If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/... My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then. www.pbandjlab.com/resources

New paper accepted at Public Understanding of Science with Nick Evans: "Shedding light on public perceptions of scientists who engage in wrongness admission amidst a failed replication" tl;dr: Wrongness admission confers reputational benefits to scientists. fettermanlab.weebly.com/uploads/8/1/...

A reminder: Call for Special Issue proposals is live! econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/... #SocialPsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #ResearchPublishing #Psychology

Social Psychology is calling for Special Issue proposals. We will be reviewing proposals on a rolling basis & foresee multiple Special Issues over the next year or more. For more information about what we are looking for, please see the call here: osf.io/2f3vp #socialpsych

Out today! Our Editor (@akfetterman.bsky.social) lays out his vision for the journal. Specifically, he calls for daring research that refocuses on the human experience, tackles real-world issues, & causes (good) trouble in the field. Free Access: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

Well... I never thought I'd have to say this, but my name is not John and I am not a senator from Pennsylvania. Thank you for listening.

Why is it that every time I accomplish or do something that I feel good about or proud of, there's someone on this here internets saying "Anyone who does [that thing] is a dodo butt"?

New achievement!

We're back on Bluesky! 👋 As many SPSP members have already found community here, we're going to be posting on this account more often - sharing regular updates about the Annual Convention and other opportunities. Looking forward to (re)connecting with you all!

Dear Grad School Recommendation Portals (including my own). You. Do. Not. Need. My. Phone. Number.

📢 Job ad 📢 We are hiring a postdoc Research Fellow to conduct quant research on nostalgia in couples at University of Surrey. ESRC funded project which I'm very excited about. Full-time for 3.5 years in a fab team, lovely dept and social psychology group. Spread the word! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/054324

And if you don't want to do *boring* research with Erin, I am recruiting TWO graduate students I am particularly eager to recruit one person who is interested in emotion research and one person interested in the science of big team science (e.g., see this pre-print osf.io/preprints/ps...)

As I sit here doing the final preparations for my talk today, I just saw a post saying "For the love of god, don't do [the type of talk I'm preparing]." So...this should be fun.

I will be accepting new grad students this year (Fall 2024 admissions for Fall 2025 start) at the University of Waterloo. Our main projects focus on the influence of legislation, public policy, and migration on intergroup attitudes. Please help me spread the word!

Social Psychology is excited to announce our new Editor-in-Chief, @akfetterman.bsky.social, who started his role on Sept. 1st. Adam will publish his vision for the journal in an upcoming editorial. Stay tuned for regular updates, new articles, flashbacks to past articles, & calls for special issues.

Not everyone has endless resources to create a paper factory. So, no, I don't think it is cool to hear someone's idea, run a bunch of studies, & publish them, before they can even get their first study done. Perhaps, if you think you can implement their idea better or quicker, try to include them?

New York University has two *Open Rank* Faculty Positions in Social Psychology We will consider applicants from all career stages and all areas of Social Psychology apply.interfolio.com/154805 We are especially interested in scholarship that takes novel quantitative & methodological approaches

Um….guess who’s hiring? That’s right, we are! UF Social Psych is looking to hire a new asst prof this fall - open to all research areas, if you’re doing cool work we’d love you to apply! 🐊 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨 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...

How do people understand things, like their emotions, self, goals, beliefs, science, God, and life's meaning?

We (@cornellarc.bsky.social) are hiring a full-time research associate to join our team! This position is based in New York City and will start in January. We will begin reviewing applications October 1 and continue until the position is filled. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27873

Emphatically begging early career researchers to have a website. Even if it's just a link to a CV, your email, and a block of test about your research. Claim your Google Scholar and Web of Science, too.

I will be recruiting a PhD student for my lab at Brandeis this year. We study cognitive risk for anxiety and depression in emerging adulthood + a new line of research on academic procrastination. Brandeis has a small but mighty PhD program with a focus on the interface of brain, body and behavior 1/

I am actively recruiting a PhD student for Fall '25 to join my lab (fettermanlab.weebly.com) at University of Houston. We study the social cognitive and personality processes underlying emotion, understanding, & belief. Applications are due 12/1. uh.edu/class/psycho...

