William Meese

Self-Protection Motivation and Its Psychological Construction: A Process Model Distinguishing Two Unique Motivational Orientations - William B. Meese, 2025 Academic This article introduces the Modern Constructivist Model of Motivated Self-Protection (MCM-MSP), an integrative and novel theoretical account of two dis...

So thrilled to see this paper in print at PSPR—I propose a new theoretical model of self-protection motivation that reimagines how people might think, feel, and act when navigating self-threats. I enjoy this sort of theoretical work & excited to share it!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The postdoctoral project investigates how educational aspirations and mobility are experienced, challenged and realised among minority ethnic students in higher education, with a focus on the collective resources developed among the young people and possible changes in institutional norms. The project includes six months of ethnographic fieldwork in two higher education programmes that are popular among minority ethnic students, as well as interviews with the students and their families.

Postdoc Job

What: Two-year position looking at minority ethnic students in higher education

Where: Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

When: Starts 1st June 2026

More Info: au.career.emply.com/ad/postdocto...

#SocialPsyc #Ethnography #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky

We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics

Which license do you recommend using for preprints?

It turns out, I deleted the email after reporting it as phishing… thank you for bringing this to our attention!

I also got this, is it not spam or phishing? I am so afraid to click links in email these days, would be nice to go back to snail mail, tbh!

I assume when I post something publicly that it is available for LLMs, for better or worse.

Is there a consent form for you to participate?

Help my sons as we advocate for rare disease research. Until midnight, all donations will be doubled (up to $25,000) thanks to an anonymous family donor. With rare disease research and disability advocacy under threat, support matters especially now.

Endorsement of the Neurodiversity Framework and Self-Esteem Among Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults | Autism in Adulthood Background: Many autistic individuals struggle with poor mental health and low self-esteem, in part, due to internalized stigma. Given the strengths-based perspective of the neurodiversity framework, ...

🧪Our (me + UMD undergrad psychology alum Sarah Liu) new study is published in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social! Title: Endorsement of the neurodiversity framework and self-esteem among autistic and non-autistic adults.

Read more here: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Self-Protection Motivation and Its Psychological Construction: A Process Model Distinguishing Two Unique Motivational Orientations - William B. Meese, 2025 Academic This article introduces the Modern Constructivist Model of Motivated Self-Protection (MCM-MSP), an integrative and novel theoretical account of two dis...

So thrilled to see this paper in print at PSPR—I propose a new theoretical model of self-protection motivation that reimagines how people might think, feel, and act when navigating self-threats. I enjoy this sort of theoretical work & excited to share it!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions: How Regional Variation in Implicit Bias Can Inform Public Policy - Heidi A. Vuletich, Maximilian A. Primbs, Ayla Winegar, 2025 Traditional psychological approaches to reduce discrimination typically focus on addressing the biases of people. This paper recommends policies aimed at changi...

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 post with grad student @ugurozkusen.bsky.social out in @spspnews.bsky.social's Character & Context on a new JEP:G paper using intergroup contact on social media to reduce prejudice.

Read the Character & Context post: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Read the full paper in JEP:G: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

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🚨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. 🧵

But make sure to learn how to continuously adapt and self-innovate! 🤩

Oh I just realized, I deleted my twitter where I had saved a thread from @lindaskitka.bsky.social, it was excellent advice.

I have heard some keep these cut outs in a lab notebook, along with a record of each decision. I cut and paste at the end of documents or into comments, but this sometimes loses context. Still, it helps with letting go.

I think the advice to read your work out loud is helpful generally.

Also, I read this book a few years ago and loved it, it’s probably one of the more useful and enjoyable books about writing I’ve read.

Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words g.co/kgs/1DAkq19

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Well, what’s the cost of not saying please and thank you to a large language model that learns from how we interact with it? Though I think the environmental burden is something to consider…

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!!

Does anyone else’s word processor randomly switch between French and English within the same manuscript? It seems to happen for me now once per manuscript, and idk why. It’s always just a sentence or two…

🤩❤️🤩❤️🤩

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6

I love em dashes—they frequently help me provide context, alternatives, or emphasis. Likely, large language models use em dashes because of their popularity in training corps. Nonetheless, they are often over used, and LLMs may not know how people truly feel about their training corps….

Congratulations!!!!

YouTube video by ma muse MaMuse: "Power of Kindness" feat. FulaMuse

youtu.be/VYj7XAgaxkY?...

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

I am looking for code that someone wrote to obtain a frequency count of these words, to share with a colleague. I used it but forgot to save the code… anyone have any idea?

Rare Disease Day, MED13L Foundation

It's Rare Disease Day. With rare disease research ever more important, as institutional support reduces, please consider giving your attention, empathy, willingness to learn, other resources to MED13L Foundation, who support research on MED13L syndrome.
Thee world still cares. Learn more: med13l.org

Wish I was going, sounds fun!