Lewis Doyle

Interested in the psychology of disruptive behaviour at music events? Well have a read of this. Highlights include me, @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @sanjeedah.bsky.social throwing ourselves around in mosh pits for science (plus in-depth interviews & a big old survey). dx.doi.org/10.1111/asap...

‘They want You to Read Their Work’: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives on the Use of AI for School Feedback - Technology, Knowledge and Learning Providing feedback is time-consuming for teachers, but new Artificial Intelligence tools aim to reduce this burden and improve feedback quality. We asked teachers (N = 12) to trial an AI tool for prov...

Could AI feedback in education damage teacher-student relationships?

Our interview study suggests that teachers’ & students’ concerns about AI go way beyond its perceived reliability.

Find out more here: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

With @drrobnash.bsky.social, Viktoria Jakcsiova, and Ellen Turner.

Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds

‼️ Recent work by Lewis Doyle, Andrei Cimpian, Louise Goupil & Sébastien Goudeau

Preschool-aged kids whose parents are working class are less likely to be called on when they raise their hand compared to kids with middle/upper class occupations.

Early socialization indeed.
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From @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social

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#psych #phdsky

“Whether students played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out, they were less likely to have their participation attempts accepted if they came from a working-class background”

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Class-based differences are quite salient in some countries and less so in others so it would certainly be interesting to investigate this effect elsewhere.

Yes, I think both of your suggestions are likely to contribute to an overall picture. I would also speculate that teachers may infer subtle cues from identity markers like accent and through classroom discussions that touch on students’ home lives and extra curricular activities.

“Whether students played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out, they were less likely to have their participation attempts accepted if they came from a working-class background”

New in @pnas.org.

Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.

With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.

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Examining How White Teachers’ Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Their Self-Efficacy and School Choices: Learn how teacher education programs can incorporate cross-racial engagement to provide all students with equitable educations.

➡️ bit.ly/4lVo18Y

'We have a duty to carry out socially relevant research' | BPS Ella Rhodes reports on the impact for British Psychological Society journals.

@bpsofficial.bsky.social have written a nice piece about the impact of our work on biases in education: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist....

Check out the original research here: doi.org/10.1111/bjep...

This sounds familiar

Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I'm like, “Yeah, because they suck.” They haven't figured out how to do anything well, so they keep trying different things.

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪

Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

Side by side images of a crowd at a music festival. The first image shows a small number of people signaling to a medic. The second image shows a larger number of people in the crowd raising their hands to amplify the medic's signal to other medical personnel at the front of the stage.

New blogpost looking at the psychology of felt safety at live music events: tinyurl.com/4kcs7x2p. Draws on interview, ethnographic and survey data. With @profjohndrury.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Danielle Evans, Fiona Green, @sanjeedah.bsky.social and @lewisdoyle.bsky.social.

Two days before learning that “research programs based on gender identity […] do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans” and seeing my NIH grant terminated, I had a paper published on male defaults: [1/2]
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I recently spoke to @samdenno-twinkl.bsky.social about some of my research on bias in education. Check out the podcast here: tinyurl.com/4jyyxusw

Thank you for your kind words, @harrymlewis.bsky.social

Published on the day I presented it at #SPSP2025!

Three studies (N = 1,608) with @lindatropp.bsky.social and @matteasters.bsky.social showing the potential of interracial contact experiences to increase White teachers' self-efficacy and reduce racial bias in school choices.

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And here’s the link: doi.org/10.3102/0013...

This TICS paper turned out to be unexpectedly timely... We could have called it "Why DEI and Merit Go Hand in Hand" given recent developments... Valuing diversity and excellence/merit aren't opposing forces -- they're complementary.

Our pre-print is now available on our research into experiences of disruptive behaviour at live music events. Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social Hanna Eldarwish, Danielle Evans, Fi Green & Jane Wen

An Empathy Intervention Reduces the Gender Gap in School Discipline and Facilitates Belonging School disciplinary sanctions increase sharply during adolescence, with students from certain backgrounds disproportionately affected. Strong teacher–student relationships that cultivate trust, respe...

New paper in @easpinfo.bsky.social with @matteasters.bsky.social detailing an empathy intervention with teachers in England.

Students (notably boys) whose teacher had been encouraged to make them feel valued and heard had better end of year behavioural records.

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See you there!

New paper with an amazing team on the allure of the meritocracy belief. Our intuition tells us that effort brings about success in life (of course it does), but this oversimplification ignores important external factors and threatens to perpetuate inequalities.
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👋 New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: "Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive"

I learned a lot from my co-authors, a fabulous group of experts on meritocratic beliefs 👇 Fun fact: This paper grew out of a 2023 symposium at @easpinfo.bsky.social in Krakow.

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