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?? Besample at #SPSP2025 ?? We’re attending the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference for the third time and look forward to meeting you! Visit us at booth #12 to chat with Besample’s founders and other team members about your research and explore how we can support you with international sampling. ?? We’re also hosting a Trivia challenge—answer correctly and win $50 in research credits. See you there! #SPSP #SocialPsychology #Besample

???Use of deception in research: your opinion matters! In collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, we are doing research on ethics and the use of deception in studies. A big thank you to everyone who has already participated! We’re almost there, but we still need a few more responses. If you haven’t had the chance yet, take this short survey — you’ll learn more about different types of deception in research as you go! Your participation directly supports early-career researchers: for every completed survey response, Besample will contribute $20 to its next Grant Program for Young Scholars. You’ll also have multiple chances to win $50 donations to your favorite charity. ?? Take part in the study: https://lnkd.in/d5FJGJ-q #ResearchEthics?#AcademicResearch #MaxPlanckInstitute #Besample

?? Researchers tap into the cross-cultural psychology of phubbing through Besample data ?? In this research, Christiane Büttner, Elianne Albath, and Rainer Greifeneder explore how cultural background influences the perception of phubbing — the feeling of being ignored when someone uses their phone during a face-to-face interaction. The authors analyzed 588 responses from participants in collectivist (India, Kenya, Venezuela) and individualist (Austria, Belgium, UK) cultures. Participants rated 25 vignettes describing co-present phone use. The results show that participants from collectivist cultures tend to perceive phone use as phubbing more strongly than those from individualist cultures, although this difference was not statistically significant (p = .065). Additionally, collectivist participants attributed the behavior more internally (p = .020), and this internal attribution mediated the effect of culture on phubbing perception. ?? Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/diFrEvf8

How air raids affect Ukrainian morale: A study based on Besample data In a new project, Philipp Chapkovski & Ivan Grigoriev explore whether Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure weaken Ukrainians' morale. Diary data from around 1,000 Ukrainians, collected between December 2024 and January 2025, shows that while air raids reduce happiness, they do not shake belief in Ukraine’s victory for most people (63%), who stay strong despite the challenges. However, for those who were unsure about Ukraine’s success, the air raids made them more doubtful, showing that these attacks have a stronger psychological impact on the undecided. Besample stands with Ukraine! We support the Ukrainian people by providing an extra source of income and assist researchers by finding respondents to explore the war's impact. In this project, we also supported researchers by helping them run a custom longitudinal design to gain a more nuanced insight into day-to-day fluctuations in psychological states of people affected by the war.

?? Share the New Year Gift of 2025 Data Points by January 31 ?? Only 2 weeks left to share a New Year gift of data with your peers (or claim it for yourself)! Besample offers a gift of 2025 responses from people across 9 diverse countries: Brazil ? India ? Indonesia? Philippines ? Germany ? Ukraine? Ghana ? Kenya ? Colombia ? By January 31, submit one non-sensitive question or collaborate with your lab to submit several questions and receive a combined dataset with multiple variables. Learn more and get your gift: https://lnkd.in/dnEpueQv Share the gift of data — repost this message to your friends and peers. If you’re in the same lab, you can collaborate to get more data! #NewYearGift? #SocialScienceData #ResearchParticipants #AcademicChatter #PhDlife #AcademicLife #Besample

?? Besample Founder Gets a Ph.D. in Social Psychology ?? Elena Brandt's journey started 11 years ago with a for-fun online course — and turned into a lifelong passion. While continuing her industrial career, she collected textbooks on social psychology, wrote Wikipedia articles about key figures in the field, and gave lectures to friends at home. Inspired not only by the discipline but also by the vivid and integrative way it was taught in the U.S., Elena moved to America and joined a doctoral program in social psychology at FSU. With her first research advisor, Paul Conway, she explored how perceptions of leaders are shaped by the way they make and communicate organizational decisions. She then joined Jon Maner’s evolutionary psychology lab, where she examined the effects of environmental risk on reproductive behaviors and beliefs. Leveraging public international data on multiple levels, Brandt and Maner discovered that local mortality rates robustly predict not only the age of first birth and number of children (BMC Public Health) but also attitudes and laws concerning abortions; the latter finding was published in prestigious Psychological Science. Throughout her research journey, Elena discovered a pressing need for international samples in behavioral sciences. “From my first day in grad school, I saw a crippling North-American bias in how human behavior was approached and studied,” Elena says. “As an immigrant, I knew life outside the U.S. was very different, but those differences seemed to be left out of the scientific discourse.” She then discovered the roots of the problem: collecting behavioral data beyond America could only happen through foreign collaborators or panel agencies, both methods were costly and slow. As part of Elena’s research on human reproduction, she traveled to Africa and engaged with a local non-profit to talk to women living in slums. “It helped me gain a much deeper insight into what I was studying, but it was also clear that such effort was not something researchers could afford on a regular basis.” Leveraging her background in tech, Elena founded Besample, a platform that empowers researchers to study populations beyond the West. Now Besample features 42 diverse countries, where data from vetted research participants can be collected within days to weeks. In her dissertational research, Elena used Besample to collect data on saving behaviors across 14 world societies. “I was able to assemble a large and diverse dataset for my dissertation within a few weeks. Without Besample, it would likely take me years,” says Elena. Besample has seen significant traction among leading behavioral researchers in 2023-2024. After graduation, Elena is working on closing a venture funding deal for the company that will help grow Besample, add more countries, and deploy new features desired by behavioral researchers. Congratulations, Dr. Brandt, on completing this stage, and best of luck on the exciting journey ahead! ??

?? Support ethical research with Max Planck Institute and Besample ?? ? We invite academic researchers to participate in a collaborative study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Besample on research ethics and the use of deception in studies! ? Your participation directly supports early-career researchers: for every complete survey response, Besample will contribute $20 to its next Grant Program for Young Scholars. You’ll also have multiple chances to win $50 donations to your favorite charity. ? Learn more and take part in the study: https://lnkd.in/d5FJGJ-q #ResearchEthics #AcademicResearch #MaxPlanckInstitute #Besample

? A new JPSP paper based on Besample data! ?? Our early users Oliver Sng, Minyoung Choi, and Joshua Ackerman just published a paper in JPSP ?? The authors examine how living around relatives shapes psychology and behavior. The study was conducted across three countries—the United States, Ghana, and the Philippines—using both correlational and experimental methods.? The findings suggest that environments with more relatives are associated with stronger group-oriented behaviors, more interdependent self-concepts, stricter attitudes toward antisocial behavior, and greater trust in nearby groups like neighbors. They also show lower trust in distant groups and stronger moral disapproval of behaviors like sibling incest.? We are happy to see Besample data contributing to new behavioral insights! ?? Access the article here: https://lnkd.in/dA3HRXgq

? Last call! Fall Semester Gift for 1st and 2nd-year graduate students ?? 40 doctoral students from 26 universities have already taken part in Besample’s Fall Semester Gift program. Don’t miss your chance to join them! Claim your free sample of 300 international research participants from featured countries. ?? Applications close December 15. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/3Bwg8oE #AcademicChatter #PhDlife #ResearchGrants #Besample