It's the final day to submit a poster or roundtable unconference for our 2027 Annual Convention, folks - come join us in Philadelphia for #SPSP2027 (and Sunset Cocktails?) next February! Submit here: https://ow.ly/vVsG50ZNTpB (All credit due to #WidowsBay, especially Patricia.)

People often ask what your name says about you. But what about what your name says to people? 🤔 This is the question that Anthony J. Lee (@antlee53.bsky.social), Odette Lis, and Sofia Panagiotakou answer in their new paper now published in Social Cognition. 🧵 Opening thread!

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🚨 New issue alert! 🚨 The august 2026 issue of social cognition is out now! Follow along to learn more about the research featured in this issue! You can access the issue here: guilfordjournals.com/toc/soco/cur... #SocialPsychology #CognitivePsychology #Psychsky #SocialCognition

People tend to regard actions like walking to be more positive than inactions like standing still. But what about actions and inactions as part of groups?  🧵👇 open thread to learn more

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🚨 New issue alert! 🚨 The august 2026 issue of social cognition is out now! Follow along to learn more about the research featured in this issue! You can access the issue here: guilfordjournals.com/toc/soco/cur... #SocialPsychology #CognitivePsychology #Psychsky #SocialCognition

Prior research has cast doubt on the validity of implicit measures, finding small correlations amongst indirect measures of racial bias. However, these measures vary systematically on key procedural aspects. 🧵👇 Open thread below:

Social Cognition@socog-guilford.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New issue alert! 🚨 The august 2026 issue of social cognition is out now! Follow along to learn more about the research featured in this issue! You can access the issue here: guilfordjournals.com/toc/soco/cur... #SocialPsychology #CognitivePsychology #Psychsky #SocialCognition

👋 Hi people! I am very excited to showcase all the exciting work published in Social Cognition. Follow @socog-guilford.bsky.social on Bluesky, Linkedin and Facebook to get the latest updates! Authors: pls be on the lookout for my emails and make sure i didn’t land on your spam folder 🤗

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Welcome Eva A. García Ferrés (@egarciaferres.bsky.social) as the inaugural Social Media Coordinator for Social Cognition (@socog-guilford.bsky.social)! Eva, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, will share and highlight the innovative scholarship of our authors! Follow us for more!

🚨New preprint🚨: Attitude measures like the IAT reveal biased behavior — but the levels across which bias operates are varied. Our new preprint borrows formal modeling approaches from perceptual science to find out where age-valence interactions happen in perceptual processing🧵

✈️ 🌍 I am starting my trek to Newcastle upon Tyne for #ISPP2026. If you're there, consider joining Session 92 on Sunday at 8:30 AM to hear about how memes critical of the economic system produce specific representations of the working class (and why we should care!) Short thread on results 👇

👋 🗣️ People of SPSP: I am super excited to present two sets of projects this week at SPSP! The first project looks at the experience of collective resignation (or disaffected consent) with the U.S. economic system among U.S. adults for the past 5 years. TLDR: too many people feel resigned

(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!

This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.

Call for papers for the workshop "From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" - March 25 – 26, 2026 Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ikss.zrc-sazu.si/sites/defaul...

Two day virtual conference on moral psychology hosted by the Moral Psychology Research Group: November 7 & 8 | Look like an excellent line-up! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT! Why is there no coherent labor movement in the U.S., despite widespread outrage at economic inequality? One answer is that structural/systemic factors (such as Right-to-Work legislation) impede collective organizing. #Polipsy #socialpsychology #sociology #polisky

📈New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science reveals how government policies shape our beliefs about poverty. Countries with less spending and deregulated labor markets see more blame placed on individuals rather than systems. Learn more: ow.ly/8AZv50WYMbR

Our special issue at the British Journal of Social Psychology exploring ✨ FUTURES ✨is finally complete! You can read our editorial, which introduces our fifteen (!!) special issue contributions and the field at large here: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

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Anticipating, considering and incorporating possible futures are central components of human social life. Our social actions, beliefs, values and interactions are all oriented towards, or away from, ...

