This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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New Publication with @neugebauer.bsky.social in Sociological Science! Factorial surveys are widely used to predict real-world decisions, but are they valid? Our results raise concerns when it comes to predicting real-world decisions from factorial survey responses (1)

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Andrea G. Forster, Martin Neugebauer, "Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies"

Thanks to The Conversation for inviting me to share my "unsung hero of science", who I chose to be Carolyn Wood Sherif 💘 theconversation.com/my-unsung-he...

My unsung hero of science: Carolyn Wood Sherif, pioneer of feminist psychology who foresaw the risks of scientific bias

In 1979, Wood Sherif wrote my favourite psychological paper of all time.

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Identity-Based Motivation "People can infer that difficulty signals self-relevance and value (difficulty-as-importance – this is important to me, 'no pain, no gain') and self-irrelevance and low odds of success (difficulty-as-impossibility – this is not for me, 'know when to walk away').

Identity‐Based Motivation: Testing Assumptions of Ecological Validity, Individual Differences and Within‐Person Fluctuations

Introduction-Objective We outline and test three key assumptions of identity-based motivation theory. First, in everyday life, people draw both difficulty-as-importance and difficulty-as-impossibili.....

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Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

Seems like we should know something about how grading affects motivation, right? Surprisingly, the research literature hasn't been synthesized - until now! Sievers et al reviewed 34 studies and identified what we (don't) know and what research needs to happen next. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

How will I be graded? The past, present, and future of research on grading policies and student motivation in secondary and postsecondary education

Classroom-level grading policies are crucial in shaping students’ academic motivation, yet educational psychologists for the most part have not studied their direct impact. Instead, most existing w...

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My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

HBCUs and the Uneven Legacy of Academic Freedom

Eddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation.

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Each year, people speak 338 less words per day (on average). These effects accumulate. In 2019, people were speaking 28% less words each day than in 2005 (!). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Before moving to Berlin for my sabbatical, I spoke with Bethany Wilinski on her podcast. We discussed burnout, mid-career challenges, daily life at an IAS, logistics of moving a family abroad, & how to structure your time during a sabbatical. @wiko-berlin.bsky.social youtu.be/yF8RsR3W-V0?...

37. Live coaching: Structuring time during a sabbatical away with Elizabeth Canning

YouTube video by Bethany Wilinski Coaching

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Out today in PNAS: Young children are surprised when a stranger has “insider knowledge” about them—and even make on-the-fly inferences about how that person could have learned it. So much fun working on this with Aaron Chuey and @julianje.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525150123

SO excited for this to be out (open access)! @ljalley.bsky.social asked students what they think about when answering surveys about motivational climate. This study made a bit of a splash two AERAs ago because...1/2 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Rethinking the Measurement of Motivational Climate: Understanding and Measuring Student Perceptions in University STEM Classes

One goal of motivation science is to create classroom climates that support students’ success. Workforce demands and retention problems in STEM point to a need for research on how to support the mo...

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New short report out from my team (Shannon Clark, Darren Henry, Jordan Rineer)! We asked elementary teachers what kinds of responses they tend to give their students in math 1/7 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

How do you measure a threat in the air? Testing the universal, dynamic, and multifaceted nature of social identity threat

Using the SITC Inventory, social identity threat is shown to be dynamic, multifaceted, and nearly universal.

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Excited to share that @chrisrozek.bsky.social & I are guest editing a special issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology: “Promoting Equitable and Authentic School Belonging: Barriers, Facilitators, and Mechanisms.” Call for abstracts due March 1, 2026: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Can very young children craft a strong scientific counterargument using evidence and causal language? Yes! Teachers can help develop this skill by asking students to explore and refute multiple alternative explanations. doi.org/10.1037/dev0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

📊 Sometimes belonging comes down to a checkbox. Our new paper in PSPB led by Brenda Straka finds that the way Latino identity is formatted on demo forms, especially the traditional two-question census format, can subtly undermine feelings of inclusion and belonging news.illinois.edu/study-demogr...

It was puzzle box day again and I'm very relieved that the 2nd group of students also had fun!! Resources at osf.io/q2zk3/files/...

Lisa Fazio@lkfazio.bsky.social · 2y ago

There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/

If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.

🚨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...

“I Felt Like I Completely Belonged in That Class”: Gender and the Development of Sense of Belonging in K-12 STEM Education - Educational Psychology Review

Educational Psychology Review - Sense of belonging is an important motivational belief that represents individuals’ sense of fit within an environment. However, many women report feeling a...

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🚨 📣 Summer Fellows Program Call for undergraduates interested in education research: What are the barriers to effective learning in college? How can we support motivated learning? For more details, visit: sites.edb.utexas.edu/slam/fellows/ #cogscisky #edusky #academicsky #psychscisky

🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Have you noticed how we often describe people from disadvantaged backgrounds as “strivers” or “go-getters” (💪🏼) rather than naturally gifted (🧠)? This may sound benign, but our new KiDLAB research shows that it reveals a harmful, early-emerging stereotype. (1/5)

I am thrilled to announce that this framework is out! Who is responsible for inequality? @tanialombrozo.bsky.social and I show that answers depend on whether people are judging causes or obligations, and the past vs the future. doi.org/10.1177/1745...

Ever try to encourage student creativity in undergraduate education? Out now and open access, our new paper documents an iterative (4 study) exploration and evaluation of our approach doi.org/10.1016/j.ts... #edpsych #highered #creativity

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine

The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...

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In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

FAIR - The Choice Lab@fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

❓ What do people’s own words reveal about their economic decisions? A new JEL article by Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva and Johannes Wohlfart shows how open-ended survey responses offer insights that standard surveys often miss. 🔎Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

How are students' motivational and emotional self-regulation related? In our new article, we advocate for more integrative approaches and discuss possible conceptual and functional linkages between MR and ER. doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Interwoven systems: Towards an integrative framework of students’ motivational and emotional self-regulation

Adaptively regulating achievement motivation and achievement emotions is critical for students in navigating their academic lives. Traditionally, motivational (MR) and emotional self-regulation (ER...

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