Welcome

Dear friends and colleagues,

We hope that you are all doing well. We are very much looking forward to the General Meeting in Krakow and the opportunity to re-connect with each other in person. In this edition of the bulletin, you will find further information and links related to the General Meeting. Please keep the conference website bookmarked for further updates about the academic programme and associated events.

Also in this edition of the bulletin, our outgoing president Kai Jonas shares a few words and our treasurer Nina Hansen shares an important update on EASP finances. 

You will also find a call for proposals for the 2024 special issue of the European Journal of Social Psychology. We also warmly welcome our new editors Marco Brambilla, Kim Peters, and Kai Epstude, who will begin their term in January 2024.

In the coming weeks, we will be asking you to vote in the election for three new members of the EASP Executive Committee. We have gratefully received five applications. Please take the time to read their profiles and vision statements. More information about the election process will follow shortly.

As part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing diversity and inclusion, we are launching a survey to learn more about your experiences both as a member of the EASP and in the field of social psychology more broadly. Please take the time to complete the survey, and we will report the survey results during the General Meeting. Furthermore, we have put together some resources about demographic diversity in hiring and promotion processes. Please feel free to use these materials for your purposes.

We also include our usual announcements of upcoming calls and recent grants and awards, alongside reports from EASP-sponsored meetings and previous grants. We also present a list of new members of EASP who we warmly welcome to the association.

Finally, we conclude with some words of thanks to our former Executive Officer Sybille Classen. 

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Best wishes,

The EASP Executive Committee

President's Corner

Dear colleagues, friends and members of EASP

The Executive Committee just had its spring meeting and this was also the last meeting for outgoing members Malgorzata Kossowska, Monica Rubini and myself. Traditionally, this meeting has two foci, preparing the General Meeting and handing-over tasks to the ongoing EC members to smoothen the continuation of their work, and the integration of the incoming EC members. Next to these tasks there were also some major administrative changes and task. We welcomed Wendy Rulkens as the new executive officer to the team. She has started in April and picked up a lot of work and knowledge very quickly. Furthermore, we have to prepare a number of mandatory changes (due to our legal registration in the Netherlands) to our statutes and standing orders. Once those are final, we will host an online town hall to explain those to you and the full members will have the opportunity to vote during the members meeting at the General Meeting.

The preparations for the General Meeting are on the way and we are looking forward to seeing you all. Contrary to the indications gathered in our last year’s survey, we received many more submissions and registrations. Joanne Smith and her program committee had the demanding task of selecting submissions in a very competitive context. I am sure that they did an excellent job of selecting high quality research to be presented, while also taking diversity of speakers and topics into account. The General Meeting is going to be the first major conference for many since the COVID-19 pandemic. Many junior scholars have not yet experienced a large conference, for many colleagues conferencing has become a bit “rusty” given the long break since the last General Meeting in Granada in 2017 and many social psychology meetings being cancelled or move to online formats. I would like to ask everyone to be kind to each other, to respect everybody’s needs and boundaries. For some those needs may have changed, for health and psychological reasons. Keep in mind that also in general norms about what is acceptable behavior in society are developing and changing. Please familiarize yourself with the code of conduct on the website of the conference, as the Executive Committee, together with the local organizers, is determined to make this meeting a great experience for everybody.

The EC has seen a constant decline in meeting support applications during the recent years, and especially during COVID, while at the same time grant applications are increasing. EASP seeks to support both, grants that are serving a smaller group of researchers, and meetings that benefit a larger group and support building networks. Especially, junior scholars are in need of the latter. The new EC will continue to monitor the needs of our members, but we also want to encourage meeting applications. Summer schools are the cornerstone of our activities and are seeing a high demand. We received ten times as many applications for our five seats at the SPSP summer school, and we decided to offer a Brief Summer School just prior to the GM which is also fully booked. Soon, we will send out the calls for the Summer School locations for 2024 and also the call for organizing the next General Meeting. We hope for many applications as EASP can only be active as an association based on her members’ contribution to common goods.

For me personally, this is also a moment of farewell from most of my active service to the association after over a decade - my term as Editor-in-Chief at CRSP will end in 2025. In 2012, it started with the organization of the General Meeting in Amsterdam in 2014, parallel to bringing CRSP to life, and then as a member of the Executive Committee from 2017 onwards. I am proud and thankful to have been able to serve EASP for so many years, I have learned a lot personally, and I hope that my contributions benefitted the association. I am sure that the incoming president, Nurit Shnabel, together her Executive Committee, will be shaping EASP in her own way and makes sure that EASP remains what she is, a learned society that feels to many as a family.