ISCON Early Career Award Call- please share widely 2024 Early Career Award in Social Cognition nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2018. -Please send cover letter, CV, and no more than 3 papers to [email protected]. Deadline: October 1, 2024.

The book is my effort at a coherent story of religious belief and atheism *from a scientific perspective.* As I’m focusing on the science, I don’t dwell overly much on the New Atheists. Why not? Because *they never seriously engaged with the science.* New Atheism didn’t get the science right. 🧵2

The Social, Personality, & Health area at the University of Houston is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Applications are due 10/07. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me! uhs.taleo.net/careersectio...

A line of work in my lab right now is how powerful personal experience for believing data/science. It's building on classic Kahneman/Tversky work & I think it's more powerful than most give credit. Ppl struggle when their experience doesn't match the science/data. Seeing is believing.

Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is searching for a new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor studying social interaction! We're open to a wide variety of methods and perspectives. Review of applications starts Oct 15. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/151749

About 1.5 weeks to apply to this position!

Left: my plans for a completely redesigned and updated version of a course I’m teaching Right: me rolling into the first class with a syllabus that has the previous year crossed off and the current year written in

Hey folks! I’m hoping to take a PhD student in our Clinical Science program here at the University of New Mexico for the upcoming year. If you or someone you know is interested in behavioral “addictions,” addiction more broadly, and/or veteran health, our lab might be a fit!

The rumor is true. I *will* review PhD applications for my lab, newly located at the University of Illinois Chicago! Please apply if you're interested in social identity (with focus on Asian, MENA, Hispanic Americans) and intraminority coalition-conflict. Lab: www.pbandjlab.com (jk there's no rumor)

🧪📗 Have you ever opened a pop-science book hoping to find phrases like "necrobestiality" and "like a kinky Dr. Strangelove" only to be disappointed? Well you won't be disappointed by my book*! 1 week until it's out in North America! Spread the word to kith and kin! *(in that specific capacity)

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woke? An Admittedly Slapdash Comment on Clark et al (2024): http://osf.io/ab34v/

University of Michigan is hiring for an open rank faculty position in Social Psychology, all relevant content areas considered! Spread the word, and apply by September 15 at: lnkd.in/eg3WrE2H

Not sure why this irritates me, but the NY Times keeps referring to Beryl as "Tropical Storm" in headlines, but "Hurricane" in the details. Maybe referring to Beryl's state at the time of writing? But, what hit the Houston region was a Hurricane. TSs do not cause the destruction we saw in Houston.

I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

MSU's Psych Department is hiring a TT assistant professor with expertise in intergroup relations (broadly defined) and, ideally, who uses advanced methods Feel free to reach out with an email if you have questions! careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...

For those who haven't heard already, I am delighted to announce that I'll be joining the Department of Psychology at University of Texas at Dallas this Fall! I look forward to contributing to, collaborating with, and being a part of the outstanding School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences community.

I'm hiring a postdoc with expertise in computational methods and group identities (e.g. race, gender, religion, nationality, etc.). Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

THIS (on many levels). Becoming a die-hard champion of a given “take” on X—no matter what—builds a brand. But is it respected in the scientific community? Rarely. Respect may not pay as well, but I prefer it to any alternative. PSA: Want to avoid hubris? Always test competing hypotheses.

🚨Job Alert 🚨 @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I are hiring a Research Associate to come and work with us! More details about the position are available here: lnkd.in/g-Z6NKwj

"....it’s complicated. And beware of people peddling over-simplified theories and solutions to very complex problems. They're almost always trying to sell you something." How a Tech Panic is Born, compelling piece by Dr. Craig Sewall #digitalwellbeing craigsewall.substack.com/p/how-to-tec...