This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.

Call for papers for the workshop "From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" - March 25 – 26, 2026 Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ikss.zrc-sazu.si/sites/defaul...

Two day virtual conference on moral psychology hosted by the Moral Psychology Research Group: November 7 & 8 | Look like an excellent line-up! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT! Why is there no coherent labor movement in the U.S., despite widespread outrage at economic inequality? One answer is that structural/systemic factors (such as Right-to-Work legislation) impede collective organizing. #Polipsy #socialpsychology #sociology #polisky

📈New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science reveals how government policies shape our beliefs about poverty. Countries with less spending and deregulated labor markets see more blame placed on individuals rather than systems. Learn more: ow.ly/8AZv50WYMbR

Our special issue at the British Journal of Social Psychology exploring ✨ FUTURES ✨is finally complete! You can read our editorial, which introduces our fifteen (!!) special issue contributions and the field at large here: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

This is such an interesting read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shahrzad Goudarzi and @egarciaferres.bsky.social zoom in on the role of capitalism and evaluate how it is covered in (social) psychological research: doi.org/10.1080/1047...

I am very happy that a first article from a project Johannes Ullrich and I have been working on for quite a while is now published in Psychological Inquiry (open access): doi.org/10.1080/1047...

😬 Reanimating my bluesky account to say I will be at @spssi.bsky.social this week! Stop by on Friday to hear about how liberals and conservatives may attend to group power cues differently, and on Sunday to hear about how humorous critiques of capitalism could be harming social movements.

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!

I will be presenting some work on structural constraints of labor organizing done in collaboration with @aalaukik.bsky.social and Gregory Webster at @spspnews.bsky.social. Catch me at the Political Psychology (11:00 am - 12:15) and the Critical Perspectives pre-conferences (3:00-4:15) on Thursday!

Speaking today at #SSSP in Memphis about how structural factors like labor laws and material conditions can inhibit collective organizing. If you are not here yet, you can still book your tickets to Memphis to see this riveting blitz with some fancy multi-level modeling.

🚨 JOB ALERT University of Florida 🐊 is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of social psychology. We will begin reviewing applications Oct 7. Please tell your colleagues in the job market! #socialpsych #psychjobs #academicsky Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Last semester, I taught myself how to plot maps using R. Because I suffered a bit too much through this process, I figured I would make an easy tutorial for choropleth maps like the one below. I put this tutorial up on my website: sites.google.com/view/egarcia... I hope this helps someone!

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Just out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social 's Political Psychology, with @jorislammers.bsky.social, Laura Van Berkel & Matt Baldwin. We look at how the typical association between conservatism and system justification changes as the result of temporal comparisons. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Today in the social area brownbag we heard from @aalaukik.bsky.social on his work on the tug-of-war model of attitude associations and its application to the IAT. Super cool work on how we can apply mathematical modeling to study social psychological processes! Check out pre-print link below 👇

🚨Calling psych PhD students and postdocs! 🚨Want to highlight a paper that had a big impact, doesn't get enough attention, or drew you to the field? Apply to write a Journal Club article with us! www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3 #psychology #psychscisky

New JSI pub: How does American Social Psychology construct the phenomena of ‘racism’? From a CRT perspective, we investigated this question by considering one of the more prominent representations of the field: textbooks recommended by @spspnews.bsky.social 🧵 URL: doi.org/10.1111/josi...

“Black social movements face a dilemma in that the public often perceives nonviolent Black disruptive protest as violent…we find Congress is generally more accepting of nondisruptive protest but nondisruptive protest is only roughly one-tenth as effective for Blacks” academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Here are some thoughts on the "islamophobic poster" at the recent @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social conference. I highlight that this poster incident is a marker of systemic racialization of Muslims Please, read and forward to those who are thinking about what can be done. osf.io/s4mvy

Getting excited about #spsp2024! Here's where my lab will be - hope to see you there! (Thanks to Calvin Lai for the inspiration for this layout)

Super excited to guide people through my MS’s work during the poli psy pre-conference at #SPSP2024. I’ll be discussing why people who dislike the status quo are not motivated to change it, and some methodological issues capturing the group’s attitudes. #SocialPsyc #PsychSciSky #PoliPsy #PoliPsySky

The virtual meeting series on the psychology of resistance in violent, repressive contexts is hosting a co-production roundtable tomorrow, Jan. 10, with 6 amazing climate activists and social psychologist Dr. Arin Ayanian. More info in in flyer, link to registration: tinyurl.com/climate-resistance

🚨 🚨 My first first-author paper with Louis Irving and Kate Ratliff is officially published online in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 🚨 🚨 “Defensiveness Toward IAT Feedback Predicts Willingness to Engage in Anti-Bias Behaviors” journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UMZKA...

As a first-time instructor of record I was scared of reading my students’ evaluations. But they were actually nice, and their constructive feedback was actually constructive ❤️❤️ That just made my day.

Applying to grad school? Our awesome newest member of the social area, Lindsey Rodriguez, is taking grad students! Lindsey studies substance use & close relationships. Check out more of her work here, and spread the word! people.clas.ufl.edu/lmrodriguez/

People experience climate hopelessness when they see climate change as a massive problem with futile response options. Can that be changed? Yes! Learning about climate innovations reduces hopelessness #socpsych #psychsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does anyone know of psychology, political science or sociology articles that study the effects of increased visibility of collective actions in promoting more collective action, collective efficacy, etc.? #SocialPsyc #PoliSci #Polipsy #Sociology

We have a paper under review which investigates how conservation efforts (i.e., the cult of wilderness) is primarily a White right-wing concern. We argue it is more palliative and allows continuation of colonial/extractive engagement with non-human nature. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 Exciting but belated news: My first, and first-first author publication is out now in Social and Personality Psychology Compass: "Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID-19 prevention behavior" compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...