Sally Xie

Since the inception of scientific psychology in the 19th century, the lead in conceptualizing scientific phenomena has been taken by scholars in Western contexts (North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand), who comprise only 11% of the world’s population. Today, the science and practice of psychology continue to be dominated by Western theoretical perspectives. Recognizing the necessity for inclusive excellence in the field and the barriers that Majority World scholars face in joining the global knowledge economy, Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) has taken several steps toward global inclusion. To further realize this goal, this Special Issue brings together nine contributions that reflect personality and social psychological theory rooted in diverse Majority World contexts, specifically stemming from African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, East and South Asian, and Indigenous American scholars. The contributions reflect several cross-cutting themes: the deeply historical contexts in which personality and social psychological phenomena play out in different geographies today; the important particularities of widely studied concepts in specific local contexts; and the dynamic interplay between individual people and the specificity of their social contexts. By curating indigenous concepts and theories, we aim to further catalyze dialogue across cultural distances in the field and to demonstrate how a decolonized editorial process can help promote inclusive science to improve the dominant perspectives in personality and social psychology.

"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology."

Introduction to PSPR Special Issue

@jadler.bsky.social

Looking to run more? A new paper by Emily Balcetis, Jordan Daley, Bradley Tao, &
Bryce Lexow highlights how to best finish that race! The takeaway? Runners get to the finish line by focusing on subgoals rather than the larger goal of completing the race

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

New PSPR Special Issue Highlights Personality and Social Psychological Theory from the Majority World

📣Just announced: Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a Special Issue focused on elevating theoretical perspectives from non-Western societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Learn more: ow.ly/6Z1O50X4Uug

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Led by @chopwood.bsky.social, team (including @joaograca.bsky.social) showed that, across many countries:

✳️ greater #speciesism is associated with more right-leaning political ideology

(effect strongest in U.S.)

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

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📊New research challenges assumptions about group favoritism. A study of 12K+ people across 45 non-Western countries finds economic inequality can lead people to favor advantaged outgroups over their own.

Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/Bkpx50WVb2G

Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵👇

Who needs art history or Arfican American studies or cognitive science when you can learn how to amplify productivity with GenAI?

Headed to #CogSci2025 next week!

Interested in computational cognitive science applied to climate change and real-world policy? Come find me!

My lab at UCLA is recruiting 1–2 fully funded PhD students.

We work on:
• decision-making
• climate perception
• human–AI collaboration for policy design

Screenshot of title page of an article published in Educational Psychologist titled "How (much) do people revise their goals after success and failure? The Triple-A model of goal revision."

Meta-analytic support that success leads people to revise their goals upward and failure leads to downward revision. Very cool new model of the various moderators and mediators in these relationships, and what hypotheses follow. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well worth reading, IMO

I appreciate the multi-level, cross-correlated modelling described in the paper

#ConspiracyTheory
#Context
@realistresnevalgp.bsky.social
@crnetwork.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to announce that the Social-Cognitive Science Lab is no longer operated solely by myself and a few imaginary creatures.
Welcome Cy Butler & Tomas Vanderkam to SoCoSci as we kick off our first year! socosci.com/blog/welcome...

A group of people, shown in silhouette, watching the sun set.

📈New meta-analysis reveals when "moral licensing" really happens. After good deeds, people act less morally only when being watched by others, not when alone. This explains why many online studies failed to replicate the effect.

Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/YFIp50WmjYE

Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social

This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…

Your Brain on ChatGPT https://lobste.rs/s/rgjqbd #cogsci #vibecoding

Congrats!!!

Another reason to play (outdoor) pickleball!

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

Does feeling collective responsibility for intergroup harm lead to infrahumanization? Previous research has suggested that subtle dehumanization can occur as a consequence of harming others. According to this research, participants who feel a sense of collective responsibility for thei...

Does being reminded of your ingroup's role in the harm experienced by outgroup members lead you to see them as feeling less 'human' emotions? Looking at inequalities arising from climate change and fast fashion, our new paper at @plosone.org challenges this earlier claim in #dehumanization research.

Children, shown in silhouette against a sunset, playing and dancing.

📊Research reveals that experiences of awe help children become more generous and kind. When kids encounter vast mysteries like rainbows or starry nights, they feel more relaxed and willing to help others.

Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/M5z950VZg5N

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

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📈New #PSPB research uses machine learning to map cultural differences beyond traditional theories like individualism-collectivism. The method reveals both known patterns and novel dimensions in comparing countries like USA, China, and Japan.

Learn more: ow.ly/C3bb50VXMqL

The defense of commonsense knowledge against scientific expertise is used as a political weapon across countries

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #polpsy #Polisky

🔔‼️ New papers alert

In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social
takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology.
Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed.

A must-read for every psychology researcher!

Available in #OA 👇👇

Three white sculptures of faces, lying next to each other.

📊Research shows that people who endorsed absolute honesty but then lied are viewed as more moral than those who admitted lying can sometimes be appropriate.

Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/gRLF50VX8PB

🔔‼️ New paper alert: “Novelty, Consistency, Transparency: The Trilemma of Psychological Sciences and its Consequences on Open Science Practices”

Paul Bertin and Kenzo Nera propose that novelty, consistency and transparency can be conceptualized as a trilemma.

Curious about this trilemma? 👇👇

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence