Larissa Knöchelmann
Post-Doc in Political Psychology @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Einstein Research Unit "Coping with Affective Polarization"
Studying intellectual humility and other personality characteristics in the context of political polarization
- How did German civil society react to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine? Who gets involved in a crisis? ✨✨New study in SPPS from our team; lead by Luise Hamdani, co-authored by @ronjademel.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht✨✨ A few key takeaways & Open Access paper here ⬇⬇⬇
- 🤝Both political engagement (e.g., demonstrating) as well as benevolent engagement (e.g., volunteering, housing refugees) were widespread among the German population 👥 The Big Five and trait empathy significantly predicted who became engaged, above and beyond sociodemographic variables
- 📈 Extraversion, openness, and empathy positively predicted both benevolent and activist engagement 📉 Conscientiousness showed negative effects on both forms of engagement ⏳Effects were very stable over time
- 🔓 Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1948...
- You wrote a BA, MA, or PhD thesis in peace psychology, conflict studies, or related fields? Or you know someone who just did? Consider applying for Gert-Sommer-Preis, an award by the German Peace Psychology association! Deadline: 31st January, 2026 Details: www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1584
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannDFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann"To [...] address the call for falsifiable theories, we propose a formalized Expectancy-Value Model of Interpersonal Likability in Politics (EVIL-P)." Excited to read this in detail later. We need more clearly specified theories like this in polarization research.
- ✨Now officially published ✨ doi.org/10.1177/0146...
- ✨Now officially published ✨ doi.org/10.1177/0146...
- Is affective polarization rooted in ideology, identity, or both? By using agent-based modeling in 11 datasets with N ~70,000, Jens Lange, Alex Koch, hansalves.bsky.social & myself investigate the underlying mechanisms of attitude formation in political contexts. Accepted at PSPB, preprint here ⬇️
- Is affective polarization rooted in ideology, identity, or both? By using agent-based modeling in 11 datasets with N ~70,000, Jens Lange, Alex Koch, hansalves.bsky.social & myself investigate the underlying mechanisms of attitude formation in political contexts. Accepted at PSPB, preprint here ⬇️
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone. 🤔But do citizens buy that story? With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 @marlenevoit.bsky.social... 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀! doi.org/10.1111/pops
- #PMIG2025 and #SESP2025 were great: inspiring talks, plenty of time for networking, and taking place in beautiful Lisbon. Hopefully the two conferences will continue to take place in Europe from time to time..? 😇
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannOn the theme of interdisciplinary research, I'll be hosting a hybrid retreat of the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Monday, October 20, 12:15-3:15pm EST at Penn State. Open to our internal and external affiliates, in person & online. To join the conversation, contact me! moralconsortium.psu.edu
- If your at SESP, check out our symposium on intellectual humility on Saturday!
- Back in Portugal 🇵🇹 for #SESP2025 — and for the first time, #SESP itself is happening in Europe (Lisbon). This Saturday, 3:45–4:45 PM → Room Milão Chairing a symposium on #intellectual #humility in the #wild: #polarization, rural disputes, and #forecasting #societal #progress.
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannBack in Portugal 🇵🇹 for #SESP2025 — and for the first time, #SESP itself is happening in Europe (Lisbon). This Saturday, 3:45–4:45 PM → Room Milão Chairing a symposium on #intellectual #humility in the #wild: #polarization, rural disputes, and #forecasting #societal #progress.
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann📢 Call open! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes. ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... 🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚨Promotionsstelle "Antisemitismus am Arbeitsplatz" - TVL-13 75%, 4 Jahre 🚨 Bitte gerne eifrig weiterleiten: ab März 2026 (vorbehaltlich finaler BMFTR-Zusage) ist in unserem Team eine Stelle im Projekt von @zakfio.bsky.social zu vergeben. Näheres in der Ausschreibung: www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannIn many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3
- NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannNew: Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone. Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...
- Five is my favorite number—and now the article has been published in Volume 55, Issue 5. This just made my day 🤩
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc
- An intensive weekend at the Peace Psychology Conference in Bremen lies behind us. I am delighted to have received the Gert Sommer Award for my dissertation on addressing problems of affective polarization.
- Presenting the certificate was one of the last official acts of nadineknab@bluesky.social, who handed over the chairmanship after 5 years of leading the association. In addition, lucas91@bluesky.social presented our joint project on the winner-loser gap around this year's German federal election.
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannVery excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...
