I’ll be in Chicago for #SPSP2026, assuming my Wednesday flight doesn’t get derailed by this blizzard… Please reach out if you’ll be there and want to get connected, especially if you’re interested in goals/motivation, conflict, Asian Americans & Asians, workplace, or you just want to hang.

Virtual open houses are being held by I-O psych grad programs! The link for viewing the list is tinyurl.com/iop-openhous... . Ask questions about how to put your best foot forward in your application. #OHPsych #OHP #IOPsych #iopsychmemes #psychology #psychologymemes #psychmemes #psychgradschool

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

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...

I’ve defended my dissertation and wrapped up 5 years of my PhD! Grateful to my advisor, committee, mentors, colleagues, students, friends, and family. I’m thrilled to be joining Baruch College, CUNY as an Assistant Professor in I-O Psychology and to start this new chapter in NYC!

If you want to study people's interactions with chatbots, or use LLMs to generate novel experimental materials, this paper will walk you through it. Technical and practical considerations included. #iopsychology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do experiences of discrimination shape beliefs about inter-minority solidarity, and how does it vary among Asian subgroups? Read on to find out! By Dr. Chyei Vinluan and @danielsanji.bsky.social

New preprint showing how and why people misperceive rates of STEM representation among Asian subgroups. Implications for Affirmative action and data disaggregation By Dr. Chyei Vinluan who is crushing it!

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

This is not a game, this is affecting people's lives... I can only imagine what it's like to be a student at Harvard right now -- not to mention that this hangs as a threat over every single international student in the US.

I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more. I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

Unsurprisingly, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is spot-on in this analysis: “A.I.’s most revolutionary potential is helping experts apply their expertise better and faster. But for that to work, there has to be experts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

As part of this student cohort, I deeply resonate with this message. Grateful for those in our community who support each other and uphold the value of science.

Have a soon-to-submit paper or R&R you want developmental feedback on? Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) in PSY or related fields? If so, @reviewerzero.bsky.social's pre-review program, FAIR, is here for YOU! 🎉 Apply below or sign up for an office hour. We are here to help!

Proud of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology's Executive Board statement released this morning, condemning: "blunt force stoppages in grant funding, employment, and policy enforcement" as well as many other things. www.siop.org/news-center/... #IOPsych

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

We're entering a scary time as a scientific community. I hope those with $$ take care of those in vulnerable positions, like grad students, postdocs, and other lab members, for whom a pause in funding is not merely a gap in publications or research progress, but can represent a forced career change.

Indiana isn't as big as Texas or Florida, but for those of us in higher education, it's worth paying attention to what is (and has been) going on. Take the Governor's new budget, which cut all of the $10M previously allocated to Martin University, the only predominantly Black school in the state.

Why are billionaire CEOs like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg embracing tough-guy personas? A psychologist examines the rise of fragile #masculinity among tech leaders and its impact on #workplace culture: https://buff.ly/3PLWSHc (Adam Stanaland @urichmond.bsky.social)

New research finds that seeing scientists as intellectually humble increases public trust in them, their research, and their recommendations, highlighting the importance of humility in science communication across various fields. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #scicomm

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources

New paper alert! In the US, people view East Asians as prototypically Asian, especially compared to South Asians. This has implications for representation in #StopAsianHate, and it affects how hate crime reports are evaluated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Late-breaking VAP of Psychology search at Colby College! Area flexible, with a preference for social/personality, clinical, or developmental. One-year initial term with possible reappointment. If you're an aspiring teacher/scholar, check it out! t.co/iyYvxdycQh

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Occupational prestige is a core component of SES. But it is often overlooked in research because it is hard to measure. We wanted to fix that. This new pub presents an easy to use index, validity evidence, and analyses of what makes a job get seen as prestigious online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Feeling incredibly proud as a mentor today! My mentee at Project SHORT (www.project-short.com) has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study work and organizational psychology – her dream program. It’s so inspiring to witness her perseverance and passion lead to this success!

