Elizabeth Page-Gould: Black Lives Matter

Elizabeth Page-Gould recognized with Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology The Society for Experimental Social Psychology has recognized Elizabeth Page-Gould with a Career Trajectory Award in recognition of uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity.

She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award!

Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.

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(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Thank you for this beautiful tribute, Neil ❤️

Thank you so much for this, Neil. 💕💗💐

Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.

now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

I would like to share that the family requests donations be made to the Innocence Project (innocenceproject.org/donate/) or the American Civil Liberties Union (action.aclu.org/give/now) in lieu of flowers. 💖💐

Thank you so much. I am very sorry for your loss. ❤️🤗

Sam Sommers, thank you for walking next to me for some of the time you were here. It was always a delight, every time you appeared. ✨ Your presence in my life was a gift. I am grateful for every moment I got to spend with you. 💖🖤 Rest in peace, my friend. ❤️

My deepest condolences are to his beloved family. Sam’s relationship with his family was deep and inspiring. I can only imagine how hard it is to lose a father and spouse like that. They deserve our utmost care, support, love, and respect. 🫶💗❤️

It’s been a hard few days, harder than I predicted. 💔 Sam was one of those people that was kind of all positive, so it’s just hard. I also texted him on Tuesday evening, after he had passed away but before I knew that and that’s getting to me a bit. 😭

We needed more Sams in this world, not less. 🖤

Altogether, Sam loved social psychology and his vision for the future of our field was a beautiful one. Let’s honor Dr. Samuel R. Sommers whenever we get the opportunity to do so. 🌟🍻🤩❤️👏⭐️✨

He guided the research direction of our field as an Editor. He guided the intellectual direction of our field through his textbooks. He showed the importance of our field to people outside academia through popular books. He led his local community as the Chair of the Tufts Psychology Department.

Sam Sommers was a visionary for our field. He regularly assumed roles that gave him scholarly leadership of our field’s trajectory across domains.

Through this collaboration, I have found fulfillment and inspiration. It has also taken my writing to the next plateau, because of the generosity and brilliance of Sam’s and Neil’s feedback, in particular.

Around 2017, Tim Wilson, Elliot Aronson, and Sam reached out to me to be a possible co-author on the Aronson Social Psychology textbook, and that was when our scholarly collaboration began. Neil joined the party 4 - 5 years ago now, and it's been so synergistic.✨🎉💖

(There is definitely a lesson in here to early career scholars to not blow off the peer reviews you do! 🤓✍️)

I remembered that, at the time, he had written back to me and thanked me for a high-quality review. His note had meant a lot to me, at the time, as a new professor. However, I had no idea how much that one review would pay off for me!

Sam would later say that he did that all because of the quality of a *peer review* that I wrote as an ad-hoc reviewer for a paper he handled while he was an Associate Editor at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Early in my career, Sam appeared as this random sponsor of me. We didn’t really know each other until about 2017, but he reached out to me a few times before then to random nominate me for awards. (❣️🤩💝)

We had a really deep and meaningful conversation at dinner, too. I will always treasure the advice and stories he shared with me. He was so wise in this way that was both confident in his truth but highly open and humble. Sam Sommers, you were a special person. 🌟❤️

An image of Sam Sommers and Liz Page-Gould in Denver, Colorado, US in February 2025. Sam is taking the picture as a selfie and thus has his arm outstretched toward the camera. Liz has her arm around Sam's shoulder. Both people are smiling and looking at the camera.

We had dinner at SPSP just a few weeks ago! 💕 Sam texted this picture to @neillewisjr.bsky.social and me. It feels like a gift now. 💝

Sam passed away on Sunday, and I found out on Wednesday. It was one of those calls where, despite the fact that what the caller says is totally shocking, I knew what was going to be said. There’s something about the way people set those calls up and then start the conversation … Sam was dead. 💔😭🖤

Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

Dr. Sam R. Sommers was one of those truly good people who also happened to be a total powerhouse. It is with deep sadness that I share the news of his death. Everyone who had Sam in their lives was lucky, and I am grateful for every moment he shared with me. ❤️💖💫 now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

Sending out lots of love and hope today. 🧚✨💖🌈

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Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Most people in petrostates want quick switch to clean energy, UN poll finds Largest ever climate survey also finds majority want countries to set aside differences to fight global heating

"The poll questioned 75,000 people in countries representing almost 90% of the global population. It found a large majority (80%) wanted their countries to strengthen their climate change commitments, with only 5% saying their country should weaken its action."

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Opinion: Canada must end the pervasive culture of inhumanity inside prisons Soleiman Faqiri’s death was horrific, yet our research into patterns of deaths in custody across Canada illustrates his death is not unique.

We have tracked more than 1,532 deaths in custody across Canada since the year 2000. Faqiri was one of 85 deaths in custody in Canada that year. Deaths in custody are rarely natural, the average age of all those who have died across Canada is just 44.5 years old.

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