- ✨✨New publication ✨✨ Enhancing intellectual humility about political views? Challenging. 4 out of 5 interventions did not conceptually replicate... BUT: one did - providing information about the benefits of IH! 🤓 Details ⬇️
- Paper by @lknochelmann.bsky.social now published in the European Journal of Social Psychology 🥳 In an intervention tournament, we investigated how to best enhance a person’s intellectual humility. --> doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
- We conducted an intervention tournament (N = 1503) and tested 5 interventions suggested in the literature: Growth mindset, self-distancing, explanatory depth, listing unknowns, and an information text. Only the information text enhanced participants self-reported political IH.
- We replicated the information text intervention even after adding a cover story and with a better powered sample (N › 1600), thanks to a power simulation study by @daniel.heck.bsky.social :)
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View full threadBut: The intervention did not have an effect on participants reading more opinions counter to their political opinion. Despite self-report and behavior being positively correlated. Thus, future work should seek to enhance effect sizes 🤓
- Was ist Polarisierung? Wie polarisiert ist DE? Und wie können Gesellschaft und Politik damit umgehen? Zwei #WissKomm Publikationen, an denen ich mitwirken durfte: In der aktuellen Ausgabe der 🧠 & 👻 im Themenschwerpunkt zu Polarisierung von Christian Wolf.
- Und im SWR Das Wissen Podcast zu Gemeinsinn in unserer Gesellschaft 🤝 von Silvia Plahl www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/das-...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannTwo-year postdoc in political psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany Enquiries: @jorislammers.bsky.social Further info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PoliPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen 🔄 Thanks for sharing!
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannThe European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP) is inviting proposals for a special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Deadline: September 1, 2025.
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann"Google Scholar is manipulatable... we analyze over 1.6 million Google Scholar profiles and identify instances of citation manipulation to boost an author’s citation metrics. In many cases, this was done through a previously undocumented practice of 'citation purchasing' "
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannI AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannWann hat das eigentlich angefangen, dass die Kommunikation wissenschaftspolitischer Funktionsorganisationen diesen reißerisch sportifizierten Sound angenommen hat? War schon mal besser unterhalten.
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannCall for submissions: Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025! October 17, 2025, at Eindhoven University of Technology Keynotes: Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç and Dr. Lisa Spitzer ECR's: Submit your talk before 31st of June! paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-05-26-p...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannCall for papers: “The Psychology of Pushback: Understanding Resistance and Compliance During Democratic Decline.” Edited by Jonas R. Kunst and John F. Dovidio. advances.in/psychology/1...
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚀 PhD Position in Psychological Methods at @unimarburg.bsky.social 📅 Start: 01.10.2025 | 💼 50% TV-H E13 | ⏳ 3 years Focus on statistical modeling—Bayesian statistics, cognitive modeling, psychometrics. 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/r5dKTr 🔄 Thanks for sharing!
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
- Neuigkeiten in @zeit.de aus unserem Forschungsverbund!! www.zeit.de/politik/2025... (kostenlos) www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2... (paywall) Mehr Infos zu unserer Forschung: www2.hu-berlin.de/coping-with-...
- ✨✨Freshly accepted work @socialpsychbull.bsky.social ✨✨ Which measure to chose to assess intellectual humility in the German context? - A comparison of four self-report scales - Here's the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- We compared validities of four existing intellectual humility scales in Germany. Results showed that three originally English scales (Hoyle et al., 2016; Krumrei-Mancuso & Newman, 2016; Leary et al., 2017); showed as good validities in German as the original English versions.
- One Swiss-German scale (Alfano et al., 2017) did not meet all pre-registered criteria, potentially due to cross-cultural differences between Switzerland and Germany.
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View full threadThanks @zpid.bsky.social for funding our data collection! 🤗
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannWe are happy to announce, that the 6th meeting of the german political psychology network will take place in 2026 at vienna university. Join us for 24 hours of interdisciplinary discussions! #socialpsychology #politicalpsychology #psychologyconference
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannThe @wzb.bsky.social in Berlin is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the future of democracy this October. The deadline for paper submissions is a week from now (April 30, 12pm EST). More info here: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannI am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on 2 projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets. If anyone knows of someone with computational skills (network analysis, NLP, etc.) who is looking for a postdoc- have them reach out to me.
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannI'm excited to announce a hybrid Expanding Empathy event on Political Divisions & Morality, next Friday April 25 from 11am-5pm EST, in person at Penn State & on Zoom. This event will bring together researchers in psychology, political science, communications, philosophy, sociology, anthropology. 1/n
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannCome join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Univer...
