Editorial
Dear Members, Colleagues and Friends,
We are rapidly moving toward the end of the fall semester. As usual, a
very busy time for most of us, but also with a lot of inspiring meetings
with students and colleagues, resulting in new research ideas and
projects.
In this volume of the EBSP we have as usual a lot of news and
interesting topics for our members. I want to draw your specific attention
to some updates and changes in the member area (MyEASP).
First, in this area you find a brief report of our Membership
questionnaire, which was completed by a total of 85% of our members. We
have also added some new functions and option preferences to this area.
Sign-in instructions to MyEASP are provided below.
In the member area you can now
explore some excellent new material (videos, slides and tutorials) from the
Solid Science Training Workshop in Bordeaux, organized
within the RKTS grant schedule by Hans IJzerman, Francois Ric, and Rick
Klein. We are indeed grateful to this group for documenting the workshop so
thoroughly and making it available to all our members. Moreover, I
recommend our junior and early career members to take a
look at the invitation from the ISPP (International Society of Political
Psychology) to take part of their “Connections corner”. This a space where young
scholars can pitch a research idea/proposal and it provides a place for new
interdisciplinary and international collaborations to emerge.
As you probably know, there are strong forces in
Hungary working for restrictions of the autonomy of the academy.
Our Hungarian colleagues are asking us to show our support by signing a petition against the
violation of academic freedom. You find a link to the petition below.
This bulletin also includes reports of all activities going on within the EASP, as
well as announcements of several new ones. We strongly encourage all our members to
continue organizing meetings, thinking of new formats,
attending to the inclusion of early career researchers, a variety of
methods and perspectives, and researchers from diverse regions. As usual
there is also a section on new
members.
Finally, we would again like to promote submissions of short pieces to
our "Opinions and Perspectives" section. If you have
suggestions on topics related to social psychological knowledge and
resulting challenges and opportunities that you wish to communicate, and
think are relevant for our members, please contact Torun Lindholm
(tlm@psychology.su.se), the editor of EBSP.
On behalf of the Executive Committee
Torun Lindholm and Tina Keil
Results of the Membership Questionnaire
In a recent online membership questionnaire, we asked all EASP members
to verify their contact details, to grant permission to forward contact
details to journals sponsored by the EASP, and to indicate their
preferences regarding if and how they would like to be listed in the member
directory. A breakdown of responses is given in Figure 1. Thanks to all who
supported and took part in the initiate.
From members that did not participate in the questionnaire, we
unfortunately do not have the permission to forward contact details to
publishers or to display their contact details in the website member
directory. Consequently, full members that did not participate will no
longer receive print versions of the EJSP and ERSP journals. However,
all members now have the possibility to change their settings and
preferences in the members’ area of the EASP website (see below for
details). While members may update their journal preferences at any time,
the settings will not take effect until the next time contact details are
forwarded to journal publishers. This is typically done about once a
year.

Figure 1. Breakdown of responses from participating
members
Changes to
the Members' Area
The member area (MyEASP) on the EASP website has now
been updated to reflect the outcomes of the membership questionnaire. If
you log into the members area and choose “Member data” from the menu
you will notice two new tabs named “Journals” and “Directory
listing” (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. New preference options in members'
area
Selecting the “Journals” tab allows you to control whether the EASP
can forward your contact details to the EASP sponsored journals. As
previously mentioned, the settings won’t have immediate effect but will
be considered the next time the EASP forwards contact details to the
publishers.
Selecting the “Directory listing” tab allows you to control if and
how your contact details are displayed on the EASP website. Although there
is a setting for a public display of your contact details, there are
currently no plans to integrate this on the EASP website. The settings for
the display of your contact details for the directory in the member area on
the other hand have been implemented. Changing of this setting takes
immediate effect, which you can see by visiting the member directory.
Finally, just as a reminder, the "Email Settings" tab allows you do
sign-up or opt-out of receiving EASP mailings. These include this Bulletin,
but also the more frequent Mailserve news. If you have signed up for any
these and mails keep landing in your spam folder, just whitelist
bulletin@easp.eu and news@easp.eu in your email client.
