Welcome

Dear friends and colleagues,

Welcome to this second edition of the Bulletin for 2022.

In this edition, we include our usual announcements of upcoming events and calls for papers, recently awarded grants, and reports of previous events and grants. Our social psychology ambassadors provide us with an update on their recent activities. We also warmly welcome many new members to the EASP.

We are currently inviting applications for three new members of the EASP Executive Committee to replace the three out-going members. Please find the invitation below.

Finally, we are pleased to announce the new editors of ERSP and SPPS, and welcome applications for a new chief editor of EJSP.

Thank you for reading. We wish you all a very happy and relaxing break, and all the best for the New Year.

The EASP Executive Committee

President's Corner

Dear colleagues and friends,

My presidency is coming to an end in less than a year. Before I can end my tenure as a member of the Executive Committee and serving as president a set of larger issues have to be resolved first. When I commenced my presidency in 2020, I had – most likely like any other president before – lots of agenda points that I wanted to work on: To make EASP more future proof, more diverse, able to serve the needs of social psychologists in the 21st century. “Change” was meant to be a metaphor. “Change” was the metaphor , but not the one I had planned for. Two weeks ago, the EC met for the first time face-to-face and everybody could be present. The energy and inspiration that we had often missed throughout our video calls during COVID was finally there. Besides COVID, there were other changes that hit the association. Sibylle retired and so did Wolfgang. Tina, our media manager, ended her engagement with EASP. While those disruptions are demanding for any organization to ensure continuity, they are also a possibility to modernize processes and to reflect on how we want to run EASP. Next to the changes in personnel, the legal and administrative context of EASP changed majorly. This process demanded a lot of work from our financial officer, Nina Hansen, too, who is now a specialist in bookkeeping and taxation. This was and still is a major activity that we need to engage in. Many of you may think of EASP as an innocent lovely association that runs the General Meeting, smaller conferences, summer schools, and hands out grants, but at the same time, EASP is an employer and essentially runs a business, due to your contracts with our publishers (which provides the majority of income for the above-mentioned activities). A recent legal change, the WBTR (wet bestuur en toezicht rechtspersonen = law on the management and supervision of legal parties), in the Netherlands has serious implications for our articles and standing orders that we need to vote on during our next member meeting. Why, some of you may ask, is EASP actually registered in the Netherlands? It is first of all, a historical fact, due to the location of its first establishment, and it was confirmed in a member vote afterwards. This registration, despite all administrative hurdles (which are the same in all EU countries), has advantages in that we pay much less taxes here than we would do elsewhere. But I am sure that some of you would like to know more about these changes and what is behind it, thus, we will host an online townhall in January to give everybody an update about the upcoming legal changes and to answer any questions (the zoom link will be mailed around in due course).

But I also want to point you to more science related topics:

We have just published the call for the SPSP-EASP summer school next year. Traditionally, five students from the one association are invited to join the summer school of the respective sister association. After five SPSP students joining our last EASP summer school in Wroclaw, now 5 EASP students can join the SPSP summer school in 2023. We will – as in the past – sponsor their travel costs with 600€ each.

There is a great demand in summer school activities. Hence, we decided to offer a short summer school for 32 students prior to the General Meeting 2023 in Krakow. I am very grateful to our past-president Fabrizio Butera who put a fantastic program together. There will be four workshops:

• Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, University of Helsinki: Disidentification
• Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón, University of Granada: A psychosocial look at economic disparities
• Dominique Muller, University of Grenoble: Grounded cognition and implicit social cognition: the case of Approach/Avoidance action tendencies
• Xenia Chryssochoou, Panteion University, Athens: Societies in Crisis: extreme representations of the social order, identities and different protests

We are currently preparing the call and make sure that decisions will be available jointly with the EASP GM submission acceptance information. We hope that both summer schools will offer the networking and intellectual growth moment for future scholars that we urgently need, to keep social psychology a relevant, and a trustworthy source of science for current societal questions.

Last but not least, it is 10 years ago that social psychology had its first science scandal, Diederik Stapel. It is not an anniversary to be proud of, but a moment to reflect on its impact. While some newspapers utilized the moment to try to put social psychology in a bad light we have grown as a field. We have made quite some progress: Pre-registration is growing, CRSP is (unfortunately, some may say) unique and a model to other journals and disciplines. At the same time, new debates have been arising quite recently. EASP will work with its US counterparts to facilitate discussions that are necessary and that cannot be held on social media.

