Zahra Rahmani
PhD Student @Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change in Basel studying pro-environmental decision making and how (dis)information influences climate beliefs.
- Reposted by Zahra RahmaniWe're excited to announce the Spring 2026 Cooperation Colloquia! With @yanchenl.bsky.social @minhuayan.bsky.social @saptarshi.bsky.social @aronszekely.bsky.social @shafenbraedl.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social @smconstantino.bsky.social and more Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
- 📯 New Preprint out 📣 Honestly, this started out as a side project that I had put on the back burner for a while. Then, I realized I could combine the original data with the data from our climate (dis)information sampling study, and found quite unexpected and cool results: doi.org/10.21203/rs....
- Some degree of cross-cultural consensus on which pro-climate messages were liked best: Crowd-based message ratings showed significant overlap between the U.K., China, the US and Germany.
- The same pattern emerged for different political subgroups (right-leaning people liked climate messages overall less, but they agreed with left-leaning participants on the ranking).
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- Reposted by Zahra Rahmani✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences? Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Zahra RahmaniNeue Zahlen von @oxfam-de.bsky.social zeigen: Ein Mensch der reichsten 0,1% verursacht mehr CO2 am Tag als eine Person der ärmsten 50% im ganzen Jahr. #Ungleichheit @surplusmagazin.bsky.social
- The relationship between the climate change narratives a person holds and which type of climate messages this person consumes and trusts is a two-way street. 1/4 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- In our recent paper, we use a sampling paradigm to investigate how people consume Pro-climate information and Anti-climate disinformation. In representative samples from three nations, we find belief-confirming sampling and processing and that the messages influenced climate concern. 2/4
- I revamped a figure from our paper showing our results in a nutshell: Even during the short experimental time, in the U.S., we find climate concern in the sample diverges between participants with different information diets. 3/4
- Read our paper if you're curious or reach out if you have any questions. Kudos to my great coauthor team Tobia Spampatti @tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social , Kim-Pong Tam & Ulf Hahnel. Happy Halloween everyone 🎃🧛 /end
- Reposted by Zahra Rahmani🚨 Another open postdoc position "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana in Lüneburg 🚨 ✏️ Apply here: s.academiccloud.de/Thqqfi (5 years, 100%) 🔗 The position is related to this PhD position: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 🧠 More information on the postdoc position:
- Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
- Reposted by Zahra RahmaniJob altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
- Really excited to be giving a guest lecture on the human factor in climate mitigation at ETH Zurich today.
- Reposted by Zahra RahmaniNEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- I published my 1st PhD paper @Judgment and Decision Making in January. Yay 🎉! Soon, there was frustration. I hope the research community will move beyond for-profit publishers. The Open Access publication fee was $3,450: public money going straight to private publishers. How was their service?
- Right after the publication, I noticed problems in the web (html) version. I realized, whenever I had used inline math in the .tex file, it was pasted as a picture into the web version (which I never saw during the proofing process, only the pdf version). The screenshots are two examples of many.
- There was more. My co-author spotted an error in a table. The error had not occurred in the proof, not in the submitted files and not in any preprint version. A wrongfully inserted zero distorted the meaning. It should be easy to update online-only articles and delete a wrong character.
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- [German only] Had the pleasure to answer some SRF audience questions on lying alongside social psychologist @fannylalot.bsky.social who is an expert on lying and trust. www.srf.ch/news/srf-new...
- www.bbc.com/news/article... Maybe consider making it a video call? 🤷🏻♀️
- New preprint alert with @tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth, Kim-Pong Tam and Ulf Hahnel! What messages about climate change do people consume? In our pre-registered three-country study, we find that people prefer to read messages that are aligned with their initial climate beliefs. (1/5)
- The climate messages in turn were persuasive: Anti-climate messages reduced and Pro-climate messages increased climate concern momentarily. In the U.S., there was some evidence for reinforcing spirals, with increasing polarization of climate change concern within the sample. (2/5)
- We present data from representative samples from China, the U.S. and Germany (overall N = 2226). Effect sizes were mostly smaller for the Chinese sample compared to U.S. and Germany. (3/5)
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View full threadCheck out the preprint here osf.io/preprints/ps... with open data, analysis and supplementary materials. Thanks to all coauthors (5/5)
- Reposted by Zahra Rahmani10 lucky winners get to take home the groceries they selected during a food choice study. Our master student Lara is all smiles as she rewards the participants. Lara did a great job leading this research project with an incentive-compatible food choice task.
- Reposted by Zahra Rahmani🌱 Want to become a PhD student in our research group? 🌟 CBS Sustainability Centre is inviting applications for a #PhD scholarship in 'Green Transition and #Sustainability'. This is an open call, but a project focusing on #BehavioralScience will join our research group. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
