@benjaminbuttlar
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trier. I'm particularly interested in cognitive conflicts and how people make and follow through with decisions that go against their attitudes. Check out my work at benjaminbuttlar.de
🚨 Call for Editors: Join the Collabra: Psychology team! We're looking for a senior editor for clinical psychology, plus several social psychology associate editors. Interested? Please fill out our application form before 30 April 2026.
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Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026.
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✨ Now published! ✨
Our Special Section in PHAIR is officially out.
The collection emerged from the Human–Animal Relations workstream at the 2025 EASP Summer School (University of Kent) from an exceptional group of PhD researchers.
Read here! phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof
Results will be shared here!
Short stories are such an amazing way of communicating science! Check out my short story and all the other amazing content on @scienceandfiction.net!
The perfect preparation article for the february #ScienceandFiction short story coming up! 👇
Das Projekt Science and Fiction verbindet Wissenschaftskommunikation mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten. Die Geschichten greifen unterschiedliche Genres auf - darunter Science-Fiction, Romantik und Thriller - und stellen Bezüge zu aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen her. So entsteht eine besondere Form der WissKomm, die Wissensvermittlung mit literarischer Erzählkunst kombiniert. 16. Januar, 12 Uhr, Zoom. Anmeldung: Mail an psycomm@dgps.de
In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten".
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...
It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.
We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
💊 New #ScienceandFiction short story 💊
This time, the brilliant Biljana Gjoneska wrote about the Matrix - but hundreds of years later...
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/35_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.
Das hat wirklich Spaß gemacht!! Vielen Dank für die Möglichkeit euch ein bisschen was über science slams zu erzählen und die spannende Diskussion! 🙂
Heute um 12 Uhr startet unsere Kolloquiumsreihe mit einem Vortrag zu Science Slams! #WissKomm #Forschung
Morgen startet wir mit unseren #WissKomm Lunch Talks der @psycomm.bsky.social - wer ist dabei? 🥳
Habt ihr euch den ersten Vortrag unserer #WissKomm Kolloquiums-Reihe schon in den Kalender eingetragen? Seid diesen Freitag dabei, wenn @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social über das Format Science Slam spricht!
📆 21.11.2025, 12:00 Uhr
Rosi und ich freuen uns schon darauf! Im Science Slam erklären wir, warum wir manchmal bei Entscheidungen, wie etwa beim Fleischessen, hin- und hergerissen sind und was das mit uns macht.
Wenn du mehr über diese Ambivalenz oder Wissenschaftskommunikation im Allgemeinen wissen willst, komm vorbei!
Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie – von der Forschung bis in die Praxis Wissenschaftskommunikation verbindet Forschung mit der Gesellschaft. Doch was wissen wir in der Psychologie eigentlich darüber, wie Forschung erfolgreich kommuniziert wird – und wie kommunizieren wir sie in der Praxis tatsächlich? In dieser Vortragsreihe geben Expert:innen Einblicke in aktuelle Studien, innovative Formate und konkrete Erfahrungen. Diskutiert werden Trends, Herausforderungen und neue Wege im Dialog zwischen psychologischer Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft.
Ankündigung: Kolloquium Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm
🧑🏫 Einblicke in innovative WissKomm-Formate & aktuelle Forschungsthemen
💬 Austausch über konkrete Erfahrungen aus Praxis und Forschung aus Perspektive der Psychologie
📆 3. Freitag im Monat um 12 Uhr
🧵 New paper alert!
People enjoy eating meat but often feel uneasy when being reminded that it comes from animals. To understand how people avoid this conflict, our new study explores how food preparation helps people mentally separate meat from its animal origins. Here’s what we found 👇
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Finally, I want to give a huge thank you to @lenahahn.bsky.social and Monique Chambon, who were instrumental in bringing this paper to life. As always, it was a pleasure working with you!
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If you’re interested in the psychology of eating and animal ethics, check out the full paper published open access in PHAIR, the official journal of the @phair-society.bsky.social hosted by the @psychopengold.bsky.social at the @zpid.bsky.social 👇
phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...
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Thereby, our study shows how food preparation can change how people think and feel about meat, and their willingness to eat it.
This knowledge can inform the design of interventions that encourage people to eat less meat in a way that is psychologically informed and situationally sensitive.
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Here’s what we found 👇
🥩 When the dish was disassembled, people felt less emotionally aroused and less compassionate than when it was whole.
🔥 When the dish was cooked, people felt less compassionate, but also less negative, conflicted, disgusted, and angry, and had a greater desire to eat it.
6/9
So we did! 🧪
We re-analyzed data from 1,189 people (U.S.-representative sample) who each saw one of many meat images varied on two factors:
🥩 Whole vs. disassembled
🔥 Raw vs. cooked
Then we asked about their attitudes and feelings about the presented meat dish and how much they wanted to eat it.
5/9
However, food preparation arguably includes at least two different steps:
🥩 Disassembling (chopping, mincing, etc.)
🔥 Cooking (applying heat)
Surprisingly, past research hadn’t clearly teased apart how each of these steps affects people’s feelings about meat.
4/9
Food preparation helps with this dissociation.
Cooking, chopping, and seasoning can hide reminders like blood or animal body parts — making meat feel less like an animal and more like… food.
3/9
Many people experience meat-related conflict. This has often been discussed in light of the so-called meat paradox: People like eating meat but don’t like harming animals.
One way people avoid this conflict? They dissociate — mentally separating meat from the animal it once was.
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🧵 New paper alert!
People enjoy eating meat but often feel uneasy when being reminded that it comes from animals. To understand how people avoid this conflict, our new study explores how food preparation helps people mentally separate meat from its animal origins. Here’s what we found 👇
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I tried it, and it was a great experience! You've got to check out the work by Helena and her guest writers! See if it's something you'd like as well - you won't be disappointed if you are interested in science and fiction!
