My co-chair (Ben Valen) and I are putting together a #SPSP2027 symposium submission on romantic stigma. We currently have three speakers examining dating stigma against bisexual people, non-binary people, and those previously incarcerated. However, we want one more speaker. Suggestions for people?

Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Does anyone know if it's possible to get anonymous dating app data for research purposes? I feel like I've seen studies using data from these apps before...

New paper in Open Mind, with @emmayu23.bsky.social, Megan Richardson, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that by 6 years of age, children think that close friends know the content of each other’s minds. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... @openmindjournal.bsky.social

Developing Intuitions That Close Friends Know the Content of Each Other’s Minds

Abstract. To maintain and develop close relationships, people need to accurately represent the minds of their social partners. Although studies have characterized many aspects of children’s intuitive ...

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My former advisor is recruiting a grad student. I can't suggest her or my former lab mates enough! Happy to answer any questions about UCSB or the lab.

Zoe Liberman@zoeliberman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

Seems like a particularly cruel change to make without warning given the stress that reviewers often put on applicants' publication record. Presumably many strong students waited based on this apparent criterion, not because they didn't already have great ideas to propose.

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...

#MorningReads Bisexuality remains stigmatized even within LGBTQ+ spaces. A study of 453 Filipinos finds cishet men show the most biphobia while bi women show the least. Results reveal intra-community bias—lesbian women hold more negative views of bi women than bi men #Biphobia #BiAwarenessWeek

Bi+ Reality: An Investigation on Filipinos’ Attitude Regarding Bisexuality - Sexuality & Culture

Bisexuality challenges the often rigid, binary understanding of sexuality prevalent in many societies, but it often remains invisible. Despite its inclusion within the diverse spectrum of human sexuality, it continues to face erasure—often fueled by biphobia and prejudice both within society at large and the LGBTQ+ community itself. This study sheds light on the attitudes of gender and sexual orientation toward bisexuality and provides significant empirical data within the Filipino context. The Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale—Female/Male Form, the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale—Female Form, and the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale—Male Form were used to gather different perspectives among 453 Filipinos. Results revealed that cisgender heterosexual Filipinos, particularly heterosexual men, display the highest levels of biphobia. In contrast, bisexual individuals, especially bisexual women, exhibit the least biphobic tendencies. This study also allows for nuanced comparisons among the LGBTQ+ community, which highlights intra-community biases such as lesbian women harboring biphobia toward bisexual women but not toward bisexual men. Additionally, bisexual men face more negative attitudes compared to bisexual women in our Filipino sample. These findings contributed to addressing the knowledge gaps in Southeast Asian cultural contexts as well as underscore the need for further research and strategies to combat biphobia and foster inclusivity within and beyond the LGBTQ+ community.

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Interesting new study on friendships across political divide journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... In our research (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), relationship satisfaction was an important moderator of cross-political-divide relationship outcomes.

Announcing SPSP's 2026 Self & Identity precon (bit.ly/4mn2WDT), which will have a timely focus on activist and ally identities. We have a phenomenal set of speakers (Linda Tropp! Kim Rios! Lucy De Souza! Teri Kirby! Dan McAdams!) and are accepting data blitz and poster submissions until Oct 23!

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year. dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

🤝Mentorship opportunity for grad students: SPSP is accepting applicants for mentors (3rd year grad students and beyond) to connect with fellow psych students as part of our Peer Advising program! 🗓️Applications due September 16 Learn more and apply here: ow.ly/wbik50WLkWc

New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

Society for Research in Child Development@srcdorg.bsky.social · last yr.

💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Trump closes LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, here’s where you can still find help

As Trump closes LGBTQ+ hotline, here’s where you can still find help

As of Thursday, July 17, a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth at risk of suicide will be shut down.

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Just found out I can put this gif on my lab website so this is gonna be a game changer 😂 Anyway I will be reviewing PhD applications for UIC social-personality psych area to start in Fall 2026, so please let your students know. More info on my website: www.pbandjlab.com/team

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I'm hiring a full-time #labmanager for my new Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UCSB! The start date is flexible, but could be as early as August 1, 2025. Application review begins July 17th and will continue until the position is filled 👶🪴 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02992 #academicjobs

Junior Specialist-Lab for Infant Learning And Cognition (LILAC), Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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New paper with past honors student Vanessa Chao and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in press at JECP: “Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars” By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Excited that this paper is finally out (in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social @saraburke.bsky.social & Brenda Major) in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience - Elizabeth A. Quinn-Jensen, Anh L. K. Tran, Sara E. Burke, Brenda Major, Zoe Liberman, 2025

Past research examining when people label an outcome as discrimination has largely ignored contextual factors beyond the victim–perpetrator dyad. We contend tha...

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Remember that Trump’s assault on queer and trans people is not a “distraction” from his fascist takeover of our democratic institutions. On the contrary, gender and sexual policing is foundational to fascism and they will not stop until they impose the hetero-patriarchal nuclear family on everybody.

Proud to have been co-awarded the UCSB PBS Charles G. McClintock Award (with Connor Gibbs) for Research, Education, & Service. It’s an honor to share this award with all the amazing researchers that came before me! 🌟 Photo credit: @corabaron.bsky.social Tagged: @zoeliberman.bsky.social

Officially Dr. Quinn-Jensen! 🌟🙌🎉 Grateful every day for the people who helped get here, especially my advisors & committee members: @zoeliberman.bsky.social , Brenda Major, @kyleratner.bsky.social , & @saraburke.bsky.social.

Just donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social to help this massive organizing effort. If you have the means and inclination, you can donate at standupforscience2025.org/donate/

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I'll also be presenting research with @zoeliberman.bsky.social & @saraburke.bsky.social on when people make attributions to discrimination. We show that the social identity of the person who benefits from an outcome changes how likely the same person is to be seen as a victim of discrimination.

Liz Quinn-Jensen@lizquinnjensen.bsky.social · last yr.

I'll be presenting some of my dissertation research with @zoeliberman.bsky.social on judgements of contextual racial presentation tomorrow at the #spsp2025 self & identity preconference poster session tomorrow. Stop by!

I'll be presenting some of my dissertation research with @zoeliberman.bsky.social on judgements of contextual racial presentation tomorrow at the #spsp2025 self & identity preconference poster session tomorrow. Stop by!

🌟 Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University this fall. I am excited to begin this new chapter. But first…let’s finish this dissertation!🌟

New paper out from our NSF Collaborative grant testing the widely used minimal group paradigm across multiple racial groups in the US! Overall, minimal group effects hold, but exploratory analyses show stronger effects with older kids and White kids. #psychology www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...

So excited to see this work out finally, led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social and in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social! 🔥

Zoe Liberman@zoeliberman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in how children think about immigrants? 🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨 We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...