Ipek Guvensoy

I named my fists Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer and Vohs because bad hits stronger than good in the moment

Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.

A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very interesting work by @evavivalt.bsky.social and @sdellavi.bsky.social. Particularly intriguing is the finding that a surprising negative relationship between confidence and accuracy is accounted for by a subset of persistently overconfident forecasters.

I have an academic diary in which I reflect on what I learnt from academic experiences, conferences, other gatherings and from interactions with academics including things I learnt during peer review processes and some of the perspectives reviewers show me. It’s fully hand writing. It’s helping me.

Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.

psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Experimental participants to us

On the desire to understand and the desire to know So tell me Mr. Feynman, I am curious why the desire to know outweighs the desire to understand in academic settings?

Hello, I started a new blog and I plan to share my reflections in this space.

In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.

On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...

It provides flexibility. This is freedom for me, the freedom to choose where to put which word and at what moment. I appreciate it, and appreciating this given flexibility makes it even harder for me to adapt to strict syntax rules in other languages.

I often notice that my thoughts are a bit of a mess when I speak English or Spanish. People notice that I don’t follow the typical word order in Spanish and English. It’s difficult for me because, in my native language, Turkish, there is no strict syntax, as long as you don’t break certain clusters.

"Reliance on simplified, stereotypic thinking is thus a kind of cognitive privilege among people in more dominant social positions, as well as a fallback for people experiencing
cognitively taxed states of mind."

. . ."People with these birth signs were more likely to experience discrimination in both romantic and professional contexts in China than people with other birth signs." (Lu, Liu et al., 2020 cited in Bodenhausen & Cheryan, 2025)

"Claims that stereotypes are rational are undermined by
evidence that relevant stereotypes can distort the meaning of individuating information." . . .

I was asking myself to what extent we understand the nature of prejudice many times. I have started reading the recent chapter written by Bodenhausen and Cheryan (2025). It fruitfully made me ask many questions. I hope to have the opportunity discuss it with future students.
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...

Hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening:

1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation

Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.

A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.

Shocking!

Is there a link between positive intergroup contact and meta-attitude accuracy? Yes - for both majority and minority groups! Have a look at our new paper led by the brilliant Ipek Guvensoy 🙂 doi.org/10.1177/1368... #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact