Christopher Petsko
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Social Psychologist | Assistant Professor of Org. Behavior at @UNC Chapel Hill | Stereotyping Researcher | he/him | 🏳️🌈 |
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Hi Twitter,
For the for the last four years, I’ve been developing a new model of intersectional stereotyping. It’s called the lens model, and I'm thrilled to say that the initial support for it is now IN PRESS at a great journal!
A thread.🧐
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I found this to be pretty shocking.
I failed to replicate a famous finding from 20 years ago, and the paper's editor reprimanded me for even *raising the possibility* that the original authors might have (unknowingly) reported a Type I error.
What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?
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Hi friends!
Dr. Chris Petsko is about to have a new title. Starting this fall, he’ll be ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of Organizational Behavior at
@UNC
Chapel Hill!!
The journey to get here has been more blessed than I deserve. Thank you to EVERYONE who’s supported me along the way. 🙏🏻
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@paulrconnor
We went back and forth as an authorship team, and we ultimately decided not to appeal.
But I did draft an appeal, and I gotta say, one of the big issues I faced was that I didn’t know how to share my thoughts in a way that wasn’t going to come across as condescending. 😬😅
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It’s official! My first day as an Assistant Professor at
@UNC
is here.
New twitter bio, new email signature, new me. 😎
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With my dissertation defense just one week away, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve accepted a position as Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University!
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If you're an academic who's inherited powerpoint slides from others, I can't recommend Gamma highly enough.
It's an AI tool that will take your existing slides and re-design them for you. Truly a game-changer for course prep. 🙌
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I’m reviewing a manuscript that organizes its ideas around a recent paper of mine and I just…
I just feel floored by this level of engagement. 🥺😭
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I’m so excited! I had the goal of getting three first-author manuscripts under review before the start of job market season—
AND TODAY I JUST HIT SUBMIT ON PAPER NUMBER THREE. 🎉🥳
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Today I woke up to my 300th citation!
We've come such a long way since 2019. Back then, the only person who'd cited me was me. 😂
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Imagine that someone who identifies as straight decides—just once—to hook up with a member of the same sex.
How readily do we question that person's straightness? And do we care if they're a man vs. a woman, or White vs. Black?
A 🧵 on my latest paper.
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I'm just a boy, standing in front of the job market, asking it to please stop immediately so he can focus on literally anything else again.
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Do people think of leaders as especially White by default?
In my and
@AshleighRosette
’s new paper (just accepted at Journal of Applied Psychology!🌟), we argue that the answer is yes—but that they don’t always admit it.
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I'm so, SO excited to announce that my master's thesis is finally in press. There's a lot happening in this paper, but the gist is this: when people learn that someone is gay, it distorts their conception of that person's race. Full text here:
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@HildegardP
@paulrconnor
I’m gonna write a book about this one specific editorial decision and I’m gonna call it Controlled but Incandescent Fury.
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@IanPaulFreeley
Can confirm that the editor had no obvious conflict of interest, as far as I can tell.
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Laypeople tend to assume that effect sizes in the behavioral sciences are big (unless otherwise specified).
This is an issue, as many of the effects we brag about on social media are actually quite small. 😬
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A prospective Ph.D. student just asked me if I'll be reviewing applications this fall and I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING.
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I moved into this apartment in July, and I’m so excited about how it’s all coming together!!
These plants in particular have been a passion project. ❤️ 🪴
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Made it to 32! Another birthday (and birthday run) in the books. 💪🏻
Cheers, everybody!
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I'm a few days late on this, but I recently hit 200 citations!!
Happy Monday, everybody.
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My first theory paper is out, and I’m super proud of it! Full text is available here [], and we’re hoping that people who study
#intersectional
#stereotyping
will read it! (1/)
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Hi Twitter, 👋🏻
Last week I published a new paper with the fabulous
@NourKteily
, and I’d love to share the findings!
The topic: political stereotyping. The results: *wild.*
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Chris Petsko got his 100th citation today! And he's feeling jazzed about it! 🥳
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I know faculty meetings are supposed to be a drain, but…
I just received my first invite to a faculty meeting at
@UNC
, and I *could not* be more excited.
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Evidence of a too-good-to-be-true bias.
When people are "too generous," we come to infer that there are phantom costs. In turn, we become less likely to accept high job wages, cheap plane fares, and even free money.
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My partner Matt surprised me with this illustration he made of the two of us, and I’m just blown away. 😭🙏🏻 ❤️
Look at how cute this is!! And he incorporated our plants? And he and I are wearing our house outfits.