How to
sign-in to the Members' Area
Some members have expressed difficulties when trying to sign-in to the
members area on the EASP website. Here, a short description of the sign-in
process and its functionality.
To sign-in to the members' area go to: https://www.easp.eu/my-easp/
The username is always the email address we have on record for you. If
you have forgotten your password, you can request a new one by clicking on
the “forgot password?” tab. Here, enter your email address and click on
the button “Get new Password”. An email asking you to confirm your
request will then be sent to you. Make sure to check your spam folder in
case you didn't receive an email. Once you click on the confirmation link
in the email you are sent another email with a new, provisional password.
You should now be able to sign-in to the members' area using the
provisional password. Make sure to change your provisional password once
you have successfully signed in. If you experience any problems, please
contact Tina (media@easp.eu) or Sibylle (sibylle@easp.eu).
Petition for Academic Freedom in Hungary
Some of our colleagues/members from Hungary asked for our support,
because the government denies faculty and administrators the academic
freedom that is the guarantee for the autonomy of higher education.
“In the middle of the summer university break, the Hungarian Rectors'
Conference was presented a draft decree from the Ministry of Human
Resources and the Ministry of Justice. This proposal called for the
abolition of the master program on Gender Studies. Such curricula are
currently offered by the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences and the Central
European University (CEU). [...] The Network of University Teachers in
Hungary protests any misguided or illegitimate governmental action aimed at
harassing or banning the Gender Studies master program. It invites local
and international universities and scientific organizations to join this
protest to repel a gross effort to abuse and endanger academic freedom in
Hungary.”
Please support our colleagues and sign the statement
below:
Statement of the Network of University Teachers against banning the Gender
Studies Program
Further
information:
If you have contact to other colleagues and associations that could also
support the protest please forward the email. Thanks a lot in advance for
your support!
Sabine Sczesny (University of Bern)
Connections
Corner for Junior / Early Career Researchers
Each issue of the ISPP ECC Newsletter (consisting of a Spring
and Fall issue, and reaching between 500-700 people) includes a
‘Connections Corner’ aimed at providing a platform for potential
networking. The scope of this section has now been expanded by allowing
individuals to use it as a space to pitch a research idea/proposal and to
provide a place for new interdisciplinary and international collaborations
to emerge.
If you are a junior or early career researcher with an idea / project /
proposal that you would like to get others involved in, an existing project
that you’d like to get some help with, or even potentially an idea for a
panel for a conference, and you’d like to get others involved, please get
in touch with Sandra Obradovic (S.Obradovic@lse.ac.uk) directly.
Upcoming Meetings
A reminder of upcoming meetings, summer schools and events organised or
sponsored by the EASP.
June 27-28th, 2019 at University of
Sussex, UK;
Application deadline: December 15th, 2018
July 3rd-6th, 2019 at the Max
Planck House in Tübingen, Germany; Application deadline: January 20th,
2019
June 20th-22nd, 2019, University of
Warsaw, Poland; Application deadline: January 31st, 2019
July 14-25th, 2019 at New York
University;
Application deadline: February 15th, 2019
June 30th-July 4th, 2020 in Krakow,
Poland; Organisers: Katarzyna Jasko, Marcin Bukowski, Malgorzata Kossowska,
Ewa Szumowska & Piotr Dragon
Member Publications and Announcements
Calegari, P. (2018) LA DIGNITÀ
UMANA - dal concetto di Pico della Mirandola alla sua oggettivazione
storica
10-13th of July 2019, University of
Amsterdam;
Submission deadline: November 12th, 2018
Newcastle, NSW Australia;
Submission deadline: December 1st, 2018
Social Psychological Bulletin;
Submission deadline: January 31st, 2019
Submission deadline: January 31st,
2019
Submission deadline: March 1st,