In our new Psych Science article (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social & Chad MIller w/ Sam Perry & Clara Wilkins), we show that this type of rhetoric, which highlights the perception of Christians being under threat, can serve as an effective racial dog whistle. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Beyond thrilled to share my newly accepted article at the journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy! This is co-(first) authored with my brilliant friend Nicholas Alt at Occidental College. As two Asian American scholars, we were concerned about affirmative action so we ran some studies!!!

🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...

Managed to push one last paper out before the semester got busy. This was a hard paper to write and I doubt it will fare well in the review process, but I like it haha! tl;dr Asian names are perceived as less gender-stereotypical than other racialized names (due to participants unfamiliarity)

PRE-PRINT We looked at dehumanization across different immigrants groups and found that (1) immigrants selected for economic contribution were more mechanistically dehumanized and (2) economic thinking lead to mechanistic dehumanization of all immigrants 🔗pre-print: osf.io/wyv56 poster summary:

Join us in 🚨Understanding Asians' Unseen Diversity, Experiences, and Challenges 🚨at #SPSP2024 to hear about cutting-edge research on Asian people's experiences. Co-hosting with the eminent Prof. Jackson Lu from MIT Sloan 1/5

#SPSP2024 I'm co-chairing a symposium with @anabelbuechner.bsky.social on goal conflicts, featuring work from us, Jiabi Wang, & Dr. Hengchen Dai. We used diverse methods (experimental, psychometric, longitudinal, machine learning, cross-cultural, etc.) to study goal conflicts in various contexts.

Please stop by anytime between 7-9pm on Thursday of SPSP for the Asian & Asian Diaspora Reception! We will have desserts and non-alcoholic beverages! Great for post-dinner hang!!

New pub @ JPSP🚨Asian=Machine, Black=Animal? The Racial Asymmetry of Dehumanization🚨We uncover the hidden racism that Asian people often face and contrast it with that of Black people, introducing a new way to understand and unify Asian stereotypes. osf.io/v2guk 🧵1/9

What happens if you break a 200 hr yearly commitment down for people, reminding them it's just 4 hours of effort per week? Our new field experiment shows ppl make 8% more progress. Breaking big goals down can help you achieve more. @aneeshrai17.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Still hiring a full-time lab programmer (80%)/lab manager (20%). Please share widely. Deadline is January 30.

Intergroup conflict has been conceptualized as a strategic interaction (conflict-as-contest) or as a pathological condition (conflict-as-disease). This new paper explains how the science of strategic decision-making can help mitigate intergroup conflict. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Tomorrow, I’m leading a professional development workshop for PhD students on how to make the most of academic conferences. I’d love to crowdsource any advice I can pass on! What tips and tricks do you share with your students, or live by yourselves?

My department at @LifeAtPurdue is hiring for my position! I'll be making a change soon but would love to find a successor with background in #psychometrics, #highered, #psych, and #data. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...

Two new papers out now in Psych Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) and Social Science & Medicine look at why people who conceal their stigmatized identities often experience worse health. SocSci&Med paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... PsychSci paper: doi.org/10.1177/0956...

"employers concerned about workers’ mental health would do better to focus on 'core organizational practices' like schedules, pay and performance reviews." “Employers want to be seen as doing something, but they don’t want to...change the way work is organized” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/h...

Super excited to be co-organizing a reception for Asians and Asian diaspora (eg Asian Americans/ British/ Canadians) at #SPSP2024 in San Diego!! It will be on Thursday Feb 8 evening 7pm at the conference center Room 16A! We will hopefully have desserts and drinks! Come hang out!!!

Today one of my RAs told me that the project we worked on together last semester changed her research interest and the field she wanted to study. Then she proposed some insightful ideas that I had planned to pursue down the road. Best moment of working in academia!

what better way to start the new year than to dive into our january newsletter??!? this month's newsletter features @fuhred.bsky.social & information about our meetup at SPSP2024! #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...