📃 Call for Papers 📃 “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology” Abstracts due: 01 May 2026 #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

🔥Excited to share our new paper in PsychScience! Shout out to best-ever collaborators Aida Davani, @ruyuan-zuo.bsky.social, @shreyahavaldar.bsky.social, Eleanor Chestnut, @mdehghani.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social 🧵1/8… doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Some regional variations: the religious rebound was more pronounced in the Americas, Europe, and Asia; it was relatively stable in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA, where the pre-pandemic trend was already high.

📈New research finds that global religiosity generally increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rebound was more pronounced among affluent individuals, whereas religiosity among poorer communities remained unaffected. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/bKTS50YhPxx

Brilliant new article by @suppes.bsky.social, @jnapier.bsky.social, @pjhenry.bsky.social, & @kodai-kusano.bsky.social: System justification is associated with African Americans' endorsement of symbolic racism against Blacks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Excellent discussion on non-independence issues in cross-cultural research. When someone advocates a method, they often miss the domain knowledge/context in which the method may or may not apply. We should be critical about how a given method can help us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you happen to be in Brisbane for the IAIR-IACCP conference, come see me talk about the paper in more details!

To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date. It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting approach to measurement invariance testing, which emphasizes similarity/dissimilarity across the group-specific nomological networks of a construct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What if the reason why people split 5:5 in the Ultimatum Game or Dictator Game is that they don't understand the game, or they don't care at all about understanding the instructions??

Cross-cultural researchers: still worried about the reference group effect? It’s often cited as a major threat to cross-cultural comparisons using Likert scales. Our new article critiques its logic and shows why it may not be the threat you think it is. doi.org/10.1177/1069...

Book Saturday at 3:15 pm to hear about cutting-edge methods. I will demystify measurement invariance: history, recommendations, practices, and challenges. #SPSP2025 - via #Whova event app