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NSF postdoctoral fellowship application: submitted. And it feels SO good to have proofed this 44-page PDF for the last time. 🥳🎊
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I’ve seen a lot of advice for students to try going on the job market multiple years in a row. And I think that advice makes sense.
But know that the job market is also all-consuming. And each year on the market comes at a measurable cost to your productivity.
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I’m reviewing what is perhaps the most interesting paper I’ve read all year.
The fall semester at
@UNC
starts next week, and campus is coming alive.
Tonight I get to have dinner with two of my colleagues. And when I take a step back and look at it all, I just feel so grateful.
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Hey Twitter, if you could help spread this job ad, that would be great!🌟
The Organizational Behavior group at
@UNC
Chapel Hill is looking to hire a Postdoctoral Scholar.
Position length: 2-3 years. Funding: Competitive. Culture: 10/10.
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This is just a tiny update to say MATT AND I GOT A DOG!
His name is Franklin (Frank for short), and he’s such a good boy.
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You guys look at this picture of me and my wonderful graduate school advisor. 🥹
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It turns out that heckling umpires actually does influence them.
Umpires become less likely to call strikes against batters from complaining teams and more likely to call strikes against batters from opposing teams.
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STOP IT RIGHT NOW. 😭😭
Northwestern Psych is filled with kind, smart people who believe in graduate student empowerment.
That department is special and I’m just SO happy for them and I’m SO HAPPY for Michael! 💜🙌🏻
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I recently reviewed a paper that I absolutely loved. The other reviewer liked it, too. But the editor overruled us and ultimately chose to reject it.
When you think about how idiosyncratic judgments of paper quality can be, it's a marvel any of us manages to publish anything. 🤷♂️
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It’s just so incredibly lucky to have a job that comes with summer break.
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Oh, this is fun.
Having a high degree of self-control is correlated with resisting himbos. (Well, resisting hot people who have undesirable qualities in general.)
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You know who I'm grateful for?
Journal editors.
The time and energy they spend shepherding papers across the finish line, for authors they don't know (but whose ideas they believe in), is just incredible.
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It’s the first day of classes at
@UNC
and you can feel the air buzzing with energy!
Very, very grateful to be here. 🙏🏻
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I know I’m being insufferable, but LOOK AT THESE THRIVING PLANTS!
I’m just so in love and so grateful for the North Carolina sunshine. 🪴☀️❤️
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You guys, I’m turning 34 today and HOW CUTE are my friends for making this cake?
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@davidimiller
David I can’t even tell you how much my blood pressure spiked when I first read this comment. 😂
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This is amazing! I’d love it if more graduate programs could follow suit.
Missed the announcement while I was on vacation, but super pleased that
@VUGradSchool
will start offering new PhD students a one-time stipend of $2,000 to help them get settled in Nashville before their first paycheck. Such an important initiative, kudos to everyone involved 🙏
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This is the Twitter content I'm here for. 😂
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I’m sorry, WHAT. 😳
Me: Good news! Our paper is out. I’ll make a thread about it later this week.
@NourKteily
: Not sure if you’ve seen this, but it’s already gone semi-viral.
Face images computed by averaging people's perceptions of their political out-group. Liberals' perception of conservatives (bottom right) is the one that's "not like the others."
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I'm about to interview prospective Ph.D. students for our program, and I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED(!!!).
Wish me luck. Or grace. Or good listening skills. Or maybe all three. 🙏🏻
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Professor Petsko is in, y’all. And he has a little over a hundred students receiving packs of materials that look just 👏🏻 like 👏🏻 these 👏🏻!!!
I’m trying to keep it casual but holy shit, this is so exciting.
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@JinXunGoh
Damn, I'm sorry Jin. This sucks.
Shame on this department and these utterly racist dynamics.
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We have a bias to assume that people who disagree with us are "bad at listening"—even they are, in fact, pretty *good* at listening.
Now in press at Psychological Science:
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I just received a surprise email from my undergraduate advisor, Jan Yoder (and it made my day!!).
Jan's mentorship, which started about 10 years ago, changed the course of my life. Thank you to Jan and to mentors like Jan. ❤️
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@pcxd13
A close friend texted me earlier today and was like “Chris I need to know specifically who this was.” 😂
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New research suggests that discussing political disagreement with strangers can be unexpectedly positive.
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Hot off the presses:
Politicians’ claims of “bias against Christians” is perceived as racially coded—as rhetoric that signals an allegiance with White interests without having to name race explicitly.
