One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is ”Children’s books about scientists convey demotivating messages.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/oTon50ZuLj3 For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/TsjY50ZuLj2.

🤦‍♂️ You know those books about famous scientists that we read to kids, hoping to inspire them? Well, they probably won't do that. I'm excited to see this new work out in PNAS @pnas.org. Led by @jessgladstone.bsky.social. (Jess is new to Bluesky -- give her a follow!) 👇

Jessica Gladstone@jessgladstone.bsky.social · 2w ago

New in PNAS! Gabby Applebaum, @andreicimpian.bsky.social, and I analyzed 422 bestselling children's science biographies (1,355 scientists!) to see what messages they send about how success happens. Turns out, not always motivating ones. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2612021123 (cont'd below)

🚨 @lisalimeri.bsky.social and I wrote a little policy-oriented piece based on our research on how kids and adults think about ability: doi.org/10.1177/2372...

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🚨🚨🚨 Read this (with powerful quotes from Lisa Limeri) about the censorship currently happening at Texas Tech and how they are trying to hide it from prospective students 👇 www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

At Texas Tech, Even Some Student Research on Gender Will Be Banned

A ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research.

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NEW PAPER with Bethany Lassetter, @nataliehutchins.bsky.social, & @andreicimpian.bsky.social out now in Cognition! Open access link (free until late August): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nNS02Hx32... Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? 🧵 🧵 🧵 below:

📣 Publication Alert! 💡 Prosocial behavior plays an essential role in promoting positive intergroup relations from an early age 💻 Read the whole article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social #NewPublication #ProsocialBehavior #OpenAccess

✨ Update: this paper is now in press at Cognition! Children's partisanship disappears (a) when responses are private and (b) when accuracy is incentivized, suggesting that agreement w/ the ingroup functions as a public signal of group support. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1-Qvu... Thread below 👇

Andrei Cimpian@andreicimpian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really great to talk about the illusory truth effect (and our paper on how repetition affects belief in conspiracy statements @lkfazio.bsky.social) with Markham Heid at TIME Magazine! time.com/article/2026...

Why False Claims Seem Truer the More You Hear Them

The more we hear a particular claim or piece of information, the more we tend to give it credence—regardless of whether it’s true.

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!

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View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...

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In a new paper published in PHAIR, we ask today's emerging adults in the UK whether they thought about stopping eating meat when they were younger...

So interesting!! Huge congrats, April and Rachel! 🤩

April Bailey@ahbailey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

❓ Why do children conform so eagerly to gender norms? A new study in Developmental Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social contributes some interesting new data on this question: doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

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We are now recruiting! We welcome a global and diverse set of applicants for a new ERC Consolidator project funded by @erc.europa.eu www.ucd.ie/research/new... 📣 Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... 📣 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇

Society for Philosophy and Psychology@socphilpsych.bsky.social · 5mo ago

More hardworking than smart: Nature and origins of stereotypes about children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds 
⭐️From Eddie Brummelman, Aashna Poddar, Lena-Emilia Schenker & Andrei Cimpian

You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ? At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇

Cevian Labs@cevianlabs.io · 5mo ago

Today we’re excited to announce a new product: COI Pond is a tool for faculty and grant staff that converts an academic CV into a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form. COA forms are tedious work, and COI Pond makes it a snap. Try it for free, here cevianlabs.io/coipond/start/ /1

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New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026

Individual variations in face-perception expertise become apparent by the second year of life. We propose that infants’ “face diet”—the nature and quantity of t...

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Terrific new work by @linbian.bsky.social 👇

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

By age 2, toddlers understand ingroup loyalty They realize that people have social identities and expert their social identity to take precedence in intergroup contexts even when it conflicts with their personal preferences www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

The emergence of political orientation: Authoritarian and social dominance attitudes in early childhood 📣From Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian & Sharon Shenhav

1/ Why do political disagreements feel so hard to resolve -- even with people we otherwise get along with? New research, led by my friend Michal Reifen-Tagar, suggests one reason: the foundations of political orientation may be in place by age 4. Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1UvN2...

Important new work on girls' and boys' sense of belonging in STEM across K-12 by @allisonmaster.bsky.social, @patelkhushboo.bsky.social, and colleagues! 💯

Dr. Allison Master@allisonmaster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Super proud of the work that went into this one, which includes a systematic review and MEGA-ANALYSIS of the development of sense of belonging in STEM education across Grades K-12, with special attention to gender differences. (1/N) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Gender differences in mathematics in 1st grade: what are the causes? How to reduce them? This is the talk I will give (based on the doctoral work of Lilas Gurgand) at the next online research seminar of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London ⬇️

Important new work by @melismuradoglu.bsky.social and colleagues on early beliefs about ability and their links to motivation ✨

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Children who believed that ability is relatively malleable tended to believe that everyone has the potential to reach the highest levels of ability.” Children’s beliefs about ability are linked with their motivation to learn, says @melismuradoglu.bsky.social. boldscience.org/why-do-child...

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Speaking of early leadership motivations, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - we establish the emergence of dominance and prestige leadership motivations in adolescence, and further show nomological networks identical to young adults onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dominance and Prestige Motivations to Lead in Adolescence

Introduction Dual strategy frameworks of motivation to lead differentiate Dominance motivations, which leverage fear and control to gain power and status, from Prestige motivations, which rely on re...

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🧵Women are underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. Why? One contributor: gender gaps in political ambition that emerge in childhood In new paper, we ask: What predicts kids' political ambition? We studied 367 children (ages 5-11) in the US & China. 1/8 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...