For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13% Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006) The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

www.nature.com/articles/s44... "...Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change..."

Happy to share that my new book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser is now available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! (preorder elsewhere til 12/2, but available now through Chicago) 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This is my fault for trusting this outlet. It's my fault for throwing good time after bad. But anyway here is the story of how asked to write about anti-Muslim racism, I had yet another incident of it.

Literally just resubmitted a paper on this exact topic, but the interactive graph here is super interesting!! Also highly recommend Melissa Nobles' Shades of Citizenship

The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building. Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact... @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Check out the full article at: doi.org/10.1080/1521...

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review. Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change. I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM. it's also my job market paper!

#PrejudiceResearch I'm often looking for references on reducing SDO Here's a new one Very intensive intervention (workshop, & structured contact) lowered SDO But not RWA or prejudice (implicit or explicit) Goes to show how stubborn racial attitudes can be to change doi.org/10.1111/josi...

It enrages me how useful grant proposals are lol Also, related, one of the ways that cancelling future grant opportunities harms science is that it scales back a process that often helps scientists really think through our ideas When we do less of it, the science can suffer

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

Credit where it’s due: this Times story is pretty blunt about what Trump’s doing and a lot better than a lot of its recent output www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Political scientists tried to tell us. Kamala Harris tried to tell us. But no one wants to hear that it can happen here. But it not only can happen, it is happening, and the fact that it is happening out in public seems to be convincing some people that what's happening is okay. It's not.

"Me-Search" New study by @eomeral.bsky.social and colleagues investigates bias against “me-searchers...researchers whose work is directly or indirectly relevant to their own identities or experiences." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/0146...

Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall. I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

#academicsky #episky #publichealth #socialepi #science

Last year I watched, over and over, sobbing, the video of the standing ovation at the conference where they announced the 100% success rate at preventing HIV. When we’re fighting for the NIH, this is what we’re fighting for (Even if many of the people who got us here did it by fighting the NIH!)

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

Come and join us at the University of Sydney School of Psychology! 🦘 Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor position usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

“Not being remembered, differentiated from others or given recognition for contributions.” Amanda Sesko and Monica Biernat’s new work on intersectional invisibility: doi.org/10.1080/1529...

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Them: It's not about race, it's about class. Hopkins: Ok, we're making a class-based policy. Them: We still don't like it, because what we actually meant was...

there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!

Whose fault is it that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status, conservative group?

🌟 Jim Sidanius has been added to the SPSP Heritage Wall! His social dominance theory revolutionized how we study intergroup relations & inequality. A brilliant theorist, master teacher, and mentor who shaped our field over 44 years. Learn more about his work and legacy: ow.ly/pj7A50WnLfB

The center’s motto: “DEI for me and not for thee!”

Yelp’s “Black-owned” tag was meant to support businesses – but in Detroit, it may have backfired. A new study found the label led to more reviews, and average ratings dropped by 0.75 stars. buff.ly/BE60MCh

Happy to report that the @sparksociety.bsky.social NSF grant has been reinstated!

Thrilled to share that my first first-authored publication is officially out (soon to be in press at Social Cognition)! 🚀 "From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning in Social Cognition" 📄 OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Despite the outcry that DEI is "taking over" every industry, newsrooms remain overwhelmingly white and male. And that matters. A LOT. Let’s talk about how media “objectivity” is anything but. 👇🏾 @pewresearch.org

🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social, our (w/@nibasaleem.bsky.social, Ian Hawkins, Steve Rains, Dana Mastro) meta-analysis finds that positive depictions of minority groups lead to favorable evaluations, & negative depictions to unfavorable evaluations, by majority group members.

🧵New publication alert! with @ismaharif.bsky.social Does media shape identity, or does identity guide media use? Our new 3-year study with Muslim American youth tests this bi-directional link @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @hcr-journal.bsky.social @theispu.bsky.social

📊New research in #SPPS reports that Americans living in politically diverse communities show less animosity toward the opposing party. Cross-party contact appears to be the key mechanism at work. Read more: ow.ly/JS1E50W8oEf#SPPS Authors: @asmiley.bsky.social‬ and Cheryl R. Kaiser

New paper argues "that subjective measures should be used when possible to complement information from objective social class measures." doi.org/10.1080/1949...

Ever wonder if people can change? New work by Jinseok Chun & Michael North show moral fixedness (beliefs that moral traits change less than competence or warmth) really is fixed! We assume morality reflects a person's core more than other traits!

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Check our new—dare I say provocative—paper in Motivation Science, led by @eddiehj.bsky.social: "Valid Replications Require Valid Methods: Recommendations for Best Methodological Practices With Lab Experiments" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...