BIAS Lab director studying prejudice, discrimination, dehumanization, speciesism, intergroup contact, generalized prejudice. Confirmed Boffin. #PrejudiceResearch #WhyWeLoveAndExploitAnimals (does not online-bicker).
Gordon Hodson is a psychology professor at Brock University, where he directs the Brock Lab of Intergroup Processes. He is known for his research on political ideology and its relationship to prejudice, intelligence, and climate change denial. .. more
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
(which is why forces work SO HARD to eliminate these words and concepts!)
Men preyed on women, with little/no recourse.
Listen to podcast to learn about how term became established, then linked to discrimination & action.
If you're not listening to @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast American Campus, you're missing out.
Latest episode is about sexual harassment on campus
americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
www.easp.eu/news/itm/ren...
And this paper by Young & Hegarty doi.org/10.1177/0959... (important reminder of how rife sexual harassment is in academia)
If memory serves, Rupert Brown discusses some of it in his Tajfel bio
"...grateful for my meetings with remarkable people [italicized] (both men and women) in many wonderful places"
Wonder what submission version looked like?
In 2022 book Pillars of Social Psychology, Miles Hewstone contributed
Title?
"Meetings with Remarkable Men: A Fortunate Journey in Social Psychology"
Also: praises Tajfel (ahem).
No mention of Tajfel's treatment of women.
I think our field would benefit from thinking more about these issues.
And listening to concerns of the next generation of scholars.
But I think my answer is: keeping politics out of science*
(*I don't think it can be completely removed. I mean more about what we fund, publish, teach. SP seems particularly vulnerable to this)
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What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
Leave me alone for a few days.
Busy with the latest by #LauraBates
I realize that using a term can remove the sting of it, that is, to "own" it.
But how about we DON'T have this as part of our public discourse? It normalizes something best left unsaid.
(ask yourself, would you want your child using it?)
Even me who failed to see Prince's abilities for a long time now concedes he's very talented.
(and I think we're all agreeing that he likely put the songs and craft over the flashy guitar stuff)
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Needing @zotero.org help please!
Two authors working on separate sections of manuscript.
Both using Zotero, but using separate libraries.
Can we MERGE the Word files into one file? How?
cc @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social
But it also makes me wish we heard more of this ability in his music repertoire. For ages I didn't get why people claimed him as an amazing guitarist.
Maybe he's a good example of how he didn't let his prowess interfere with his music making (other could do with following that lead!)
Worse, I worry that I'm modelling this unhealthy behaviour to a student that I'm actually trying to help!)
Are you burning yourself out, trying to be superhuman for your students?
I just worked on a file on Friday evening to return to a student....
... because I felt really bad that she had waited (gasp!) 48 hours for a response!
Do we put too much pressure on ourselves?
Yes.
Does anyone argue that it's robust to anything you throw at it?
No.
Moreover, I can't think of ANYONE who has made such a claim!
There's a TON I disagree with re this paper.
I especially balk at this assertion (below). Show me the receipts, please.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
"This system that benefits me tremendously? Trust me, it's not hurting you"
High CO2 emitters underestimate harms of #climatecrisis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Even worse if it's an "are you taking grad students" email.
That ain't impressing me.
In fact, @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social and I are literally writing a paper on this right now, and crediting you for seeing it long before most.
The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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"First and foremost, we stand by the victims of these abuses."
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #SocialPsyc
But what can YOU do right now?
Can I suggest that we all reach out to support those who are, or might be, affected?
Show support. Show sensitivity.
Show commitment to ending harassment cultures.