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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Jul 14

The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski.

The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Jun 27

I raise some overdue (and slightly uncomfortable) questions about ecological validity, downstream consequences, and individual and cultural differences.

It’s not comprehensive—but hopefully a step toward deeper conversations about how to move the field forward.

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Jun 27

After years of thinking (and occasionally obsessing) about STIs, I finally put it all on paper.
Part critique, part love letter, the piece revisits a few selected issues in STI research—not everything, but some things that might be worth a closer look.

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to have found a home for this research in the British Journal of Social Psychology: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

System Justification Theory (SJT) proposes that members of disadvantaged groups perceive norms to express ingroup positivity. Adherence to these norms is assumed to result in open expressions of ingr...

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Apr 4

🎉 Excited to announce our new paper: 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝? 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬,
co-authored with my wonderful colleagues Joelle Flöther (not on bluesky) and Iniobong Essien @iniobong.bsky.social ! 🎉

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Mar 3

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This paper is an incredible accomplishment for an early career-researcher!

Check it out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Mar 3

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With its solid theoretical foundation, the paper allows to derive research questions and hypotheses that will guide future research for years to come.
Added plus: The paper also provides THE most comprehensive literature review of existing research on Mixed identities.

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Mar 3

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The paper delves into the complexities of the social identification processes for Mixed individuals, examining how individual and contextual factors may shape their self-categorization and social identification.

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Excited to celebrate Anna Huang‘s first first-authored paper just published in EJSP. 🥳
In this theoretical article, Anna explores how Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) apply to individuals with Mixed racial-ethnic identities.

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Mar 3

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The paper delves into the complexities of the social identification processes for Mixed individuals, examining how individual and contextual factors may shape their self-categorization and social identification.

Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

Yet there is a handful of studies in which spontaneous trait inferences from (unambiguous) behaviors were moderated by stereotype congruency. We aimed at investigating the underlying mechanism of this effect - but were unable to find it…

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thrilled to start posting here by sharing two fantastic website articles summarizing our latest publications.
Both papers are the FIRST first-author papers of our talented PhD students, @mangelsjana.bsky.social and @cw-sander.bsky.social

Happy to see that their research is making waves! 🌊

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

Stereotypes might not be as powerful as psychologists assume: twtr.to/CKNXo

original paper here: twtr.to/GLYLI

@mangelsjana.bsky.social

Stereotypes might not be as powerful as psychologists assumed | Psyche Ideas

Research on first impressions suggests that people’s behaviour can trump any biased assumptions we might make about them

twtr.to

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

People make remarkably stubborn assumptions about others’ political beliefs based on minimal information, study finds
twtr.to/rdM3h

original paper here: twtr.to/MNc-3

@cw-sander.bsky.social

People make remarkably stubborn assumptions about others' political beliefs based on minimal informa...

New research from the University of Hamburg reveals that individuals quickly infer others' political ideologies from slight behavioral cues, with these assumptions proving resistant to change even whe...

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

People make remarkably stubborn assumptions about others’ political beliefs based on minimal information, study finds
https://twtr.to/rdM3h

original paper here: https://twtr.to/MNc-3
@cw-sander.bsky.social
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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · Nov 24

Stereotypes might not be as powerful as psychologists assume: https://twtr.to/CKNXo
original paper here: https://twtr.to/GLYLI
@mangelsjana.bsky.social
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