Our new pub is out! We argue that any future scholarship on the politics of inequality should center the people. We call this the PUBLIC framework (Pluralistic methods, UnBiased perspectives, Local dynamics, Intersectional understanding, & Critical of power). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In case you didn't get the chance to attend, here are my slides and notes from the #SPSSICON2026 keynote address titled a PUBLIC framework for the political psychology of inequality. mwkraus.medium.com/a-future-psy...

A future psychology for the people

**Below are notes for my remarks delivered as part of a keynote address at SPSSI 2026. The slides that accompany these remarks appear here…

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This is my current set (sent to candidates before the interview and borrowing heavily from my colleague Dr. Zepeda): 1) Briefly describe your research interests. 1/

Daniel Conroy-Beam@dconroybeam.bsky.social · 2y ago

What kinds of questions are people asking these days in graduate student zoom interviews? I'm worried "Will you be a good graduate student?" might not get me the answers I'm looking for

What kinds of questions are people asking these days in graduate student zoom interviews? I'm worried "Will you be a good graduate student?" might not get me the answers I'm looking for

Bluesky I made a public guide for preparing social science replication packages 📦 yhoriuchi.github.io/replication-... Please repost if this might help researchers preparing replication materials.

3/4. If you do those things, it will not necessarily make the world less chaotic...but, it will provide you with the community needed to get you through whatever life may throw your way...having that strong sense of community will be one of the greatest sources of satisfaction in your life."

2/4. "In a world that glorifies the artificial, I encourage you to cherish real intelligence. Nurture it as if your health and well-being depend on it—because it does. Invest in the people around you, and allow them to invest in you...

TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!!

Guggenheim Foundation@guggfellows.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

The takeaway: awareness isn’t enough on its own. Manuscript in progress. Open to feedback and collaboration.

Just presented at AES 2026. Our paper, The Implicit Bias Paradox, asks a simple question: if people know about bias, why doesn’t behavior change?

Excited to present our poster at Advancing Excellence in Scholarship Research Conference 2026 hosted by the University of Virginia where we introduce the Awareness-Emotion-Motivation (AEM) framework - exploring how emotion and motivation shape whether bias actually shifts.

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Algorithms Don't Need Your Surname to Guess Your Caste. That's a Problem

A Dalit student graduating in the mid-2020s will encounter screening systems built on decades of unequal hiring, skewed promotion data, and biased public records. Unless institutions change how algori...

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Are you an planning on appyiyng for a PhD in psychology in the fall? Want to learn more about the application process and what programs are looking for? Come to our info session!

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone

Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

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We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences. The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

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Really excited to announce that our paper introducing an expanded framework and measure of advantaged identity management has been accepted @ PSPB! You can check out the thread below for more details and find an updated preprint here: tinyurl.com/2uvem5nh

My new career column in Nature is out. After reviewing hundreds of PhD applications for my lab and admissions at the UIUC, I kept seeing the same mistakes. I share 8 common application and interview mistakes and what applicants can do differently. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them

Convince a supervisor that you’re a great fit for their laboratory by preparing questions, honing your personal statement and showcasing strong team-player instincts.

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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague). Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools. Deadline 1 April 2026. More information:

🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals

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New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Research on the health benefits of LGBTQ+ community involvement is nuanced. Led by Dr. @barnhartwr.bsky.social, our longitudinal study found… 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am thrilled to share my new first author pub in JAD! 🥳 We found minority stress was associated with concurrent and future experiences of defeat, and defeat was associated with prospective minority stress in sexual minority college students reporting SI. authors.elsevier.com/a/1meFzbXYj0...

🧵New paper out in @commspsychol.nature.com We tested whether language-based assessments (LBAs) can predict not just subjective well-being (life satisfaction) but also psychological well-being (autonomy). Across 3 studies, we found that LBAs work well for some constructs—but not all! 1/

When you find a paper that hits the exact target of what you are looking for 🤌🤌🤌 "(When and how) does basic research in clinical psychology lead to more effective psychological treatment for mental disorders?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(When and how) does basic research in clinical psychology lead to more effective psychological treatment for mental disorders?

An important aim of basic research in Clinical Psychology is to improve clinical practice (e.g., by developing novel interventions or improving the ef…

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The deadline for this fully-funded PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry.bsky.social is tomorrow (18th Feb). Apply if you are interested in improving executive functions in children from neurotypical and neurodiverse families.

Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar@drswijeakumar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social on play interactions to improve executive functions. Application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely with interested students! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

The first article in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience special issue 10 years of @theabcdstudy.bsky.social is now online! 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What we have learned about adolescent mental health and where we are going after a decade with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

This review synthesizes ten years of research utilizing data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, emphasizing how the study’s…

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