European Bulletin of Social Psychology 32,2 (December
2020)
Editorial
Dear friends and colleagues,
We hope that you are keeping well in these difficult times. We were very
disappointed that we did not have the opportunity to get together at the
General Meeting this year, but we will very much look forward to seeing you
all in Krakow in 2023. There is an update on the General Meeting in this
Winter edition of the Bulletin.
You will also hear from our new President Kai Jonas who took over from
Kai Sassenberg in the Summer. The Bulletin also contains details of our
EASP award winners and grants that have been recently
awarded by the Association. You will also find the usual features about
future meetings and calls for contributions to projects and journal special
issues, including information about a new webpage on the history of social psychology.
Reports of previously awarded grants are also present, and there is a
feature on the most recent Summer School that was held at the University of
Surrey. Finally, there is a list of new members who we warmly welcome to
the Association, and we also warmly welcome Ola Shobowale as the
new EASP Executive
Officer.
We hope you enjoy reading this Bulletin and wish you a relaxing Winter
break and a Happy New Year.
All best wishes,
Karen and Tina
President's
Corner
Dear colleagues and friends,
usually, when the tenure of the new President and the newly elected
members of the Executive Committee starts we can look back at a great
General Meeting in the summer, feel inspired by the research we have seen,
the exchanges and discussions we had, and the friends we met. This year
everything is different. Not only did we have to postpone and ultimately
cancel the General Meeting, a move that was painful but necessary, but also
the Executive Committee has been meeting virtually since April. The Corona
virus pandemic is dictating a novel agenda for EASP, adding on to issues
and topics that we already have been working on. The priorities have
shifted. While I had a number of ideas how I wanted to fill in this
presidency some of these ideas are for now on the backburner. What is
paramount now is to steer EASP safely through the Corona times, and to
continue serving and supporting European social psychologists. I feel lucky
that the new Executive Committee shares this view and is supporting my
endeavors. Together and with the support of you, the members of EASP, we
can make it.
One of the most prevalent outcomes of the Vision workshop held late in
2019 was the “family character” of EASP, often rooted in early career
positive experiences of our members at a summer school and refreshed
regularly in meetings that accompany the academic careers of many of us.
The open answers in our last survey set out to hear your voice regarding
the General Meeting corroborated this notion. Clearly, it is a task for
this Executive Committee to preserve this character during the times of
Corona. This is anything but easy, just offering the umpteenth video
conference is not the solution: Many of us are zoomed out.
At the same time my own experience (and colleagues that I consulted)
showed that senior scientists suffer less from the new virtual. We do have
our networks and can maintain them during the crisis. Missing out on a
conference or two is nothing that harms our work. For junior scientists the
picture is different. There are less conferences and virtual ones seem to
create less visibility for one’s work. The informal opportunities to meet
new colleagues during a conference or meeting have been wiped out and not
replaced properly. Putting out informal feelers on the job market has
become incredibly difficult, too. I am hopeful that newly formed research
teams of the virtual summer school 2020 – that we supported with research
grants to facilitate initial cooperation – are an example of a solution.
But we need more. Given the cancellation of the General Meeting, the
Executive Committee is going to announce a number of measures to try to
fill the gaps in the coming months. We hope that those measures will get us
through the crisis. At the same time, the COVID-19 grant scheme offered
earlier this year was highly successful. We had many submissions, funded
the most promising and high quality ones, and are very happy to see the
first results coming in now.
The Corona pandemic is of course not everything. We have voted for new
Standing Orders and while all have been approved by the members it would be
foolish to gloss over the results. We recognize that the re-naming of the
awards and subsequent activities were met with disagreement by a noteworthy
minority. We do want to develop the way further how the history and memory
of EASP is kept. Our new history
page, soon to be integrated in the website, now a stand-alone at https://history.easp.eu/ is open to
contributions and is a fabulous way to document individuals, different
European and national research traditions and diverse foci. Furthermore,
EASP is committed to promoting safe scientific environments and we will
continue to do so. We still need to report the results of the #metoo survey
and we hope that the discussion on how to safeguard our norms and standards
continues. We are glad that the new Standing Orders provide us with clear
procedures on how to deal with violations. We have created a new role in
the Executive Committee, a Diversity Officer (currently filled in by Nurit
Shnabel), to put our policies better into action and to translate was has
been voiced in the past (e.g., with the diversity report) into tangible
activities.