All the best,
Kai Jonas

Financial Management

Behind the scenes we are busy preparing EASP for the future, to develop processes and management systems which help us to lead our association more professionally and efficiently. During the last two years we invested a lot of effort in developing a more professional management of our finances. First, this was necessary due to new tax regulations in the Netherlands where our association has been founded and where it is registered. Second, our previous financial documentation was not yet fit for more professional management. We are for example busy adding functions to our membership database (e.g., linking new credit card paying systems to the database, automatic way to remind our members of outstanding membership fees, members can update their info online, online grant application). This will help us to become more efficient, transparent, and reduce workload in the executive office. We have also hired an external bookkeeping firm who helps us to file our VAT declarations and submit our annual balance in line with the required processes.

What does this mean for our members?

1. All expenses declarations need to be documented and saved in a specific way. We are sharing this information with our members who received grants and need to submit a financial report. Please follow the instructions, otherwise we cannot process payment of grants. In a nutshell: you need to provide receipts, invoices or documentation for all expenses

2. Please check whether you have paid your membership fee(s) for this year but also for the previous years. EASP needs this income to support the activities of our members (e.g., grants, summer schools, meetings).

3. Please pay your membership via credit card! All bank transactions need to be manually added to the database.

EASP General Meeting

Dear EASP Members,

As the General Meeting in Krakow is quickly approaching the organizing team wants to communicate their extremely high level of excitement. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Krakow!

In the meantime we encourage everyone to follow us on Twitter (@easp2023krk) and Facebook. We'll be posting useful information there over the next two months (including how to recognize legit “obwarzanki” and how to pronounce them - for now remember that “bagels” is the wrong pronunciation). You can also regularly check our website.

If you have any questions or concerns let us know and we’ll mobilize all our famous messenger pigeons to answer them quickly and efficiently.

We also encourage everyone to book their flights and hotels as soon as possible (you can find useful information about that on our website https://easp2023krakow.com/conference-objects-en/).

Finally, since there can be no news from Krakow without a poem of Wislawa Szymborska, this time we want to highlight “Confessions of a Reading Machine,” which shows that discussions of the role of AI were present in Krakow long before ChatGPT

https://newrepublic.com/article/114035/confessions-reading-machine-poem-wislawa-szymborska

In short, come for the EASP conference, stay for the optimism about the future of technology and anything else!

EASP General Meeting 2023

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of EJSP in 2024

Dear Colleagues,

EJSP (European Journal of Social Psychology) invites proposals for a Special Issue to appear in 2024. The deadline for proposals is June 10, 2023.

In developing proposals for submission, we especially encourage applicants to consider their networks widely, and where possible include researchers from under-represented regions both on editorial teams and as potential authors. Ideally, we would like to see about 50% of the contributions to the chosen Special Issue involving collaborations with researchers and participants outside the over-represented areas of Western Europe, North America and Australia. In line with our Editorial, contributions should be based on scientific rigour, equity, respect, and cultural sensitivity.

Potential Guest Editors should submit Special Issues proposals to our editorial office (EJSPeditorialoffice@wiley.com) by the deadline specified above.

The successful proposal will be selected competitively and on the basis of a comparative evaluation of all submissions received by the deadline.

Special issue proposals should contain the following information:

1. Proposed title of the Special Issue

2. Name(s) and contact details of Guest Editor(s).

3. A brief description of aims and topics covered, and a case made for the interest in the topic among the readership of EJSP (300-500 words).

4. A case made that there will be sufficient interest in terms of submissions on the topic, including any indication of authors who may be willing to submit work on the issue (e.g., people who have contributed to relevant recent symposia or thematic volumes, possibly including specific names and affiliations of colleagues that have explicitly expressed interest to submit their work to the special issue) (max. 300 words, excluding the list of potential participants).

5. A brief explanation of what each Guest Editor will bring to the editorial process (e.g., theoretical/methodological expertise, previous editorial experience, etc.) (max. 200 words).

6. A reflection (max 1 page) on how diversity is captured within your proposal.

7. A brief CV (max. 2 pages) for each Guest Editor.

Once commissioned, the Special Issue is expected to have an open call for papers (which will be advertised in the EJSP and through the EASP website and mailing list). Editors are, of course, also free to encourage potential authors to submit a paper.

Submitted papers are expected to go through a rigorous review process equivalent to normal EJSP peer review. Potential contributions co-authored by Guest Editors are permitted, but they will be handled independently by members of the EJSP Editorial Team; such submissions will be required to pass the regular peer review procedure for EJSP before they can be considered for potential inclusion in the Special Issue.

When submitting proposals for the 2024 Special Issue, Guest Editors should keep the following time scale in mind:

-June 10, 2023: Deadline for special issue proposals

-June 30, 2023: Announcement of successful proposal, and call for papers

-July 30, 2023: Deadline for expressions of interest from potential contributors

-December 01, 2023: Paper submission deadline

-February 15, 2024: Provisional acceptance of papers (i.e., subject to revisions)

-April 31, 2024: Revised final manuscripts due

Our best wishes,

Masi Noor, Caterina Suitner, & Thomas Morton

New Editors of EJSP

The Executive Committee is very happy to announce the results of the selection procedure for the next chief editors of the European Journal of Social Psychology. EJSP has been serving as the association's primary journal ifor high quality, peer reviewed, original research in all areas of social psychology for more than 50 years (since 1971). This tradition has been carried on by the current editors, Thomas Morton, Masi Noor, and Caterina Suitner, whose 3-year term will end at the end of 2023. We are very happy to have been able to secure a fantastic team of new chief editors. From January 1st, 2024, on, Marco Brambilla (Milano), Kim Peters (Exeter), and Kai Epstude (Groningen) will serve as new editors in chief.