Next to the way how we do science, we also need to start to reflect on the format of EASP’s activities in the light of sustainability. COVID has proven that some activities can be held online, but it has also shown that certain outcomes can be better achieved in on-site meetings. Certain statutes and article changes that we are required to put through will reflect that as well, for example electronic voting on all article and standing orders. But the larger question remains: How can we become more sustainable as EASP and what can the EC do to facilitate this change. There are baby steps that we already took, for example trying to use EC meeting locations that can be reached by train by as many EC members as possible, and there are larger programmatic changes we need to address. One of them being the discontinuation of the postgraduate travel grants. We reviewed the use of these grants and most of them were applications to visit conferences in the US and Australia, which now often offer hybrid versions. By the same token, we see a continuous increase of seedcorn and collaborative grant applications and decided to re-allocate the budget there. Thus, the target group of both grants – junior scholars – are continued to be served by this funding. It is just allocated differently and makes the seedcorn grants less competitive. At the same time, already starting before COVID, we saw a continuous decline in meeting applications. We believe that the smaller scale meetings that EASP facilitated are the cornerstone of developing science, but we also agree that some of these events can be held in different formats. More regional meetings could be a future avenue. We also reviewed measures that we introduced and concluded that the dream lab talk (ie., online talks at labs one always wanted to get feedback from) was not the dream of many, or the broker function of EASP was not needed here. On the contrary, we believe that the Social Psychology Ambassador grants are useful to serve colleagues in regions in which our disciplines has growth potential. Thus, we will issue a call for a next round in 2023.

For now, I wish you a good holiday period, and I hope you can gather some energy for the new year. I hope to see many of you in Cracow next year.

Kai Jonas

Election of New EASP Executive Committee Members

Deadline: 1st March 2023

Three members of the current Executive Committee of the EASP will have served their six-year term and are due to be replaced at the next General Meeting, in Krakow. Kai J. Jonas, Malgorzata Kossowska and Monica Rubini will leave the Executive Committee in July 2022, whereas Nurit Shnabel, Nina Hansen, Roland Imhoff and Karen Douglas will stay for another three-year term.

According to the Standing Orders of the association, the nomination procedure is as follows: Each nomination must be supported by two full members, addressed to the Chair of the Election Panel, Vincent Yzerbyt (vincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.bevincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.be).

Completed applications will be accepted and presented to members for election at least one month before the General Meeting. The deadline for receiving nominations for the upcoming election is March 1st, 2023.

Each nomination pack needs to contain:

• A letter from the nominee, agreeing to serve on the Executive Committee, if elected.
• Letters of support from two full members of the association
• Brief (half an A4 page) background information from the nominee, including:
1. a summary of academic positions, administrative experience, and current research interests;
2. the nominee's perspective on what are relevant issues for EASP and its Executive Committee to consider in the future, and
3. a list of three publications the nominee considers to be most representative of their work.

All information will be treated confidentially. Once all applications have been checked and confirmed, candidates will receive specific instructions of what they need to write for members to read at the time of the election.

Please check the Standing Orders on the EASP website for more detailed information. Please note, the voting will be carried out electronically. You will receive further details on this procedure in due course.

Report on Writing Workshop

As part of the EASP’s effort to increase regional diversity we offered early career researchers from underrepresented regions, or who do not have access to an academic writing workshop in their current program, an opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop on scientific writing and publishing. Once again (as in 2021), the workshop was delivered by Marco Brambilla and Kai Epstude, who generously volunteered to contribute from their experience and knowledge.

The feedback was excellent; e.g., “I liked the clarity that both the instructors had and their hands on experience working as editors and reviewers. I loved their humility which helped me ask a lot of questions”; “Thank you so much for creating such an open and encouraging atmosphere and for your patience, Kai and Marco!”

Besides training in scientific writing, participants raised the need for career development advice and mentoring. EASP members who are willing to volunteer to run a workshop on career development in 2023 are invited to contact Nurit Shnabel, the Diversity Officer (shnabeln@tauex.tau.ac.il).

Social Psychology Ambassadors Update

The year 2022 is slowly ending, and so is my first year of Social Psychology Ambassadorship.

While I successfully defended my dissertation thesis at the end of this summer, I was also able, alongside Dr. Marija Brankovič (second appointed ambassador), to present the mission of the European Association of Social Psychology and the ambassadorship project both locally and internationally. Together with my colleagues from Slovakia, we began to explore the reasons behind the underrepresentation of social psychology researchers from Slovakia within the EASP. While the very first EASP small meeting was held in Slovakia as early as 1992, currently only 7 EASP members are from Slovakia. With only 3 postgraduate members, it doesn’t seem to be a very promising pattern.

