🧠 What can 12.8 MILLION tweets tell us about how prejudice evolves? 📣Very excited to share our new research that shows how anti-Asian sentiment and stereotypes shifted during COVID-19 and how political and racialized news coverage related to those changes. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Social Cognition@socog-guilford.bsky.social · 3w ago

Group stereotypes are historically embedded and are subject to change in response to social and political changes. Richa Gautam, Jasmin Cloutier and Jennifer Kubota (@jenikubota.bsky.social) examine how the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed Americans’ stereotyping of Asian people ...

💖 Love these studies! We often think we're being inclusive when flagging women's gender explicitly when talking about their accomplishments (e.g., "A woman won the Nobel prize in chemistry")... but this often backfires. Free pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1GtCF... 👇

April Bailey@ahbailey.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Space4Women" "Girls Who Code" "WNBA"... all help to include women in male-dominated domains We asked: Does a gender-emphasis ("women") ITSELF help communicate inclusion (space IS "for women") or backfire (space is actually "for men")? 7 experiments out today in JEP:G --> doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

"Space4Women" "Girls Who Code" "WNBA"... all help to include women in male-dominated domains We asked: Does a gender-emphasis ("women") ITSELF help communicate inclusion (space IS "for women") or backfire (space is actually "for men")? 7 experiments out today in JEP:G --> doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

🗣️ New preprint! @jialin-lin-zhou.bsky.social Western samples tend to think of a "person" as a man. How persistent is this? Striking evidence from two novel groups begins to answer this question; see below for findings from the matrilineal Mosuo and from an age-diverse mainstream Chinese sample ⬇️

Jialin Zhou@jialin-lin-zhou.bsky.social · last mo.

🆕 New preprint: Is “person = man” inevitable? In the matrilineal Mosuo, men and women imagined someone like themselves. In mainstream China, younger participants did too—but girls and women increasingly favored men with age. [https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ejd76_v1] #NewPreprint

Thank you for this Josh—very kind! Worth noting our ideas have deep philosophical roots in de Beauvoir's account of woman as 'the other.' Adding to her philosophical claim about wider culture, we show this is a feature of social cognition, empirically measurable in how people think about categories

Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher.bsky.social · last mo.

There hasn’t been enough discussion in philosophy of this wonderful research by April Bailey (@ahbailey.bsky.social) She provides a mountain of evidence for the claim that people see MEN as the prototype of the category of human beings www.researchgate.net/profile/Apri...

Nominations open for ISCON's early career award! For researchers in social cognition. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take 🎯

Benedek Kurdi@benedek.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Nominations Open: ISCON 2026 Early Career Award! 🚨 Celebrating junior scientists making theoretical & empirical impact in social cognition. • Eligibility: PhD earned 2020 or later • Winner: Address at SPSP Preconf (Feb 2027) 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2026 🔗 socialcognition.net/early-career-award

People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

People think of women as one thing, men as many

People seem to represent men and women in a conceptually balanced manner: for example, seeing women as warm (not agentic) and men as agentic (not warm). Emerging evidence, however, suggests people mig...

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New PPLS Perspectives episode! PG student Madeline Horner speaks with social psychologist Dr @ahbailey.bsky.social about why we often imagine a “person” as a man — and how subtle gender biases shape language, research, and real-world decisions. Listen here: edin.ac/4tpw8yY

My student Madeleine Horner interviewed @ahbailey.bsky.social about her fascinating research on gender and the prototype of the person concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDg...

PPLS Perspectives - S3 Episode 3: Linguistic Diversity, AI, and the Human Mind

YouTube video by The University of Edinburgh: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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If you’ll be at @spspnews.bsky.social this week, consider joining the symposium my advisor Peter Mende-Siedlecki & I are co-chairing on Friday (3:30-4:40 pm; @Room E350), featuring talks from @ahbailey.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Cy Butler, and me! #SPSP2026

postdoc opportunity! would be a good fit for an intergroup person with NLP chops interested in the role of historical narratives bonus, Edinburgh is a phenomenal city to live in with wonderful, walkable quality of life elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz @drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin

Jackie Chen@jackiemchen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

Going through your post-conference notes is a true exercise in self-reflection. In the middle of my notes from SESP I see the intriguing word: "Kaarbo" No idea what it means.

Submit your blitz talk or poster abstract for consideration by Oct 23rd! All are welcome

April Bailey@ahbailey.bsky.social · last yr.

The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social

The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social

This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

There is still time to register for the GENDER.ED Welcome Reception! 25 Sep 5-7pm, CMB Join us for networking, the exhibition 'The Pill. Angry Chuckles', and a discussion on 'Researching Contraception, Gendered Relationships and Social Justice' Visit: edin.ac/45Qu9cd

The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social

The president of Princeton speaks out: “The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

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Growing up is finding yourself doing stuff your advisor did and finally understanding why they did it.

Excited for the upcoming @spspnews.bsky.social! My co-chair @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and I have organized an incredible symposium exploring how intersectionality shapes perceptions of the Pan-Asian diaspora. We’re honored to be joined by @jinxungoh.bsky.social and @yzhuang.bsky.social!

I'll be in Denver ya'll! @spspnews.bsky.social Still deciding what to attend? Come check out my talk. It's our first time presenting this work! It's part of the symposium chaired by Sara Hendrick, "Equality Struggles: Men’s Home Roles, Women’s Professional Access" ✨

Please join @mikeypasek.bsky.social @sakierahudson.bsky.social @mzarate.bsky.social @giudittascalco.bsky.social and me for our symposium on Intergroup Derogation and Apathy #SPSP2025 on Sat. 1:45. @spspnews.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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manes@michaelanes.bsky.social · 2y ago

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

New paper in @pnas.org with my incredible advisors @linbian.bsky.social & Susan Goldin-Meadow found that the EQUAL gesture mitigates gender stereotypes subtly communicated to children via biased language, which may offer a new approach to promoting equality with our 👐. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

⏳ 10 days left to submit your abstracts for the #BioXPhi Summit 2025 in Basel (June 25-27)! If you are working on experimental/empirical bioethics or moral psychology, we invite you to contribute. Submit by Jan 31st! 📝 ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou...

Another semester, another kladdkaka mud cake!! After an infamous stretch last semester where I had one of these babies a day for 7 days straight I created a "weekend only" rule for myself. I had a paper rejected today though so am making an exception

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social and I could not be more excited to be in the role! We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below! #SocialPsych #PsychSky 1/n