Emma McGorray

@emmamcgorray.bsky.social

social psychologist studying lgbtq+ identities and relationships. assistant prof at Carleton College

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs

RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.

relascale.com

Our lab at UW–Madison is recruiting young men who are in a relationship with a woman (6+ months) to participate in a ~20-minute online survey study! Participants can enter to win a $50 gift card. Click here to enter the survey: bit.ly/49U0j9N Please share with any eligible men you know!

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To help instructors diversify course content, we’re building a database of articles focused on the relationship experiences of marginalized and underrepresented populations. Do you have any to recommend (perhaps one you’ve written yourself or read recently)? Recommend it here: tinyurl.com/IARRrecs

graphic displaying the following text: “The IARR Teaching Committee is seeking article recommendations focused on the relationships of underrepresented populations.” below that text, a link appears to a form where people can provide recommendations: tinyurl.com/IARRrecs

Reading bell hooks, 'Theory as Liberatory Practice," and came across this gem: “Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as "natural," and so insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general /1

This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues." Plz consider submitting!

Keith Maddox@maddblackprof.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf

If you're using GPT to collect or analyze data from human subjects, this means that OpenAI might now be retaining your participants' data indefinitely. Did your participants consent to this? Does your IRB protocol allow OpenAI to retain participant data? If not, then you might be in breach. 4/

There is a NSF FAQ includes questions like: "Can I still work with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)" and "There are still gaps in the achievements of certain groups of people. Can we still research those?"

Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky

My second presentation at #SPSP2025, where I looked at racialized sexual minority men's experiences of discrimination, and how these experiences are associated with their relationships and mental health outcomes. Slides 📽️: osf.io/9dhzj Summary 🧵 [1/12]

Title slide of SPSP 2025 Presentation by Paolo Palma "Testing the Rejection-Identification Model in Racialized Sexual Minority Men". Dr. Palma's email address is paolo.palma@torontomu.ca if you have any questions.
Joel Le Forestier@joelleforestier.bsky.social · last yr.

Coming to @spspnews.bsky.social? Interested in LGBTQ+ people, health psychology, or both? Come to our ✨timely✨ symposium on Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ health! See work from me plus @paolopalma.bsky.social, @drmikeytrujillo.bsky.social, and @catherinesjwall.bsky.social!

A graphic showing the symposium title “Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ Health”, from 11AM to 12:10PM on Saturday, Feb 22.

Searching for power analysis tips! I want to run a study with a 2x2 between-subjects design. Within each condition, I want participants to evaluate 4 random stimuli, drawn from a larger pool of stimuli. Is my best bet simulation or are there other options I'm not thinking of?