"We’re delighted to become the next editors of EJSP. In this role, we aim to build on the current team’s achievements in the promotion of diversity in the editorial team (incl. associate editors and consulting editors) and as a topic of research. We hope to make EJSP the platform for a uniquely European perspective on diversity. We also aim to review journal processes with an eye to innovations that could reduce the burden on reviewers and decrease the time to publication. Finally, we are committed to supporting the publication of open and transparent research. In the coming months, we will assemble the editorial team to help us to pursue these aims. We’re honored to be entrusted by the Executive Committee with the Co-Editorship of EJSP."

EJSP Editors 2024-2026: Brambilla, Peters, Epstude

Election of New EASP Executive Committee Members

Three new members will join the EASP Executive Committee in the summer. We invited applications earlier this year and we are happy to share the five applicants' profiles and vision statements with you. Please take the time to read them. Further information about the election process will follow soon.

Dr. Gülseli Baysu

I would like to join the EASP Executive Committee. I have been a member of EASP since 2013 and I presented at every general meeting since then. I am a good candidate for this position not only for the match between my research expertise and the EASP’s scope but also for the values this association advocates: equality and diversity. I have a strong publication record and extensive experience in editorial work, including most recently as an associate editor in EJSP. I am also on the scientific committee of the 19th General Meeting of EASP 2023 and currently organizing an EASP small group meeting in Belfast in 2023.

I completed two PhDs in psychology, first at Middle East Technical University (Turkey, 2007) and then at the University of Leuven (Belgium, 2011). I worked in Turkey first as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor of social psychology (Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, 2011-2013; Kadir Has University, 2013-2018). I now work as a senior lecturer of social psychology at the Queen’s University of Belfast (2018-present). My major research interests include cultural diversity, immigration and integration, and intergroup relations. Three recent publications that represent my research are:

• Baysu, G., Hillekens, J., Deaux, K. & Phalet, K. (2021). How diversity approaches affect ethnic minority and majority adolescents: teacher-student relationship trajectories and school outcomes. Child Development, 92(1), 367-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13417

• Phalet, K., & Baysu, G. (2020). Fitting in: How the intergroup context shapes minority acculturation and achievement. European Review of Social Psychology, 31(1), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1711627

• Uluğ, M., Baysu, G., & Leidner, B (2022). How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post-conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12608

As a scholar from Turkey who is currently an immigrant in the UK, I am from an area of the world that is generally underrepresented in these roles, and my research often focuses on those who are underrepresented in psychological research. If I am selected for this role, I will do my best to encourage scholars with underrepresented backgrounds to be more represented in EASP. Increasing diversity and representation and promoting more civic engagement among our (potential) members are among the relevant issues that I would like to work together on the executive committee.

Katarzyna Cantarero

• A summary of academic positions, administrative experience, and current research interests:

I have worked in academia for over 15 years, most of which has been spent at the SWPS University, Faculty of Psychology in Wroclaw, Poland, where I currently work. The main focus of my work is dishonesty. Within this area, the dilemma between honesty and care as well as the process underneath are of particular interest to me. My research also tackles meaning motivation and how individuals can benefit from meaningful work. I am a member of the Executive Committee at the Polish Social Psychological Society, co-editor in chief of Social Psychological Bulletin and member of the Scientific Board at the Institute of Psychology, SWPS University. Through the execution of research grants as well as the organization of conferences and workshops, I have gained a great deal of administrative experience. My biggest organizational undertaking was co-organizing the EASP Summer School that was held in Wroclaw in 2022.

• The nominee's perspective on what are relevant issues for EASP and its Executive Committee to consider
in the future:

From my perspective, a relevant issue that EASP could consider is giving special focus to less experienced academics. I would like to encourage EASP to promote short research internships that could advance scientific development of young scholars. I believe that promoting work-life balance in academia and fostering a supportive environment are of the utmost importance. 

