Benjamin Douglas

@bendouglas.bsky.social

I am an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University where I direct the Social Influence and Behavior Lab. I study norms and persuasive messaging, particularly in the context of sustainability. 🏳️‍🌈 Website: https://benjaminddouglas.com

I have certain days of my week that are focused on course prep, others focused on writing and research I teach a 3-3 teaching load (at least one class every day) I’ve been productive in my writing and what helped me was getting comfortable writing for 30 minutes at a time

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Academics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?

A scribe in a ruby tunic with a dark purple cloak over top is seated on a wooden chair, and focusing on the task of writing in a manuscript that is resting on a lectern. The scribe appears inside a large, illuminated letter E that is blue. Within the E the background is made up of small dark blue squares with a circle in each square, almost like the wall behind the clerk is a quilt. The background outside the letter E is similar to the background in the letter E, only it is made up of red squares instead of blue ones.
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I am looking for an #SPSP2027 symposium to place some interesting new work on any of the following: interminority solidarity, cross-group friendship, protests, or social injustice more broadly. Please let me know if you are still looking for presenters!

I’m saying this as someone who’s in a 90% teaching position. Teaching vs. research is a false choice. Robust public funding of higher ed that existed without controversy until Reagan is the answer. The answer to “solving” whatever “problems” exist in higher ed is literally “throw money at it.”

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2mo ago

Opinion | Liberal education once prepared students for citizenship. Reviving it will require a radical shift: less academic research, far more serious teaching. https://chroni.cl/4uJBSmy

🎉New paper🎉 Led by Sue Cha, we used data from the UK HLS to identify how energy costs disproportionately affect the physical health of those with lower income and lower educational attainment Important work as we consider energy hardships worldwide www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rising natural gas and electricity prices: Longitudinal evidence on physical health and socioeconomic vulnerability

Rising energy prices complicate how individuals navigate life. Prior studies have largely conceptualized energy prices as an economic pressure linked …

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I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley. Interests: • continuous person perception in interactive contexts • impression management and its biases • social perception in digital spaces Get in touch if there's overlap. Very excited for this next chapter!

Working on a meta-analysis and my number 1 piece of advice for anyone else considering doing their first meta-analysis is that there ARE other types of studies that one can conduct… you don’t have to suffer

📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇

Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...