Arielle Belluck

💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social)

One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science Speaker Nominations Nominate yourself or another late-stage PhD student to speak at Princeton's Department of Psychology this academic semester (Spring 2026). The Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science (ESPS) talk ...

Are you a grad student who wants to give a talk at Princeton’s psychology department (in-person or on Zoom)?

Nominate yourself or someone you know: forms.gle/WN2ybYMuZiW3...

Priority given to non-Ivy and URM students. International applicants welcome.

Deadline is this Friday (Feb 6)!

So excited to share this new paper, out in JEP:G with the incredible @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Gail Heyman, and @carenwalker.bsky.social! We tested how children and adults reason about disparate impact policies: formally neutral laws or rules that are indirectly discriminatory. (1/7)

Huge congrats!!!

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

Wooo! Yay Emma!

Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨

Come see my poster at cogsci! My grandma says it’s great

Ranked choice voting in NYC showed us what elections could look like The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics a...

My latest opinion piece.

www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Congrats!!!

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6 The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Woo!! So excited to be cohort-mates!

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...

Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants.

"we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Appeasing President Donald Trump Won’t Work From Columbia University to Paul Weiss, leaders have gone beyond de-escalation into outright collaboration with Trump.

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud.

time.com/7272520/appe...

Screenshot of linked article

Chantal Valdivia-Moreno

“Without the support of my community, I would have never pursued a career in science”, writes Chantal Valdivia-Moreno from Chula Vista, CA 🥑. Now research cuts threaten that community: its health, economy & children’s futures. 🧪🏠
@talvaldivia.bsky.social

www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ng.bsky.social, I wrote an op-ed in my local paper about how cuts to federal funding put the present and future health of our communities at enormous risk.
www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.

"College administrators across the nation are closely watching whether Columbia acts with deference or defiance."

Columbia: please, please, pretty please, choose defiance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

'This doesn't protect us': Hundreds of Jewish scholars condemn Trump Columbia funding cut ***

“Framing these actions as a defense of Jewish students not only distorts reality but also puts Jews at greater risk.”

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cuts to federal research funding will hurt future Texas science students Cutting funding from anything perceived as “DEI-adjacent” harms us all. It freezes life-changing research, and shuts the door on talented, hardworking students.

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece for San Antonio Express News on the dangers of cuts to federal science funding for today and tomorrow's scientists: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs - Nature Reviews Psychology Aggregated opinions, such as election results and product ratings, are prevalent in the modern world. In this Review, Oktar and Lombrozo describe the properties of aggregated opinion and the mechanism...

📣 From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo:

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs

woooooo!

Out in Child Development:

"Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional
Misunderstandings in Children"

paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

preprint-pdf: www.tomerullman.org/papers/kids_...