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December webinar: The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells
Dear RP friends, Research Office webinar season continues! The December webinar on the 19th was on The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells, with our speaker, Maximilian Primbs. Maximilian Primbs is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is also the Assistant Director for Translation and Cultural Diversity at the Psychological Science Accelerator. His research interests include implicit bias, prejudice reduction, stereotypes and visual perception, statistics and meta-science, and open science. He is interested in how social and cultural environments shape attitudes and beliefs. Primbs discussed findings from his recent research endeavour in the study called The Complex Ring of Jingle…
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November webinar: Men and psychotherapy
Dear RP friends, Research Office webinar season continues! The November webinar, which took place on 26th November, explored the theme of Men and psychotherapy with our wonderful speaker Fredric E. Rabinowitz, Ph.D. Dr. Rabinowitz has been actively involved in the academic study and clinical practice of masculinity and psychotherapy with men for the past 40 years, working with other psychologists from the American Psychological Association (APA) to bridge the gap between psychological theory and applied clinical practice of the same topic. Dr. Rabinowitz has been a professor of psychology at the University of Redlands in California since 1984, writing many articles, book chapters and five books about working within this…
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Theories of love
Dear RP friends, We continue our blog articles on the Psychology of Close Relationships as an official Research Programme Theme for 2025/2026. “Relationships with others are central to the human experience: we are born into them, live through them, and their impact continues even after we die, influencing the lives of those who remain.” (Berscheid, 1999, as cited in Finkel et al., 2017). In this review, we delve deeper into the main theories of relationship science, focusing on romantic relationships as a topic of interest. In our theme announcement of Research Programme 2025/2026 (Hugs and Hypotheses: Psychology of Close Relationships), we mentioned that the three most influential theoretical frameworks are…
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How to: Academic Writing
Do you remember the first time you had to write an academic article? Or is your first academic article still waiting ahead for you? How do you feel about writing it? Nervous? Excited? Insecure? Don’t worry! JEPS has got you covered! This blog will give you a few tools and things to be mindful of during your next writing session. First things first: what is academic writing? Think of an informal text you’ve read and then about a research article that you’ve read, what are the first differences that pop up in your head? Writing style? References? Structure? Exactly! Aspects like these distinguish a formal, academic paper from an informal…
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Research Programme 2025/2026 Theme Announcement: Hugs and Hypotheses: Psychology of Close Relationships
Dear Psychology Students and Academic Workers, We are pleased to inform you of the theme for the 2025/2026 Research Programme – Hugs and Hypotheses: Psychology of Close Relationships. Research Programme 2025/2026 Theme: Hugs and Hypotheses: Psychology of Close Relationships The research of close relationships is a broad and rich field in psychology. The development of a unified science focused on understanding human relationships only began in the 1980s. Today, relationship science is an interdisciplinary field that uses various empirical methods to explore how interpersonal relationships begin, develop, are maintained, and eventually dissolve. It examines the structure and progression of relationships, the dynamics of how they function, and how individual characteristics…
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October webinar: Open Science 101
Dear RP friends, Research Office webinar season has officially begun! We kicked off with a webinar on Open Science 101 that took place on 21st of October. Our speaker was Dr. Nicolás Alessandroni, a Postdoctoral Fellow working at the Concordia Infant Research Laboratory (Concordia University, Canada). His work explores the intersection of open science and infant research. He earned his PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), where he investigated the relationship between object use and the early development of conceptual thinking using an ecological-enactive approach to cognition. In 2023, he was honored with the prestigious Jean Piaget Society’s Doctoral Dissertation Award (USA). Dr. Alessandroni co-leads the…
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Call for Research Programme Student Researchers 2024-2025
The Call for EFPSA Research Programme 2024/25 Participants is now open! Are you a motivated European Bachelor or Master-level psychology student? And are you interested in conducting a one-year cross-cultural research project together with students from all over Europe? Do you want to gain experience in every aspect of research, from designing the study to data collection to communicating the results? If your answer is yes, apply to become a student researcher in the EFPSA Research Programme! Who: European Bachelor’s and Master-level students in psychology! What: Research Programme Deadline: 14th of June, 23:59 CEST What is EFPSA Research Programme? The EFPSA Research Programme (EFPSA RP) is an EFPSA Service, consisting…
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The perfect cocktail for the brain
instagram: @zbudgiez Does the expression “The brain is like a muscle; you have to train it” ring a bell? At some point, you might have heard this. Just like a rigorous lifting workout at the gym, the brain has a similar behavior to the body’s muscles, which is why it gets frequently compared. But guess what? neurons hardly grow after the age of 25. However, the synaptic connections between them do proliferate along and throughout a lifetime, which is what we commonly call synaptogenesis. This phenomenon is eased by neuronal plasticity, and findings trust that “brain gains” are based on the new synaptic connections. But why? Well, increased connections are…
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Research Challenges Faced by European Psychology Students in Higher Education
It is acknowledged by both students and professionals alike how challenging it is to do proper and rigorous scientific research. The research journey is inherently related to facing a great amount of external obstacles that may have to do with culture, ethics, politics, economics and other intertwined factors; naturally embedded into the intrepid path of knowledge. Nevertheless, to increase the level of difficulties and barriers, put on top of that being a student trying to do research. All these might look like the layers of an onion, put around the already-existing difficulties of being a student trying to learn how to navigate doing research in the field of psychology. With…
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EXTENDED: 2024/2025 Research Programme Supervisors Open Call
Attention psychology professors, PhDs and PostDoc Researchers! The EFPSA Research Programme is excited to announce the search for the Research Programme Supervisors of 2024/2025! Who: PhD Students, PhDs, Professors or PostDoc researchers in Psychology! What: To become a Supervisor at EFPSA’s Research Programme and work on a year-long research on the topic of your choice with student researchers from all over Europe! When & Where: 12-19 July 2024, Szklarska Poręba, Poland Number of supervisors: 6 experts, each guiding a group of 6 students Duration: 12 months (including fully-covered 7 days of Research Summer School) Application Deadline: 13th March 2024, 23:59 pm (CET) Are you a PhD or PostDoc researcher in psychology who…