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Gay men are presumed young by default, whereas older men are presumed heterosexual by default.
Very interesting paper that offers an explanation as to why older gay men are overlooked in political discourse (as well as in psychological research):
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Yesterday's shooting at UNC makes me sad and angry.
But I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those of you who've been checking in via email, text, and Twitter. It means so much.
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Update: Paper number three has been rejected three times.
This is not how I dreamed it would be. 😂
I’m so excited! I had the goal of getting three first-author manuscripts under review before the start of job market season—
AND TODAY I JUST HIT SUBMIT ON PAPER NUMBER THREE. 🎉🥳
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Thank you to
@TheMorgenroth
,
@IndiaRJohnson
, and
@AshburnNardo
for organizing SPSP's gender preconference today! It's been a long time since I felt so much energy and warmth in a Zoom room, and I'm feeling super grateful for getting to be a part of it all.
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Oh wow, evidence of moral thin-slicing.
People make reliable moral judgments of others, even upon incredibly brief (< 100ms) exposure to others’ transgressions.
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Hi all,
The *incredible* Ashleigh Rosette is hiring a 2-year postdoc to begin July 1. The postdoc would have appointments in both the Fuqua School of Business and in the Cook Center on Social Equity. The deadline is soon (March 15).
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It's great to be here! And I'm grateful for this brief write-up for the Cook Center
@DukeSocialEQ
.
Welcome our new Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Christopher Petsko!
He holds appointments in both the Duke Fuqua School of Business and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity.
His sub-specialty is on the topic of intersectional stereotyping.
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Hi all,
This fall I'll be teaching a Ph.D. seminar on Stereotyping and Prejudice (at Work), and I want to do the topic justice!
If you or a colleague have a related syllabus that you'd be willing to share, I'd be so grateful. The more options for organizing content, the better.
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Me:
Please, just call me Chris. “Dr.” is so pretentious.
An email:
Dear Mr. Petsko,
Me:
Number one, it’s “Dr. Petsko.” Number two, how dare you.
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Next week: Six hours of teaching every day for six days.
The week after: PMIG (where I’m presenting!) and SESP.
I’m a little overwhelmed, but I’m also excited!! It isn’t every day that you get to feel so in-demand. 😂
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Master’s thesis: A play-by-play
June, 2016: Defended
July, 2016-Feb., 2019:
[New data, Re-drafting, Submitting, Rejection, New Data, Re-drafting, Resubmitting, R&R, New data, Re-submitting, R&R, Light edits, Resubmitting]
March, 2019: Accepted. 💪🏻
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It’s so exciting to be asked to give talks at other universities!
Stressful? For sure. But truly, truly gratifying. 🙏🏻
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I just taught my last class of term with a fabulous group of (107!) students and I’M not crying, YOU’RE crying. 🙏🏻 😭
My heart couldn’t be more full.
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The APS Rising Star list is out!! Congratulations to everyone who received this outstanding recognition!
(Looking at you
@jruck_psych
and
@ahbailey04
👀)
Congratulations to current and former lab members
@steverathje2
and
@william__brady
for being named APS
@PsychScience
Rising Stars ⭐️
What an incredible list of early career scholars—bravo to everyone on the list paving the future for the field!
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About a year ago I was chronicling the journey of a stubborn paper that kept getting rejected.
But it looks like it may actually find a home!! We’re in R&R land, y’all. 🥹
Update: Paper number three has been rejected three times.
This is not how I dreamed it would be. 😂
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Educators who talk about low-SES backgrounds as a source of strength have a positive influence on the motivation of their students.
Check out this fantastic paper by
@dm_silverman
and
@Ivan_AHernandez
! 👏
Very excited to share my recent paper with
@Ivan_AHernandez
and Mesmin Destin in PSPB! We show that teachers can be led to understand students’ lower-SES backgrounds as an asset, rather than a barrier, to their success. Teachers who recognize the unique strengths that [1/2]
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@dr_tofighi
Not yet, no. But I’m proud of the paper and I think we’ll end up getting it out soon.
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It needs to be said: Teaching can be great.
I can't believe this gets to be what I do for a living.
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1.4 million. There were *1.4 million* new cases recorded in the U.S. yesterday. Another one-day record.😳
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I had so much fun chatting with
@AndyLuttrell5
on Opinion Science!
If you have an interest in intersectional approaches to psychological science, and to the study of stereotyping in particular, give this episode a listen!
Ep 55!
@chris_petsko
shares his research on intersectional stereotyping. Stereotypes can be simple guides in forming quick impressions of people, but which ones do people turn when forming these judgments?
