European Bulletin of Social Psychology 33,1 (May
2021)
Editorial
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are delighted to bring you this first edition of the Bulletin for
2021. It focuses in particular on issues related to diversity and
inclusion, with comments from our President Kai Jonas about recent EASP
activities, a special report from Kai Sassenberg and Ángel Gómez on
diversity in EASP awards, and a finally a report on diversifying
psychological science, summarised by our Diversity Officer, Nurit
Shnabel.
The Bulletin also includes information about upcoming grants, a further
request for contributions to our history pages, an update on the General
Meeting, and an announcement of the new European Journal of Social
Psychology editorial team.
You will also find our usual announcements of future activities,
recently awarded grants, reports on previous grants and meetings,
publications, and the new members who we warmly welcome to EASP.
All best wishes,
Karen and Tina
President's
Corner
Dear colleagues,
When I am asked these days how I am doing my answer is “I see light at
the end of the tunnel and new challenges ahead” and I believe that also
holds for activities for EASP.
In the past months, the EC has managed to fully move the office to the
Netherlands. We do have – after going through excruciating procedures of
verification – a Dutch bank account and an online payment service (for
your membership contributions). We are managing new tax regulations and the
overall professionalization of the association. For example, in the context
of negotiating contracts with our publishers, what was previously often not
much more than a chat during a conference with the representatives, an
exchange of drafts afterwards and an easy closure of the deal, has now
turned into a series of meetings with tax advisors and legal support on
both ends. Brexit hasn’t made the situation easier, as most of the
publishers we work with are located in the UK. This brings exchange rate
risks afore that we cannot control, but the legal aspects are now covered
and the contracts with the publishers are settled. Moving was one big task
already, and adhering to new legal and tax demands was another. The context
in which EASP operates now, its size both in terms of members and budget,
as well as its scope of operations, have changed and require adjusted
management procedures.
We are far away from an “old” or “new normal”. The impact of the
Corona pandemic on academia is far from over and the consequences will be
felt for many years to come. Many of us are facing increasing numbers of
students in hard to plan educational contexts, some of us face job
insecurities, and research may be lagging behind, too. We have decided to
allocate funds to help to alleviate these burdens by making new research
possible and by opening up a grant line that is
specifically designed to support colleagues who have been suffering from a
double burden, due to childcare or care-taking demands. There is abundant
evidence that female researchers are disproportionally affected by this
(but not exclusively) and that the Corona pandemic is widening a gap that
was already there before. We also learned that junior scholars are severely
affected by to the lack of informal networking possibilities that are
otherwise present at conferences. The casual “Hi, I am XYZ, may I ask you
a quick question…?” that can lead to an hourlong conversation and later
collaboration has disappeared by and large. While more senior scholars are
less affected by this, given their existing networks and lower hurdles to
simply reach out to a colleague, junior scholars cannot build their
networks now. Hence, we have introduced an online colloquium: This
“online meet-up” gives junior scholars the opportunity to give a talk
and get feedback from senior peers that are otherwise hard to reach. The
Executive Committee (EC) will act as a broker and arrange the agreement,
the junior researcher and the host lab will take it from there. More
information can be found here.
Finally, we would like to stress that the classic funding available from
EASP, grants and group meetings, are still available and have been adjusted
to the current limitations of the Corona pandemic. Online meetings are
possible and fundable (based on a substantiated budget), and research grant
proposals, too.
We are very happy that the pandemic also brought other changes about.
Our membership is becoming increasingly vocal and voices their concerns
about (mal)practices, knowledge gaps, thinks along actively, and offers to
contribute to certain causes. This is what we, as the EC, would like to
develop: an EASP that is more open, dynamic and mutually supportive. For
example, I am sure that the GM in
Cracow in 2023 will showcase novel programming elements, too. As
another concrete example, also based on the diversity report and current
signals we have received from the editors of our journals, we are going to
offer academic writing workshops to junior scholars again (to kick off in
autumn). It is important to state that these workshops are not meant “to
preach to the converted”, but aim to attract junior scholars that
struggle with academic writing in English. I can only wholeheartedly ask
junior scholars who struggle to accept the challenge and dare to
participate. The workshops will be facilitated by a team bringing editorial
experience and understanding for different language backgrounds
together.
