Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham! What an amazing resource & opportunity for students. Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!

A huge part of the Republican playbook is to break otherwise beneficial social services and then point to their brokenness as evidence that those things are bad actually so they can justify privatizing or abolishing it. They are very good at doing this because they do it across all sectors.

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

This is perfect.

RIP Ozzy ✌️ Ozzy was my first real concert when I was 14. My ears are still ringing.

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure! My career peak was when he devoted a whole segment to our paper on scarcity & race perception on The Colbert Report (!) And of course he nailed it. Sadly it's not on youtube anymore, but it's on AppleTV (Season 10, Episode 119, on June 16, 2014).

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

🎉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-...

🌟 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

Congratulations @page-gould.bsky.social!

“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” needs to be added to high school civics curriculums.

... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Seeking WV scientists! My dad (a non-scientist who works with scientists) is leading a FABBS delegation to discuss NIH funding with Senator Capito in August and needs to build the delegation. Please reach out and I’ll put you in touch with him! CC @standupforscience.bsky.social

Science story about termination of terminations... www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.

🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Even Amsterdam turned out for the #nokings day... With @davidamodio.bsky.social

"I have never seen a record where racial discrimination by the government is so palpable... Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" Judge Young (Reagan appointee) ruling in our favor against Trump research cuts. Read more of the Judge's fiery language: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/breaking-n...

No Kings Amsterdam MVP

No Kings Amsterdam!

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

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...

Some promising trends in the psychology replication crisis since 2004: - Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05) - Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited - The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.

"There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Failed states, where criminals contest the government’s hold on power. (2) Authoritarian states, where the government has total, unchecked power." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

When research is done by AI instead of actual human scientists...

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What happened when they instituted post-tenure review at Florida? The best professors left.

Tax implications of the Budget Reconciliation Bill, according to The Wharton School. On average, those making less than $50,000 per year will lose money; everyone else will become richer. Slightly updated dollar estimates can be found in Table 5, here: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

🧠 Out now: Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology, edited by Chadly Stern FREE content: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... 🔔 Mentioned in www.choice360.org/choice-pick/... @choicereviews.bsky.social #Psychology #PoliticalScience #SocialPsychology

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 6th edition of The Handbook of Social Psychology is out today—and it's open access for the first time! I’m honored to have contributed to this seminal resource that’s shaped our field since 1954! Read my chapter with Tory Ash & Trish Devine here: openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/prejudi...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

It's MA thesis season 'round here! Two high-level tips I give my students for their papers & talks are: 1. Always let your questions guide the narrative. 2. Make sure your reader/audience always knows why you're telling them something. What are other high-level tips for papers and talks?

A new paper (open access) by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, & colleagues. It's a useful methodological guide for researchers who want to conduct replication studies, peppered w/ some juicy (?) examples from the authors' personal experiences. (1/2) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Fighting antisemitism by increasing it, because this was never about antisemitism