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Rachel Leshin

@rachelesh.bsky.social

Psychology postdoc at Princeton via Northwestern and NYU, interested in development of social categorization (http://rachelleshin.com/)

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These two things — the notion that gender is somehow irrelevant to our lived realities and the documented phenomenon of perceiving men/boys as more gender-neutral than women/girls — don’t seem entirely unrelated. [2/2]

13.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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]
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

13.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

These two things — the notion that gender is somehow irrelevant to our lived realities and the documented phenomenon of perceiving men/boys as more gender-neutral than women/girls — don’t seem entirely unrelated.

13.03.2025 23:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s not too late to sign up! Our all-day virtual pre-conference at @spspnews.bsky.social is next Wednesday, and we’d love to have you there! See flyer here ⬇️

13.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

👋 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.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

13.01.2025 19:42 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

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