The war in Ukraine affected everyone around the world. More than 7 million people had fled across borders to seek safety since the war and many are currently settling in neighboring countries, Slovakia included. My research focus is currently on building networks of non-profit organizations, migrant and refugee communities, and researchers locally (Košice, Slovakia) and internationally (Visegrad region) as well as researchers from Ukraine. The aim is to study “Refugees and migrants in secondary cities of Central and Eastern Europe. Challenges and opportunities for an inclusive public sphere, the experience with discrimination and hate speech”.

Short research visit to Belfast! As international travel restrictions due to Covid eased this year, I was able to work alongside Dr. Suzanne Whitten based at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics, Queens University, Belfast, UK. Our research topic is "Hate Speech in Northern Ireland: Experiences of Hate: A Case Study on the Eastern European Communities of Northern Ireland". Thanks to the EASP Ambassadorship grant, I visited Belfast this summer for a short research stay to continue the work on our joint project related to experiences with hate speech among Czech and Slovak communities in post-conflict and post-Brexit Northern Ireland.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, suggestions or ideas! jpapcunova@saske.sk

Jana Papcunová, PhD., Institute of Social Sciences CSPS Slovak Academy of Sciences

Social Psychology Ambassadors

Brief Note of Thanks from the Editors of EJSP

We are grateful to Dr Sigrun Marie Moss and Dr Monique Botha for participating in a peer support approach that was piloted by the editors in chief at EJSP to provide peer support to authors from outside western regions to further improve their manuscripts. The support was offered and taken on a voluntary basis and could range from giving one round of thorough feedback on a manuscript to co-authoring it - depending on the mutual agreement between the peers. Such support was offered to authors whose manuscripts showed clear potential for making a substantial and novel contribution to social psychology.

Other Announcements

Call for papers on “Paradoxes of Diversity and Inclusion, From the Lab to the Social Field”
Special issue of Frontiers in Psychology https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/call_for_papers__paradoxes_of_di-1588.html
Deadline: 20th February 2023

Invitation to submit proposals for an EASP-SPSSI joint small group meeting in 2023
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/invitation_to_submit_proposals_f-1597.html
Deadline: 1st February 2023

EASP medium sized meeting on “Collective Responses to Global Environmental Challenges: How do Collective Cognition and Motivation Shape Appraisals and Responses”
25-28 June 2023, Kloster Nimbschen, Germany
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/collective_responses_to_global_e-1581.html
Deadine: 31st January 2023

Qualitative Research and Indigenous Psychology Workshop
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/qualitative_research_and_indigen-1579.html
Deadline: 23rd January 2023

Call for papers on “Crowdsourcing the next generation of ideas in political psychology” for a special issue of Political Psychology
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/political_psychology_special_iss-1595.html
Deadline: 15th January 2023

SISSP: SPSP-EASP Summer School 2023
Ohio State University
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/sissp__spsp_easp_summer_school_2-1580.html
Deadline: 21st December 2022

Reports from Meetings

Report of EASP Meeting on “The role of Emotions in Interethnic Relations”: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1593

Report of EASP Meeting on “New Directions in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Political Ideologies: Current Practices and Recent Developments” https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/report_on_the_easp_meeting__new_-1530.html

Applications Invited for a Three-Year Term as Editor of EJSP

The Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Psychology is inviting applications for a three-year term as Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology, beginning in January 2024.

Applicants must be members of EASP and ideally should have extensive experience in a role such as a journal Editor, Associate Editor, Program Chair, or related positions. They should be motivated and able to maintain the high standard of editorship and standing of the journal, and to promote the development of Social Psychology through the publication of high-quality, innovative research. As editors of EASP’s flagship journal, they are expected to work in close cooperation with the Executive Committee.

A dedicated team on the side of the publisher (Wiley), as well as the EASP Journals Officer support the editorial team. In addition, funding for meetings of the editorial team is available.

Joint applications from two individuals proposing to share the role are very welcome, especially to increase diversity in terms of gender, geographical region, research topic or approach, etc. Potential applicants wishing to discuss the role informally may contact the EASP Journals Officer Roland Imhoff, (roland.imhoff@uni-mainz.de).

Applications should be sent via email to Roland Imhoff (roland.imhoff@uni-mainz.de) and include a curriculum vitae, a brief statement (1 page) outlining the candidate's vision for the future development of EJSP and a list of some potential (non-confirmed) associate editors.

EJSP

New Chief Editors Appointed for ERSP and SPPS

We are pleased to announce that we have secured excellent editors for two journals entertained by the association.

At the European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP), Ayse Uskul and Martijn van Zomeren will take over the helm starting January 2023. In the past, typical ERSP papers have summarized a published research program by one author to provide a one-stop-shop for their work. While this has been a popular and successful format, it often meant that the diversity of authors and topics was restricted to such examples. The new editors will work to maintain the advantages of the format, while also sharpen the journal’s profile and enhance diversity:

“We aim to (1) maintain ERSP’s high-quality profile as a theoretical review journal for research in social psychology, and (2) expand its scope and coverage in terms of fostering (a) integrative and critical theorizing, and (b) diversity in topics, perspectives, and geographical focus to position ERSP as a global platform for scientific exchange. To this end, we have assembled a large and distinguished editorial board, which reflects the expertise, experience, and diversity – geographical, methodological, and theoretical – required for realizing our goals. We look forward to receiving and inviting the very best of what social psychology has to offer across the world, both theoretically and empirically.”

Another journal co-entertained by the association is the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS). SPPS is published by the Consortium for Social Psychological and Personality Science, a collaboration of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). EASP member Christian Unkelbach will be the next editor-in-chief at SPPS starting July 2023:

I am deeply honored to take on the editor-in-chief role for Social Psychological and Personality Science next year (SPPS). SPPS’s development has been a success story based on the excellent work of the previous editors Vincent Yzerbyt, Allen R. McConnell, Simine Vazire, Margo Monteith, and their respective teams. To continue this success, I will aim to publish concise empirical research papers that address the what (i.e., phenomena), the how (i.e., processes), and the why (i.e., theories) of social psychological and personality science. To answer these questions, a paper may use experimental work, neuroscientific methods, large-scale online questionnaires, archival data, or combinations thereof, as long as the data allows answering the question under investigation. In addition, a paper should answer these questions with a spirit of open and replicable science; and ideally, the answers go beyond the North American and European cultural contexts.

Martijn van Zomeren (ERSP), Ayse Uskul (ERSP), Christian Unkelbach (SPPS)

Grants Awarded

Seedcorn Grants:

Rosandra Coladonato (University of Trieste), Katja Albada (University of Groningen), Emerson Do Bú (University of Lisbon), Michał Bilewicz (University of Warsaw), Katrin Arnadottir (KU Leuven), Zahra Khosrowtaj (University of Marburg), Suryodaya Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology), Chiara Venanzetti (University of Otago), “Intergroup Abortion Bias: Understanding people’s group-based support for abortion”

Hirotaka Imada (Kochi University of Technology), Fiona Kazarovytska (University of Mainz), Jannis Kreienkamp (University of Groningen), Eugene K. Ofosu (McGill University), “Power construal in shaping powerful groups’ helpful and exploitative actions towards powerless groups”

Collaborative Grants:

Shpend Voca (AAB College), Anna Kende (ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology), Boglárka Nyúl (University of Trento), “The relationship between intergroup contact and anti-Gypsyism"

Links to Reports from Previous Grants

RKTS Grant Report by Anca Minescu: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/rkts_grant_report_by_anca_minesc-1569.html

RKTS Grant Report by Lise Jans and Gerhard Reese: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/rkts_grant__workshop_report_by_l-1479.html

Travel Grant Report by Felix Grundmann: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/travel_grant_report_by_felix_gru-1589.html

Travel Grant Report by Maria Bettinsoli: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/travel_grant_report_by_maria_bet-1592.html

Seedcorn Grant Report by Theofilos Gkinopoulos and Stefano Pagliaro: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/seedcorn_grant_report_by_theofil-1591.html

Seedcorn Grant Report by Stefanie Hechler and Ann-Cristin Posten: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/seedcorn_grant_report_by_stefani-1590.html

Collaborative Grant Report by Caterina Suitner, Kim Peters, and Silvia Filippi: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/collaborative_grant_report_by_ca-1594.html

New Members of the Association

Full Membership:

Christiana Karayianni (University of Cyprus)
Irini Kadianaki, Charis Psaltis

Dino Carpentras (University of Limerick)
Adrian Lüders, Charis Psaltis

Islam Borinca (University College Dublin)
Laura K Taylor, Rita Guerra

Silvia Di Battista (University of Bergamo)
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Stefano Pagliaro

Felix Götz (University of Regenburg)
Regina Reichardt, Fritz Strack

Michelle Tornquist (University of Liverpool)
Yasin Koc, Eleanor Miles

Kamilla Khamzina (Université de Lille),
Céline Darnon, Serge Guimond

Rabia Kodapanakkal (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Thorsten M. Erle

