#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New study: labels used for immigrants matter. ✳️ Quick to associate with "illegal" (vs. "authorized). ✳️ Positive (vs negative) labels ==> more favourable attitudes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.

An undergrad RA applicant shared this with me in our interview. Whaaaat?!? She found it on Reddit; I can't wait to show her Google Scholar and PsycINFO. #academicsky #socialpsychology #prejudiceresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10 years ago?! Holy smokes.

*monkey-like shrieking* I CANNOT. The PROGRESS we've made in finally getting cash bail removed from the criminal justice systems in some places, only to have---- I'mma shut up before I end up on a list but UGH. Cash. Bail. Makes. No. Sense. And. Is. Unfair. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I wrote a short companion piece to our new paper about personal responsibility narratives, how pervasive they are, and how important psychology can be as a discipline in helping people reject narratives that people get what they deserve. go.nature.com/4fOeWNn

Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation

here:

I love how accurately describing actually existing conservatism makes one sound totally unhinged and the people who get punished for this are not conservatives but the accurate describers.

As a friend once told me, the past few years of punditry can be summarized as college educated white pundits telling college educated black pundits that they know more about working class black people than them

Vibe policy Vibe evidence Vibe data Vibe economics Vibe "journalism"

Malevolence of modern conservatism nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

#PrejudiceResearch #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky Large meta-analysis finds global #sexism is declining over time. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... (hmm, wonder if this will reverse soon, given, you know, modern in 2025?)

Statistical critique of the p-curve (in JASA) #psychscisky #socialpsych #cogpsych

Just re-upping this, because allegedly non-opinion news reporting like this helps power things like Trump deploying ICE to the National Mall. Of COURSE people think crime is always up if articles on epic DECLINES race to make it clear you should "STiLl bE ScAReD!" w confusing frames.

Creating a Gestapo filled with child labor is a perfect expression of GOP ideology.

the most important part of this story is not that US diplomats asked if nonwhites qualify for Trump's South Africa refugee program but that Spencer Chretien--a high ranking appointee in Trump's State Department and former Associate Director of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025--answered NO

This administration is more openly racist in policy than described by even the most supposedly pessimistic accounts from leading writers predicted but the media remains reluctant to forthrightly describe it as white nationalist.

"the police dept of the 5th largest city in the country at the time, bombed and destroyed an entire neighborhood... on live television... why did something this big disappear?" "it's the American way...abject ugliness against Black people gets pushed to the margins." www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

"Me-Search" New study by @eomeral.bsky.social and colleagues investigates bias against “me-searchers...researchers whose work is directly or indirectly relevant to their own identities or experiences." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/0146...

In the modern era, even “riots” generate support, not backlash www.cambridge.org/core/service...

🧠 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

That the The Handbook of Social Psychology is open-access and free-&-accessible to everyone might change the way I teach Social at every level. Organize content around these entries and add supplemental ones as needed. #SocialPsychology #AcademicSky openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the...

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Tragic news. I didn’t know Sam well, but in a brief exchange I had with him about applying to graduate school (~25 years ago) he was more encouraging than just about anyone.

Shout out to the undergrad social psych student who approached me in the subway station to tell me 4/10 people believe they have an Olympic ability as an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. 👍🏾💪🏾

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Folks, the future plays out according to my PhD social psych syllabus. Just as we're set to discuss @flavioazevedo.bsky.social's paper on neoliberalism (Azevedo et al., 2019) I learn that the Post would rather opine on "personal liberties and free markets": www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

Google Scholar: You gotta fix the thing where I get FIVE emails because I follow 5 researchers who author a paper together.

Analysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

Update: Through Week 3, I'm getting better in-class discussion from my undergrads than I've gotten in years!

Noticed a few mutuals following the fake Flavio (with two o’s). The real one is @flavioazevedo.bsky.social please report the fake account so bluesky @bsky.app acts

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability. In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

That feeling when you realize your undergrads weren't born until you were in grad school: Sadness. 😭

1/ Our lab's new paper #SPPS, w/ PhD student Hanna Puffer Using nationally representative data 2004-2020, asked: generalized prejudice (GP) remained invariant or evolved in US? Answer: Evolved. Answer: And it has become more politically affiliated. #PrejudiceResearch #AcademicSky

Nice rubric for grading in-class participation: Hard, B. M., & RaoShah, T. (2022). Developing collaborative thinkers: Rethinking how we define, teach, and assess class participation. Teaching of Psychology, 49(2), 176–184. doi.org/10.1177/0098...

Another good find during syllabus prep: Van Assche, J., ..., M., & Hewstone, M. (2023, March 9). Intergroup contact is reliably associated with reduced prejudice, even in the face of group threat and discrimination. American Psychologist, 78, 761–774. doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

Came across this while updating my PhD social psych syllabus: Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Sanchez, D. T. (2023). “I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition. Self and Identity, 22(6), 1000-1026.

A new study has found that areas with higher pathogen stress showed increased anti-Black bias, reflected in Google searches for racial slurs, but disease avoidance motivations only partly explained this link. #RacialBias #AntiBlackBias #PathogenStress #SocialPsychology #GoogleSearches

Please share widely!

Please share widely!

LIU - Brooklyn’s department of psychology is hiring a Full Professor and Clinical PhD Program Director (Area OPEN). The department has an undergraduate program, a General M.A. program, and a Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. For more information, see the ad here: jobs.liu.edu#/job_details...

LIU - Brooklyn’s department of psychology is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor, Tenure-Track (Area OPEN)! The department has an undergraduate program, a General M.A. program, and a Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. For more information, see the ad here: jobs.liu.edu#/job_details...

System Justification and Mental Health New meta-analysis finds "system justification was associated with lower psychological distress and higher self-esteem and subjective well-being." Lima, de Souza, & Jost: doi.org/10.1016/j.cp... #SocialPsyc #MentalHealth 🧪

"Here, I use theoretical expectations from intergroup social psychology to argue that an overlooked but significant factor driving anti-intellectualism is rural identity, or a psychological attachment to being from a rural area." link.springer.com/article/10.1...