🚨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...

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.

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...

I spent a lot of time with people in Tilburg's Psychology Dep't between 2009 and 2012. I was always so impressed that the students there were taking courses in English. This change would remove a significant advantage they currently enjoy relative to their EU peers.

Six weeks until our move to Canada. I've learned so much about the political system over the past year. Watching the election returns tonight with much interest!

Is reflective reasoning always slower than, say, intuition? A paper used process dissociation to explicate deliberate control: - it wasn't reliably slower - it didn't reliably involve more self-reported deliberation (such as stopping to think) doi.org/10.1177/2378... #cogSci

NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI

Thank goodness. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Although I don’t see myself as a “refugee” or “fleeing” #5 isn’t so far from my family’s story. With some details from the others; (for us) deciding to leave required many individual reasons.

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!

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

Oh wow. This is humor.

The School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan is recruiting another postdoc aimed at improving community resilience and protecting vulnerable populations from compound wildfire hazards! Link: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Please share far and wide!!

Dear Action Editor, you can say any date you like, but I can tell you right now you'll be getting my review exactly [insert date here] + 5 days.

What is the future of Open Science? Join @annemscheel.bsky.social @nicholascoles.bsky.social @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for an exciting discussion during the Keynote Panel at the #SIPS2025 Online.

One of my RAs is out sick and the participant pool closes Monday so I'm running participants like the good ol' days.

No idea if this is new, but today I noticed that my cough drops are cartoonishly against me resting and repairing my body. What even is this?!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Power’s out in Gainesville so we’re listening to national championship on our hurricane radio. Seems appropriate…

This paper is now out in JEP:G (psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...), with a University of Illinois news release here: news.illinois.edu/study-finds-...

This must stop.

Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

📢 We are hiring! PhD position opening at the LIP lab on impression formation and learning. Please visit our website for more information: liplab.be Please share or repost this vacancy!

At FL universities/colleges, we’re asked to voluntarily complete an annual survey on “Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity”. I approached it with an open mind. Once I got to questions referencing the Democrat party, I knew it was a push poll and dropped out. (It was obvious before then).

This looks like a great post-doc opportunity!

🧵1/4 Excited to celebrate Anna Huang‘s first first-authored paper just published in EJSP. 🥳 In this theoretical article, Anna explores how Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) apply to individuals with Mixed racial-ethnic identities.

I am considering trying to be less judgmental. One idea I had is to stop immediately looking at my watch after someone says "Good morning" to check whether they are one of those immoral people who think it's morning when it's not.