Last but not least, major organizational and structural changes are
currently going on. Sibylle Classen is retiring after 30 years of service
to the association. Oladipupo
Shobowale is taking over – he is introducing himself in a portrait in
this Bulletin – and we have to move the office and financial
infrastructures. On top of that the Dutch taxation regulations for
associations like ours have changed, and those need to be managed at the
same time. This endeavor will take up some time and I would kindly ask you
to be patient with us if not everything is working as you have been used to
immediately.
For me, since 1999 when I attended my first General Meeting and in 2000
the summer school, EASP has always been my academic family. I can fully
resonate with this characteristic of families: providing a safe haven, a
nurturing ground, and in terms of extended families a source of networking.
EASP has room to develop its strong characteristic further: We have started
to collaborate with other associations, think of the joint award with EAPP,
and we believe that there is potential for further collaborations. I have
participated in the presidential activities of EURAM with novel potentials
arising for working together. In a Europe that is both growing together and
falling apart, learned societies like EASP can contribute to the cohesion
of science, no matter what national governments are deciding. With Brexit
negotiations still open, EASP sees a commitment to keep our UK colleagues
integrated. Depending on the outcomes of Brexit negotiations, we may have
to adjust and develop our collaboration and support for our UK members as
well. Brexit will also impact our funding. All publishers that we work with
and that to a large degree finance the activities of EASP via the royalties
of the journals are located in the UK. Contracts are in Pound Sterling –
we are subject to exchange rate fluctuation – and depending on the
outcomes of the Brexit negotiations we may have renegotiate our contracts
as well. Related to the royalty based funding it is important to note that
decreases in publisher revenue due to Open Access contracts directly affect
us as well. So far, growth in other markets (e.g., Asia) has buffered a
decline in royalties, but we need to monitor this closely and adapt our
expenditure accordingly, or revisit the topic of alternative funding.
I am happy that the recent Research Knowledge Transfer scheme meetings
were fruitful. We do now have a growing LGBTQI+ interest group, and the
meeting on up-to-date research methods (open, transparent and
collaborative) in Bordeaux was successful, too. Together with our
pre-registration journal activities at EJSP and CRSP, I believe that EASP
documents that we are still at the forefront of developing science
structures further.
I hope that these lines have given you an update about the current
pressing issues and more long term agenda of the current Executive
Committee. We will continue with our policy to reach out to you more often
and to include the membership-at-large more into our decision making. Of
course, feel free to contact me or any other member of the Executive
Committee with your concerns, feedback and suggestions anytime.
For now, I want to wish you a healthy end of the year, and I hope you
find time to relax a bit during the upcoming Holiday season!
All the best,
Kai J. Jonas
President of EASP
News of the
next General Meeting
The next General Meeting will be held 2023 in Krakow. We are very
thankful that the local organizers are willing to invest their time and
effort again, and we are hopeful that 2023 will turn out to be a great
onsite meeting. 2023 will hopefully give all vaccination efforts enough
time to show their effects and allow travel to resume safely.
News about the future plans for the
Association's next General Meeting
Appointment
of new EASP Executive Officer
The Executive Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Ola
Shobowale as the new EASP Executive Officer. He will be taking over from
Sibylle Classen, who is retiring at the end of 2020. His responsibilities
include the day-to-day management of EASP administration and projects.
Ola is a certified project manager and trained as a medical doctor with
interest in mental health (behavioral neuroscience degree) and significant
clinical and international health experience in infectious diseases (United
Nations – WHO). He is currently engaged in a PhD trajectory.
