Yasin Koc
social psychologist who failed to convince people that human rights also apply to non-White people. he/his. 🍉 www.kocsocialidentitieslab.com
- Feeling pretty Ottolenghi tonight.
- Édouard Louis deserves all the praise he gets. His insights are brilliant. His writing is simple looking well crafted genuis. His tone is poignant. I read him with tears in my eyes.
- Pillion was okay. It was fun to watch. Much much more could have had happened.
- I am going to the cinema at 9.30pm tonight. I think I will take a nap after dinner so that I can handle it.
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- What's the fuzz about the new Epstein files? Nothing is going to change in our lives other than knowing that there's no limit to evil. Nobody will be charged or punished.
- It’s so difficult to read Sara Ahmed. I want to underline literally every statement. How brilliantly she writes and manages to deliver deep meaning with each word. So relevant and so encompassing. I want to be her.
- *How do you *even* respond to that?
- A student emailed telling me they saw a flyer of a research study of mine in Chinese, and translated it. The study was about Chinese people's perceptions of masculinity, the student wanted to participate but felt excluded because they are not Chinese. How do you respond to that?
- It's horrifying to see what we had said would happen is now unfolding before our eyes. It's not an "I have told you so" moment. Far from it. The moment most of you stayed silent on the genocide in Gaza and the moment our voices meant nothing... that's when we passed a threshold. That's it.
- I thought our biggest enemy was Russia.
- Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. #FAFO www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...
- The audacity to criticize other countries’ treatment of protesters…
- 🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head. "I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
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- Reposted by Yasin KocIntroducing our edited book, Political Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies! @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social Each chapter considers an influential early study in the field with a fresh perspective. Published by SAGE: au.sagepub.com/en-gb/anz/po...
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- What is it about Turkish breakfasts that makes it special?
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- Reposted by Yasin KocNew paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:
- Reposted by Yasin KocNew post with grad student @ugurozkusen.bsky.social out in @spspnews.bsky.social's Character & Context on a new JEP:G paper using intergroup contact on social media to reduce prejudice. Read the Character & Context post: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7 Read the full paper in JEP:G: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay 1/n
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- Yesterday, I attended the inaugural lecture of my PhD advisor, Prof. Dr. Vivian Vignoles at Sussex, and I had the honour and privilege to introduce him. Let me celebrate this important day with a few remarks.
- Reposted by Yasin KocWhat happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
- How gorgeous Brighton is tonight.
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- PhD defenses in Spain last longer than 3.5 hours. Don’t get me wrong. For me now, it’s great. Just pack some food, drinks, coffee, learn to stretch while sitting. That would have made my experience incredible.
- Will you continue to publish and promote the book of a sexual harrasser? My department stopped using it years ago @bpsofficial.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Are you planning to take this up? @theguardian.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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- Great news: finally Miles Hewstone is exposed. I stopped citing him years ago, I warned friends/colleagues when I saw them publishing together, I informed as many people as possible about him. We all did. Had this piece been published 15 years ago, everyone would have already known. Shame on Oxford.
- It’s surprising that only yesterday marks this turning point. EU has been acting rightwing for much longer… all the years of the frau genocide’s lead.
- I’m not in France only to enjoy the baguettes, fromage or du vin, but also to do my fieldwork, maintain collaborations, and share my research findings with others. I had a great time today at Nanterre thanks to @cbadea.bsky.social after having lunch at the VIP salon and petting sheep eating grass :)
- Simple dinners in Paris.
- Put in a VIDI application today. Fingers crossed. My last eligible year. I am getting old.
- Paris is pretty cold. I forgot to bring a scarf. I am looking for a yarn shop to go buy yarn to make myself a scarf.
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- Une petite promenade du soir à Paris avec 4 photos
- Paris is sunny today. Read during work break.
- Jetten ❤️
- Managed to schedule 2 participants for my fieldwork in Paris. Yeeees! So exciting. Also look at this beautiful evening photo.
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New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - Toulouse is absolutely gorgeous.
- Their plan is to slave genocide surviging Palestinians into building the “new Gaza”. Once completed, they want to get rid of them all and sell the fancy apartments to rich Americans and other immoral rich people. Incredible.