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This is such an interesting read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Does Mindfulness Support the Status Quo? The Role of Neoliberal Orientation and Emotion Regulation

Critiques of mindfulness as a tool embedded in neoliberal ideology have emerged since the mid-2010s, though they remain largely theoretical. Although they suggest that mindfulness shapes a neoliberal....

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Shahrzad Goudarzi and @egarciaferres.bsky.social zoom in on the role of capitalism and evaluate how it is covered in (social) psychological research: doi.org/10.1080/1047...

Capitalism: The Unnamed Foundation of Social Inequality in Mainstream Psychological Research

Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)

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I am very happy that a first article from a project Johannes Ullrich and I have been working on for quite a while is now published in Psychological Inquiry (open access): doi.org/10.1080/1047...

Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change

We present a framework for the study of social inequalities and social change. This framework aims to motivate researchers to move beyond the predominant focus on isolated pairs of identity-based g...

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😬 Reanimating my bluesky account to say I will be at @spssi.bsky.social this week! Stop by on Friday to hear about how liberals and conservatives may attend to group power cues differently, and on Sunday to hear about how humorous critiques of capitalism could be harming social movements.

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!

I will be presenting some work on structural constraints of labor organizing done in collaboration with @aalaukik.bsky.social and Gregory Webster at @spspnews.bsky.social. Catch me at the Political Psychology (11:00 am - 12:15) and the Critical Perspectives pre-conferences (3:00-4:15) on Thursday!

Speaking today at #SSSP in Memphis about how structural factors like labor laws and material conditions can inhibit collective organizing. If you are not here yet, you can still book your tickets to Memphis to see this riveting blitz with some fancy multi-level modeling.

🚨 JOB ALERT University of Florida 🐊 is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of social psychology. We will begin reviewing applications Oct 7. Please tell your colleagues in the job market! #socialpsych #psychjobs #academicsky Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Last semester, I taught myself how to plot maps using R. Because I suffered a bit too much through this process, I figured I would make an easy tutorial for choropleth maps like the one below. I put this tutorial up on my website: sites.google.com/view/egarcia... I hope this helps someone!

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Just out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social 's Political Psychology, with @jorislammers.bsky.social, Laura Van Berkel & Matt Baldwin. We look at how the typical association between conservatism and system justification changes as the result of temporal comparisons. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Today in the social area brownbag we heard from @aalaukik.bsky.social on his work on the tug-of-war model of attitude associations and its application to the IAT. Super cool work on how we can apply mathematical modeling to study social psychological processes! Check out pre-print link below 👇

🚨Calling psych PhD students and postdocs! 🚨Want to highlight a paper that had a big impact, doesn't get enough attention, or drew you to the field? Apply to write a Journal Club article with us! www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3 #psychology #psychscisky

New JSI pub: How does American Social Psychology construct the phenomena of ‘racism’? From a CRT perspective, we investigated this question by considering one of the more prominent representations of the field: textbooks recommended by @spspnews.bsky.social 🧵 URL: doi.org/10.1111/josi...

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A core tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an understanding of systemic racism as a defining and constitutive feature of the Eurocentric modern order. In contrast to this foundational insight, dis....

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“Black social movements face a dilemma in that the public often perceives nonviolent Black disruptive protest as violent…we find Congress is generally more accepting of nondisruptive protest but nondisruptive protest is only roughly one-tenth as effective for Blacks” academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The Racial Limits of Disruption: How Race and Tactics Influence Social Movement Organization Testimony before Congress, 1960–1995

Abstract. Social movement theory holds that disrupting social and political processes is among the most effective tools social movement organizations (SMOs

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Here are some thoughts on the "islamophobic poster" at the recent @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social conference. I highlight that this poster incident is a marker of systemic racialization of Muslims Please, read and forward to those who are thinking about what can be done. osf.io/s4mvy