Melissa Williams

Bears Will Be Boys A data analysis of animal gender in children’s books

Animals in kids' books are anthropomorphized as male more often than female. Especially frogs --?
pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

Emory Goizueta is hiring a behavioral lab manager - please share the word with recent college grads! It's a great opportunity and stepping stone to graduate school. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/150128/...

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

Female surgeons get more pushback than male surgeons, increasing burnout odds If most people (men and women) think gender discrimination and mistreatment at work is common, why don't more working women report personally experiencing it? One reason may be that it's hard for wome...

Lay-friendly takeaways from our new PNAS
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But also - women receive more positive feedback than men, from peers, supervisors, and others.

Everyday challenges to women’s presence and authority yield greater burnout and less persistence in a male-dominated profession | PNAS While most people believe that women (vs. men) experience more discriminatory treatment at work, especially in male-dominated professions, relative...

Our PNAS is out! Amidst debates about whether women have achieved workplace equality - we find that women (vs. men) encounter more pushback and questioning of their professional authority, predicting >burnout over time.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.

We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620

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Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad

Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025.

Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice.
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