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New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....

New lab paper in JESP! What is the association between gender and food portion sizes? And how might such associations impact actual real-world treatment? We used lab and field studies to explore this question 🍽️

Happy pub day, @dgraham.bsky.social ! From all of your friends and also extremely on brand Ben Affleck

Reupping, we start looking next week

Please RT and share! Eric Hehman and I are looking for a shared postdoc to join us (in Canada) starting next year! And no April Fools here, outside of Eric and myself. Applications due April 24th. See link for full ad: hehmanlab.org/ad

The 2024 data for all of the Project Implicit Demonstration tasks are on the OSF: osf.io/y9hiq/ Thank you to the Scientific Advisory Board for their work in making it available.

2024 was the first year I kept track of every book I read, so for no reason here is what I read - in order - over the year. Top 5 in bold.

So happy for @elianeroy.bsky.social that this is out! All props to her for seeing through this giant project. See below for details on our 'contest' study comparing interventions to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination...

Big props to Neil and @erichehman.bsky.social! Also Eric is now officially half-way to the social psychology EGOT of prizes (Gordon Allport, ISCON, Cialdini, Wegner).

New paper in JPSP with @elianeroy.bsky.social ! Here, we ask: Is measuring attitudes more like playing darts or more like searching for a prize in a ”claw” machine? More details in the thread below....

Yearly plug for my 'Brief Conversations About Intergroup Relations' video series, now up to 27 guests! Much much thanks to @mikeypasek.bsky.social , @kimechaney.bsky.social and Bryce Dietrich for joining this year. More information here: osf.io/va3g5

New article in Nature Human Behavior co-led by Aaron Nichols! In a Registered Report, we ran a field study to test whether images of organizational diversity impact the quality and quantity of applicants from majority and minority groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reading ‘When Prophecy Fails’ and love the occasional references to Mr. Keech, the beleaguered non-believer husband of Mrs. Keech, the group leader. On the night when the UFO was supposed to show up at midnight, with 15 followers eagerly awaiting their salvation, Mr. Keech went to bed at 9:00…