2019
July 4-5th, 2019 in Colombo, Sri
Lanka;
Submission deadline: March 4th, 2019
Featuring "Underrepresented
Populations";
Editor: Simine Vazire, University of California;
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2019
Grant and Meeting Reports
Université Grenoble Alpes, France;
"Solid Science Training Workshop" at University of Bordeaux,
September 6th-7th, 2018
Zürich, Switzerland, July 1-14;
Organizers: Johannes Ullrich, Veronika Brandstätter, Urte Scholz &
Klaus Jonas
University of Bologna, Italy;
Project: “A developmental perspective of factors affecting prejudice
towards migrants and social inclusiveness in adolescence”
University of Reading, UK; Project:
"The Racist’s Eye: Investigating Attentional Bias to Arab Faces in
Threatening and Non-Threatening Contexts"
September, 6-8th 2018, Bratislava,
Slovakia
University of Edinburgh, UK;
Research visit to Professor Gordon Hodson at Brock University in
Canada
Liverpool John Moores University,
UK
New Members of the Association
The following applications for membership were approved by the Executive
Committee in October 2018. In November 2018, each of the applicants will
become a member of the EASP in the category indicated below. Names of
members providing letters of support are in the third line of the
entry:
Full Membership |
Dr. Farid ANVARI
Perleberg, Germany
E. Thomas, J. Jetten
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Dr. Christopher BEGENY
Exeter, UK
M. Ryan, Y. Huo
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Dr. Dashamir BERXULLI
Prishtina, Kosovo
M. Rubini, M. Kossowska
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Dr. Luca CARICATI
Parma, Italy
T. Mancini, C. Owuamalam
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Dr. Gabriela CZARNEK
Krakow, Poland
M. Bukowski, M. Kossowska
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Dr. Anissa DUMESNIL
Nanterre, France
A. Lantian, J.B. Legal
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Dr. Julia ELAD-STRENGER
Ramat Gan, Israel
D. Urschler, T. Kessler
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Dr. Pelin GUL
Iowa, USA
R. Giner-Sorolla, A. Uskul
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Dr. Carolin HAGELSKAMP
Berlin, Germany
R. Brown, J. van der Toorn
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Dr. Tina KEIL
Pforzheim, Germany
M. Koschate-Reis, J. Smith
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Dr. Judit KENDE
Leuven, Belgium
K. Phalet, C. van Laar
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Dr. Resit KISLIOGLU
Ankara, Turkey
C. Coskan, C. Cohrs
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Dr. Gunnar LEMMER
Marburg, Germany
C. Cohrs, U. Wagner
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Dr. Christian LUHMANN
Limerick, Ireland
M. Gelfand, O. Klein
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Dr. Marcin MORON
Katowice, Poland
B. Wojcziske, A. Cislak
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Dr. Edward OREHEK
Pittsburgh, USA
K. Jonas, R. Custers
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Dr. Angelo ROMANO
Bonn, Germany
P. van Lange, D. Balliet
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Dr. Julia SASSE
Bonn, Germany
E. Gordijn, R. Spears
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Dr. Dana SCHNEIDER
Jena, Germany
T. Kessler, D. Urschler
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Dr. Marc SCULLY
Stony Brook, USA
A. O’Donnell, O. Muldoon
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Dr. Tobias STARK
Utrecht, Netherlands
B. Martinovic, A. Smeekes
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Dr. Ewa SZUMOWSKA
Krakow, Poland
M. Sekerdej, M. Kossowska
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Postgraduate Membership |
Aya ADRA
Bonn, Germany
R. Imhoff, T. Rothmund
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Anna BLOMKVIST
Stockholm, Sweden
M. Gustafsson-Senden, T. Lindholm
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Julia DUPONT
Landau, Germany
F. Ehrke, M. Steffens
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Merve FIDAN
Ankara, Turkey
Y. Acar, C. Coskan
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Piet GROOT
Utrecht, Netherlands
D. Scheepers, J. van der Toorn
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Miriam H.-HARNISCH
