Colin Tucker Smith

@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social

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Dad and partner | Associate Professor, University of Florida | implicit social cognition | reading and tennis | he/him

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 8d

Course evaluations are in and I got the following comment:

"He gave such wholesome dad vibes."

I have many competing thoughts about this [insert 2025-appropriate indicator of laughter here].

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate

The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...

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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt , and 4 more Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt, Jason Reifler, Sara Wallace Goodman, Colin Tucker Smith, David Darmofal

Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 10d

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life.

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Reposted by Calvin K. Lai, Colin Tucker Smith

Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 11d

New paper out with Heidi Vuletich and Ayla Winegar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We discuss public policy implications of the Bias of Crowds model: How do environments activate and perpetuate biases and what can we do against it?

Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions: How Regional Variation in Implicit Bias Can Inform Public Policy - Heidi A. Vuletich, Maximilian A. Primbs, Ayla Winegar, 2025

Traditional psychological approaches to reduce discrimination typically focus on addressing the biases of people. This paper recommends policies aimed at changi...

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Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, David A. Broniatowski, William J. Brady , and 4 more Rebecca Solnit, David A. Broniatowski, William J. Brady, Calvin K. Lai, Christopher R. Matthews, Colin Tucker Smith, Sylvia Perry

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
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It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Abstract

When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Colin Tucker Smith

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 23d

👩‍🎓Students: How does summer in Scotland sound?

There's still time to apply for the 2026 Summer School of Personality Science in Edinburgh, hosted by the European Association of Personality Psychology!

Apply here before December 15: https://ow.ly/bjxE50XBksg

Narrow cobblestone street lined with historic stone buildings and lush greenery under a cloudy sky.

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka , and 8 more Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka, Serge Guimond, Calvin K. Lai, Kate A. Ratliff, Eric Hehman, Richard Pettigrew, Marcus Credé, Colin Tucker Smith, David Darmofal

Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social · 24d

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 29d

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except for the student who submitted a 3-point Reflection assignment with their ChatGPT prompt included.

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Cool, that should fix everything!

NCAA now won't allow athletes to bet on pro sports

NCAA athletes and athletic department staff will not be allowed to bet on professional sports after the organization's membership voted as of Friday to rescind a rule change that would have permitted ...

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 21

Paperclip is to Bush era as Copilot is to Trump era.

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 21

Look, this is bad for many reasons, but also there seems to be no bottom to the “expertise doesn’t matter” push.

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go.

Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money!

Just (un)believable.

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YOU BE THE JUDGE | Department of Justice

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Nov 21

YOU BE THE JUDGE | Department of Justice

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 20

Dear students: Having ChatGPT write your email to me is backfiring.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Colin Tucker Smith

Michael Barlev @mbarlev.bsky.social · Nov 18

We're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM.

Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions.

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Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt , and 6 more Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez, Calvin K. Lai, Michael W. Kraus, Andrew Livingstone, Nazita Lajevardi, Colin Tucker Smith

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Nov 17

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 17

Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b

Reposted by Daxton R. Stewart

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 14

His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

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Jim Ryan letter

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Reposted by Olivier Corneille, Eric Hehman, Colin Tucker Smith

Mayan Navon-Shapira @mayanna.bsky.social · Nov 14

🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social:

Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?

👉 Read the full paper
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Reposted by Marc Lynch, Rosemary A. Joyce, Andrew Jacobs , and 1 more Marc Lynch, Rosemary A. Joyce, Andrew Jacobs, Colin Tucker Smith

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Jim Ryan letter

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 14

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DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor

Officials say it’s an effort to reduce costs and boost student outcomes, though the Florida governor wants to take down the “accreditation cartel.”

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · Nov 10

This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 2

I love a good bunt

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 2

This World Series has been unbelievable to follow.

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 2

Watching a baseball game that you care about is one of the best experiences in sportsfanness.

Reposted by Mirya R. Holman, Markus Wagner, Bessma Momani , and 4 more Mirya R. Holman, Markus Wagner, Bessma Momani, Jens Rydgren, Bonnie N. Field, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Tucker Smith

Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Oct 27

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.

What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?

My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Oct 26

So far, my favorite unexpected aspect of moving to Canada is how my daughters became huge baseball fans yesterday ❤️

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Rebecca Sear, Colin Tucker Smith

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Sep 30

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Lisa W. Fazio, John Drury , and 8 more Katharine Hayhoe, Lisa W. Fazio, John Drury, Gordon Hodson, Julie L. Lockwood, Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez, Michael W. Kraus, Lusine Grigoryan, Jill A. Jacobson, Colin Tucker Smith

Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Aug 18

This part of the semester where we contact all the people and make all the schedules does not, let's say, play to my strengths...

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · Aug 12

In this invited piece for PIBBS I argue that implicit bias education is not inherently worthless but often ineffective (counterproductive) in its current form. I offer recommendations to improve it by making it measurable, agentic, integrated, broad, & evidence-based (MAIBE): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Implicit (unintentional) biases related to social categories such as race, gender, and age are often seen as impediments to belonging and success in diverse organizations. Indeed, organizations around the world expend considerable effort and resources to implement educational programs with the stated goal of addressing — and even eradicating — such biases. However, in recent years, implicit bias education has come under scrutiny for several reasons, including via claims that implicit bias (a) is inherently unchangeable, (b) has no real-world analogs, (c) is unrelated to, and takes focus away from, biased behaviors, (d) provides an excuse for discrimination, and (e) is a structural problem and thus requires structural solutions. After refuting these critiques, I introduce the MAIBE checklist to help organizations decide if implicit bias education is worth their investment based on whether it (a) includes measurable benchmarks (rather than assuming success), (b) foregrounds epistemic agency (rather than treating individuals as passive consumers of information), (c) is integrated into a larger toolbox (rather than administered in isolation), (d) is broad (rather than light-touch), and (e) is evidence-based (rather than unscientific). I conclude by calling for extended collaboration between academic psychologists and organizational decision-makers to synergistically improve both basic science and institutional practices.

Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Aug 7

Mboko!

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