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Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social · 2d

Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...

compdevlab.yale.edu

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much to Kyle Dobson for visiting with my lab today & sharing work on civilian-police interactions. Super helpful to think about these interactions at multiple levels of analysis & from both police & civilian perspectives! More about Kyle's fabulous work here: kyleshdobson.com.

Kyle S. H. Dobson, Ph.D.

Personal Website

kyleshdobson.com

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to @anahidmodrek.bsky.social for visiting with my FAQs about Life seminar this week! We read her fabulous work with @tanialombrozo.bsky.social showing positive effects of explaining on test scores & appreciated chatting with her about this research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Allow Me to Explain: Benefits of Explaining Extend to Distal Academic Performance

How does the act of explaining influence learning? Prior work has studied effects of explaining through a predominantly proximal lens, measuring short-term outcomes or manipulations within lab settin...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10d

"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology."

Introduction to PSPR Special Issue

@jadler.bsky.social

Since the inception of scientific psychology in the 19th century, the lead in conceptualizing scientific phenomena has been taken by scholars in Western contexts (North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand), who comprise only 11% of the world’s population. Today, the science and practice of psychology continue to be dominated by Western theoretical perspectives. Recognizing the necessity for inclusive excellence in the field and the barriers that Majority World scholars face in joining the global knowledge economy, Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) has taken several steps toward global inclusion. To further realize this goal, this Special Issue brings together nine contributions that reflect personality and social psychological theory rooted in diverse Majority World contexts, specifically stemming from African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, East and South Asian, and Indigenous American scholars. The contributions reflect several cross-cutting themes: the deeply historical contexts in which personality and social psychological phenomena play out in different geographies today; the important particularities of widely studied concepts in specific local contexts; and the dynamic interplay between individual people and the specificity of their social contexts. By curating indigenous concepts and theories, we aim to further catalyze dialogue across cultural distances in the field and to demonstrate how a decolonized editorial process can help promote inclusive science to improve the dominant perspectives in personality and social psychology.

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 11d

I am not clicking the heart because I do not like this. Wow.

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 11d

I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a woman and not had multiple students refer to the author as "he." I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a man and had even one student refer to the author as "she."
#AcademicSky

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 11d

Got a chance to visit with Rebecca Shalfer's team today (sites.google.com/umn.edu/rebe...) & it was such a treat to talk with people who think about similar conceptual questions as I do from an entirely different disciplinary perspective. Yay, learning from colleagues!

Rebecca Shlafer

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics (Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health) at the University of Minnesota. I received my PhD in child psychology from the Instit...

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 20d

Dear future self: Quick reminder to only take 24 hour Sudafed if you are interested in foregoing sleep for the next 24+ hours. Love, your current (very sleepy and also extremely ramped up) self

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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 21d

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People With Nonbinary Gender Identities - Sara Emily Burke, Alexandria Jaurique, Benjamin M. Valen, Natalie M. Wittlin, Mackenzie L. M...

Academic The present review examines bias against transgender women and men and bias against people with nonbinary gender identities. A central contention is th...

doi.org

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 21d

October office hours now posted for 10/10 1-3 pm EDT. Theme=applications (for lab manager jobs, grad school, post-docs, fac jobs, whatever you're applying for) but feel free to bring unrelated questions too! Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open....
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 22d

I keep track of rejections and get a prize when I get 100 of them, which has trained me to be excited about rejections, which was my initial reaction to this post until I realized that was probably not the emotion being communicated. I'm sorry & hope your inbox is nicer tomorrow!

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 25d

Across 44 countries, individuals with stronger free will belief were more punitive toward everyday moral transgressions.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 25d

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability
 ‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability - Mind & Society

Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves – a tendency termed bias blind spot (Pronin et al. in Personality...

link.springer.com

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 29d

This piece discusses our work showing ppl perceive curiosity as morally virtuous & other neat scholarship on curiosity (eg by @jamiejirout.bsky.social & colleagues): www.templeton.org/news/opening.... Thanks to @templetonfdn.bsky.social for supporting this project!
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

Opening the Door to Lifelong Curiosity

Lifelong learning is one way to bring more delight into our ordinary lives. Jirout suggests seeking out new experience for the delight it elicits. And the practice has beneficial ripple effects on soc...

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 11

I thought I wouldn't be able to write today but the words came pretty easily so that's something.

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yes, I thought I remembered posting for free before, but then thought maybe I was mis-remembering (though APS still lets me post lab manager ads for free so apparently at least parts of my memory still work!). Thank you for the heads-up about the wiki, I just submitted there.

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 10

I sent the ad below to a few dev & cog lists but was prevented from sharing with @spspnews.bsky.social members bc they require payment (do any labs pay for ads, esp when grants are getting frozen?). Are there other social lists I'm missing? Would love to consider students from social labs if I can!

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 8

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7....
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Research Staff Assistant - Morningside, New York, United States

Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union Regular/Temporary: Regular Hours Per Week: 35 Salary Range: $41,000- $41,000 The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of fa...

opportunities.columbia.edu

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Jellie Sierksma @jelliesierksma.bsky.social · Sep 9

New pub! Peer-to-peer helping is a common learning strategy but might not always be beneficial. We studied how children helped peers, finding they often provide "easy" help—like giving answers—when tasks were difficult or recipients belonged to ethnic groups they liked. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Mastery‐Oriented or Outcome‐Oriented Help? How Recipient Ethnicity and Task Difficulty Shape Children's Helping Behavior

Teachers and parents often scaffold children to help others. Not all help is equally beneficial, however. We know very little about the ways in which children distribute different types of help. Acr...

dx.doi.org

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 9

Question that this was responding to: What is your favorite book set in X, Y, Z, where one of those places was the desert.

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 9

For the desert: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
#BookSky

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 8

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7....
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Research Staff Assistant - Morningside, New York, United States

Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union Regular/Temporary: Regular Hours Per Week: 35 Salary Range: $41,000- $41,000 The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of fa...

opportunities.columbia.edu

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Paper looks really interesting 👇

As another factor, I wonder if more racist people also CANNOT BELIEVE that people would vote for non-White candidate (so "must have been fraud"

For instance, people project their own racial biases onto others journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#PrejudiceResearch

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Sep 1

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b

I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change.

I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM.

it's also my job market paper!

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts

Turgut Keskintürk
August, 2025

How, and for whom, do political events translate into enduring political change? This article advances a three-stage model of cohortization, in which salient events produce age differential changes in attitudes, elite cues drive identity-congruent political sorting, and life-course timing regulates whether these attitude changes remain persistent over time. Focusing on the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 as a quasi-natural experiment, I test this model by analyzing attitudes toward U.S. law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans using five surveys that collectively span from 2016 to 2024. The findings consistently show that Democrats and Independents became strongly unfavorable toward law enforcement—much more so among younger than older individuals. Moreover, the changes persisted for younger individuals, while fading among older individuals, leading to cohort-led polarization. This article integrates two classic—though largely partial—theories of political learning, offering a model for understanding how salient events can realign generational divides.

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 2

6. I hope this is helpful for you all and look forward to chatting with whoever wants to stop by! /End

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Sep 2

5. If you want e-mails about these once a month when sign-ups become available, please leave your e-mail address for me and I will add you to my list. I also advertise here but in the past slots have filled up within ~10 minutes, usually by folks who got the e-mail.

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