Last but not least, while we are dealing with administrative issues and
with the Corona pandemic, the EC has made continuous efforts to further
diversity and inclusion within the association. Our recent RKTS call has
delivered interesting proposals and we will fund novel themes and research
contexts. Calls will be issued soon and please keep an eye out for those!
Maybe it is important to stress that the RKTS grants are not meant only for
established researchers in a certain area, but also (and foremost) for
those colleagues, junior and senior, that want to learn more about a topic
or approach that they are less familiar with.
For EASP, diversity and inclusion is not reduced to only furthering a
diverse membership, or attendance of meetings, composition of panels and
supporting marginalized research topics, but goes far beyond those areas.
EASP, as an overarching European association, is in a special, but also
somewhat limited role here, too. We do not have a mandate over the
activities of our members in their institutions, but we can try to have an
impact on other areas of diversity and inclusion that are not directly
subject to EASP, by means of informational influence. In some Anglo-Saxon
countries, participation in diversity training is already a prerequisite
for participation in hiring committees; in many other European countries
this is not deemed as a hard criterion. We believe, in line with the
diversity and inclusion statement of EASP, and in light of recent events
that a number of members shared with us, that EASP can support its members
to safeguard fair processes that embrace diversity and inclusion in hiring
procedures. Later this year, we are going to offer a first “Diversity and
Inclusion in Hiring Workshop”, based on best practices from other
academic environments and tailored to the European context.
We have also finalized the #metoo report. Initially, we had planned to
present the findings at the GM. Now, we will present the findings in a
webinar (22nd June 2021, between 15:00-17:00 CEST). We will share a
sign-up/Zoom link in due course.
I hope that many of you can share my positive outlook and if not – in
case EASP can do anything to change that – please feel free to reach
out.
All the best,
Kai J. Jonas
President of EASP
Opinions and Perspectives
by Kai Sassenberg, IWM & University of Tübingen, Tübingen,
Germany & Ángel Gómez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Diversity
needs change on various levels: Towards more diverse award
recipients!
Already in 2017/2018, the EASP
Diversity Report identified the EASP awards as one area in which the
association was falling behind its own diversity standards. Accordingly, at
the time the EASP Executive Committee (EC) identified this as a
challenge—and we continue to strongly believe that in particular the
diversity of the awardees remains a challenge for the EASP. Therefore, we
would like to share the lessons we learnt over the years.
When the calls for award nominations were sent out in 2019, the EC made
sure that the calls stressed the importance of diversity. The EC had hoped
to receive many diverse nominations, but unfortunately this was not at all
the case: Indeed, the number of nominations was very small and the nominees
were by no means diverse. For seven awards that the Association was
planning to award, based on nominations it received, only 18 nominations in
total. Thirteen of the nominees had an affiliation with a university in the
UK or the Netherlands.
Even more concerning, people mostly nominated potential awardees from
their close research environment (i.e., collaborators and friends). To make
the challenge of reflecting diversity in awards for future award committees
easier, each and every one of us should consider nominating more
potential awardees and to furthermore consider those whose work
largely impress us, whilst at the same time refraining from nominating
people with whom we work directly or with whom frequently interact.
Sadly, it was not only the low number of nominations that rendered
selecting diverse recipients difficult. The award committee, on which one
of us served, talked extensively about each candidate before selecting
three potential award recipients. Almost all these nominees definitely were
strong candidates for the respective awards. Yet, when we started to
compare nominees, female and male candidates from the Netherlands and the
UK clearly outperformed all other candidates on several dimensions. Even
when we tried to consider people’s empirical or theoretical contribution
as an additional factor (putting numbers of publications, citations etc.
aside), the same picture emerged. This committee ultimately decided to
decorate three truly outstanding people – however, and once again, this
decision did not live up to the association’s diversity goals [...]
