If you think you were a token in academia, just wait until you figure out why you are on the anti-woke beat at The Atlantic.
Ben Saunders
@bensaun.bsky.social
Social Psychologist at LIU–Brooklyn | Politics, Race, & Ideology Collaboratory (PRIDECo) | Just a middle-aged dad trying to live the dream | Compulsive dad-joker | Loves: Cycling, Coffee, Hiphop; All Views: My Own.
Check out the full program of our alternative conference with over 60 sessions (!) in NYC next month. Register today! Program: tinyurl.com/ResistSoc2026 Registration: tinyurl.com/ResistSoc #BoycottASA
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
I am currently working on a major addition to help researchers share data and code in a FAIR and reproducible manner. It's an incredibly exciting project that I strongly believe has immense potential.
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology peers, know of a URL for good video demonstration of Sherif's autokinetic effect?
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology In 2022 book Pillars of Social Psychology, Miles Hewstone contributed Title? "Meetings with Remarkable Men: A Fortunate Journey in Social Psychology" Also: praises Tajfel (ahem). No mention of Tajfel's treatment of women.
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PrejudiceResearch Help me out with stereotype threat I feel that some of field has moved on, saying it's not real But multiple meta-analyses show effects. & there's failed replications but not that many? What's the state of our literature on #StereotypeThreat?
On digital distractions: I’ve tried to increase engagement by using this rubric, and it helps. But what are faculty doing to encourage real note-taking on laptops or via paper-&-pencil, or discourage laptop use altogether? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PsychSky
Ben Saunders@bensaun.bsky.social · 2y agoNice rubric for grading in-class participation: Hard, B. M., & RaoShah, T. (2022). Developing collaborative thinkers: Rethinking how we define, teach, and assess class participation. Teaching of Psychology, 49(2), 176–184. doi.org/10.1177/0098...
Any great policies or best practices for curbing digital distractions? I don’t want to say ‘no laptops,’ but the pseudo note-taking in particular is killing me. #AcademicSky #PsychSky
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
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Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!
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when i wrote about these folks being segregationists, i was told it was a stretch if anything, i undersold their venality
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
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Make an effect size prediction! @jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52) Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵
They do not realize this at all or refuse to acknowledge it.
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhen I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.
There are reasons for what’s going on with this administration and the military
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New study: labels used for immigrants matter. ✳️ Quick to associate with "illegal" (vs. "authorized). ✳️ Positive (vs negative) labels ==> more favourable attitudes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Labeling immigrants: Examining the effects of labels on associations toward immigrants
Immigrants in the United States are often described in the media using a variety of labels (e.g., illegal, authorized). While these labels are connect…
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I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.
How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
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An undergrad RA applicant shared this with me in our interview. Whaaaat?!? She found it on Reddit; I can't wait to show her Google Scholar and PsycINFO. #academicsky #socialpsychology #prejudiceresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On Fertile Ground: How Racial Resentment Primes White Americans To Believe Fraud Accusations - Political Behavior
White Americans face a democratic dilemma: remain committed to electoral democracy (which has been historically beneficial for them), or abandon it as non-White groups gain political stature. We argue...
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*monkey-like shrieking* I CANNOT. The PROGRESS we've made in finally getting cash bail removed from the criminal justice systems in some places, only to have---- I'mma shut up before I end up on a list but UGH. Cash. Bail. Makes. No. Sense. And. Is. Unfair. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump signs executive order to eliminate cashless bail in Washington
Move is an escalation in president’s efforts to take control of law enforcement in the capital city and beyond
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I wrote a short companion piece to our new paper about personal responsibility narratives, how pervasive they are, and how important psychology can be as a discipline in helping people reject narratives that people get what they deserve. go.nature.com/4fOeWNn
The Problem of Personal Responsibility Narratives
Narratives of personal responsibility abound even with research studies. And though these narratives can promote striving and effort, they often obscure and legitimize inequality. Here, I discuss our ...
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Nature Reviews Psychology@natrevpsychol.nature.com · 12mo agoA functional approach to the psychology of inequality Perspective by Michael W. Kraus (@mwkraus.bsky.social), Daniel J. Sanji, Megan E. Burns, Aline da Silva Frost, Iseul Cha-Ju, A. Chyei Vinluan, LaStarr Hollie & Cydney H. Dupree (@cydneydupree.bsky.social) go.nature.com/4fMVfVV
Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A
The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election
New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation
AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 12mo agoA new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...