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....

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.

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.

🎉 New paper in Social and Personality Psychology Compass 🎉
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
🔗 https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111

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

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

Check it out!

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

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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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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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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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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.

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…

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! 🌊

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

original paper here: twtr.to/GLYLI

@mangelsjana.bsky.social

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 information, study finds
https://twtr.to/rdM3h

original paper here: https://twtr.to/MNc-3
@cw-sander.bsky.social
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Stereotypes might not be as powerful as psychologists assume: https://twtr.to/CKNXo
original paper here: https://twtr.to/GLYLI
@mangelsjana.bsky.social
(2/3)