Genavee Brown (Northumbria University)
Maja Kutlaca, Jenny Paterson

Jean Monéger (University of Poitiers)
François Ric, Kai Epstude

Benjamin Ruisch (University of Kent)
Aleksandra Cichocka, Daan Scheepers

Marta Prandelli (The Open University)
Eleanor Miles, Patrice Rusconi

Katharina Lefringhausen (Heriot-Watt University)
Anja K. Munder, Mioara Cristea

Caroline Da Silva (Université de Lille)
Anthony Lantian, Constantina Badea

Marco Marinucci (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Paolo Riva, Luca Pancani

Edita Fino (University of Bologna)
Monica Rubini, Michela Menegatti

Stefano Ruggieri (University of Enna)
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Stefano Pagliaro

Postgraduate Membership:

Vera Vogel (University of Mannheim)
Jochen Gebauer, Jennifer Eck

Nikolas Soros (University of Cyprus)
Charis Psaltis, Shenel Husnu

Mathilde Tassinari (University of Helsinki)
Karmela Liebkind, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Jessica Morton (UC Louvain)
Ginette Herman, Bernard Rimé

Michael Pan (University of Sheffield)
Thomas L. Webb, Aarti Iyer

Sarah-Anne Evans (University of South Wales)
Rachel Taylor, Tegan Cruwys

Lucas Barrot (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Annalisa Casini, Karl-Andrew Woltin

Zi Ye (Leiden University)
Marret Noordewier, Gert-Jan Lelieveld

Marta Sveb Dragija (University of Groningen)
Martijn van Zomeren, Nina Hansen

Ayshe Biyikoglu (University of Cyprus)
Charis Psaltis, Shenel Husnu

Valentin Mang (University of Groningen)
Yasin Koc, Kai Epstude

Alina Deana Machande (University of Bath)
Lukas J. Wolf, Laura G.E. Smith

Daniela Fernandez (University of Exeter)
Michelle Ryan, Colette van Laar

Wilma Marie Middendorf (Osnabrück University)
Rita Guerra, Maarten van Zalk

June Chun Yeung (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Kuba Krys, Anna Kwiatkowska

Rhea Haddad (Clermont-Auvergne University)
Alice Normand, Céline Darnon

Anne-Marie Fluit (University of Oslo)
Borja Martinovic, Magdalena Bobowik

Zixiang Zheng (University of Groningen)
Martijn van Zomeren, Nina Hansen

Bao-This Van Cong (University of Copenhagen)
Namkje Koudenburg, Toon Kuppens

Chiara Ballone (Università degli studi Chieti-Pescara G. d'Annunzio)
Stefano Pagliaro, Theofilos Gkinopoulos

Madeline Langley (University of Groningen)
Yasin Koc, Martijn Van Zomeren

Marylisa Sara Alemi (Università degli Studi di Perugia)
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Stefano Pagliaro

Lucas Gautier (Clermont-Auvergne University)
Jean-Claude Croizet, Alice Normand

Victor, Auger (University Clermont Auvergne)
Alice Normand, Céline Darnon

Lee, Aldar (Leiden University)
Ruthie Pliskin, Eran Halperin

Yonn Bokern (Utrecht University)
Jojanneke van der Toorn, Naomi Ellemers

Executive Committee

Małgorzata Kossowska (Meetings Officer), malgorzata.kossowska@uj.edu.pl
Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6, PL 30 060 Krakow, Poland

Roland Imhoff (Journals Officer), roland.imhoff@uni-mainz.de
Social and Legal Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Binger Str. 14-16, D-55122 Mainz, Germany

Nina Hansen (Treasurer), n.hansen@rug.nl
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, NL 9712 TS Groningen, Netherlands

Nurit Shnabel (Diversity Officer), shnabeln@tauex.tau.ac.il
The School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Karen Douglas (Secretary and Membership Officer), k.douglas@kent.ac.uk
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Cantebury, Kent CT2 7NP, United Kingdom

Monica Rubini (Grants and Membership Officer), monica.rubini@unibo.it
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, I 40126 Bologna, Italy

Kai Jonas (President), kai.jonas@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, NL 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands

Kennedy D’Abreu de Paulo (Executive Officer), office@easp.eu
Universiteitssingel 40, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Executive Officer
Kennedy D’Abreu de Paulo
Universiteitssingel 40
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Email: office@easp.eu

Secretary
Karen Douglas
University of Kent
United Kingdom
Email: k.douglas@kent.ac.uk

Media Manager
Email: media@easp.eu