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🖇️If you want to read more abut their findings the paper can be found here - doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

🔎They developed and tested nine procedures for measuring individual differences in confirmation bias starting from three classical experimental paradigms and applying them to the cognitive processes of information search, evaluation of evidence strength, and recall.

📢New paper alert! 📜Our Predrag Teovanović published a new paper at Scientific Reports - A common factor underlying individual differences in confirmation bias along with Vincent Berthet and Vincent de Gardelle!

Time for another ✨new paper alert✨! "Lifetime prevalence of questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: A preregistered nationally representative survey" is out now in @PLOSONE 🔗Read all about it: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Incoming 🧵👇

New Study🔔Among other interesting findings, Hilbig and colleagues report that several operationalizations of Big Five Agreeableness were associated with dishonesty, but none explained incremental variance above Honesty-Humility. doi.org/10.1177/089020…

🚨New paper alert! With Erin Buckels & Nataša Kovačević, we validated the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) in Serbian and confirmed cross-cultural invariance: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/10… Serbian SD4 at #REPOPSI repository: osf.io/e6dfr/

Beyond proud of our @AleLazic for winning the first ever Sarah Jones Award! This comes as a recognition for her dedication to Open Science principles and especially for co-founding the #REPOPSI repository, an invaluable resource for Western Balkan researchers 💪🎉🪅

Calling all #ISPP members! Submit your proposals for the 2025 Small Research Grant program. Funding is available to support research advancing #PoliticalPsychology. 📅 Deadline: January 6, 2025. For more information 🔗: ispp.org/wp/wp-content/…

Still happy to share our resources through #REPOPSI

✨New paper alert! ✨"The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: a multi-study Investigation" is now available in Thinking & Reasoning @tandfonline! 🔗Here is the paper: doi.org/10.1080/135467… and the full, postprint version is here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Submissions for #EIP2025 are now open! Instructions for authors are available at: empirijskaistrazivanja.org/en/uputstvo-za… Symposia submissions close on November 15 Abstract submissions close on December 1

Open Science Day with our @Lili_Lazarevic giving a presentaion about @FORRTproject and @AleLazic on @ABRIR_Psy

🎯They found that young people, attempting to reconcile conflicting perspectives, use a variety of cognitive, affective, identity and value based strategies. If you want to read about specific examples, find the full article here doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3… or osf.io/preprints/psya…

💪The article is part of the special issue Social Cohesion in (Post-)Conflict and Divided Societies and taps in the ways Serbian students learn about same historical events from different perspectives, while focusing on the positive strategies.

🎉 LIRA researcher and PhD student Jovan Ivanović along with @IrisZezelj and Biljana Stanković published the article When Our History Meets Their History: Strategies Young People in Serbia Use to Coordinate Conflicting Group Narratives in European Journal of Social Psychology!

Preprint alert! 🚨 "The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Science." osf.io/preprints/osf/… Our heart beats for BTS. It can improve science by addressing issues like low statistical power and the lack of diversity in past research.

Update alert🚨We added 2 new CREP studies available now for replication! Check them out on our OSF page: Muenkes et al.(2020): osf.io/ub8n6/ Nancekivell et al. (2020): osf.io/fcxrw/

🚀 Join our ABRIR Hackathon next week! We want to hear YOUR ideas on how we can work together to shape the future of diversity, inclusion & justice in #OpenScience and #BigTeamScience for psych researchers within the #GlobalSouth. Register now at bit.ly/abrir-oct2024 📩

Leuven Social Identity Summer School in August 2025 easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…

❗️Postprint is available here: osf.io/j8dwn/download/ and you can access preregistration, database and analytic code at osf.io/udth2/...

💡 They found doublethink to be positively associated associated with all types of irrational beliefs, with a more superficial information processing style, and with trust in "common man wisdom." There was no connection with various health behaviors.

🎊 NEW PAPER: @petrovicbm and @IrisZezelj published in Psychological Reports! Paper title is Exploring the Mechanisms that Allow Incompatible Beliefs to Coexist in the Cognitive System, and it is the second publication from Marija's PhD thesis! 📰 doi.org/10.1177/003329…