Utrecht, Netherlands
N. Ellemers, F. van Nunspeet
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Leon HILBERT
Leiden, Netherlands
M. Noordewier, W. van Dijk
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Victoria HOTCHIN
London, UK
M. Kumashiro, S. Jones
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Demet ISLAMBAY
Konya, Turkey
G. Baysu, A. Uskul
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Ivana JAKSIC
Belgrade, Serbia
S. Sczesny, I. Zezelj
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Till M. KASTENDIECK
Berlin, Germany
U. Hess, U. Klocke
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Orhan KAYA
Bolu, Turkey
Y. Acar, M. Gezici Yalzin
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Corine Stella KANA KENFACK
Bologna, Italy
M. Rubini, F. Prati
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Felix KRUSE
Hamburg, Germany
J. Degner, L. Garcia-Marques
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Carmen LIENEN
Marburg, Germany
C. Cohrs, U.Wagner
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Lukas LITZELLACHNER
Bath, UK
G. Maio, B. Verplanken
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Viivi MAKINEN
Helsinki, Finland
I. Jaskinskaja-Lathi, T.A. Renvik
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Eva MORENO-BELLA
Granada, Spain
G. Willis, M. Moya
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Olivia ROBERTSON
Newcastle, UK
M. Noor, I. van Beest
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Onur SAHIN
Utrecht, Netherlands
N. Ellemers, J. van der Toorn
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Julia SCHNEPF
Landau, Germany
M. Steffens, F. Ehrke
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Ercan SEN
Ankara, Turkey
M. Gezici Yalzin, H.Cakal
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Selin TEKIN GUVEN
Brighton, UK
J. Drury, K. Long
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Daniel TORIBIO-FLOREZ
Bonn, Germany
R. Imhoff, T. Rothmund
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Mete Sefa UYSAL
Izmir, Turkey
Y. Acar. H. Cakal
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Christopher R. VAN RUGGE
Groningen, Netherlands
R. Spears, C. Teixeira
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Luc VIERA
Strasbourg, France
O. Zerhouni, M.P. Fayant
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Kirsten WESTMORELAND
Bristol, UK
S. McKeown Jones, S. Quadflieg
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Maria ZWICKER
Amsterdam, Netherlands
F. van Harreveld, H. Nohlen
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Grant Awards
The following members have received a grant from the EASP:
- Yasemin Acar, Huseyin Cakal et al. (Collaborative Research
Grant)
- Casey Bevens (Travel grant)
- Carolin Hagelskamp et al. (post summer school seedcorn grant)
- Dorottya Lantos (Travel grant)
- Laurent Licata (Travel grant)
- Michela Menegatti (Seedcorn grant)
- Soraya Elizabeth Shamloo (Travel grant)
- Karolina Urbanska et al. (Preregistered Research Grant)
- Jolien van Breen et al. (Seedcorn grant)
- Hellen Vergoossen (Travel grant)
Executive Committee
Jean-Claude Croizet
(Meetings Officer), jean-claude.croizet@univ-poitiers.fr
CeRCA (UMR CNRS 6234), MSHS Université de Poitiers, F-86000
Poitiers, France
Ernestine Gordijn
(Journals Officer), e.h.gordijn@rug.nl
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of
Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, NL‑9712 TS Groningen,
Netherlands
Kai Jonas
(Treasurer), kai.jonas@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40,
NL‑6229 ER Maastricht, Netherlands
Małgorzata
Kossowska (European Liaison Officer), malgorzata.kossowska@uj.edu.pl
Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6,
PL‑30‑060 Krakow, Poland
Torun Lindholm
(Secretary), tlm@psychology.su.se
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, SE‑106 91
Stockholm, Sweden
Monica Rubini
(Grants Officer), monica.rubini@unibo.it
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, I‑40126
Bologna, Italy
Kai Sassenberg
(President), k.sassenberg@iwm-kmrc.de
Knowledge Media Research Center, Schleichstr. 6, D‑72076
Tuebingen, Germany
Sibylle Classen
(Executive Officer), sibylle@easp.eu
P.O. Box 420 143, D‑48068 Muenster,
Germany
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