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Haley Bock
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Social Psych PhD student at the University of Utah
Intergroup relations, diversity, and allyship | she/her

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jackiemchen.bsky.social
Are you applying to a PhD program in STEM this year? Use our Grad School Preferences Quiz to help you find the mentor and program that fits your goals and work style! Access here: jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/sciplab/pers... #PhDApplications #STEMPhD #GradSchoolPrep #PhDLife #PhDAdvice
GRAD SCHOOL PREFERENCES QUIZ | sciplab
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October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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jackiemchen.bsky.social
We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
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September 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Positive intergroup contact reduces prejudice against minority groups more than it does against majority groups. Why?

New research suggests it may be because minority group members are seen as being more interchangeable with one another.

Neji et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Positive intergroup contact reduces prejudice. However, the strength of intergroup contact effects is typically weaker for members of minority as compared to majority groups. Research on perceived outgroup entitativity (i.e., the extent to which an aggregate of people is perceived as a unified whole) has shown that minority group members perceive the majority outgroup as less entitative, while majority group members perceive the outgroup minority as comparatively more entitative. Moreover, there is evidence that people generalize the effects of intergroup contact from a single outgroup member to the outgroup as a whole more strongly when they perceive outgroups as more (versus less) entitative. We integrate these different lines of research and propose that the difference in the strength of intergroup contact effects between numerical majorities and minorities may be explained, in part, by differences in perceived outgroup entitativity. We conducted two preregistered experiments using a minimal group paradigm (N1 = 347, N2 = 396) in which we manipulated numerical majority-minority group status (Study 1 and 2) as well as outgroup entitativity (Study 2). In Study 2, we applied a parallel design combining measurement of the mediation and manipulation of the mediator to provide stronger evidence for a causal process. The results were in line with our hypotheses: perceived outgroup entitativity mediated the differential effect of intergroup contact for numerical majority versus minority groups. Implications for future research are discussed, including the need to investigate whether entitativity explains differences in intergroup contact effects among various real-life groups.
March 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business. Now, it's attracted the attention of the Trump administration.
How the Ph.D. Project, and 45 colleges, became a target of the Trump administration
For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business. Now, it's attracted the attention of the Trump administration.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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julianedegner.bsky.social
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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.
March 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Analysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker

Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
Against the backdrop of increasing ethnic diversity in the U.S., we replicate, extend, and challenge previous examinations of the American = White/Foreign = Asian stereotype in the largest sample to date (N = 666,623 respondents) over 17 years (2007–2023). Six key findings emerged. First, a robust American = White association emerged on implicit (Cohen’s d = 0.50) and explicit (Cohen’s d = 0.51) measures. Second, the strength of this effect varied by respondents’ race/ethnicity with implicit stereotypes strongest among White respondents (Cohen’s d = 0.86) and absent among East Asian respondents (Cohen’s d = 0.02). Third, the strength of implicit stereotypes was modulated by age, religion, and ideology—older, Christian, and conservative respondents displayed stronger implicit American = White associations—but not gender or education. Fourth, respondents living in U.S. metropolitan areas with greater Asian representation or a history of voting for Democratic candidates exhibited weaker implicit American = White associations. Fifth, over the past 17 years, implicit and explicit American = White associations decreased by 41% and 47%, respectively, and 14/14 demographic subgroups changed towards neutrality. Finally, we observed suggestive evidence that implicit stereotype trends towards neutrality were temporarily disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic for White Americans but not Asian Americans.
February 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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dangaristo.bsky.social
NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Appreciate the shoutout from @poqjournal.bsky.social!

I show misalignment btwn Black Americans’ expressed partisan & ideological identities (red line below) stems from unfamiliarity w/ terms “liberal” & “conservative,” making the standard, oft-used lib-con measure invalid for this population.
December 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
I wrote a little reflection on objectivity and diversity in science. Could be useful if you are teaching research methods, as is the companion paper on objectivity interrogation.

communities.springernature.com/posts/in-sci...
In science and in backlash, identities matter
In this political moment, anti-science and anti-diversity social forces are resurgent, and they threaten diversity within our disciplines. In this reflection, I discuss why diversity matters by summa...
communities.springernature.com
December 17, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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jackiemchen.bsky.social
Can we please stop with the zoom room passcode requirement? Is anyone still trying to hack into zoom meetings?
December 4, 2024 at 10:02 PM