Stephan Winter

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

Come to work with me! I am looking for a PhD researcher (f/m/d) for a 4-year research project on the impact of negative emotions on the formation of conspiracy beliefs - considering appraisals theories and emotion regulation. Ideal starting: 03/27 leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/snmy3...

🎓 We‘re searching for a Full Professor of Computational Social Science - very much looking forward to your applications 🤩 Feel free to reach out to me for any questions! jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/0...

We are delighted (and soooooo happy) that the DFG will fund the first four years of our Research Unit “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘆: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀”. We will seek 8 Ph.D. candidates and a postdoctoral coordinator to start in Spring 2027.

Klicks für Konflikte: Digitale Kommunikation bringt unsere politische Kultur ins Wanken – oder? 📱 Antwort darauf geben der Medienpsychologe Stephan Winter und der Experte für politische #Kommunikation Christian von Sikorski im #Forschungsmagazin der RPTU. rptu.de/s/uohweb

"das ist Demokratie"... Man sollte eigentlich sagen: Das ist die Mehrheitskomponente der Demokratie, aber eben nicht alles, was eine liberale Demokratie ausmacht.

Horrible election results today. Again, we need to urgently understand how to repair things. I know there are many factors, but at least one is a fragmented, commercialised information system that favors populism and propaganda. No force of nature, but exploitative technology that can be changed.

@marlephie.bsky.social and I are searching for a postdoc in SciComm research. Feel free to contact us before applying!

🔍 New Research Alert! Why does misinformation stick around even after it's been corrected? 🤔

📣 Exciting news for Media Psychology! We are thrilled to welcome Nuri Kim as our new co-editor!

Title: "Ban, Improve, or Ignore? Social Media Regulation From a Communication Research Perspective". Last week I gave my inaugural lecture at University of Zurich, @ikmz.bsky.social. Now online on YouTube.

Pre-Print When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories? We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK). Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀 One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social Thank you for sharing 🫶 Please reach out if you have any questions. @polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters. Exactly 5 years later, the free access to my new overview paper "The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality" will expire. Coincidence, Elsevier? 🤐 Download now before it's too late: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...

Psycholog:innen aufgepasst🧑🏽‍🔬💬👩🏻‍💻! Du kommunizierst aktiv über deine Forschung und trägst dazu bei, dass die Psychologie als Wissenschaft sichtbar wird? 📣 Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) @dgps.bsky.social schreibt auch 2026 wieder einen Preis zur Wissenschaftskommunikation aus!

@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.

Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups. As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)

#MePsy25 now with a couple of highlights- we start with the best paper award - with honorable mention for Fabian Hutmacher, Markus Apple, and Stephan Schwan - for www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since my early PhD days, I dreamed of conducting this study. Over time, I was fortunate to work with stellar colleagues, @lunafrauhammer.bsky.social , @tobiasdienlin.com and Manuel Cargnino who helped turn this vision into reality. The full publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New publication alert! How does coping dispositions (vigilance and cognitive avoidance) affect preferences for fictional versus non-fictional information about climate change?

📢 New publication alert! What are the cognitive effects of political microtargeting?

Interested in the MediaPsych Best Paper Award 2025? 🏆 🎉 We’re looking for the best media psychological article published between 2023 and now. @mepsy.bsky.social Members of the German DGPs MediaPsych division can apply. 👉 www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

🇪🇸🇩🇪 Saludos desde Galicia! Katja Pook and I returned from an inspiring visit to Pontevedra @uvigo.bsky.social Many thanks to our fantastic host Javier Abuin. We explored opportunities for student exchange and further research on fact-checks and virtual influencers. Looking forward to what’s ahead 🤩

🚨 New Publication alert! "Latent Bombs of Disinformation", recently published on Information, Communication and Society in collaboration with Chang Sup Park, João Guilherme B. Santos, Athus Cavalini and Homero Gil de Zúñiga. 50 eprints on the link (1/n) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G7ZVC...

👋Hey! Bist du Psycholog:in? Interessiert dich #Wissenschaftskommunikation 👩‍🎓💬? Wir haben eine Interessengruppe in der @dgps.bsky.social gegründet, in der wir uns vernetzen und Expertise sammeln möchten! Komm vorbei am 05. Mai um 16 Uhr - oder trag dich ein und bleib up to date!

"Media Psychology" goes Bluesky ✨ On this channel, we will post new articles, infos about the journal, and news from the world of media psychology.

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

🔎 #MediaPsych In meinem Team an der @unidue.bsky.social suchen wir Verstärkung in Form einer Doktorand:in-Stelle (100%) im Bereich Medienpsychologie mit Fokus auf Bildung, Politik, Moral und vieles mehr! www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Bitte an geeignete Kandidat:innen weiterleiten!

The relationship between social media and democracy is complex but important and there is a lot of debate. For coordination, I wanted to gauge the community with a discussion thread about what, in my view, we do know and the ones we do not know (yet), please add your thoughts and/or disagree: 1/n

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓📱💻 🤖You are a PhD student in Media Psychology? Then, this PhD Workshop is waiting for you! If you are interested in receiving feedback on your writing, presentation style, career planning and much more from mentors and PhD peers - please apply for this preconference! www.uni-due.de/media-psych-...

Engagiert, verantwortungsübernehmend und zuversichtlich gemeinsam ins @dgps.bsky.social Jahr gestartet ⬇️

🚨 Call for Papers🚨 Are you researching public opinion across countries & contexts? Submit to the Public Opinion Quarterly special issue I’m co-editing with Hernando Rojas & Ting Chen. Let's advance nuanced, cross-contextual insights! 🌍 📅 Deadline: May 18, 2025 🔗 CFP: academic.oup.com/poq/pages/ad...

A new *trust in science scholars* starter pack! ✨ Created by @marlephie.bsky.social who you need to contact to get on it 🙃 go.bsky.app/UXRS1uq

📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

Curious about what German-speaking media psychologists and our international friends are up to? Then this list might be for you. go.bsky.app/V9A2gEp You are a member/friend and we've forgotten you? We're sorry! Please comment and we'll add you.

Which factors increase the intensity of parasocial interaction? In a new paper from our Landau Media Psych group, Tobias Schreyer and Uli Gleich test the Two-Level Model of PSI with a novel experimental design using Zoom videos. @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

Despite a room requiring pac man navigation skills, the keynote by the wonderful Amy Orben is welcomed by a packaged audience #DGPS2024

In an eventful week with no shortage of conspiracy theories and misinformation, we‘re looking forward to applications until Friday 😊

If it's three, it's a tradition - and this one is a fantastic one 😉: Inaugural lecture and summer party at the @ifkw.bsky.social this year with the fantastic colleagues Benjamin Krämer and Lars Guenther giving insights into their work.

Interested in research on misinformation, conspiracy theories or selective exposure? We’re searching for a PhD student in our Media Psychology group in Landau (3 years). Please contact me for any questions – we're very much looking forward to your applications! jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/5...