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Kate A. Ratliff
@kateratliff.bsky.social
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Social Psychologist | Likes Birds and Dogs and Books and Tennis | Eldest Millennial | Waterloo, Ontario 🍁

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· 9h
Oh wow!

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· 2d
Many of the academic critiques of the IAT make use of public data from... Project Implicit! And, the databases offer the richest set of *self-report* data on intergroup bias in existence. One can certainly be critical of scholarship on implicit bias and still see the benefits of this resource πŸ₯³

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· 2d
Thanks, Jin!

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social Β· 3d
Have you used Project Implicit for class demo or research? I know I have. Project Implicit fundamentally changed social psych research and public discourse. Its impact is too big to write in one post. But all this work is in jeopardy, so pls join me in donating to sustain Project Implicit!!

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Jacob Montgomery, Kate A. Ratliff

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social Β· 3d
Project Implicit is facing an existential threat. After almost 30 years, 60 million visitors, and hundreds of published papers, funding for our work has disappeared.

We’ve never held a fundraising drive before, but we need your support to keep our site running. Please consider donating! πŸ™
projectimplicit.bsky.social Project Implicit @projectimplicit.bsky.social Β· 5d
Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support.

Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

Reposted by Calvin K. Lai, Kate A. Ratliff

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Β· 4d
Please consider a donation sustain this critical service for research and education about implicit social cognition. The website has generated very useful data and discussion to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and processes of implicit measurement.
projectimplicit.bsky.social Project Implicit @projectimplicit.bsky.social Β· 5d
Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support.

Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

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Project Implicit @projectimplicit.bsky.social Β· 5d
Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support.

Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· 22d
Anyone in Pittsburgh want to weigh in on whether the Science Center or Museum of Natural History would be more fun for two grownups (ish) and an 8yo and 11yo? Going to lunch with family and a Pens game in the evening so only time for one or the other.

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Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social Β· Dec 2
New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 24
These responses are so helpful and interesting. Thank you all... and keep them coming!
kateratliff.bsky.social Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 23
Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):

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?

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 24
Yes! We're going talk about what people in the field see as the biggest challenges and then we're going to dream up some solutions. It's a really, really great group of undergrads in this (advanced research methods) course.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 23
Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):

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?

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 22
Excellent choice!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Β· Nov 19
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that β€œwe need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Reposted by Kate A. Ratliff

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social Β· Nov 8
Clean blankets and sleeping bags are desperately needed at the 100 Victoria Street North encampment in Kitchener. Please drop off donations at the table at the front of the encampment.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Nov 2
Okay but only if we define stuck as β€œsitting next to the wall while the men throw up their hands as if they couldn’t possibly bend down and pick it up with minimal effort” πŸ˜‚

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org Β· Oct 30
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Oct 14
East of Eden is the only book I regularly re-read!

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Oct 14
God I wish we had Steinbeck right now.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Oct 5
Data are from August. Would be super interesting to see what they look like now!

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social Β· Sep 10
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Sep 9
Psych friends: Does anyone have an undergrad lecture (slides, notes, activities) on theory-building and/or generating hypotheses? If so, willing to share?

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Aug 30
Her Ben Crump sponsorship is my favorite thing about the U.S. Open.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Aug 21
The longer you look at it the more absurdist it gets πŸ˜‚

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Aug 18
Dear Canadians: Where is this β€œthe cottage” that all of you are going to next week and how do I get there?

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Aug 7
I can, Max. Send me an email to remind me? Having read a few Dutch letters, this is a good idea πŸ˜‚

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Jul 23
My 10yo is reading it now and loves it! And also thinks it’s super cool we live in the same town.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Jul 21
What a blast of joy in these terrible times to see Venus Williams out there on the court ❀️🎾

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Β· Jul 16
I’ve just moved to KW and so far have been really happy with the bike-riding situation so far πŸš΄β€β™€οΈ

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Daniel Ansari πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ @numcog.bsky.social Β· Jul 8
Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
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