@erichehman.bsky.social
prejudice, person perception at McGill | https://prejudicemap.org
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
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In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.
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There is a robust link between intergroup contact & reduced prejudice, but does contact actually cause a reduction in prejudice?
Across multiple longitudinal data sets (N > 20,000), very few people reported increased contact AND reduced prejudice.
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McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20.
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...
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cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper and R package for (more flexible) power analysis in multilevel: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
03.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0mmmmm good figure
02.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition.
Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019.
More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...
ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award!
This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024.
More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...
Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996.
Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism.
From Matthew D. Hammond
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#phdsky #psych
New paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉
How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group?
We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...
McGill has an open rank search in clinical psych:
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
A little hectic to collect it all in a semester, but I think a pretty fantastic learning experience for the students, so would recommend CREP you teach a Research Methods class: osf.io/wfc6u/ 3/3
19.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This was one of those 2010 papers where some results are entirely unbelievable. Read a paragraph, cohen's d =3.69 on some outcome. My class teams failed to replicate about 10 times alone. 2/3
19.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Part of a new CREP paper out (failing to) replicating Griskevicius et al 2010 in JPSP
Using this to plug how I think CREP is a great framework if you teach a Research Methods class, a number of my students ended up as authors, which they found pretty cool 1/3
Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
17.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
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New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
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To prevent Ps from pasting (GPT-generated) responses to your text entry Qualtrics question, disable pasting.
Add this code to the OnReady section of your question's javascript:
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").on("cut copy paste",function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
Enjoy!
Loosely id throw out... anywhere the theoretical construct space is pretty saturated?
11.09.2025 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Screenshot of study abstract
"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!
We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.
Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..
Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.
(See Bauer 2007)
New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
what is the opposite of a bloodbath
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Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics?
Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study!
Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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York. View from the river Ouse.
Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
🐶 Now out in JPSP! 🐶
with @boegershausen.bsky.social & @gpaolacci.bsky.social
We find that people spontaneously pay attention to some types of biases but not others when evaluating the fairness of decision outcomes
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.
bit.ly/3HkcyBf
