New paper out with @kodai-kusano.bsky.social in the British Journal of Social Psychology🚨 Dominance meets competence: A socio-ecological perspective on leadership and human social hierarchies bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dominance has been evolutionarily salient in shaping power relations across species, and recent social-psychological work has revived the concept in the study of human social hierarchies. Yet previou...

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They're looking for people with strong quant skills (psych/sociology/related fields) to work on subjective well-being across the lifecourse at Uni Lausanne! 1 PhD position + 1 Postdoc position career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

A collegue of mine is seeking a post-doc scholar on an ERC-funded project on the social psychology of inequality in Lausanne, Switzerland! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

A collegue of mine is seeking PhD students on an ERC-funded project on the social psychology of inequality in Lausanne, Switzerland! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

📃 Call for Papers 📃 “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology” Abstracts due: 01 May 2026 #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Call for Papers: “Current and New Directions in Cross-Cultural Gender Research in Psychology”: A Special Issue of Social Psychology: Social Psychology: Vol 0, No 0

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🔥Excited to share our new paper in PsychScience! Shout out to best-ever collaborators Aida Davani, @ruyuan-zuo.bsky.social, @shreyahavaldar.bsky.social, Eleanor Chestnut, @mdehghani.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social 🧵1/8… doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Syntactic and Semantic Gender Biases in the Language on Children’s Television: Evidence From a Corpus of 98 Shows From 1960 to 2018 - Andrea C. Vial, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ruyuan Zuo, Shreya Haval...

Biased media content shapes children’s social concepts and identities. We examined gender bias in a large corpus of scripts from 98 children’s television progra...

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Some regional variations: the religious rebound was more pronounced in the Americas, Europe, and Asia; it was relatively stable in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA, where the pre-pandemic trend was already high.

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📈New research finds that global religiosity generally increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rebound was more pronounced among affluent individuals, whereas religiosity among poorer communities remained unaffected. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/bKTS50YhPxx

📈New research finds that global religiosity generally increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rebound was more pronounced among affluent individuals, whereas religiosity among poorer communities remained unaffected. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/bKTS50YhPxx

Brilliant new article by @suppes.bsky.social, @jnapier.bsky.social, @pjhenry.bsky.social, & @kodai-kusano.bsky.social: System justification is associated with African Americans' endorsement of symbolic racism against Blacks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Excellent discussion on non-independence issues in cross-cultural research. When someone advocates a method, they often miss the domain knowledge/context in which the method may or may not apply. We should be critical about how a given method can help us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Non-Independence of Nations: Revisiting a Centuries-Old Methodological Challenge - Plamen Akaliyski, Oliver Sng, 2025

We revisit a critical problem of cross-cultural research: the non-independence of nations arising from shared ancestry and joint cultural diffusion. Recent revi...

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"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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If you happen to be in Brisbane for the IAIR-IACCP conference, come see me talk about the paper in more details!

To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date. It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting approach to measurement invariance testing, which emphasizes similarity/dissimilarity across the group-specific nomological networks of a construct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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What if the reason why people split 5:5 in the Ultimatum Game or Dictator Game is that they don't understand the game, or they don't care at all about understanding the instructions??

Cross-cultural researchers: still worried about the reference group effect? It’s often cited as a major threat to cross-cultural comparisons using Likert scales. Our new article critiques its logic and shows why it may not be the threat you think it is. doi.org/10.1177/1069...

Book Saturday at 3:15 pm to hear about cutting-edge methods. I will demystify measurement invariance: history, recommendations, practices, and challenges. #SPSP2025 - via #Whova event app