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
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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.
In part bc I know a group of men who get together one weekend each year for a drunken outing.
They call the event SLOP (Stupid Losers on Patrol).
Seems fitting for how we're destroying knowledge & creativity with new tech.
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Toni Morrison: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work."
Good lord, Britain.
Might you want to, ummm, do something to save your educational institutions?
If you think that's expensive, contemplate the costs of:
✳️ rebooting these at a later date
✳️ a less educated public
#FundEducation
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Education is something the UK used to excel at. Have a strong global reputation.
You'd think government would want to keep that ship afloat at all costs
Reputations are hard earned, easily lost
Good lord, Britain.
Might you want to, ummm, do something to save your educational institutions?
If you think that's expensive, contemplate the costs of:
✳️ rebooting these at a later date
✳️ a less educated public
#FundEducation
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
How psychologists handle sampling, measurement, & statistical test assumptions
Ummm, I can I put this public service on my Annual Report?
I'd literally explode with joy if I could.
Recap:
🔵 don't use literal when you actually mean its opposite (i.e, figurative)
🔵 don't use literal when there's not needed, bc the action could only be literal (i.e., avoid redundancy)
🔵 use literal when you mean literal, so no-one confuses with figurative sense
Save word "literal" for when could be confusion about whether it happened or not.
🔵 “I literally fell of my chair when I heard the news”.
🔵 “I was literally in the dark when he did [X]”.
🔵 “OMG, I literally forgot to send you that file”
Redundant. The fact that you didn't send the file is the literal aspect.
There is no figurative part that could cause confusion here; there is no figurative forgetting to send files.
Just say you forgot to send the file.
Can we talk #peeves regarding the use of word "literal"?
🔵 “My head literally exploded”
No. Your head didn't explode. That's actually the opposite of literal, it's figurative.
Save this to come back to before chatting with your family over Thanksgiving. We are in this together, keeping kids protected and parents empowered. 💪
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Save this to come back to before chatting with your family over Thanksgiving. We are in this together, keeping kids protected and parents empowered. 💪
(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)