We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Missed yesterday's #MPRG2025 talks? No worries. You can watch the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nei1... Though you should probably hold of on watching us and hop on the Zoom call for Day 2 instead! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Wow, that was a blast! Thank you for the opportunity to present our work. #MPRG2025

Join us for two fun days of moral psychology and philosophy! #MPRG2025

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social! I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Thank you for hosting me in your lab @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social! It was a lot of fun meeting your students. And huge thanks to you all for your patience in listening to me excitedly ramble about my work at 10pm after a long work day...a testament to your own ER abilities, I'm sure 😅

We hosted our first external speaker at our lab meeting! Many thanks to @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social for telling us about her cool work on emotion regulation!

Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?

YES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development". Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Suggestions for resources on secondary data analysis? We're trying to support teams who want to make better use of big gov datasets. They need to explore but we also need to be careful of p-hacking. And then report appropriately to gov stakeholders. Suggestions for resources are appreciated!

So sad to hear we lost Judy DeLoache this week. Judy’s brilliance, her warmth, her humor, were grad school highlights. Whether it was at a dept party, on a sailboat, or in her home high in the Blue Ridge mountains, Judy made me feel like I mattered. “Eyes open, minds open.” - JD Sail on, Judy 💔

Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and giant in the field of developmental psychology. She will be missed dearly.

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heartbroken to share that Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and a fantastic role model. I met her 10+ years ago as a grad student @uvapsychology.bsky.social. She believed in me at my lowest and inspired me to persevere through the challenges of grad school + life.

Last day to submit to the #SPSP2025 Religion & Spirituality pre-conference!

Another instant classic by @AngelLillard!!!! Check out her new results on Montessori education as cheaper and with better results than traditional preK and K classes. Hmm -- there really is something to this #playfullearning model. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist! Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

A recent paper by Jessica A. Stern et al. in JCD: "Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults: Journal of Cognition and Development" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

WOAH

Two day virtual conference on moral psychology hosted by the Moral Psychology Research Group: November 7 & 8 | Look like an excellent line-up! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

“If you wanna get ahead, don’t worry about tenure” James Pennebaker #SESP2025

@page-gould.bsky.social: Prejudice reduction is not enough, we need to acknowledge the systemic aspects #SESP2025

Ghosts? Cookies? Parking? This talk has it all. “Cars that have religious decorations, park poorly.” @kurtjgray.bsky.social describing one of his interesting studies. #SESP2025

“Men are still seen as more agentic than women, though ‘equal’ is on the rise” Alice Eagly, SESP Scientific Impact Award recipient. #SESP2025 #SESP25

“An ‘alright mother’ does more than a ‘very good’ father” - Monica Biernat, 2025 Ostrom Award Winner 🤯 #PMIG2025 #SESP2025

Ratings are relative - we judge a 5’ 7” woman to be “taller” than a 5’ 7” man. The same is true for social judgments - a woman who interrupts is seen as more assertive than a man. Subjective ratings like this can “mask” stereotypes (stereotype = women are LESS assertive!) Monica Biernat #PMIG2025

Grateful for this community: your REDCap tips got our lab all-in on #REDCap. Special thanks to @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social for being unbelievably generous with her time & resources!! Academia is better together!

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...

Every developmental psychologist Is like “but my lecture slides!”

Some days are not so fun, but today is not one of them thanks to anonymous shout outs via #PsycGoodDeedDay2025! psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Has anyone ever written an LOR for a medical school app and know what committees tend to look for? I’m writing one for an absolute rockstar of an RA and want to make sure I’m highlighting the right things!

Did you hear the news? New interview dropped! Meet @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social in her interview with @msupsychology.bsky.social! Learn about her research interests, how to get involved, and the @psychresearchlist.bsky.social website. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

man, academic science. you'll be plodding along editing a revision and then BAM your reviewer hits you with this citation

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Never thought I would say this, but I really enjoy using Microsoft Teams + SharePoint. It integrates well with various non-Microsoft apps as well.

8% of US adults say they have no close friends www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Cats are not dogs, says science: "we believe it is time to change our research perspective on cats and find out more about what they can teach us about different ways of evolving mutually advantageous, but independence-based relationships with humans" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a colloquium talk at @nmsu.edu’s psychology department. Big thanks to @jgrabman.bsky.social and all those who attended for making it such a memorable virtual visit!

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

So excited to have Avery join us this semester!

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

Honored to be among a fantastic lineup of moral psychologists!

When it rains, it pours (to my lab) 😱 So I made a new sign for the lab...