Continue
to read the full article here
New additional deadline for RKTS grants
We are happy to announce that a new deadline was added for applications
to RKTS (Research Knowledge Transfer Scheme) grants. Members are encouraged
to submit their application until May 15th. The RKTS grants are up to 3500
Euro, and their purpose is to create networks of researchers intended to
advance underrepresented regions, methodologies, and topics.
Mark your calendar - additional
application deadline.
EASP Research Knowledge Transfer
Scheme
Additional deadline: May 15th
News of the
next General Meeting in 2023
by Małgorzata Kossowska
Inspired by the research showing that anticipation of positive events is
related to happiness we would like to share with you preliminary
information regarding the EASP General Meeting in 2023. Even though some
people claim that prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about
the future, we are very optimistic that we will see you in Cracow from June
30th, 2023 to July 4th, 2023. We plan to launch the website and social
media accounts soon and at that point, we will kindly ask you to switch
from #easp2020 to #easp2023 mindset.
Without the General Meeting Cracow felt very empty in 2020, but we see
the future through rose-colored glasses (the picture serves as a proof) so
we hope to see you all in 2023!
Summary of SIPS Report on Diversifying Psychological
Science
by Nurit Shnabel
Based on the understanding that “we cannot do good science without
diverse voices” SIPS (Society for the Improvement of
Psychological Science) has established a Global Engagement Task Force
whose purpose is to recommend ways to increase diversity in the open
science movement. You can read the report here (see p. 25 for
EASP diversity-related policies).
Among other things, the report discusses the link between geographic and
epistemological diversity, stressing that “open science is not only a
specific set of behaviors, limited to reproducibility, replicability, and
preregistration; to quantitative and experimental research; or to social,
personality, and cognitive psychology.” Hence, outreach to
scholars from geographically diverse regions “should focus first on
understanding how scholars are already working and what their contexts and
needs are rather than imposing a certain set of predetermined tools and
practices on others.” To give just one example, research done in
geographically diverse contexts is likely to be more interdisciplinary and
applied than the research published in mainstream, WEIRD journals.
The report’s conclusion is that rather than striving for the
unification of methods and tools, the open science movement should seek to
“bring together people with different knowledge and concerns to work
together.” The report also stresses that the advance of technology
makes it is easier to increase diversity in psychological science. The R-Ladies, a
worldwide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community, is
discussed as an insightful case study on how international organizations
“can adapt to quickly changing circumstances and provide resources
for members in an […] equitable manner.”
Member
Contributions to the History Website
As we mentioned in the previous Bulletin, we have started to put
together a website on the history of European social psychology: https://history.easp.eu. Thank you very
much to colleagues who have contributed so far. The website is still very
incomplete, however, and we write again to request more contributions.
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.
We are not looking for people to send their papers to put on the
website. Instead, we are asking for written contributions. Please take a
look at the website to get an idea of what we're
looking for, 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.
An
online compendium of ideas, schools and people in the field of Social
Psychology
New Associate Editors of EJSP
EJSP
European Journal of Social
Psychology (EJSP)
Upcoming Events and Announcements
Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology (JCCP)
Submission deadline May 15th, 2021 (extended)
Registration now open
May 17th, 2021 from 15:00-18:00 GMT
Journal of Social Issues (JSI)
Submission deadline: May 31st, 2021
International Society for Self and
Identity (ISSI)
Extended deadline: May 31st, 2021
Conference date: June 1st, 2021
Online via Zoom
18th Biennial Meeting, July 7-10,
2021, International Society for Justice Research; Online edition, in
collaboration with Católica-Lisbon, Portugal
Asian Association of Social
Psychology
29th-31st July 2021, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Journal: Sustainability
Submission deadline: July 31st, 2021
Journal: Societies
Submission deadline: July 31st, 2021
Journal: Človek a spoločnosť
(Individual and Society); Submisson deadline: July 31st, 2021
University of Pennsylvania Positive
Psychology Center; Deadline for Letters of Intent: September 26th,
2021
April 28th-30th, 2022 in Tenerife,
Spain
Submission deadline: October 31st, 2021
For social psychologists doing
research on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression
Grant and
Meeting Reports
Franziska Ehrke (Universität
Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Carolin Scheifele (KU Leuven, Belgium), Maria
Angels Viladot (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Colette van Laar
(KU Leuven, Belgium), Melanie C. Steffens (Universität Koblenz-Landau,
Germany)
¹University of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy;
²University of Genova, Italy
Independent researchers affiliated
to the Human Rights Association¹, Turkey and to Bielefeld University²,
Germany
Max-Planck-Institute for Research
on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany; Project: "It Doesn’t Have to Be
Action: Anger Expression as Intervention Against Moral
Transgressions"
University of Chieti-Pescara,
Chieti, Italy; Project: Improving Institutional Communication at Time of
COVID-19: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
Member Publications
Edited by Vanessa Smith-Castro,
David Sirlopú, Anja Eller, and Hüseyin Çakal; The American Psychological
Association, 2021, 269 Pages; ISBN: 978-1-4338-3380-9
by Fieke Harinck and Esther van
Leeuwen (2020); Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-1-107-13907-7
(hardback) / 978-1-316-50431-4 (paperback).
