1/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social.

Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

Hi folks! We are conducting a meta-analysis examining the relationship between different facets of gender or gender-related essentialism and prejudice against transgender people. Therefore, we are requesting your unpublished data to include in the meta-analysis! The inclusion criteria are: 🧵

McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position. Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Faculty Lecturer - Department of Psychology

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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New paper, led by Pia Dietze (newly on bsky! @piadietze.bsky.social) and Riana Brown (@rrrianabrown.bsky.social): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Health-focused frames mobilize Americans to action to address LGBTQ inequality | PNAS

“More than 1 in 8 LGBTQ people live in states where doctors can refuse to treat them.” This headline describes a flurry of laws passed in 2025 allo...

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Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...

🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders! Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents! ow.ly/xPHL50X68mH

New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people! ⬇️ Please see the full call below We are very grateful for all contributions! #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...

The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist

Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.

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Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.

Kira Means@kirameans.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Are you a social psychologist who studies gender? We invite you to complete a 15-minute voluntary and anonymous survey about your experiences with publishing your research. 1/x

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!

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Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

Benjamin Paaßen@bpaassen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12): arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950

"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy. spsp.org/news/charact... #socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil

Character & Context piece about our work on the moralization of women's bodies: spsp.org/news/charact...

Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵

Come visit my poster at the LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe pre-con #SPSP2025! I'd love to tell you about my work on prototypes of nonbinary people.

Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

First paper of 2025! Very grateful that I was asked to write a commentary on Jackson & Bussey (2024): "Conceptualizing transgender experiences in psychology: Do we have a ‘true’ gender?" (which is great and y'all should read!): bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now published (open access)! 😀https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3136

The Moralization of Women's Bodies

Women's bodies have long been subject to societal control. We examine a form of gender/sex bias that may be used to justify and maintain such control: the moralization of women's bodies. Across two s...

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Thekla Morgenroth@theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.

🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨 Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships? If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

Just reading through my students evaluations. This is exactly the kind of comment I want: "Really enjoyed the class! A great part of class were the times of exams and having the pictures of the instructors cats up." 😁

Super excited that our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" (with @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, and Abi Click) was just accepted at JPSP! What an exciting way to end the semester!

To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does. Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne

Psychology's infamous bully

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Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.