Apple Pods:
Web:
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I logged 208.25 hours of dedicated writing time this year!
This is the first year that I’ve tracked start to finish, and I’m feeling super proud of the progress. 💪🏻
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Every step of this collaboration with
@nelsen_matt
was wonderful. I truly can’t recommend him enough as a co-author. 👏🏻
Also, check out this summary of our recent paper! Much of what rural consciousness can explain in political attitudes may be reducible to racial prejudice.
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Check out this new paper by rising star
@emmamcgorray
!!! 🥳
Emma and I started working on this just before I left Northwestern, and it’s SO exciting to finally see it in press.
New paper in SPPS from me &
@chris_petsko
! In 3 studies, we examined the extent to which people view bisexual individuals as similar to gay and heterosexual individuals, with a particular interest in whether this differs by the bisexual target's gender.
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That’s a wrap on AOM 2022! I had so much fun celebrating with old friends and making new ones. ❤️
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Update: Troy and I just met, and he's SO COOL, and I think we're going to work together, and I just want the world to keep an eye out for him as he rises. 🌟🌈
Oh my gosh, this made my day! What a cool initiative by
@SPSPnews
.
Also, Troy, if you ever want to collaborate. 👀
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@JaclynASiegel
The best piece of advice I got (that I wish I’d been better about following) was to limit searching for job postings to just one day per week. It’s just so easy to let the market become all-consuming.
Also, to read
@ProfessorIsIn
. It’s a great no-bs resource.
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Incidentally, I HAVEN’T HAD A PRODUCTIVE MONTH SINCE JULY. (And I’m maybe losing my mind a little bit. 🙃🥲😂)
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Thanks to
@Sakiera_Hudson
for low-key putting together this symposium and for being such a cheerleader!
Second talk in the
#intersectionality
symposium by
@chris_petsko
! Such great work on the intersection of race and sexual orientation. Stereotypes of black and Latino gay men are influenced by affluence beliefs that to be gay is to be high status
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Oh my gosh, this made my day! What a cool initiative by
@SPSPnews
.
Also, Troy, if you ever want to collaborate. 👀
We're marking
@APA
#PsychologyWeek
by asking SPSP members about psychologists who inspire them. Troy Kearse, a PhD student at
@HowardU
and
@SPSPGSC
member would like to shout out
@cmasonsteele
,
@chris_petsko
,
@jdremedios
, and Keith Maddox (
@MaddBlackProf
)!
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Once again, the Supreme Court makes an absolutely despicable decision.
And once again, the American people are let down by a judicial system that was meant to serve them.
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education.
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It was game over from the moment she put on her glasses. 😂
I just know my sis is rich rich 🥰 love that for her
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Wow, this is huge! Epstein-Barr (the virus that causes mono), might be the main cause of multiple sclerosis.
The data source is a longitudinal cohort of over 10 million young adults.
Phenomenal paper just published in Science persuasively demonstrating that EBV causes most if not all multiple sclerosis.
Phenomenal epidemiological design and technical achievement. 👏
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On a personal note, I can definitely relate to the idea of finding psychological safety in academic achievement.
It wasn’t until I started doing well in school that I had the confidence to come out of the closet.
Men’s academic underperformance has been back in the news.
In new research, I show that there is one group of American men who have, for generations, achieved remarkable levels of academic success: gay men.
A 🧵:
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Really fascinating data suggesting that racial bias on the IAT plummets when participants are categorizing faces by gender, and that gender bias on the IAT plummets when participants are categorizing faces by race.
The Role of Explicit Categorization in the Implicit Association Test
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Check out these new beauties!
Matt and I picked them out as a reward for finishing a 6-day teaching stint.
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I cannot get over the fact that on the NY Times home page, you can sort Trump investigation news by which major crime you want to read up on. 🙃🤡
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I’d love to see Reject with Contempt.
Encouragement is *not* a guarantee. 😂
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This is a cool meta-analysis on what best predicts the attainment of social status over time.
The good news? Being competent and having clear morals is correlated with gaining status over time. The bad news? So is pretending to have these attributes.
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I just had the delightful experience of learning about a paper that not only cites my papers, but does so correctly (with detail on what I found!).
My word, what a feeling. 😎
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Greater economic inequality weakens our belief that political leaders care about our interests.
As a result, it also lowers how much we even care about our leaders being competent.
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I’ve just started receiving student emails for my upcoming Negotiations course (the term begins in six days), and it’s SO THRILLING to interact with these students!
Their excitement = my excitement.
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