, Identities, and Social Cohesion: Insights from research and practice Konfliktgespräche · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/74K8...

thanks for the opportunity and great hosts 😍

I have discussed Turkish postmgrants' in-between situation in Germany based on a recently finalised research project!

can be a good option for those podcast folks!

Let my first post be a lovely announcement of our translation of Moscovici's groundbreaking "Social Representations" has finally come to fruition through Pinhan Publishing!

Dr. Elif Sandal Önal (IKG Uni Bielefeld) @elifsandal.bsky.social & Dr. Aydin Bayad (IKG Uni Bielefeld/ FGZ) @abayad.bsky.social share insights from the TransMIGZ project on migration and social cohesion in our next episode.

📅 New episode will be out on March 11 on all podcast platforms! Don`t miss!

We are becoming extremely anti-social

- working from home
- watching videos alone
- staying single
- ordering meals for 1.

Fantastic article by @dkthomp.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

One addition: it’s not just the US; the world is becoming anti-social 🌏

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

⏳ One Week Left! Submit your ISPP Small Research Grant proposal by January 6, 2025.

*This is a rolling deadline. Proposals received after Jan. 6 will be reviewed if funds remain!

🔗 More details here: ispp.org/wp/wp-conten...

#ISPP #ResearchGrants #PoliticalPsychology

Here's the cover of our forthcoming (Spring 2025) open access book, "The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues," co-edited by me and @olgash.bsky.social ! 📚 It features 20 chapters, each addressing issues often undermined or silenced in explaining Turkey's first centenary.

Jason Hickel Tweet: "People often assume that capitalist globalization is closing the wage gap between workers in the global North and global South. But it's not happening. In fact, the North-South wage gap is *increasing*." tweet comes alongside a graph with average, high-skilled, medium-skilled, and low-skilled charts, all of which show a significant gap

couple notes from a Jason Hickel thread from over on Twitter:

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library <em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.

📣 Call for papers! Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.

Toward a social psychology of ‘collective racial/ethnic violence’: legitimacy, mobilization, and resistance.

#socialpsychology #violence #resistance #mobilization #racial #ethnic

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

List of psychology-related starter packs!
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵

Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social

@yup.io Can I also cross-post replies like here?

I am following the hype and going to the 'other side' >>> @abayad.bsky.social
but it won't be easy.. for the transition, I am trying @yup_io for cross-posting across different platforms