• A list of three publications the nominee considers to be most representative of their work:

Cantarero, K., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Smoktunowicz, E. (2022). Other- (vs. self-) oriented meaning interventions enhance momentary work engagement through changes in work meaningfulness. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 69(4), 443–451. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000594

Cantarero, K., van Tilburg, W.A.P., & Smoktunowicz, E. (2021). Affirming basic psychological needs promotes mental well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 5, 821-828. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620942708

Cantarero, K., Byrka, K., & Krol, M. (2021). It’s not really lying. Autism spectrum disorder relates to lower recognition of other-oriented lies through a decrease in perceived intentionality of the liar. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 86, (101806). Online first: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2021.101806

Eric Igou

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg in 2000 and then took up a temporary lectureship at the University of Mannheim. In 2002, I was awarded a Post-Doctoral Scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to advance my research for two years at New York University. From 2004 to 2008, I worked as a Lecturer at Tilburg University. In 2008, I joined the Psychology Department at the University of Limerick (UL). From 2010 to 2013, I served as Head of Department when our department was young and rapidly expanding. Since the beginning of 2020, I have taken up the post again, this time for five years. I have also developed two master programmes, served as the Course Director for each, and served as the Department’s International and Academic Coordinator. I have made significant contributions to European Social Psychology over the years: I am currently an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology. In 2009, I organized the first Conference on Social Psychology in Ireland (C-SPI) at UL. I represented Ireland on the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) Steering Committee and served as Chair in 2016-17. I organized two ESCON conferences in 2011: the Transfer of Knowledge Conference in Sligo and an Expert Meeting in Limerick. I am an internationally recognized social psychologist with expertise in attitudes and persuasion, emotions, person perception, stereotypes, existentialism, and self-regulation.

EASP is the most important organization to represent and lead European Social Psychology. It facilitates groundbreaking research and applications by integrating naturally rich, diverse European perspectives through vibrant intellectual exchanges that facilitate international collaborations. Its Executive Committee should: a) embrace and invest in the dissemination of new, exciting developments while preserving European perspectives; b) promote scientific rigour, Open Science principles, theory-building and testing, and applications to address social issues; c) support centres of excellence across Europe while partnering with scholars and organizations worldwide; d) promote mentorship of junior scholars; e) communicate the relevance of our research to the general public and communities. As a member of the Executive Committee, my commitment to EASP and expertise would contribute to an exciting future for European Social Psychology.

Igou, E. R. & Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2021). The existential sting of boredom: Implications for moral judgments and behavior. In A. Elpidorou (Ed.), The moral psychology of boredom (pp. 57-78). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN-10:178661538X

Igou, E. R., Blake, A. A., & Bless, H. (2021). Just-world beliefs increase helping intentions via meaning and affect. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 2235-2253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00317-6

Igou, E. R. (2008). “How long will I suffer?” versus “How long will you suffer?” A self-other effect in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 899-917. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0011619

Claudia Manzi

I am Professor of Social Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan, where I also chair the Social Impact committee of my Faculty and the Gender Equality Plan Team of the Athenaeum. My research interests are mainly related to the study of identity processes in relation to the social context where individuals define and construct their identity. Particularly, in the last years I have dedicated my efforts on the study of stereotypes and discrimination and on how they may affect a number of identity processes (such as ethnic, national, gender, religious, and age identification; identity motives satisfaction; identity integration). In parallel, since I consider social psychology to be an important tool for producing social change, I have been working as consultant for several companies, ONLUS, national and international organizations. In this role, I coordinated projects that aimed to enhance social inclusion and diversity management, with particular attention to gender equality in the workplace and inclusion of
adolescents from minority groups. 

Since the very beginning of my career, I have felt a strong identification with the European academic community represented by the EASP for several reasons. First, since my PhD I have been working with many different colleagues around Europe and, later in my career, I have been visiting professor in many European Universities (University of Sussex, University of Toulose Jean Jaures, University of Essex, Pomeu Fabra Universitat Barcellona). Second, attending EASP meeting and small meetings has always been a must in my conference planning. I have always perceived the connection with the whole community as an inspiration and invaluable enrichment of my research work. Now, I would be more than happy to give something back to the EASP by serving in its executive committee. 

In particular, I believe that, if elected, I may contribute to the association in two respects, that I feel the EASP should focus on in the next future. First, the social impact of the social psychology research. We are leaving unprecedent times and facing social challenges of priority importance for European values survival (war, ecological disaster, threat to democracy, raise of polarized thinking, etc.) Social Psychology as a discipline was born to provide answers to some of these problems and promote positive social change. EASP is already committed to this effort and I think this should be a priority of the Association for the next years to impact as much as possible on the public opinion and on the institutions and organizations where we live. Second, D&I promotion. I know EASP is already committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and I think I could help the association in this valuable effort.

Three selected publications:

Manzi, C., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2022). Multiple identities juggling game: types of identity integration and their outcomes. Self and Identity, 1-5.

Manzi, C., Paderi, F., Benet‐Martínez, V., & Coen, S. (2019). Age‐based stereotype threat and negative outcomes in the workplace: Exploring the role of identity integration. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), 705-716.

Manzi, C., Ferrari, L., Rosnati, R., Benet-Martinez, V. (2014). Bicultural Identity Integration of Transracial Adolescent Adoptees: Antecedents and Outcomes. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 45, 888-904.

Alexandra Vázquez

I am currently an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology in UNED (Spain). I got my teaching position in 2012, after completing my doctoral thesis. For four years I was the academic secretary of the department and I have also been part of several commissions. My research interests focus on collective action, prejudice, and extremism.

