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Announcing SPSP's 2026 Self & Identity precon (bit.ly/4mn2WDT), which will have a timely focus on activist and ally identities. We have a phenomenal set of speakers (Linda Tropp! Kim Rios! Lucy De Souza! Teri Kirby! Dan McAdams!) and are accepting data blitz and poster submissions until Oct 23!

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

What motivates romantic partners to continue being supportive in their partner's goal pursuit? New #PSPB research suggests that as long as gratitude is expressed, partners remain motivated to help even when their partner does not succeed. Read more: ow.ly/Ljvu50WNCrq

2/6. In a set of experiments just published in Social Science & Medicine, we found that Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans were consistently more willing to engage in individual and collective efforts to address health disparities than their White counterparts. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣 I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣 I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join! forms.gle/2DBgs8S1fktS...

New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧌This "bestiary" can be a vital resource for researchers, educators, and reviewers to recognize, understand, and mitigate QRPs, ultimately raising the standard of psychological research. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.

Are there contexts where expressing intellectual humility (IH) can backfire? On established or morally convicted topics, the positive impacts of perceived high (vs. low) IH on competence and warmth are attenuated or reversed. Full Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1948...

With Pride Month right around the corner, in a few weeks, I'm giving a (virtual!) talk about being "in the closet" and what it means for our health at the Carnegie Science Center. It's free and open to the public! Date and time: June 2, 7-9PM Registration: carnegiesciencecenter.org/events/cafe-...

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

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

We just posted the job ad for my lab manager position, with a fall 2025 start date. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29867 Please share with any conscientious, motivated post-bacs or graduating seniors who are looking to build their research skills before applying to grad school.

The work I love most blends learning about theory with answering something practical. Here, we got to hit both nails on the head! Come for the "Does implicit bias change generalize across implicit measures?" Stay for the "Can we reduce anti-fat bias?" Or vice versa. Just read the paper; it's great!

Just a reminder that I am still looking for a new position. My work fits well within multiple contexts ranging from Public Health to Psychology to Political Science. Don't let anti-science fear mongers win -- #HireWall #PsycSciSky #PublicHealth 🌈

I'm going to be teaching an intergroup relations graduate seminar next year(!!!), and I'm starting to daydream about what should go into it. Does anyone have an example syllabus they'd be willing to share as inspiration? Or papers they feel really *must* be covered? #psychscisky #socialpsych

Thank you all so much for having me!! It was a joy to share more about my research in psychology and law. If you want to learn more about legal judgment & decision making, intriguing Supreme Court cases and what “objectively reasonable” actually means to people, listen to this episode!

Surely the new #NIH Director, who repeatedly claimed he was being silenced, would act to ensure actual scientists are not censored because of their #publichealth research by his government agency. #science @joho.bsky.social

There are very few people who are meeting the moment, and @catherinesjwall.bsky.social's work expertly weaves political psychology and misinformation research to understand how our current landscape is shaping transgender health policies.

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

In a new paper w/ @calvinklai.bsky.social, I find that OpenAI’s latest reasoning model (o3-mini) exhibits implicit bias-like patterns. What’s exciting about reasoning models is the ability to unpack bias in how models *process* information, rather than just seeing bias in *outputs*. (1/10):

"The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects, from breast-feeding support efforts in Baltimore to mosquito-net programs in Mozambique."

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

I just checked pubmed....there are over 1200 papers about vaccines and autism. There is no link. This is a waste of tax payer money.

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

It's a very good time to be part of a union. Getting a much more full-throated defense of diversity scholars like myself from them than from anywhere else. 👀

🚨 New #Publication in Health Psych 🚨 Led by Shayna Skakoon-Sparling and Susan Chow, our lab coordinator: "Social-support buffers the effect of internalized homonegativity on intrusive sexual thoughts/behaviors" 🔓Postprint (accepted version): osf.io/preprints/ps... 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1037/hea0...

Coming to @spspnews.bsky.social? Interested in LGBTQ+ people, health psychology, or both? Come to our ✨timely✨ symposium on Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ health! See work from me plus @paolopalma.bsky.social, @drmikeytrujillo.bsky.social, and @catherinesjwall.bsky.social!

anyway if you hated this article and are going to #SPSP2025, come listen to my talk examining racialized sexual minority men’s experiences of discrimination, partner preference, and mental health

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

Going to boost this post from r/Pitt. The university formally officially stating they're going to be irreparably harmed by the changes in research funding starting Monday.

Very important to see local/state papers covering this. Here is the story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to add to the Alabama story www.post-gazette.com/business/hea...

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Hear from @bendouglas.bsky.social about work he's doing with @markusbrauer.bsky.social to study how social norms messaging can help to address environmental racism. youtu.be/gbEaIH50d8c?...

"The American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education &other groups argue in a lawsuit filed Mon that the orders exceed executive legal authority, violate both the 1st & 5th Amendments, &threaten academic freedom &access to HE for all"

This work was very interesting (and challenging) to theorise and implement, I am so pleased it is now published! Thanks to Veronica Cocco for leading! #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupRelations #CollectiveAction 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12858

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us. gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...

New from @jackiemchen.bsky.social @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social @sarahegaither.bsky.social et al (confession: this kind of research drew me to becoming a social psychologist & studying prejudice, even though I've not done this type of work!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #PrejudiceResearch

A great app / website that (based upon a zip code you supply) will pull together the phone numbers and relevant reps for issues. You can click to dial and they provide a useful script. The app is the same name. 5calls.org

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

Amidst the horrors, one source of light today was learning from my college-aged students that: 1) When someone references Mean Girls they are by default referencing the original 2) That is still considered relevant 3) There is nonetheless widespread consensus that Reneé Rapp “is that girl”

Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.