Invitation
to contribute to new History Website
We have started to put together a website on the history of European
social psychology: https://history.easp.eu.
There is some really useful content and resources there already, but
this website is very much in its early stages. We would like to expand the
website to cover the history of social psychology in Europe as broadly as
we possibly can. Specifically, we invite everyone to consider writing
contributions about ideas, theories, schools, or people in European social
psychology. We are also interested in thoughts and streams that had a
national or regional impact, but that have never or not yet been
extensively discussed internationally.
Please take a look at the website and get in touch if you would be
willing to make a contribution. You can send these to our Media Manager,
Tina at media@easp.eu.
Upcoming Events and Announcements
SCSMI 2021, June 9-12th, online
Submission deadline: December 15th, 2020
Psychologica Belgica, the journal
of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences; Submission deadline:
December 31st, 2020
15th-16th April in Helsinki,
Finland or Online;
Submission deadline: December 31st, 2020 (working group papers); February
2nd, 2021 (individual papers)
Group Processes & Intergroup
Relations (GPIR)
Extended submission deadline: January 15th, 2021
Submission deadline: January 15,
2021
Group Processes and Intergroup
Relations (GPIR); Submission deadline: May 1st, 2021
Frontiers in Psychology
Submission deadline: June 30th, 2021
Social Thermoregulation, Risk
Avoidance, and Eating Questionnaire (STRAEQ-2)
Winner: Tina C. DeMarco
EASP Award
Winners (2020)
Congratulations to all award winners!
EASP
Early-Career Award
- Jim Everett (University of Kent)
- Jens Lange (University of Hamburg)
- Eftychia Stamkou (University of Amsterdam)
EASP
Mid-Career Award
- Greg Maio (University of Bath)
- Michelle Ryan (University of Exeter)
- Gerben Van Kleef (University of Amsterdam)
EASP
Theory-Innovation Award
- Toni Schmader (University of British Columbia) and Constantine
Sedikides (University of Southampton) for the article: Schmader, T., &
Sedikides, C. (2018). State authenticity as fit to environment: The
implications of social identity for fit, authenticity, and
self-segregation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22(3),
228-259.
EASP Award
for Outstanding Service to the Field
- Laurant Licata (Université libre de Bruxelles) for organizing and
leading the COST network "Social psychological dynamics of historical
representations in the enlarged European Union"
EASP
Lifetime-Achievement Award
- Jolanda Jetten (University of Queensland)
EAPP / EASP
Award for Outstanding contribution to European Personality and Social
Psychology
- Anna Baumert (Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
& Technical University of Munich)
Grant and
Meeting Reports
Please be aware that new deadlines for all but pre-registered grant
applications are now in effect. The new deadlines for Travel, Seedcorn,
Collaborative Research and RKTS (Research Knowledge Transfer Scheme) grants
are February 28th, June 30th and October
31st. This change was necessary to ensure better financial
flexibility for the current year, but also for better comparability of
applications. Thank you for your understanding.
Online, Aug. 24th, 2020 - Sept.
4th, 2020; Organised by University of Surrey, UK
by Olga Białobrzeska, Justyna
Bąba, Sylwia Bedyńska, Aleksandra Cisłak, Magdalena Formanowicz¹;
Małgorzata Gocłowska²; Aleksandra Cichocka³;
Post Summer School Report; Project:
"Brilliance as deviance: Gender-role incongruity as another barrier to
women’s success in academic fields"
University of Lisbon, Portugal;
Project: Investigating the Contribution of Stereotypic Beliefs to the
Own-Race Bias in Face Recognition
Project: Human and nonhuman agents
as a source of social pressure for judgements of moral character
University of Groningen; Research
visit to the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in
Evanston, USA
Max Planck Institute for Research
on Collective Goods, Germany; Research visit to the Social and Affective
Neuroscience Lab, Brown University and 2020 SPSP Convention, USA
Member Publications
by Hans Rocha IJzerman; W. W.
