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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 16d

💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @pnas.org! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a second PhD and join my lab @psychillinois.bsky.social back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human being! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation

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Franki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · Aug 20

This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."

Plz consider submitting!

Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

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Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx

Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

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Elizabeth Canning @canning.bsky.social · Aug 13

My new office for the year! I’ll be spending my sabbatical in Berlin as a Fellow of the @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Excited to read, write, learn, and meet some amazing new people.

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Rima-Maria Rahal @rimamrahal.bsky.social · Aug 6

Now published: Our paper investigating cognitive processes of ingroup favoritism across 20 countries. Free to read (hashtag#OpenAccess) at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2417456122

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Jeremy Hsu @hsubox.bsky.social · Aug 5

What do first-year students think about STEM course office hours? How do these perceptions change over time? So excited to share a new paper in the International Journal of STEM Education where we conducted a longitudinal study to find out! 1/7 stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

“Asking for help feels like a weakness”: factors shaping first-year students’ expectations of STEM course office hours - International Journal of STEM Education

Background Office hours are one of the most ubiquitous resources for students in STEM courses. However, there has been only limited work examining what students think of STEM course office hours, and ...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · Aug 1

📊 New #PSPB research highlights the impact of the STEP scale - a tool that measures how safe or threatening people perceive different environments to be. Researchers report that environmental cues significantly impact engagement and belonging.

Read more: ow.ly/6mAE50WyCwi

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 1

As women became a larger share of undergraduate student bodies in the United States over the course of the 20th century, research on gender-related topics increased in science as a direct result.

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Lexi Decker @lexidecker.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms
paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7

Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence - Nature Communications

Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often show lower academic achievement, commonly linked to limited resources. Here, the authors show that reduced exploration–a behavior tuned for learning...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Jul 30

Imagine going to the gym and thinking "lifting this heavy weight is hard, so lifting it is not making me stronger." Not how it works, right? Yet that's, in essence, how many students view mental effort and learning. Let's help students embrace mental effort. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review

Accurately monitoring one’s learning processes during self-regulated learning depends on using the right cues, one of which could be perceived mental effort. A meta-analysis by Baars et al. (2020)…

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Lora Park @lorapark.bsky.social · Jul 29

New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others
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Perceptions of Safety and Threat in the Environment: The STEP Scale - Lora E. Park, Deborah E. Ward, Kristin Naragon-Gainey, Elizabeth A. Canning, Nicole Koefler, Zaviera A. Panlilio, Valerie Vessels,...

The Safety and Threat in Environment Perceptions (STEP) scale assesses perceptions of environments as safe (welcoming, inclusive) or threatening (critical, inti...

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Nate Woznicki @woznickin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our new paper is out! 🎉

Led by Echo Yan (along with @drmuenks.bsky.social), we used a vignette-based experiment to test the effects of perceived instructor and peer field-specific ability beliefs (FABs) on students' motivation, psychological experience, and anticipated behavior:

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https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000400

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Andrea Vial @avial.bsky.social · Jul 25

🔥Excited to share our new paper in PsychScience! Shout out to best-ever collaborators Aida Davani, @ruyuan-zuo.bsky.social, @shreyahavaldar.bsky.social, Eleanor Chestnut, @mdehghani.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social 🧵1/8…
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Syntactic and Semantic Gender Biases in the Language on Children’s Television: Evidence From a Corpus of 98 Shows From 1960 to 2018 - Andrea C. Vial, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ruyuan Zuo, Shreya Haval...

Biased media content shapes children’s social concepts and identities. We examined gender bias in a large corpus of scripts from 98 children’s television progra...

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jul 23

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?

We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.

It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cool paper with an great title.

Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.

People from high SES backgrounds do the same

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Jul 14

A meta-analysis of meta-analyses substantiates that teacher-student relationships matter for academic & other outcomes. "Thus, it is central to train teachers to develop positive TSRs to give their students a sense of safety and belonging." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Screenshot of article published in Psychological Bulletin titled "Teacher–Student Relationships and Student Outcomes: A Systematic Second-Order Meta-Analytic Review"

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Jeremy Hsu @hsubox.bsky.social · Jun 2

2️⃣ new papers to share! First is a paper in CBE-Life Sciences Education led by former undergrad Gabby Dauber '24, examining student motivations and experiences in STEM course office hours (OH). She conducted interviews with students about their knowledge of and 1/5 www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...

Factors Influencing Student Motivations and Experiences in STEM Course Office Hours | CBE—Life Sciences Education

Office hours are a part of nearly all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, with many academic and affective benefits for students who attend. However, despite their ubiqui...

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Patrick Beymer @pnbeymer.bsky.social · May 29

🚨🚨🚨 New publication alert! We took a look at students' reported costs in chemistry, statistics, and English composition and examined how they differed over time, across courses, and by gender! @ecallen.bsky.social

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Students' Costs in Chemistry, Statistics, and English: Exploring Course, Time, and Gender Author Note

PDF | Situated expectancy-value theory posits that students' academic outcomes are influenced by their expectancy beliefs and the value they place on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · May 19

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share.

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · May 2

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

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Nikos Ntoumanis @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social · Apr 19

University students pursue performance goals (trying to outperform classmates) for various reasons. In this study, the most prevalent and least healthy reason was to impress parents; performance goals had benign effects when pursued to impress classmates or teachers ;

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Behavior Change for Good Initiative @bcfginitiative.bsky.social · Mar 24

Can email nudges to teachers boost their students’ math progress? Our new megastudy in @pnas.org with Zearn tested 15 interventions with 140K+ teachers & 3M students.

✅ The best email—prompting teachers to check student progress—increased math lesson completion by 5%

Read more: bit.ly/4iAxMrV

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Elizabeth Canning @canning.bsky.social · Mar 21

These coffee meet-ups were my absolute favorite part of AERA as a graduate student and I am so exciting to be hosting one this year!

sanheeta.bsky.social @sanheeta.bsky.social · Mar 21

Next, we’ve got the Karabenick Conversations, a chance to grab coffee with some prolific motivation scholars. Have your questions answered, chat about your research, or just vibe with others who share your passion.

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Elizabeth Canning @canning.bsky.social · Feb 12

I love that so much!

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Elizabeth Canning @canning.bsky.social · Feb 12

As PI of a grant on this list, I'm proud of the work we're doing to help ALL students reach their academic goals with evidence-based strategies in the classroom. This work is important not only for students and instructors, but for society at large. We will not stop.

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · Feb 11

I encourage everyone to go through to see the grants that have been categorized as "woke DEI." It's disgusting. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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