Social psychology at Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Joined May 2012
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This paper is now published at Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/d… led by Henrikas Bartusevicus at @PRIOresearch (with myself and @M_B_Petersen)
If Putin thinks installing a repressive regime will quench Ukraine's thirst for resistance, then science would like a word with him.
Our research with 140,000+ individuals from 100+ countries shows that repression increases support for violent resistance: psyarxiv.com/z5b89/
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Response to commentaries on our recently published multisite study that failed to find evidence for cognitive dissonance theory (led by @willemsleegers and @DavidVaidis) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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My lab at Edinburgh Uni is recruiting PhD students starting Fall 2025.
If you are interested in building and testing theories of causal cognition, theory of mind, etc, I'd love to chat. See more about what we do here:
quillienlab.github.io/
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I'm in a bit of a pickle, trying to make a @Qualtrics survey work for children on an iPad. The community so far has been silent. If you know anyone who could be of help (in exchange for beers or euros), please let me know.
community.qualtrics.com/cust…
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New episode (948), with Dr. Honorata Mazepus (@HMazepus) about democracy, political legitimacy, and the European Union. #politics #Science
YouTube: youtu.be/ASPnHRXxMHE
Podcast: tinyurl.com/vx58dnje
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"Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration" @florianvl #hbes2024
Pathogen avoidance makes people opposed to *unfamiliar* immigrants. See prior paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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"This demystified psychology. Mysterious talents or serendipity are not required. Now anyone can study how minds work."
-@florianvl (shorturl.at/zJST8)
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.@EvolHumBehav’s remembrance of Tooby’s genius is live—ft favorite quotes (+ their meanings). Incl:
Entertain all hypotheses
But is it true?
“Learning” is not an “alternative hypothesis”
I will only know that our interaction is one-shot if I kill you
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Unusual pre-print:
*Democratic mind research proposal*
It proposes an interdisciplinary research agenda to study political intuitions that constrain and empower political authorities.
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tcgq…
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I'm delighted to announce a new book coming out this month: The Oxford Handbook of Evolution & the Emotions (TOHEE)!
t.ly/YKFyF
This book took several years and a whole LOT of teamwork to put together.
It's an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural effort. 👇🧵
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How has the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted access to food in the country?
PRIO's Ida Rudolfsen, Henrikas Bartusevičius, @GudrunOstby & @TilburgU's @florianvl find that one in three Ukrainians faces food insecurity.
More in their new paper ⤵️
authors.elsevier.com/a/1j1B5…
Interested in doing a #PhD in social psychology? We @TilburgU are hiring a PhD candidate. Application deadline 18 February.
Interested in evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics? We @TilburgU are hiring a PhD candidate on tax behavior and social exchange (4 years, fully funded) supervised by Christoph Kogler, Seger Breugelmans, and myself tiu.nu/22058
Deadline 18 Feb 2024
Interested in evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics? We @TilburgU are hiring a PhD candidate on tax behavior and social exchange (4 years, fully funded) supervised by Christoph Kogler, Seger Breugelmans, and myself tiu.nu/22058
Deadline 18 Feb 2024
John Tooby was a genius for describing how anyone could study human nature without mystical assumptions.
Psychology Lost a Great Mind | My appreciation of John Tooby. nautil.us/psychology-lost-a-…
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Mourning the death of John Tooby: Brilliant mind, saintly human being, beloved friend. edge.org/memberbio/john_toob…
Very curious about this paper! Probably relevant for tax morale
Finally out: evolutionary model of ownership psychology: nam10.safelinks.protection.o… Interaction of competitive acquisition + cooperation → ownership intuitions, norms, institutions. For free proofs: pascalboyer.net/articles/202…
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Job alert!
I'm looking to hire a PhD student to join my group at @UniLuebeck to study #MentalHealth, #Wellbeing, #PersonalityPsychology, #SocialPsychology. Please spread the word!
uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/uzl…
#JobAlert
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What types of things disgust you? Let us know on our new website ickystuff.org! You can write about your experiences with disgusting things in as much detail as you like. And you can take a test that'll tell you how easily disgusted you are. Retweets are appreciated!
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'A behavioural immune system perspective on disgust and social prejudice' a new Review by Florian van Leeuwen (@florianvl), Bastian Jaeger (@bxjaeger) & Joshua M. Tybur (@joshtybur)
go.nature.com/45OgvEy
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New paper led by @florianvl, with @bxjaeger
We review the behavioral immune system and evidence that it produces prejudices, especially those prejudices associated with disgust.
OA link here: rdcu.be/dj0TB /1