New Members
of the Association
The following applications for membership were approved by the Executive
Committee in April 2021. 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. Amena Aamer
London, UK
I.Gleibs, S.Obradovic |
Dr. Pierre Bouchat
Metz, France
O. Klein, B. Rimé |
Dr. Rosa Cabecinhas
Braga, Portugal
G. Leone, L. Licata |
Dr. Tabea Hässler
Zurich, Switzerland
N. Shnabel, J. Ullrich |
Dr. Max Hennig
Tübingen, Germany
M. Biella, M. Hütter |
Dr. Marina Iosifian
St Andrews, UK
G. Haddock, L. Wolf |
Dr. Anna Miglietta
Torino, Italy
M.G. Monaci, C. Volpato |
Dr. Alessandra Sacino
Genova, Italy
L. Andrighetto, C. Volpato |
Dr. Adrian Stanciu
Mannheim, Germany
C. Cohrs, P. Kotzur |
Dr. Arnaud Wisman
Canterbury, UK
E. Igou, C. Sedikides |
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Postgraduate
Membership
Soha Abboud
Brussels, Belgium
O. Klein, L. Licata |
Flavio Azevedo
Jena, Germany
Motivation Letter |
Stefano Ciaffoni
Bologna, Italy
N. Hansen, S. Moscatelli |
Silvia Filippi
Padova, Italy
A. Maass, C. Suitner |
Tania Garau
Padova, Italy
L. Carraro, L.Castelli |
Vukašin Gligoric
Amsterdam, Netherlands
G. van Kleef, B. Rutjens |
Pauline Grippa
Brussels, Belgium
O. Klein, L. Licata |
Rosie Harrington
Clermont Ferrand, France
S. Guimond, A. Nugier |
Tarela Ike
Middlesbrough, UK
Motivation Letter |
Hirotaka Imada
Canterbury, UK
D. Abrams, J. Everett |
Feiteng Long
Leiden, Netherlands
D. Scheepers, R. Pliskin |
Youri Mora
Brussels, Belgium
O. Klein, L. Licata |
Kamila Rogut-Szkudlarek
Barlinek, Poland
Motivation Letter |
Saga Svensson
Aberdeen, UK
N. Macrae, D. Ray |
Ruri Takizawa
Geneva, Switzerland
V. Iacoviello, C.Kulich |
Matilde Tumino
Padova, Italy
L. Carraro, L.Castelli |
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Grant
Awards
The following members have received a grant from the EASP:
- Farid Anvari (Seedcorn grant)
- Thekla Morgenroth (Seedcorn grant)
- Benjamin Buttlar (Seedcorn grant)
- Emma Henderson (Pre-registered research grant)
- Yasin Koc (Collaborative research grant)
- Karl-Andrew Woltin (Seedcorn grant)
- Julia Schnepf (Seedcorn grant)
- Lusine Grigoryan (Seedcorn 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
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, Netherlands
Oladipupo Shobowale
(Executive Officer), office@easp.eu
Universiteitssingel 40, PO Box 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht,
Netherlands
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