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- The ceasefire isn’t working btw. The occupation, known as israel, is bombing Gaza right now. That’s fundamentally against a ceasefire. But let’s not make BSKY political. Feel free to share your JPSPs here. No need to take sides in the biggest evil happening before our eyes m.
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- My initial reaction is “can he (well we all) go lower than this?” And unfortunately we do know the answer. What’s the next shit are we about to face soon?
- BSKY suddenly became political today.
- 8 years ago today, I came to Groningen for my job interview. The emotions are very different today.
- The beauty of doing fieldwork all around London… you get to see beautiful sunset views.
- I remember Winnifred Louis presenting some data years ago that believe in democracy among young people was the lowest. Look at this and tell how it’s surprising. Millions of people are outside and governments give zero fuck and condone israel for committing a genocide. Unbelievable.
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- Reposted by Yasin KocIsrael has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3
- Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
- I went to a play yesterday for 90 mins and it was impossible to sit still and come to the end of it. How do we expect students to sit in lectures for 45mins x 2?
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- Reposted by Yasin Koc"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
- MS is unsubmitted. Why? The abstract did not have the four sections marked explicitly: objective, method, result, conclusion. I had to go, change the docs, reupload, wait for the PDF approval, resubmit. Waste of everyone's time.
- Day #1 Run #1. London. Do me good!
- Birthday morning coffee.
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- Reposted by Yasin Koc🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory. I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
- Bookmarking has finally arrived in BSKY!
- I love leftover lunch. Cooking helps my soul recover.
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- Reposted by Yasin KocWe cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Yasin Koc❗ These double standards reveal serious threats to civil rights, hence carrying societal implications: freedom of speech and assembly appear safeguarded for some groups, but repressed and contested for others.
- Reposted by Yasin Koc❗ Political psychology must focus more on elite hypocrisy, political leaders who violate liberal principles, even at the cost of alienating some of their voter base (e.g., the Biden administration), rather than solely on voter asymmetries.
- Reposted by Yasin Koc❗ Protest evaluations depend not just on tactics, but on who is using the so-called effective protest tactic and whether they challenge the status quo (in this case, historical dispossession and genocide led by Israel and openly aided by the US, the UK, and the EU).
- Reposted by Yasin Kocleft-wingers rated the policing as far more unfair, while right-wingers did not. There are couple of key implications from this research:
- Reposted by Yasin KocThe only difference was whether the protest was led by pro-Israel or pro-Palestine Jewish groups. Findings showed that while both left- and right-wingers judged the policing of pro-Israel protests as unfair, polarisation emerged around pro-Palestine protests:
- Reposted by Yasin KocThus, across two experimental studies, we presented non-Jewish British and American participants with an identical protest scenario: an authorised silent sit-in with the banner “Never Again”, followed by police detainment of protesters.
- Reposted by Yasin KocAt the societal level, however, it is less clear whether citizens endorse these discrepancies or whether they depend on ideology.
- Reposted by Yasin KocAt the governmental level, repression falls overwhelmingly on pro-Palestine activists, even extending to Jewish-led movements such as Jewish Voice for Peace. E.g., the Biden administration justified police repression of Jewish anti-genocide protesters under the pretext of “combating antisemitism.”
- Reposted by Yasin KocIn pro-Israel movements, it highlights the exclusive Jewish victimhood while overlooking historical oppression and Israeli crimes against humanity against Palestinians. In pro-Palestine movements, it is used to draw parallels between the Holocaust and Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians.
- Reposted by Yasin KocThis research focuses on double standards in perceptions of police treatment of protests organised by pro-Israel and pro-Palestine Jewish politicised movements in the US and UK, in the context of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Both politicised identity groups use the slogan “Never Again”.
- Reposted by Yasin KocProud to announce that our paper with Mortada Al-Amine, “Who holds the banner ‘Never Again’? The effects of protesters’ identity and audiences’ ideology on perceived unfairness of police treatment”, has been published in the International Journal of Social Psychology. Link: doi.org/10.1177/0213...
- While academic associations are supposed to represent us, they fail to do so and keep showing hypocrisy. Here is a petition to ISPP demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine. Hold them accountable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