Norton & Company, 304 pages, ISBN: 978-1-324-00252-9
New Members
of the Association
The following applications for membership were approved by the Executive
Committee in November 2020. 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. Iniobong Essien
Hagen, Germany
A. Rohmann, J. Degner |
Dr. Giulia Fuochi
Padova, Italy
M. Hewstone, A. Voci |
Dr. Jessica Gale
Canterbury, UK
C. Staerklé, E. P. Visintin |
Dr. Alexandra Gheorghiu
Iasi, Romania
C. Aelenei, M. Cristea |
Dr. Valeria Amata Gianella
Bologna, Italy
M. Barreto, S. Pagliaro |
Dr. Ilaria Giovannelli
Perugia, Italy
M.G. Pacilli, S. Pagliaro |
Dr. Lusine Grigoryan
Bochum, Germany
C. Cohrs, W. Hofmann |
Dr. Simona Haasova
Lausanne, Switzerland
E. Papies, A. Florack |
Dr. Lea Hartwich
Osnabrück, Germany
J. Becker, O. Christ |
Dr. Inna Ksenofontov
Osnabrück, Germany
J. Becker, O. Christ |
Dr. Nora Anna Lantos
Budapest, Hungary
M. Kovacs, M. Hadarics |
Dr. Sandrine Müller
New York, USA
M. Bos, V. Benet-Martinez |
Dr. Alyson Sicard
Clermont-Ferrand, France
M. Delphine, C. Aelenei |
Dr. Rebecca Smith
London, UK
M. Birtel, T. Gkinopoulos, |
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Postgraduate
Membership
Miriam Bartsch
Hamburg, Germany
T. Sevincer, J. Degner |
Niklas Felix Cypris
Cologne, Germany
M. Li, J. Sasse |
Carina Hoerst
Brighton and Hove, UK
M. Easterbrook, J. Drury |
Adar Hoffman
Lausanne, Switzerland
C. Staerklé, N. Sommet |
Amanda Klysing
Malmo, Sweden
E. Renstrom, F. Bjorklund |
Halil Emre Kocalar
Mugla, Turkey
A.K. Uskul, M. Rubini |
Silvia Miele
Surrey, UK
F. Fasoli, P. Rusconi |
Alice Lucarini
Padova, Italy
C. Suitner, A. Voci |
John Addey Malherbe
Edinburgh, UK
Motivation letter |
Marija Petrovic
Belgrade, Serbia
I. Zezelj, G. Knežević |
Ocyna Rudmann
Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Butera, B. Dompnier |
Maria Stogianni
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
F. v. Harreveld, Motivation letter |
Kevin Vezirian
Gieres, France
H. IJzerman, D. Muller |
Yi Zhang
Wageningen, Netherlands
Motivation letter |
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Grant
Awards
The following members have received a grant from the EASP:
- Marco Biella (Seedcorn Grant)
- Maria Chayinska (Collaborative Grant)
- Tessa Coffeng (Travel Grant)
- Nadira Faber (Collaborative Grant)
- Ana Figueiredo (Seedcorn Grant)
- Anand Krishna (Pre-Registered Research Grant)
- Efisio Manunta (Travel Grant)
- Jenny Roth (Seedcorn Grant)
- Marco Salvati (Seedcorn Grant)
- Eftychia Stamkou (Seedcorn Grant)
- Tommy van Steen (Pre-Registered Research Grant)
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
Straßer 14-16, 55122 Mainz, Germany
Nina Hansen
(Treasurer), e.h.gordijn@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, Netherlands
Sibylle Classen
(Executive Officer), sibylle@easp.eu
P.O. Box 420 143, D‑48068 Muenster, Germany
Oladipupo Shobowale
(Executive Officer), office@easp.eu
Universiteitssingel 40, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht,
Netherlands
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