Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...

🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders! Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents! ow.ly/xPHL50X68mH

New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people! ⬇️ Please see the full call below We are very grateful for all contributions! #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...

Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy. spsp.org/news/charact... #socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil

Character & Context piece about our work on the moralization of women's bodies: spsp.org/news/charact...

Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵

Come visit my poster at the LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe pre-con #SPSP2025! I'd love to tell you about my work on prototypes of nonbinary people.

Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

First paper of 2025! Very grateful that I was asked to write a commentary on Jackson & Bussey (2024): "Conceptualizing transgender experiences in psychology: Do we have a ‘true’ gender?" (which is great and y'all should read!): bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now published (open access)! 😀https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3136

🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨 Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships? If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

Just reading through my students evaluations. This is exactly the kind of comment I want: "Really enjoyed the class! A great part of class were the times of exams and having the pictures of the instructors cats up." 😁

Super excited that our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" (with @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, and Abi Click) was just accepted at JPSP! What an exciting way to end the semester!

To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does. Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.

Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.

So proud of @kirameans.bsky.social ! Go read this article in which we explore how power and status in social psychology (and psychology more broadly) is tied to the gender/sex binary.

New paper! "Heteroprofessionalism: The Power of the Gender/Sex Binary in the Workplace" with the magical @teriak.bsky.social and Jojanneke van der Toorn. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Y'all, I am SO freakin excited to share this paper! Rejected by 4 different journals but now finally out in Sex Roles: "Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism" with @teriak.bsky.social, Miriam Zehnter & @shellkryan.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...  🧵

Finally re-set my password so I can post on here again. Only took me a few months 😆. Anyway, new paper! "The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric" with the magical @kirameans.bsky.social, Allie Mueller, and Kris Sass. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵

The brilliant @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social released a paper on dissecting class stereotypes in the US, i.e. how lower-class and upper-class in the US are seen. Turns out, the stereotypes are diverse - but also some common patterns emerge, like stereotyping lower class as uneducated.

Any ECRs who focus on health disparities in medicine interested in giving an invited talk (Zoom or in person) at our campus on Feb 5th? An interdisciplinary Health Humanities group came to me late last semester for some names and those didn't work out so far. If anyone is interested, let me know. 😀

New paper in Psych Review, w Becca Neel @acceb.bsky.social We create two formal(ish?) models of prejudice preprint: osf.io/v4q7p Quick description:

Postdoc position in Tufts Psychology! Apply to work with Aerielle Allen, Lisa Shin, and Sam Sommers [@samsommers.bsky.social] on a 5-year project, Effects of Racism on Brain and Physiological Pathways to Health Disparities. #PsychSciSky

Paper using machine learning to analyze tweets. By Badaan et al (@johnjost.bsky.social lab), w/ shoutout to my former PhD student Mark Hoffarth! Find many asymmetries: conservatives (vs liberals) nastier online. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now published! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🎉🎉🎉 So cool and weird to see my sister's name next to mine on a published paper!

New paper led by the magical @statwood.bsky.social ! We discuss how anti-trans rhetoric often draws on essentialism & benevolent sexism, which are associated with worse outcomes for cisgender women - the group anti-trans folks allegedly try to protect. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Join us in Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University! I am chairing this search for a lecturer in social psychology (for best consideration, apply by Jan 2, 2024). indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20273

📢 I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024 @UofNH! Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Check out the Join Us! section of our lab website baileypsychlab.com for a letter to prospective students w/ more info and FAQs. Apply by 1/15/24! Please RT 🙏

I will be reading applications and potentially accepting student(s) in the social psychology area at Northwestern. More details on applying are here: psychology.northwestern.edu/graduate/pro... I don't engage applicants pre-app but you can find out about our lab here: www.csinequality.com/values

Very excited to share the pre-print of our paper "Sexual Consent Norms in a Sexually Diverse Sample" that was just accepted at Archives of Sexual Behavior: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led by the magical Emily Harris.

New preprint makes five recommendations for promoting civility in open science: (1) Critique the science, not the scientist (2) Be humble (3) Have empathy (4) Engage privately before publicly (5) Hold people accountable who act uncivilly osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Psychology

Excited to see this out! Our paper, led by Audrey Aday, shows that gender differences in systemitising and empathising, often used to justify gender inequalities, are not innate but due to gender differences in learning opportunities. #socialpsyc #psychsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New work in GPIR co-led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social, Marilena Juettemeier, & me! Prior work finds evidence that the (proto)typical person is a man e.g., people list men as examples of "humanity" and "person" concepts overlap more with "male" than "female" in large-scale text corpora