I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go... We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality. Some findings > osf.io/preprints/ps...

Course evaluations are in and I got the following comment: "He gave such wholesome dad vibes." I have many competing thoughts about this [insert 2025-appropriate indicator of laughter here].

🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

New paper out with Heidi Vuletich and Ayla Winegar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We discuss public policy implications of the Bias of Crowds model: How do environments activate and perpetuate biases and what can we do against it?

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

👩‍🎓Students: How does summer in Scotland sound? There's still time to apply for the 2026 Summer School of Personality Science in Edinburgh, hosted by the European Association of Personality Psychology! Apply here before December 15: https://ow.ly/bjxE50XBksg

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except for the student who submitted a 3-point Reflection assignment with their ChatGPT prompt included.

www.espn.com/college-spor... Cool, that should fix everything!

Paperclip is to Bush era as Copilot is to Trump era.

Look, this is bad for many reasons, but also there seems to be no bottom to the “expertise doesn’t matter” push.

Dear students: Having ChatGPT write your email to me is backfiring.

We're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM. Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions. Details: apply.interfolio.com/177756

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...

His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."

This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.

I love a good bunt

This World Series has been unbelievable to follow.

Watching a baseball game that you care about is one of the best experiences in sportsfanness.

So useful!

So far, my favorite unexpected aspect of moving to Canada is how my daughters became huge baseball fans yesterday ❤️

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

New paper from the lab! w/@davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social & Mina Cikara We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

This part of the semester where we contact all the people and make all the schedules does not, let's say, play to my strengths...

In this invited piece for PIBBS I argue that implicit bias education is not inherently worthless but often ineffective (counterproductive) in its current form. I offer recommendations to improve it by making it measurable, agentic, integrated, broad, & evidence-based (MAIBE): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Mboko!

Feels dangerously like we’re giving Jan 6th the Lost Cause treatment (turning treasonous slavery defenders into misunderstood good ol’ boys). Moves faster with current media than late 19th century. Honestly could see a legitimate push for Jan 6th as a Federal holiday in the name of “unity” any time.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This image popped up on my car radio this morning. One week ago I would have been VERY confused to learn that I immediately thought “Coldplay!” Life is weird…

We (Goizueta Business School) are hiring a new lab manager for our behavioral lab. This is a great opportunity for recent undergrads who are hoping to get more research experience before a PhD. Would love to see your strong undergrads in this applicant pool. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/150128/...

That feeling you get when one of your students’ work shows up in your feed does not get old.

Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The BCD Lab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!

This is definitely good news. At the same time, it’s a bit like noting that the arson that was done should not have been done. We will need active rebuilding.

We have moved to Canada and we cannot figure out how to watch the Stanley Cup finals and this does not feel very Canadian.

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities" The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc. The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

Three more weeks until I’m a Canadian!

Zeitgeist: www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

I’m not [even close to being] a lawyer but, if, based on Citizens United, “money is speech”, then actually IS the fed govt taking away money a form of regulating speech? Probably should read the article first…

I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:

With all that is going on at NSF, it’s important for me to describe how important NSF has been for my career and the careers of my trainees over the years. This funding is so important for so many reasons.

Social Psychologists: SESP is in Lisbon this year (Oct 16-18)! *The symposium submission deadline is May 16* More info & the submission portal here: www.sesp.org/annualconfer...

I previously thought that Ono might have been a bit of a coward, but he couldn't have done much to kill the good will more effectively. A few notes on some of the claims in a 🧵. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

New paper, "Elegant theories and the problems of social psychology," in which I argue that social psych suffers from large inference gaps, or the distance between theoretical model and statistical tests, with some suggestions for how to improve things doi.org/10.1080/1046...