Andrea Dittmann

Loved working with this team & so excited about our findings! 🙌🏻🎉 See more below👇🏻

A simple statement that can help cops win people’s trust - The Boston Globe Many people are on edge when they encounter an officer, but there’s an easy way for law enforcement to set the right tone.

We’ve been looking into ways police officers can reduce tension in interactions with their communities from the start. We find adding just one sentence—what we call a “transparency statement”—can help build trust. Read about our work now in The Boston Globe! 👇🏻

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/o...

‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class Joan C Williams explains how to win over voters – and shares a quiz that tells you whether you’re elite or not

& check out this recent Guardian article about it: tinyurl.com/OutclassedGu...

Tag #Outclassed #ClassBubbleQuiz when you share your results!

‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class Joan C Williams explains how to win over voters – and shares a quiz that tells you whether you’re elite or not

💭 Ever wondered whether you're in a class bubble?

Take the 10-question New Class Bubble Quiz I helped Joan C. Williams ‪@eacentersf.bsky.social design for her new book‬ to find out where you stand!:

🔗 www.classbubblequiz.com

Going to #spsp2025? Interested in what psychology can tell us about what works (or doesn't) to change policing? Join me @andreadittmann.bsky.social @calvinklai.bsky.social @spruill.bsky.social & Kyle Dobson very early next Saturday to find out.

Article linked below!👇🏻

psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

Not always: We find that it depends on what orgs value. Many orgs continue to value individual contributors instead of team players—creating a cultural mismatch. Only when orgs also value working together as part of being a “good” employee do employees from working-class backgrounds feel they fit.

🚨 Now out at JEPG! 🚨
After college students graduate & head off the workforce, there are many opportunities to collaborate at work. Do these opportunities reduce cultural mismatch for college grads from working-class backgrounds?

(& yes we’ve still got the christmas tree up)

first day of, oh, i don’t know, eleventy seventh grade? 😅