Perspective on what are relevant issues for EASP and its Executive Committee to consider in the future:

In my opinion, the association should continue to work on increasing representation and encourage the active involvement of members from currently less represented regions. In line with the opinion article by Sassenberg and Gómez (2021), I believe that we should incorporate new evaluation criteria for the awards, but, above all, for scholarships and access to training activities such as the summer school so that the young researchers who lack funding or institutional support have more opportunities for professional development and international projection.

Vision statement:

Stand out as an influential and inclusive organization that promotes Social Psychology as a science and as a tool for social transformation in all European regions.

Three publications representative of my work:

Vázquez, A., Gómez, Á., López-Rodríguez, L., & Swann, W. B. (2023). Can identity fusion foster social harmony? Strongly fused individuals embrace familiar outgroup members unless threatened. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 107, 104462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104462

Vázquez, A., López-Rodríguez, L., Gómez, Á., & Dovidio, J. F. (2021). Ambivalent effects of positive contact between women and men on collective actions for women’s rights. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(9), 1358-1373. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220974162

Vázquez, A., & Lois, D. (2020). Prejudice against members of a ridiculed working‐class group. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(4), 992-1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12373

Diversity and Inclusion Survey

The EASP Executive Committee announced its commitment to enhance diversity of people and ideas in the field, and to promote an inclusive and respectful climate. This includes efforts to assess the current climate and use this information to facilitate diversity and inclusion (D&I) in EASP as well as in the field more broadly. For this purpose, we decided to conduct a survey to learn more about your experiences in terms of D&I in EASP conferences, sponsored events (e.g., our summer school) and journals. This focus was chosen due to our wish to keep this survey brief and because ultimately this is where we as an organization have the most leverage to create changes. Our goals are to (a) invite our members, as well as social psychologists who are currently non-members, to share their positive and negative experiences in terms of D&I, (b) receive feedback on current D&I initiatives (e.g., the scientific writing and publishing workshop), and (c) provide suggestions to EASP executive committee on the ways to increase D&I. The results of the survey will be shared in our General Meeting in Krakow, as part of the D&I panel.

We are grateful to Dr. Maja Kutlaca (Durham University), who helped us putting this survey together. Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete it -

https://socialtau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGgJAXQ3BBYWBDM

You are welcome to share the survey link with your colleagues who are not EASP members.

Diversity Training Resources

As part of our commitment to diversity, we (Kai Jonas, Ola (Oladipupo) Shobowale, and Nurit Shnabel) also prepared a short presentation (and a video to walk you through it) about demographic diversity in hiring and promotion in psychology. We hope that these materials will be useful for those of you who want to learn about this topic or who are interested in delivering a presentation about it (e.g., to inform hiring or promotion committees in your institution). You are welcome to watch, use and adjust these materials to your purposes.

You are welcome to download the presentation at the end of this page: https://www.easp.eu/about/sis/?. The references to the papers that are mentioned in each slide appear in the notes sections underneath the slides. 

Link to video: https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/rec/share/Ic3mdxcAA5FitrcnB7Veky0meAn_DwblNztbgnSbsSSVvFG50P3iti614MqzgBXf.0Djl04MkZNELQVsr

Other Announcements

Call for papers: Special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on "The role of digital pro-social and anti-social experiences on the people well-being and health"

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to invite contributions to a forthcoming Special Issue on the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) entitled "The Role of Digital Pro-social and Anti-social Experiences on the People Well-Being and Health".

Despite the advancement of digital media studies increasing, their application to improve peoples' well-being and health remains largely untapped, as World Health Organization pointed out. Assuming that digital media is not simply a communication tool, representing “real” relational and symbolic contexts in which individuals and groups have their social experiences, this Special Issue invites the submission of high-quality empirical papers, reviews, and meta-analyses to advance the understanding of the relationships between digital pro-social and anti-social contents and behaviors and individuals’ and community well-being and health, focusing on the contribution that social psychology can make in this sense.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Online discrimination against minorities;

• Cyberbullying or social exclusion actions;

• New media and Web3.0 technologies as a proof of social support, helping, and other pro-social behaviors;

• Benefits, challenges, and/or trends and issues related to new media and Web3.0 technologies and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors;

• Benefits, challenges, and/or trends and issues related to new media and Web3.0 technologies and anti-racial, anti-sexist attitudes, and behaviors;

• Benefits and/or challenges related to the use of new media and digital technologies and collective actions.

For more information, please see the call for papers:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/46WFA139P2

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024

Guest editors: Tiziana Mancini and Chiara Imperato (University of Parma, Italy).

In case you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

tiziana.mancini@unipr.it

chiara.imperato@unipr.it

Best regards,

Tiziana Mancini & Chiara Imperatohere

EJSP Best Early Career Paper Award

Each year, the editorial team of EJSP makes an award to the best paper published in EJSP in the preceding year to have been first-authored by a researcher within three years of their doctoral degree. The editors of EJSP have made this award to Boglárka Nyúl for the following paper:

Nyúl, B., Lantos, N. A., Reicher, S. D., & Kende, A. (2021). The limits of gender and regional diversity in the European Association of Social Psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(4-5), 800-819. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2774

Call for papers. Mgr. Jana Papcunová, PhD. (Social Psychology Ambassador 2022/2023)

Call for papers. Jana Papcunová, PhD. (Institute of Social Sciences of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia) invites submissions to a special issue of the journal Individual and Society on “Ukraine’s Past and Present Challenges from a psychological or historical perspective.” Please notify the editors of your preliminary interest in publication by 20 May 2023, to: durkovska@saske.sk. The journal’s new website provides all information for authors https://individualandsociety.org/.

Reports from EASP Meetings

EASP-SPSSI Joint Meeting Report
Society in the classroom

Organizers: Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (London School of Economics and Political Science), Sébastien Goudeau (University of Poitiers), and Nicole Stephens (Northwestern University)
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1666

EASP-SPSSI Joint Meeting Report
Advancing LGBTIQ+ research

https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1670

Grants Awarded

The following grants have been awarded by the Executive Committee:

Seedcorn Grants:

Carmen Cervone (University of Padova), Caterina Suitner (University of Padova), Francesca Guizzo (University of Surrey), Daniela Ruzzante (University of Milano Bicocca), and Silvia Galdi (University of Campania Luigi Vantivelli) - "Body concealment: The flip-side of self-objectification".

Marcos Dono (University of Santiago de Compostela) - "Choosing the blue pill: Examining the psychosocial determinants of support for a technocracy of artificial intelligence"

Jean Moneger (Université de Poitiers). Angela Johnson (University of California Merced), Lewis Nitschinsk (University of Queensland), Muireann O'Dea (University of Limerick) - On the relation of boredom and online trolling: A search for meaning or sensation?

Roberta Rosa Valtorta (University of Milano-Bicocca) - "More inequality, more violence acceptance? Investigating the link between economic inequality and tolerance of gender-based violence"

Grant Reports

EASP Collaborative Grant Report
Extending Knowledge about the Individual-, Group-, and Contextual-level Variables that Trigger Workers’ Self-Objectification: A Three-level Analysis Approach

Mario Sainz and Cristina Baldissarri
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1665

EASP Collaborative Grant Report
When voice interplays with the message. Linguistic strategies to counteract voice-based stereotyping and discrimination.

Fabio Fasoli and Magdalena Formanowicz
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1669

EASP Travel Grant Report
Conspiracy belief and identification with society – a twisted relationship?

Lotte Pummerer
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1667

Pre-Registered Grant Report
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of Hugenberg, Miller, and Claypool (2007)

Tomás Palma
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1668

EASP Travel Grant Report
Deeply Divided Societies: Social Psychological Processes and Theorising

Magdalena Bobowik
https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1673

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Full Membership:

Alma Jeftic
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Camille Sanrey
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Christian Di Gesto
University of Florence (Amanda Nerini, Camilla Matera)

Christophe Blaison
Université de Paris (Roland Imhoff, Kai Jonas)

Cillian McHugh
University of Limerick (Jenny Roth, Jim Everett)

Daniel Toribio-Florez
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David Doyle
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Dean McDonnell
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Edward Clarke
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Jana Papcunová
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Nele Claes
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Petra Schmid
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Ricky Green
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Rotem Kahalon
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Silvana Mula
Sapienza, University of Rome (Flavia Albarello, Ankica Kosic)

Tal Moran
The Open University of Israel (Eva Walther, Ravit Nussinson)

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Università degli Studi della Campania (Maddalena Marini, Silvia Galdi)

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Adèle Cottin
University of Bordeaux (Dominique Muller, François Ric)

Afreen Khalid
University of Nijmegen (Daniela Becker, Rob Holland)

Agatha Bataille
University of East Anglia (Anna Stefaniak, Sofia Stathi)

Ahmed Faruk Saglamoz
Durham University (Ana Leite, Maja Kutlaca)

Alba Sáez Lumbreras
University of Granada (Jesús L. Megías, Antonella Ludmila Zapata Calvente)

Alessia Telari
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Andrea Fariña Pérez
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Anna Castiglione
University of Trento (Cameron Brick, Jeroen Vaes)

Anna Huang
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Ashay A. Deshpande
University of Groningen (Martijn van Zomeren second letter without referee name)

Ashleigh Haydock-Symonds
University of Kent (Dominic Abrams, Karen Douglas)

Aurélien Brest
University of Bordeaux (Aurélien Graton, Virginie Bonnot)

Ayse Ozsari Sahin
University College of London (Ana Guinote, Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir)

Bart Kranenborg
University of Groningen (Martijn van Zomeren, Toon Kuppens)

Bashria Jan Sarwari
Université de Toulouse (David Vaidi Maja Becker)

Berfin Acar
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Jasper Van Assche, Cigdem Bagci)

Bhakti Khati
Durham University, UK (Maja Kutlaca, Ana Leite)

Bleen Abraham
University of Groningen (Russell Spears, Hedy Greijdanus)

Brianda Canal Serantes
University of Granada (Ginés Navarro Carrill, Inmaculada Valor Segura)

Carsten Sander
University of Hamburg (Marleen Stelter, Juliane Degner)

Catherine Grenier
Universitè de Louvain-la-Neuve (Karl-Andrew Woltin, Filip Boen)

Céline Robert
Université Paris Cité (Sébastien Goudeau, Cristina Aelenei)

Chiara Ambrosio
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Silvia Galdi, Maddalena Marini)

Chiara Guida
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Silvia Galdi, Maddalena Marini)

Chiara Parisse
Università la Sapienza Roma (Stefano Pagliaro, Ankica Kosic)

Chiara Zazzarino
University of Kent (Aleksandra Cichocka, Karen Douglas)

Chloé Touzé
Universitè Paris-Nanterre (Anthony Lantian, Constantina Badea)

Christiane M. Büttner
University of Basel (Rainer Greifeneder, Selma Rudert)

Christoph Kenntemich
University of Kaiserslautern and Landau (Selma C. Rudert, Melanie C. Steffens)

Daniel Courtney
University of Dundee (Mioara Cristea, Yasemin Acar)

Danna Galván Hernández
University of Granada (Hema Preya Selvanathan, Soledad de Lemus)

David Clarke
University of Sussex (John Drury, Evangelos Ntontis)

Diego Castro
University College London (David M. Frost, Roberto González)

Dominik Jakub Puchała
University of Warsaw (Michał Bilewicz, Wiktor Soral)

Elena Bacchini
University of Utrecht (Naomi Ellemers, Daan Scheepers)

Elena Padial
University of Granada (Miguel Moya, Ginés Navarro Carrillo)

Elianne Albath
University of Basel (Rainer Greifeneder, Fanny Lalot)

Elisabeta Militaru
University of Cambridge (Nikhila Mahadevan, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg)

Emine Bilgen
Royal Holloway, University of London (Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Masi Noor)

Emma Jansen
University of East Anglia (Roger Giner-Sorolla, Ruthie Pliskin)

Éva Gati
Eötvös Loránd University (Anna Kende, Hanna Szekeres)

Fabio Maratia
University of Bologna (Elisabetta Crocetti, Camilla Matera)

Fatma Chaabouni
Universitè de Louvain La Neuve (Annalisa Casini, Vincent Yzerbyt)

Fidelia Law
University of Exeter (Mengya Zhao, Manuela Barreto)

Francesca Cocchella
University of Genova (Simona Sacchi, Luca Andrighetto)

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Jack Loughnane
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Jasper Neerdaels
University of Hamburg (Laurent Licata, Jan Crusius)

Joelle-Cathrin Flöther
University of Hamburg (Iniobong Essien, Juliane Degner)

Johanne Mzidabi
University of Poitiers (Theodore Alexopoulos, Sébastien Goudeau)

Joseph Newton
University of Cardiff (Geoff Haddock, Ulrich von Hecker)

Josephine Andresen
University College of London (Ana Guinote, Kai Epstude)

Jovan Ivanović
University of Belgrad (Charis Psaltis,Iris Žeželj)

Joyce A. Snijdewint
University of Leiden (Daan Scheepers, Ruthie Pliskin)

Juanjuan Wei
University of Bologna (Monica Rubini, Elisabetta Crocetti)

Julia Berenguer
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Julia Buzan
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Julia Sánchez Garcia
Universidad de Zaragoza (Miguel Moya, Rosa Rodríguez Bailón)

Julien Bakchich
Université Savoie Mont Blanc (Annique Smeding, Dominique Muller)

Karen Aduful
Open Universiteit of The Netherlands (Arjan Bos, Gerjo Kok)

Laima Baldina
University of Groningen (Russell Spears, Hedy Greijdanus)

Laura Gallagher
University of Exeter (Christopher T. Begeny, Manuela Barreto)

Laura Prislei
Università la Sapienza Roma (Gilda Sensales, Ankica Kosic)

Leigh Huggard
University College Dublin (Laura Taylor, Cliódhna O’Connor)

Lena Hahn
University of Trier (Benjamin Buttlar, Eva Walther)

Lena Miketta
University of Bonn (Rainer Banse, Roland Imhoff)

Lewis Doyle
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Lia Lovecká
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Lope Tejero Peregrina
University of Granada (Guillermo B. Willis, Rosa Rodríguez Bailón)

Maria Adele Piccardo
Università di Milano (Miriam Parise, Ariela Francesca Pagani)

Maria Pagano
Università di Bologna (Elisabetta Crocetti, Tiziana Mancini)

Mateusz Strzałkowski
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Maria Lewicka,Adrian Wójcik)

Matteo Bonora
Università la Sapienza Roma (Mauro Giacomantonio, Luciana Carraro)

Maximilian Primbs
University of Nijmegen, (Daniela Becker, Rob Holland)

Maya Enisman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Tali Kleiman, Ruth Mayo)

Merve Ozturk
Durham University (Ana Leite, Maja Kutlaca)

Mortada Al-Amine
University of Groningen (Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears)

Muireann K. O’Dea
University of Limerick (Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Eric R. Igou)

Nadja Peter
FernUniversität in Hagen (Helen Landmann, Anette Rohmann)

Nathalie Bick
FernUniversität in Hagen (Maria-Therese Friehs, Laura Froehlich)

Nestor Motemba Ouoba
Paris Nanterre University (Armelle Nugier, Costantina Badea)

Noa Cohen
University of Groningen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Eran Halperin, Martijn van Zomeren)

Noemi Orabona
University of Trento (Jeroen Vaes, Maria Paola Paladino)

Patricia Ciordas
Eötvös Loránd University (Anna Kende, Barbara Lášticovà)

Plamen Petkov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Krastina Gueorguieva Petkova, Valery Todorov)

Radhika Butalia
KU Leuven (Filip Boen, Loes Meeussen)

Ramzi Abou Ismail
University of Kent (Aleksandra Cichocka, Karen Douglas)

Rocio Segura-Nebot
University of Granada (Rosa Rodríguez Bailón, Soledad de Lemus Martin)

Rocío Vizcaíno Cuenca
University of Granada (Rosa Rodríguez Bailón, Mónica Romero Sánchez)

Rouja Feng
Leiden University (Wilco van Dijk, Ruthie Pliskin)

Ruiqing Han
Cardiff University (Ulrich von Hecker, Geoff Haddock)

Saara Taavila
University of Amsterdam (Frenk van Harreveld, Bastiaan Rutjens)

Sabina de León de León
University of Granada (Jesús L. Megías, Rosa Rodríguez Bailón)

Sarah Gina Febriana
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Lara Ditrich, Kai Sassenberg)

Sarah Smith
Cardiff University (Ulrich von Hecker, Geoff Haddock)

Serena Stefani
University of Trento (Maria Paola Paladino, Jeroen Vaes)

Stanislas Bayallal
University of Paris Nanterre (Constantina Badea, Anthony Lantian)

Stefanie Richters
University of Osnabrük (Maarten van Zalk, Oliver Christ)

Sylvain Ferreira
Clermont Auvergne University (Armelle Nugier, Céline Darnon)

Tjits van Lent
Radboud University (Daniela Becker, Rob Holland)

Vera Weissenbacher
University of Groningen (Russell Spears, Namkje Koudenburg)

Xueting Zhang
Leiden University (Gert-Jan Lelieveld, Lotte van Dillen)

Yagmur Ozbay
University of Amsterdam (Eftychia Stamkou, Suzanne Oosterwijk)

Yara Alnajjar
University of Paris Nanterre (Constantina Badea, Anthony Lantian)

Yuan-Hsi Liao
University of Exeter (Christopher Begeny, Michelle Ryan)

Yitan Wang
KU Leuven (Ernestine Gordijn, Colette van Laar)

Yuchao Wang
KU Leuven (Karen Phalet, Colette van Laar)

Zafira Shabrina
Leiden University (Wilco van Dijk, Lotte van Dillen)

Thank you Sibylle Classen

Sibylle Classen has supported EASP since 1987, for 33 years. At that time Sibylle supported Amelie Mummendey (treasurer at that time) to create an intelligent system to structure the financial management of EASP. She has been the soul, heart, and memory of EASP for many years. Sibylle has worked with 11 executive boards, has supported the organization of 10 general meetings, and answered millions of questions of our members. For many of our members she was the first person they were in contact with when they applied for EASP membership. Over all the years, the executive boards have been very grateful that Sibylle would remember what needs to be done or what has previously been discussed. Sibylle retired just before the pandemic. The take-over could only be done online as traveling was not possible.

Finally, we were able to thank her for all her support, commitment, and heart for EASP last June! On behalf of EASP Nina organized a surprise farewell weekend for Sibylle in Groningen, which is close to Münster where Sibylle lives. Due to COVID restrictions we kept the group small. Three previous EC members and former colleagues who Sibylle has closely been working with from Groningen surprised her on different occasions in Groningen, for lunch, a boat trip, a city tour, or the dinner. We had a wonderful weekend, with lots of fun memories of EASP. And we were finally able to hand over all wishes from our members to thank her individually.

Thank you, Sibylle!

Sibylle farewell

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

Wendy Rulkens - van den Hoogen (Executive Officer), office@easp.eu

Executive Officer
Wendy Rulkens - van den Hoogen

Email: office@easp.eu

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

Media Manager
Email: media@easp.eu