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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Aug 1

The paper I'm most proud of from the past year: I got to join fellow Sidanius labmates to connect decades of research on social dominance theory, which ended up showing how the original idea of a 'basic grammar of social power' put forward by Jim and Felicia in 1999 is more plausible than ever...

Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jul 28

Freshly dropped paper on SDO you'll want to check out 👇

By Arnold Ho, @nourkteily.bsky.social @jsskeffington.bsky.social & @lottethomsendk.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsych

(to this crew: Jim would be proud!)

Social dominance orientation: The motivational basis of intergroup inequality

Group-based hierarchies govern much of social life, from relations between ethnic groups to those between nation-states. We review three decades of re…

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks Gordon, we put our hearts and souls into this one!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jun 1

Yesterday was my last day as faculty @lsepbs.bsky.social, a place dear to me, from my MSc 20 years ago to the first 10 years of my academic career! I will transition to LSE Senior Visiting Fellow, then focus on launching the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi 🤓

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · May 15

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · May 6

Just a reminder that it has been more than 60 days since Israel blocked any food, fuel, or medicine from getting into Gaza.

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Apr 14

Monbiot yet again goes straight to the key point everyone is dancing around!

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · Mar 28

⭐ With registration for #EHBEA2025 closing in *just 4 days* 😱😱😱, let's recap on what we have planned ! 🎉

First up: Amazing Plenaries! 🧑🏻‍🏫

Kicking us off is Prof Russell Hill!

➡️ How STRANGE are your wild primates? Observer impacts on observational data collection 👀🙈 [1/10]

@ehbea.bsky.social

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Mar 24

Thanks, Mark, we did our best to do Jim proud by going big and bold on theory!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Mar 24

Thanks, Gordon, we're incredibly happy to see this out, after a long year of deep work to link it all together in a way Jim and Felicia would be happy with!

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Mar 18

New follower welcome - @jsskeffington.bsky.social, who wrote for us here with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Taking context seriously | BPS

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.

www.bps.org.uk

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Mar 12

If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Mar 11

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢

Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London

A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.

www.brunel.ac.uk

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · Feb 13

Last call! Deadline for our summer school on political intuitions is tomorrow. Application docs are few so there is still time to apply

Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · Dec 11

I am delighted to announce another summer university course, in Budapest next year. We will focus in particular on *political intuitions* and their consequences for open society

One week, full time, 7-11 July

Applications are due 14 February

summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...

The Human Mind and the Open Society: Political Intuitions | CEU summer course

summeruniversity.ceu.edu

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 4

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jan 23

Flights and hotel booked for SPSP :-) Speaking at pol psych precon, then attending intervention sci precon organized by former PhD student Julia Buzan. Also excited about Saturday symposium on social psych in Palestine. Check them out, and let me know if you'll be in Denver and want to catch up!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jan 23

Punchy interjection from Karim Bettache (showing PSPR being more bold),asking why psychology doesn't do more study of capitalism. I agree - it's hard to notice as it's like the water we swim in, yet we'd always check water to be sure it's not getting too harmful! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Where Is Capitalism? Unmasking Its Hidden Role in Psychology - Karim Bettache, 2024

This article critically examines the pervasive yet often-neglected influence of capitalism on psychological processes and human behavior. While capitalist ideol...

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Jan 15

What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? @jsskeffington on why we need to go beyond crude identity politics & consider how ideological views vary among ethnic minority groups #LSEInequalitiesBlog

The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity

What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jan 15

My first blog for @lseinequalities.bsky.social let me get a political psychology point off my chest that's been bugging me since November! @lsepbs.bsky.social @denisebaron.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity

What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jan 11

First PhD publication from Julia Buzan is now out! We used discrete choice experiments to examine the socioeconomic dimension of choosing graduate jobs with short v. long term benefits, finding important roles for current financial strain, perceptions of control, &connections to a job.Check it out ⬇️

LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jan 10

🆕 Barriers in the Transition From School to Work: How Student Financial Adversity Predicts Deprioritizing Jobs With the Best Long-Term Career Progression

Insightful new research by Julia Buzan & @jsskeffington.bsky.social.

#Research #OpenAccess

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SPSSI Journals

Despite education's potential to reshape societal inequalities, recent gains in broadening university access across the socioeconomic spectrum have not translated into parallel gains in the transitio...

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Jan 3

Just one week left to apply for either the 2-year post-doc or 1-year Lab Manager roles at my new lab at NYU Abu Dhabi!

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 17

If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 23

Wow, huge congrats!!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 20

So interesting, I wonder if a countervailing force is the effect of being socialised into what SDT would call a hierarchy-enhancing institution on increasing SDO, something Lotte Thomsen and I plan to check in Denmark where there's also random selection into army service!

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Dec 19

I feel a bit like this about open science. The reforms will likely lead to positive outcomes, even if we overestimate their ability to solve our problems (e.g., replication crisis)

The open science movement got us to THINK about what we're doing. That's a positive spin-off if nothing else.

carton, at climate summit, audience member objects "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing"

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 17

If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 17

Happy to announce that I have taken up the post of Associate Professor in Psychology at NYU Abu Dhabi 👩‍🎓
Feeling grateful as the location & intercultural setting is what my family needs, and the political psychology group I'm joining is fantastic. Leaving LSE in May 💔🥲

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · Dec 13

There are decent arguments that the replication crisis was partly caused by us not asking enough of the "why"

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