I was talking to a friend about the review process and I told them sometimes you just run into the wrong reviewer. It ain’t always you. 🤷🏾‍♂️

📰Newly Published: Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

Thank you to @larabuchak.net for sharing her work on faith in our lab meeting today! Super interesting thoughts on what faith is, what its relationship to evidence is/should be, & whether it's ever rational to rely on faith. More info here: www.larabuchak.net.

I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast. We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...

🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC! Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask: When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race? Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you to @ryanlei.bsky.social & other Haverford folks for the chance to visit this week! Haverford students are amazing. My former lab manager Aaron Cohen was a Haverford grad & visit gave me a chance to talk about his work on redemption: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Yay!

Thank you to @davidamodio.bsky.social for chatting with my FAQs about Life seminar about nifty work, first-authored by @davidschultner.bsky.social, on the transmission of societal stereotypes to individual prejudice. Paper is here if you want to learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...!

Once I get to know students in my seminars, they live in my head during class prep, and I'm often guessing what they will think about the readings. Doing that now and can't wait to see how much my guesses line up with the class discussion we'll have during the week. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about national identity are ultimately more oriented toward racial rather than religious considerations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Big thank you to Fasika Hailu for sharing her work with my lab today! Interesting findings showing that participants respond more favorably to Black immigrants as compared with native-born Black Americans. More info here: depts.washington.edu/sibl/.

Next office hours are 11/6 10-12 Eastern. More info in thread below, sign-ups here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... Hope to see many of you! #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Religion Is Sometimes Raced: #Christian #Nationalism as In-Group #Protection By @brooklynwalker.bsky.social, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, Brian R. Calfano, Andrew R. Lewis & @aesokhey.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit! We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Me, some days: Wow, I can't believe how much I am getting done today! It feels good to cross so many things off my to-do list! *whistles happily* Next day, every single time: My brain does not work at all today. I wonder why, no one can tell, it will be a mystery forever. #AcademicSky

Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...

Thank you so much to Kyle Dobson for visiting with my lab today & sharing work on civilian-police interactions. Super helpful to think about these interactions at multiple levels of analysis & from both police & civilian perspectives! More about Kyle's fabulous work here: kyleshdobson.com.

Thank you to @anahidmodrek.bsky.social for visiting with my FAQs about Life seminar this week! We read her fabulous work with @tanialombrozo.bsky.social showing positive effects of explaining on test scores & appreciated chatting with her about this research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology." Introduction to PSPR Special Issue @jadler.bsky.social

I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a woman and not had multiple students refer to the author as "he." I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a man and had even one student refer to the author as "she." #AcademicSky

Got a chance to visit with Rebecca Shalfer's team today (sites.google.com/umn.edu/rebe...) & it was such a treat to talk with people who think about similar conceptual questions as I do from an entirely different disciplinary perspective. Yay, learning from colleagues!

Dear future self: Quick reminder to only take 24 hour Sudafed if you are interested in foregoing sleep for the next 24+ hours. Love, your current (very sleepy and also extremely ramped up) self

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review. Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

October office hours now posted for 10/10 1-3 pm EDT. Theme=applications (for lab manager jobs, grad school, post-docs, fac jobs, whatever you're applying for) but feel free to bring unrelated questions too! Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

Across 44 countries, individuals with stronger free will belief were more punitive toward everyday moral transgressions. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability 
‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

This piece discusses our work showing ppl perceive curiosity as morally virtuous & other neat scholarship on curiosity (eg by @jamiejirout.bsky.social & colleagues): www.templeton.org/news/opening.... Thanks to @templetonfdn.bsky.social for supporting this project! #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

I thought I wouldn't be able to write today but the words came pretty easily so that's something.

I sent the ad below to a few dev & cog lists but was prevented from sharing with @spspnews.bsky.social members bc they require payment (do any labs pay for ads, esp when grants are getting frozen?). Are there other social lists I'm missing? Would love to consider students from social labs if I can!

New pub! Peer-to-peer helping is a common learning strategy but might not always be beneficial. We studied how children helped peers, finding they often provide "easy" help—like giving answers—when tasks were difficult or recipients belonged to ethnic groups they liked. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

For the desert: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #BookSky

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Paper looks really interesting 👇 As another factor, I wonder if more racist people also CANNOT BELIEVE that people would vote for non-White candidate (so "must have been fraud" For instance, people project their own racial biases onto others journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #PrejudiceResearch

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change. I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM. it's also my job market paper!

1. Open office hours are back for 2025-2026! Chat with me about whatever job-related questions are on your mind. First set on 9/16, 10:30-12:30, via Zoom. Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... More info in thread below. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc

Kicking off the semester in style with 7 hours of meetings. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

🚔Did George Floyd’s murder change Americans' racial attitudes? ➡️ @amengel.bsky.social & C. D. Kam find attitudes shifted, but unevenly: largest and most lasting for Black Americans and White Democrats, weaker or countervailing for others www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

I know the world is horrible but I'm curious what you all are looking forward to in the new school year. For me: teaching (love thinking with students!) + travel, including an international conference. Please tell me your things so we can bask in goodness together. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

📣 New pub! Dehumanization contributes to support for contested cultural traditions involving stereotypical caricatures in the Netherlands (Study 1) and the US (Study 2). 🔎 Click here: doi.org/10.1037/cdp0... Co-authored w/ J. van der Toorn & @nourkteily.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc

After scrolling Twitter, it will take you a while to get back into “work mode”. Why is this the case? Our new work (out now in Psych Review), led by Ivan Grahek and Xiamin Leng, explores the costs of adjusting cognitive control to meet different goals: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 🧵 A thread:

New collaboration between political scientists and social psychologists, with me falling somewhere in between 😎🇲🇽

Every summer I find it easier to write & make a goal to write for at least an hour every workday, and every fall I realize that having things on my calendar makes that goal unfeasible. Yet every August, I make the same plan. Maybe this is the fall when I'll actually follow through?

New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...

I am definitely a placebo.

Thank you to Marcus Cumberbatch for presenting work with @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social on perceptions of institutional diversity statements. Lots to think about, including how moral cognition might shape responses. More about Marcus's work (+other lab members) here: www.diversitysocialcoglab.com/people

Our fabulous RA Amel Alrifai recently let me know that she won the Outstanding Poster Award at the Psychology@TC Student Research Conference. She presented work on kids' perceptions of incarceration; other portions of those data are here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Congrats to Amel!

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n