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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · 2d

Public employees are sometimes deeply affected by negative stereotypes. These emotions are personal, & have predictable effects on their behavior and on the quality of public services.

🥥:Emotions shape the interaction between police and citizens and can affect good governance and public services.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · 2d

Based on observations and conversations with police officers in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and the United States🇺🇸,
we found:
📌 Anxiety or emotional fatigue can lead to ignoring citizens.
📌 Anger can increase the tendency to confrontation.
📌 And emotional pain can actually lead to rapprochement.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · 2d

New publication from @overman.bsky.social & me:

💬 What does it do to police officers when they hear over & over again that "all officers are racist"?

Emotions are NOT noise in public services. They guide the actions of professionals towards citizens.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👇Thread:

Coping with occupational stereotypes: an emotional lens on police officers’ experiences

How do public employees cope with negative occupational stereotypes? Limited research examines the psychological processes of how these perceptions shape their behaviour. This study examines how pu...

www.tandfonline.com

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Jul 9

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.

Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.

But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?

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New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic)

The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Ana-Maria Dimand @anadimand.bsky.social · Jul 4

📣 Calling all students and early-career scholars in public policy and public administration:

Together with Hannah Lebovits, we’ve put together a collaborative, evolving resource list to help you navigate the field, no matter where you're starting from.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jul 3

🌻 This project is meaningful to me:
I tried to follow ethical experim. practices by avoiding deception & priming while working with a sensitive topic.

Special thanks to @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, @tummers.bsky.social & S. Grimmelikhuijsen for advice and help! 🙇‍♀️

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jul 3

🔑 This suggests two things:
We shouldn’t assume that beliefs automatically translate into intentions and actions.
The personal beliefs that public employees hold matter a great deal.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jul 3

What I found:
✅The treatment did increase belief in the stereotype itself.
❌It did NOT increase intentions or dishonest behaviors... EXCEPT among a minority of public emp who already believed that petty corruption is acceptable. For this group, intentions to corrupt rose more than 16%.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jul 3

Capturing corruption intentions and behaviors is hard: they’re clandestine in nature. Manipulating perceptions of corruption in an ethical way? Also very hard!
I drew on stereotyping literature, specifically, the widely held belief that bureaucrats are corrupt to increase perceived corruption.

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jul 3

First single-authored paper finally published in @bppjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees.
I found: NO overall causal relationship.

Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC

Find out more! 👇

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 24

Super excited to be at PMRC2025! 🇰🇷 Come join us - Sangwon will be sharing our work tomorrow about Public Employee Identity across the US, CAN and NL at 3.40pm at Room L! 👮‍♂️🧑‍🚒👩‍🔧👩‍🏫👨‍⚖️🧑‍✈️

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations! 🎊

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American University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · Jun 24

(1/2) Our faculty and students are in 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea, to present their papers at the Public Management Research Conference 2025 @pmrc.bsky.social!

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American University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · Jun 24

SPA is proud to see our faculty and students presenting at #PMRC2025 in Seoul. Asst. Prof. David Schwegman's research paper are titled "Tax Salience and Citizen Evaluation of Government", and "The Role of Discounted Price in Public Service Consumption and Trust in Government". #SPAProud #Research

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 12

This recognition means a lot. 2025 has indeed been a big year for me - one that reminded me how much I owe to the supportive academic community around me. I am the sum of those I work and grow with. 🌻 🌻 🌻

For those who are curious about the dissertation: dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/...

Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 12

So honored to be selected as the 2025 @aompnp.bsky.social Best Dissertation Award winner! HUGE thanks to @tummers.bsky.social & Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Gabriela Szydlowski, Isa Bertram, Noor de Boer & Robin Bouwman & to the amazing committee chair, @schwoererskayla.bsky.social!

AOM Public and Nonprofit Division (PNP) @aompnp.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congrats to @neosheeling.bsky.social from American University, winner of the AOM-PNP 2025 Best Dissertation Award, for "Public Employee Stereotypes: What are they? Do they matter?" #AOM2025 #pasky

Sheeling Neo
American University
Winner of the 2025 Best Dissertation Award
“Public Employee Stereotypes: What are they? Do they matter?”
Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 4

Huge thanks to @twmorrissey.bsky.social from @au-spa.bsky.social for her generous support letter! And the award committee @billresh.bsky.social , @mpteodoro.bsky.social and Randall Davis.

Grateful for the community that makes this work possible!

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉Feeling honored to receive the Paul Volcker Junior Research Award from @apsa.bsky.social PA Section.
This grant will support my journey with Sangwon Ju to explore what public employee identity looks like in
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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · May 6

Did you thank a public servant today?

The People Lab @thepeoplelab.bsky.social · May 5

When you drive over a bridge or take a train, you’re riding on someone’s expertise.

Engineers and safety inspectors ensure the structures we depend on are safe.

Behind the scenes. Always essential.

#PublicServiceRecognitionWeek

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Lars Tummers @tummers.bsky.social · Mar 31

🚨 Are bureaucrats being judged unfairly?

Today, Isa Bertram will defend her PhD on stereotypes about civil servants.

She shows:
❌ We have negative stereotypes about bureaucrats
❓ Such stereotypes affect our experience with bureaucrats, no matter how good the service is.

📷 Photos Jan Banning.

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Lars Tummers @tummers.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Promotie "Gezichten van de Bureaucratie"

Maandag verdedigt Isa Bertram haar proefschrift over stereotypen over ambtenaren. 🎓

Iedereen heeft wel een mening over ambtenaren – en vaak geen positieve. Ambtenaren vinden we saai, inflexibel en ze ook nog vroeg naar huis.

📷 Foto's Jan Banning.

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hey folks, I'm chairing this committee, and we have not yet received any applications. This is a great opportunity for junior scholars!! Deadline is April 1, so get your applications in!!!

APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Mar 11

Deadline April 1st! Apply for the Paul Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant! Section 6, Public Administration, invites applications from junior scholars researching public administration issues affecting governance. Learn more buff.ly/oFAuKIq @apsapublicadmin

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Neo Sheeling | 梁诗琳 @neosheeling.bsky.social · Mar 3

New 📢
Angela Hall & @overman.bsky.social !

How do public employees FEEL abt public accountability?

:😁😌😡😟😰😁, depending on types of accountability.

These emotional reactions have implications. If account. mechanisms are designed without considering emotions, they may do more harm than good!

Sjors Overman @overman.bsky.social · Mar 3

😃😰😠Public Accountability triggers strong emotional effects, aside from rational and behavioral effects.
New study on emotions triggered by accountability for police officers in NL and USA:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

w/ Angela Hall @michiganstateu.bsky.social & @neosheeling.bsky.social

✅ Professional accountability (to peers) → Relief
✅ Political accountability (to mayors) → Pride
⚠️ Bureaucratic accountability (to systems) → Frustration & Acceptance
⚠️ Social accountability (to the public) → Pride but also Resentment
❌ Legal accountability (to the justice system) → Anxiety & Distress

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Feb 25

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat

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