Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
@jsskeffington.bsky.social
Social & political psychologist, Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, trying this out...
THREE DAYS to Early Bird register for SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class precon! lnkd.in/dF87-jFT Come hear @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social@celbaek.bsky.social @ishitas.bsky.social@cabauer.bsky.social(+more not on bsky) Brochure: lnkd.in/dq2iBXA9 @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social
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🚨DEADLINE APPROACHING🚨 for our 2 open rank positions in social/political psych and cognition/perception, either of which can take a developmental angle. Deadline Nov 30th for full consideration,though we'll keep an eye out for great applications coming in soon thereafter: apply.interfolio.com/175417
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Nice for me to see this application of the public goods dilemma to salient UK challenges, right after I used the same game in teaching social psych. My lab has been implementing variations of this game to study political ideology and decision-making in adversity! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons | Rafael Behr
A declining sense of collective identity is corroding trust in our institutions and undermining democratic politics, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Join a fantastic department and school dear to my heart, and a chance to shape a groundbreaking Masters course!
Elizabeth Stokoe@lizstokoe.bsky.social · 9mo agoCome and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social! Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology #AcademicSky jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
New PSPB paper out from work with @wnmerrell.bsky.social, Lei Fan, &Lotte Thomsen, showing consensus across the egalitarian spectrum in appearance of images of poor people generated through reverse correlation, alongside differential ratings of those images by egalitarianism in an independent sample
Wilson Merrell@wnmerrell.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 Generated by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 Generated by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)
1 day left to submit an abstract to present at this!
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington@jsskeffington.bsky.social · 10mo agoSPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
🚨JOB ALERT🚨The Psychology Program at NYU Abu Dhabi is hiring! We have 2 open rank positions cutting across our strengths in social & political psych,cognition & perception, & developmental psych. Deadline Nov 1st, please spread far & wide; reach out if you are interested! apply.interfolio.com/175417
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Off to Lisbon for my first SESP conference in 7 years! Please say hi if you see me and set your alarm for this 8.30am symposium on how resource ecologies shape psychology 🤓
This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington@jsskeffington.bsky.social · 10mo agoSPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi: tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!
The paper I'm most proud of from the past year: I got to join fellow Sidanius labmates to connect decades of research on social dominance theory, which ended up showing how the original idea of a 'basic grammar of social power' put forward by Jim and Felicia in 1999 is more plausible than ever...
Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · last yr.Freshly dropped paper on SDO you'll want to check out 👇 By Arnold Ho, @nourkteily.bsky.social @jsskeffington.bsky.social & @lottethomsendk.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsych (to this crew: Jim would be proud!)
Yesterday was my last day as faculty @lsepbs.bsky.social, a place dear to me, from my MSc 20 years ago to the first 10 years of my academic career! I will transition to LSE Senior Visiting Fellow, then focus on launching the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi 🤓
Just a reminder that it has been more than 60 days since Israel blocked any food, fuel, or medicine from getting into Gaza.
Monbiot yet again goes straight to the key point everyone is dancing around! Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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⭐ With registration for #EHBEA2025 closing in *just 4 days* 😱😱😱, let's recap on what we have planned ! 🎉 First up: Amazing Plenaries! 🧑🏻🏫 Kicking us off is Prof Russell Hill! ➡️ How STRANGE are your wild primates? Observer impacts on observational data collection 👀🙈 [1/10] @ehbea.bsky.social
New follower welcome - @jsskeffington.bsky.social, who wrote for us here with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Taking context seriously | BPS
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.
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If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · last yr.1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵
Last call! Deadline for our summer school on political intuitions is tomorrow. Application docs are few so there is still time to apply
Thom Scott-Phillips@thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 2y agoI am delighted to announce another summer university course, in Budapest next year. We will focus in particular on *political intuitions* and their consequences for open society One week, full time, 7-11 July Applications are due 14 February summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
Flights and hotel booked for SPSP :-) Speaking at pol psych precon, then attending intervention sci precon organized by former PhD student Julia Buzan. Also excited about Saturday symposium on social psych in Palestine. Check them out, and let me know if you'll be in Denver and want to catch up!
Punchy interjection from Karim Bettache (showing PSPR being more bold),asking why psychology doesn't do more study of capitalism. I agree - it's hard to notice as it's like the water we swim in, yet we'd always check water to be sure it's not getting too harmful! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Where Is Capitalism? Unmasking Its Hidden Role in Psychology - Karim Bettache, 2024
This article critically examines the pervasive yet often-neglected influence of capitalism on psychological processes and human behavior. While capitalist ideol...
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What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? @jsskeffington on why we need to go beyond crude identity politics & consider how ideological views vary among ethnic minority groups #LSEInequalitiesBlog
The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity
What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…
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My first blog for @lseinequalities.bsky.social let me get a political psychology point off my chest that's been bugging me since November! @lsepbs.bsky.social @denisebaron.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity
What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
First PhD publication from Julia Buzan is now out! We used discrete choice experiments to examine the socioeconomic dimension of choosing graduate jobs with short v. long term benefits, finding important roles for current financial strain, perceptions of control, &connections to a job.Check it out ⬇️
LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science@lsepbs.bsky.social · 2y ago🆕 Barriers in the Transition From School to Work: How Student Financial Adversity Predicts Deprioritizing Jobs With the Best Long-Term Career Progression Insightful new research by Julia Buzan & @jsskeffington.bsky.social. #Research #OpenAccess spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just one week left to apply for either the 2-year post-doc or 1-year Lab Manager roles at my new lab at NYU Abu Dhabi!
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington@jsskeffington.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!
I feel a bit like this about open science. The reforms will likely lead to positive outcomes, even if we overestimate their ability to solve our problems (e.g., replication crisis) The open science movement got us to THINK about what we're doing. That's a positive spin-off if nothing else.
