Grading essays from a grad seminar in 2025 now means first having a reaction, "wow, this is really good; they seemed to have really grasped the material at a deep level" followed by a second reaction, "this feels like AI."

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

New paper by my student, Becky Upton: Across 60 countries, those countries with higher beliefs that manhood is a precarious social status tened to have more violence against women, attitudes more condoning of violence, and weaker legal protections for violence against women.

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

Concur. "the Replacements’ 1984 masterpiece Let It Be might be the greatest rock ’n’ roll album ever made about growing up, if not exactly getting old."

Chimpanzees use 22 types of tools in the wild but they are capable of doomscrolling like the rest of us. This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Other trans journalists have also covered Mamdani’s incredible ad. It was so meaningful to so many.

This is social psychology at its best. Great study. Change is hard.

"Conversion therapy" is abuse.

"We were breaking our own rules by providing access to an employer that thinks, in the words of Trump’s executive order, identifying as transgender violates “a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.”"

This is an absurd and offensive overreach of non-experts telling experts what to teach. What's next, climate scientists can't talk about global warming? Biologists can't talk about evolution?

Besides being another example of how Republicans try to blame everything on trans people, this is a reflection of how little Trump understands about trans identity. What does "want to have transgender for everybody" even mean? I want transgender folks to be happy, safe and free from govt intrusion.

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This 2022 article by Mernyk and colleagues seems especially timely right now. "exaggerated perceptions of rival partisans’ support for violence are a major cause of partisans’ own support for partisan violence." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Spread the word: We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of South Florida Department of Psychology in Tampa. We will begin reviewing applications October 17th. nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Longitudinal study in New Zealand (N = 61,750) finds gender is becoming more central to women’s identity across the lifespan and young men are starting to increasingly distance themselves from their gender. #SocialPsyc

As a professor who researches and teaches about the psychology of gender in a red state, I'm surprised I haven't had a knock on my door yet.

A story in the NY Times today featuring my work with Jennifer Bosson on precarious manhood and its implications for men's health.

New in PN: Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem "The more obvious the alteration in a woman’s appearance — even to the point of grotesqueness — the more she's shown her commitment to serve him. No one needs to tell Noem to get back in her place. She’s already there"

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to examine moralization in ~2B Twitter/X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts. Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics 🧵👇

From the August Harper's Magazine index. Is the era of quick online data collection for psychologists coming to an end? Back to the lab?

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

No bathroom is safe for transgender people.

Utah legislators passed a bill banning gender affirming care two years ago, justifying it by claiming the science wasn't there yet. They ordered a review. The review is out, finding unequivocally that affirming care helps trans folks.Now the people who ordered the review are dismissing the science.

The APA released a statement condemning the Trump administration's Anti-trans review. "Research clearly shows that supportive mental health care greatly reduces the risk of depression, suicide, and other negative outcomes for transgender and nonbinary youth." updates.apaservices.org/statement-on...

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

LGBTQ employees often engage in “covering” behaviors to avoid discrimination at work, such as changing their physical appearance and avoiding talking about their social lives at work. Trans employees are about twice as likely as LGBQ employees to engage in covering behaviors. bit.ly/LGBTworkplace

Stunning & original experimental work from Mosul Shared victimisation (at hands of ISIS) increases support for LGBT+ communities among locals. Effects - in part - driven by increased empathy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Just discovered this excellent paper on mediation analysis in Psych Methods. The focus defining various effects; I really appreciate how the authors contrast the "traditional" approach with "causal" mediation analysis. Great job picking up readers where they are! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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"According to a study that followed more than 280,000 people in Wales, older adults who received a vaccine against shingles were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia in the seven years that followed vaccination than those who did not receive the vaccine." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"This review challenges the widely held expectation that collectivism is a conduit to various forms of intergroup bias." Open Access 👇

Erin Reed, reporting on a poll from Data for Progress finds massive opposition to Trump’s anti-trans efforts on most every issue: removal of info on LGBTQ+ health, altering LGBTQ+ to LGB in govt materials, trans military ban, govt bans on gender-related care for trans youth.

Got our annual sales statement, and I crunched the numbers: We've now sold 27,490 copies of Psych of Sex and Gender textboook (with Jennnifer Bosson and Camille Buckner). Not bad for a little academic text! And I know lots of students find ways to get it free. 3rd edition, coming soon!

💭 What Makes a Man ‘Unmanly’? A new study explores how societies define ‘unmanliness’ across 15 countries. In gender-equal nations, it is linked to appearance (e.g., makeup). In less equal ones, it is tied to violence against women. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #Masculinity #SciComm

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

From Harper's Index, January:

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots. If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍🔬

#Resist 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

How long before they argue that admitting Black students at all is "discrimination" against white people?

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

My heart breaks for the trans kids who were playing soccer with their friends without issue who now have to learn the sting of exclusion from the fabric of their communities. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them and mean it.