Joel Le Forestier

Two per... year?

We need more work figuring out how to meet people in their real-life intergroup contexts. That way, we can try to figure out how to make those contexts less fraught and more constructive for building a cohesive and just world.

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

7/7

Another interpretation is that it doesn't work, and the correlational findings from the earlier studies are artifacts of other explanations. That would be less great news (both for the intergroup contact hypothesis and for society).

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

6/7

One interpretation of those null results is that intergroup contact on social media has the capacity to work, but that we just haven't figured out how to take full advantage of it yet. That would be great news!

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

5/7

But in a field intervention where we programmed bots on social media to experimentally increase the representation of content from outgroup members on users' feeds, we found null results.

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

4/7

In a series of self-report and behavioral online and field studies, we find promising evidence that intergroup interactions on social media are associated with less prejudice and more positive intergroup behaviors.

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

3/7

We wanted to know if we could deliver intergroup contact through social media (a location where people are increasingly having their social interactions) to reduce prejudice in a potentially scalable way.

The answer? Maybe.

Blog: tinyurl.com/28hyccs7
Paper: tinyurl.com/mpkhsjay

2/7

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

1/n

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."

2025 being almost over is absolutely the only thing holding me together right now. We're almost there. 2026 is a whole new year.

And congrats on submitting TWO whole papers in one day. I'm in awe.

Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

iconic scene from Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey in scrub telling Derek "so pick me, choose me, love me"

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

My fab department is hiring in Clinical at the asst/assoc level! The search is focused on adult psychopathology, brain imaging, or genetics.

We have a collaborative, friendly, and supportive department with great conditions for research. Come join us!

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This is like the fourth “LinkedIn is probably where people are at these days” post I’ve seen/interaction I’ve had this week and… ugh please no. Anything but that.

New minimal groups effect just dropped! Bon apétit!

New minimal groups effect just dropped! Bon apétit!

Congratulations!!

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

Thanks Gordon! Glad you like it!

Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen

Can social media contact reduce prejudice?

#PrejudiceResearch

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

And to you!

Thank you!

Thanks Meltem!!

Can’t wait to see you there!

Thanks John!!!

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@spspnews.bsky.social

P.S. Graduate students who submit posters will be considered for a poster award! So send your students!

This year, the preconference will be in-person and will adopt a half-day format in the morning of Thursday, February 26.

I hope you'll consider attending!