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Important

Note that WhatsApp and Signal group links for a given society or network will only be posted two days before a conference starts, and be removed and deactivated two days after that conference ends. The only exception is EMPOWER, which can be joined through the form that will be added shortly.

Currently, HPSS hosts these links for the following groups:

This page also has the history of the EHPS WhatsApp groups.

Groups

These are social groups that enable health psychologists to conveniently communicate during and in between conferences.

Note that the HPSS Code of Conduct applies to participation in these groups.

ARPH

There is currently one ARPH-related WhatsApp group.

  • ARPH Social: This group is for all social talk and coordination, for example to share your location when you’re having drinks in the evening, so others know where to come to join πŸ»πŸ’ƒ

EHPS

There are currently six EHPS-related WhatsApp groups (see the history below).

  • EHPS Nightlife talk: the original group (see the history below πŸ™‚), meant to coordinate social meet-ups. Use it to share your location when you’re having drinks in the evening, so others know where to come to join πŸ»πŸ’ƒ
  • EHPS Daylife talk: this group is a spin-off from the original group created just after the original group exceeded 250 participants (just after EHPS 2022 in Bratislava). It mostly serves the same purpose as the Nightlife talk group, but for people who prefer their social events during, well, daytime, or at least the early evening β˜•
  • EHPS Work talk: a group meant for work-related stuff: asking advise, sharing vacancies, that kind of stuff.
  • EHPS Behavior Change: a group specifically to discuss behavior change-related stuff.
  • EHPS SciOps talk: a group specifically about SciOps (scientific operations, i.e. the operational side of doing science). Basically a group about designing and building the health psychology science infrastructure of the future! πŸ€–πŸš€πŸ’»
  • EHPS Corona talk: a group for pandemic-related discussions.

EMPOWER πŸ’ͺπŸ”Œβš‘

There is currently one EMPOWER-related WhatsApp group. EMPOWER is the European network for early career & Mid-career researchers in health PsychOlogy focusing on Well-being & Empowerment of Researchers.

History

In 2016, GJ & Rik created an EHPS WhatsApp group (originally called β€œEHPS Social talk”, now called β€œEHPS Nightlife talk”) to facilitate meeting up at night (both ending up at the same bar with all groups, and for first-timers to easily come to the bars where the EHPS crew is hanging out).

Over the years, three spin-off groups were created, and the original group kept steadily growing, and is now over 200 members. This means we’ll probably need to think about some way to prevent abuse, and how to circumvent / deal with the maximum number of member limits for the WhatsApp groups.

Originally, the idea was to kind of try to only have EHPS members in the group, and so we didn’t share the WhatsApp group URL. However, these have been shared now anyway, so we might as well make it easy for people to find all the links to all the groups, which is why they were added to this document πŸ™‚