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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 14h

Congratulations!!

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Eric Shuman @ericmshuman.bsky.social · 2d

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Gordon! Glad you like it!

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 5d

Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen

Can social media contact reduce prejudice?

#PrejudiceResearch

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

And to you!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Meltem!!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

Can’t wait to see you there!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks John!!!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 21d

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 21d

SPSP is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 SAGE Emerging Scholar Award!

Congratulations to @chrbuettner.bsky.social, Ivan Hernandez, Erin Hughes, @niclaskuper.bsky.social, Katherine Lawson, @joelleforestier.bsky.social, and Zachary Witkower!

Learn more: ow.ly/Vff550WY7hH

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 22d

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 22d

P.S. Graduate students who submit posters will be considered for a poster award! So send your students!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 22d

This year, the preconference will be in-person and will adopt a half-day format in the morning of Thursday, February 26.

I hope you'll consider attending!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 22d

Announcing SPSP's 2026 Self & Identity precon (bit.ly/4mn2WDT), which will have a timely focus on activist and ally identities. We have a phenomenal set of speakers (Linda Tropp! Kim Rios! Lucy De Souza! Teri Kirby! Dan McAdams!) and are accepting data blitz and poster submissions until Oct 23!

The Self & Identity Preconference provides a forum for discussion and investigation of the complexity of the individual and the collective self. This year's preconference introduces a special focus on activism and allyship, highlighting factors facilitating the formation of activist and ally identities and barriers to identifying as activists or allies. This preconference will explore the impact of context in shaping activist identification and consider the role of the current socio-political climate on our ability to advocate for our "selves" and for others. In addition to several speakers, the preconference will also include presentations by scholarly award winners, a poster session, an early-career data blitz, and a mentoring/networking session.

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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 23d

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

What motivates romantic partners to continue being supportive in their partner's goal pursuit?

New #PSPB research suggests that as long as gratitude is expressed, partners remain motivated to help even when their partner does not succeed.

Read more: ow.ly/Ljvu50WNCrq

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · May 2

2/6. In a set of experiments just published in Social Science & Medicine, we found that Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans were consistently more willing to engage in individual and collective efforts to address health disparities than their White counterparts. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Those most willing to address health disparities tend to be overlooked | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers found that by prioritizing the perspectives of white Americans instead of those from underrepresented groups, studies of pandemic disparities likely missed important insights from ...

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣

I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!

Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Aug 21

😍😍😍 no interview needed—you’re in!

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣

I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!

Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Aug 1

I was SHOCKED when I went to submit my Nature Reviews paper there. I thought nothing could be worse than the Social Cognition portal but honestly it gives it a run for its money.

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Tessa Benson-Greenwald @tbgphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join!
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Psych Academic Job Market Slack Interest Form

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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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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Jul 19

Omg the taste

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Tamás Nagy @nagyt.bsky.social · Jul 11

🧌This "bestiary" can be a vital resource for researchers, educators, and reviewers to recognize, understand, and mitigate QRPs, ultimately raising the standard of psychological research. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology - Tamás Nagy, Jane Hergert, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Lukas Wallrich, Kathleen Schmidt, Tal Waltzer, Jason W. Payne, Biljana Gjoneska, Yashvin Seet...

Questionable research practices (QRPs) pose a significant threat to the quality of scientific research. However, historically, they remain ill-defined, and a co...

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