Eric Hehman

The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood Racial bias emerges early in a fairly consistent manner in the U.S. and in other societies in which group-based inequality is prevalent. Specifically, White children often show in-group preferences w....

I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.

I still remember when they mixed up you and Calvin, glad that is coming back around again

preach.

maybe this would work for certain types of papers in certain fields, like "this algorithm is now 15% more efficient, check it", but not when thinking and consideration is necessary

Yet another good reason to mute or block the trolls in your life

These negative social ties--known as 'hasslers"--are chronic stressors and are linked to impaired physical health and faster aging.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Our new research shows that hundreds of federal surveys removed questions about sexual orientation and gender identity since the start of the second Trump administration. Read the full report at: tinyurl.com/SOGIdata

Great, best way is prob to check out our respective recent work:
erichehman.com/publications/

scholar.google.ca/citations?us...

ISCON and PMIG call for nominations for the Ostrom Award for Career Contribution to Social Cognition.

Eligibility: 25 years post PhD (awards are not given posthumously).

More detail here:
www.socialcognition.net/ostrom-award

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Applications considered beginning on April 24 and continue on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Would appreciate a share!
Also I'll be at SPSP in a few weeks, please reach out if you want to chat about the position

Postdoc position!

Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.

Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination

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About 10 years ago, I set out to better understand the drivers of radicalization and deradicalization into white supremacy. Work from our endeavors is starting to come out, and I am no longer concerned about sharing it.

I want to share the findings from one of these studies, published last March. 🧵

Then again, my brain lets me drink

New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Faculty Lecturer - Department of Psychology Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position.

Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme...

haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...

The followup longitudinal experiment provides causal evidence that exposure to thin bodies leads to an increased likelihood of categorizing bodies as fat, while exposure to fat bodies reduces this likelihood.

Study 2 is particularly cool, capitalized on France's ban of underweight models in 2015 to test the possibly causal relationship between the policy and anti-fat attitudes (which decrease after the ban).

This paper is pretty neat because it combines correlational (regional variation), quasi, and experimental work to examine anti-fat attitudes.
Can see regional variation in anti-fat attitudes here prejudicemap.org which correlate with regional obesity rates

Perceptual exposure influences body size perceptions and anti-fat attitudes - Communications Psychology Repeated visual exposure to bodies of varying sizes alters cognitive representations of weight and may influence anti-fat attitudes over time.

New paper led by Kelsey Neuenswander looking at perceptual exposure to fat/thin bodies and anti-fat attitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This figure and the size of the correlation continues to blow me away

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings - Nature Reviews Psychology The literature assumes that intergroup contact is naturally occurring, positive and consistently associated with positive outcomes, but these premises are inconsistent with everyday intergroup contact...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

(If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady)
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org

Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...

I appreciate the sharing jay van bavel

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

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🚨 New paper out in PSPB! 🚨 We found that an “Inclusivity Page” that instructors in the intervention condition added to their course syllabi resulted in better grades among students from marginalized groups. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It only finds him ok!

63% (!!) of the emails asking me about applying to my lab this year started with verbatim "I hope this email finds you well."

Was not the case last year.

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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