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
- Sunshine in Berlin, a sleeping cat at my feet, fresh coffee on the desk, new data to analyze - what a perfect afternoon :)
- I just learned about this fantastic tool diversity-x.de ! You can easily check the diversity of your reference list by simply uploading a PDF. Entering the references of my current project underlines how recent and how US-American the intellectual humility literature im psychology is...
- Thanks @sabinetrepte.bsky.social , @mscharkow.bsky.social , & @maikebraun.bsky.social for creating this app! 👌
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannVielen Dank für alle Hinweise! Hier nun mein Kommentar zur Situation der US-Wissenschaft – mit Link zu diesem Post. www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/24/n...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannDear colleagues, I invite you to sign a letter of support for Serbian students and professors and to share it within your academic community. Thank you for standing with us! (600+ signatures at the moment) forms.office.com/pages/respon...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannSLAPPs sind rechtsmissbräuchliche juristische Verfahren, mit denen Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen mundtot gemacht werden. Um solche Einschüchterungsklagen zu sammeln, zu koordinieren und Hilfestellung zu geben hat sich, mit dem DJV Kooperationspartner, die Anti-Slapp-Anlaufstelle gegründet.
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannHorkheimer Fellowship 2025 – Call for Applications Application deadline: April 20, 2025 Postdoctoral fellowship Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt am Main September 2025, duration of three months www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/ho...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannEnglish version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse
- Doku nicht mal 24h online & schon über 42.000 Aufrufe. Das zeigt: Interesse am Thema #Machtmissbrauch in der dt. Wissenschaft ist riesig & niemand aus der Wissenschaftspolitik kann & darf hier mehr wegschauen. Schluss mit Kettenbefristungen, die Machtmissbrauch ermöglichen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚨 New Issue Alert! Dive into the emotional whirlwind of #conspiracy #theories with our latest PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY issue on The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories. Unpack how #emotions drive reactions to conspiracies. A must-read for anyone intrigued by the #psychology of #belief.
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannNew theory paper-led by @lpummerer.bsky.social with Karen Douglas, @drdanieljolley.bsky.social & @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying appraisal theories to understand emotional and behavioral reactions to CTs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- “War again?” The 35th Meeting of the German Peace Psychology Association takes place in Bremen, Germany, from 20-22 June 2025. Call for applications: www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1517 Deadline: 22 April 2025 Some travel support available for participants from low & middle-income countries!
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa. Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann📖 New open access paper 📖 "The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannWarum ist diese oft geäußerte Idee, Wissenschaftler*innen, die in den USA ihre Stellen verlieren, könnten ja zu uns kommen, so unsinnig? Nicht nur wegen der Prekärität unserer Strukturen ( #IchBinHanna) und weil es schlicht nicht geht (viele können halt nicht mal schnell den Kontinent wechseln). 1/5
- 📢 Looking for a paid PhD position in Social Psych in Germany? A fantastic team is looking for a new member. I personally enjoyed working and living in Marburg so much! Feel free to share & ask question in a DM or contact @arothers.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social :)
- Our social psychology group is hiring a new PhD student! The research topic is open, under the supervision of Christopher Cohrs. The applicant must have a good level of German language proficiency and is expected to teach in German. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/d...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannPhD opening in the UK: cognitive, computational, and sociocultural basis of pro-environmental decision-making www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannMake sure to submit your abstract and join us in Chemnitz this June!🎉 👉🏼 www.soscisurvey.de/EASPintersec... #SocialPsyc
- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Thrilled to announce our EASP Small Group Meeting on Advancing Intersectional and Multiple Categorization Research in Social Psychology🎉The submission portal (link below⬇️) will open on February 1, 2025 (09:00 AM CET). www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannJoin us for our next Political Psychology Lunch on Feb 28! Ayla Schaub & Emma Roßbach will share insights from their research on East German identity. Don’t miss it!⬇️
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannThis is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science www.science.org/content/blog...
- Reposted by Larissa KnöchelmannDiese Visualisierung im SPIEGEL-Parteispenden-Tracker zeigt sehr deutlich, wie Vermögende versuchen, auf den Ausgang der Bundestagswahl Einfluss zu nehmen und die Dimension der aktuellen Großspenden an die AfD.
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
- My former PhD @dominikdeffner.bsky.social is now a professor and is looking for a PhD student. Know someone who would fit? stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3...
- Reposted by Larissa Knöchelmann🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
