Ryan Lei

We suggest that what parents say about race should be sensitive to how children interpret different features of language such as use of abstract language, generics, and modals, as well as the cognitive biases they have.

Stay tuned for some follow-up empirical tests of the ideas we lay out here.

A Developmental Perspective on the Racial Socialization of White Children: Linguistic and Social‐Cognitive Considerations While there is growing consensus that it is important to talk about race and racism with children (a process called racial socialization)—particularly with White children—what to say when having thes...

🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit!

We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I had one go four rounds recently. I’ve heard of as many as 6 which is insane

Every developmental psychologist Is like “but my lecture slides!”

Has anyone else found it much more difficult to update preprints on OSF?

Yea! I’ll DM you

Asking for me lol. I want to know.

So, if you have new lines of work that are not exactly your "main line" that you're known for, how might you get opportunities to give talks about it and get feedback (besides publishing and hoping people see it, which can be slow)?

Cohort and Age Effects

I use this comic from XKCD, which i think communicates age vs. cohort effects pretty intuitively:

xkcd.com/2080/

agreed on all counts!

Lots of chatter about how AI is harmful/bad when used for writing, but i'm curious what people's thoughts are on using it for coding.

I have to admit I find it useful for generating functions (broadly speaking), and code for data cleaning I might not know how to do.

a woman in a red shirt is talking about a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy ALT: a woman in a red shirt is talking about a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy

Y'know, this girl from Mean Girls was supposed to be a joke, but at least she had VISION. Knew the world sucked but still had hope.

Two blocked field goals?! And one to win the game? Lets goooooo #GoBirds

Maybe this will help folks realize that...everything is political. Choosing to not track hunger is a political choice.

this is a genuine question (and might be me putting foot in mouth)-- what value does the AAUP add? All i ever see are "statements of concern", etc. there is no sense of collective bargaining, organizing, or anything that labor unions typically do. But perhaps I am just not seeing it?

I seem to be Very Online (tm) today lol

this is false advertising. it has been TWENTY TWO MINUTES

Agreed that the considerations are different if you're focused on science/training vs organizational structure/power dynamics.

unsolicited hot take of the day: Psych depts would benefit from de-siloing. As someone who sits at the intersection of two subfields, it's maddening when people misunderstand, mis-conceptualize, or just miss entirely (pun intended) what and how other areas think of similar topics.

it's insane to me how depts hire based on what's trending/vibes

Does this mean you get to stack sabbaticals??

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I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

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Dunno if this is accounted for in the data you've scraped but are the jobs categorized by type of institution? if not, perhaps "college" vs. "university" is a sufficient first-pass (though I know there are exceptions like Dartmouth).

Asking because it seems like prop. more SLAC jobs this yr?

Had a stressful dream about the first day of class, so happy new academic year I guess?

I'm seeing quite a few developmental jobs at SLACs. I'm happy to chat with anyone who's thinking of applying (or if your students are applying). Doing dev work at a SLAC can be super rewarding but also brings a number of unique challenges.

This is really fascinating work! I've been thinking about this from a developmental lens and was assuming ID --> solidarity, but cool to see data supporting that!

We switched our location to NJ- you can get them across the river lol

Interesting -- I thought RL/GL would be more accessible because there's so much stoppage!

It's like tag, but every time a shark tags a minnow, the minnow becomes a shark until there are no minnows left