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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 · 1d
These responses are so helpful and interesting. Thank you all... and keep them coming!
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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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 4d
Excellent choice!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6d
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we 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 · 18d
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 · 24d
Okay but only if we define stuck as “sitting 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” 😂

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26d
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 · Oct 14
East of Eden is the only book I regularly re-read!

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

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · 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 · 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...
journals.sagepub.com

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

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · Aug 18
Dear Canadians: Where is this “the 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 · Aug 7
I can, Max. Send me an email to remind me? Having read a few Dutch letters, this is a good idea 😂

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · 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 · 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 · Jul 16
I’ve just moved to KW and so far have been really happy with the bike-riding situation so far 🚴‍♀️

Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Gordon Hodson, Ian Hussey , and 2 more

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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 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...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · Jul 7
So sad :(

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · Jul 7
It’s a hard question to answer bc you don’t know what you might be missing! But we are currently having mail forwarded from FL to Ontario and at least some things are arriving.

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Tammy Coxen @tammylc.bsky.social · Jul 7
Bluesky hive mind - has anyone ever forwarded US mail to Canada, and how was the experience? Did things arrive in anything like a timely manner?

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · Jun 27
The UF Provost just announced the ten new Distinguished Professors, one of the highest honors at the university and one that comes with a 9% pay raise 🐊 Want to know how many of the ten are women? A whopping…. None.

Reposted by Richard Ashby Wilson, Kate A. Ratliff

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 20
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · Jun 17
Can someone in Canada please tell me how you watch WTA matches? 🎾 TSN+ is only showing ATP live. Tennis Channel+ doesn't work outside of the U.S. HELP?!

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · May 29
Thank you!

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · May 29
LOL a thin veneer sitting on a lot of old stats textbooks.

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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · May 29
Here it is, the sum total of the (physical) things I am taking with me after 12+ years at the University of Florida. Today, I mourn. Tomorrow, onward!