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Does feeling blue make you feel less Blue? Using surveys across three countries, Bernardi et al.'s article from our October issue finds that depressed mood weakens voters' partisanship and party loyalty. Read the full piece open-access for more doi.org/10.1111/pops...

#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social:

tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)

Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens

(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)

If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.

Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):

What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?

Does anyone have an example of examining contrasts using emmeans for multinomial regressions with an interaction term?

#psych #stats

brief description of my experience and a joke xkcd about selection bias

my hit rate on the job market in 2012 (low)

my hit rate on the job market in 2013 (low, but got a TT job)

my hit rate on the job market as an AP (3/7 offers)

A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up.

First part is about my time on the job market
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I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.

I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

it is very difficult to convey to fledgling researchers that writing academic research involves a *recipe* not a *formula*

formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped

Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Skyline of Madison, WI

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

Do any meta-analyses or other reflection pieces exist that catalog the sorts of mechanisms specifically, and outcomes generally, studied as consequences of providing white Americans information on their declining population share?

Where do attitudes towards women's rights come from? Morell et al. find varying influences between young men's & women's attitude formation, with men shaped more by family cues. Read the full piece for more findings & what they mean for the growing gender divide in politics: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

New preprint out 📄
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”

Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis: Authoritarian Personality and System Justification Across Class Introduction The status-legitimacy hypothesis (SLH) posits that low-status individuals are more motivated to justify oppressive social systems than high-status beneficiaries. However, recent researc...

"Much work remains to be done identifying the contours of what constitutes 'the system' and thus what constitutes system justification, as well as when and among who we should expect system justification to occur most."

By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social

#SocialPsyc #PolPsych

What drives the desire to involve the government in healthcare? In our October issue, Alva et al. explore motivations of vulnerability & find the primary source of support for government in healthcare is not self-interest but concern for vulnerable others. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

I like these ideas, but I not sold on the strength of the evidence (based on article, I haven’t read the book)

I’d guess that this is mostly due to older, religious folks dropping out of the sample as younger, less religious folks join

However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV

Is fact-checking harmful or helpful to political candidates? Prike et al. in our October issue study the effects of fact-checking misleading statements & find that correcting false claims does hamper support for candidates who are not well known. Read their full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.

psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects

osf.io/preprints/ps...

My personal tips on how to write a strong SOP for political science or public policy programs:
jaeyk.github.io/essays/sop.h...

Just finished some check-in meetings with the AEs at @ispp-pops.bsky.social; such a wonderful and dedicated bunch to political psychology!

I typically do the former (after any anonymization etc), but I also include the cleaned version.

Go Abby! 🎉

Two political psych starter packs!

Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.

Check them out if you haven’t already

1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj