Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
@drlarisa.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com
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How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
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#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
I was talking to a friend about the review process and I told them sometimes you just run into the wrong reviewer. It ain’t always you. 🤷🏾♂️
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was talking to a friend about the review process and I told them sometimes you just run into the wrong reviewer. It ain’t always you. 🤷🏾♂️
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
📰Newly Published:
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
From loss to closer bonds: Pregnancy loss and the emotional bonds with children in later life - Ella Cohn-Schwartz, 2025
Having a pregnancy end without a live baby can result in mixed effects to the relationship with one’s living children, but this has mostly been examined in the ...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📰Newly Published:
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Thank you to @larabuchak.net for sharing her work on faith in our lab meeting today! Super interesting thoughts on what faith is, what its relationship to evidence is/should be, & whether it's ever rational to rely on faith. More info here: www.larabuchak.net.
Lara Buchak
www.larabuchak.net
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thank you to @larabuchak.net for sharing her work on faith in our lab meeting today! Super interesting thoughts on what faith is, what its relationship to evidence is/should be, & whether it's ever rational to rely on faith. More info here: www.larabuchak.net.
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I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Kids with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar
YouTube video by 10 Seconds To Air
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November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
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🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thank you to @ryanlei.bsky.social & other Haverford folks for the chance to visit this week! Haverford students are amazing. My former lab manager Aaron Cohen was a Haverford grad & visit gave me a chance to talk about his work on redemption: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Yay!
columbiasamclab.weebly.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thank you to @ryanlei.bsky.social & other Haverford folks for the chance to visit this week! Haverford students are amazing. My former lab manager Aaron Cohen was a Haverford grad & visit gave me a chance to talk about his work on redemption: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Yay!
Thank you to @davidamodio.bsky.social for chatting with my FAQs about Life seminar about nifty work, first-authored by @davidschultner.bsky.social, on the transmission of societal stereotypes to individual prejudice. Paper is here if you want to learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...!
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Thank you to @davidamodio.bsky.social for chatting with my FAQs about Life seminar about nifty work, first-authored by @davidschultner.bsky.social, on the transmission of societal stereotypes to individual prejudice. Paper is here if you want to learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...!
Once I get to know students in my seminars, they live in my head during class prep, and I'm often guessing what they will think about the readings. Doing that now and can't wait to see how much my guesses line up with the class discussion we'll have during the week.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Once I get to know students in my seminars, they live in my head during class prep, and I'm often guessing what they will think about the readings. Doing that now and can't wait to see how much my guesses line up with the class discussion we'll have during the week.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about national identity are ultimately more oriented toward racial rather than religious considerations.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Race over Religion: Christian Nationalism and Perceived Threats to National Unity - Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead, Joshua B. Grubbs, 2024
Building on the insight that American religion is fundamentally “raced” and “complex,” we theorize American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “rac...
journals.sagepub.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about national identity are ultimately more oriented toward racial rather than religious considerations.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Big thank you to Fasika Hailu for sharing her work with my lab today! Interesting findings showing that participants respond more favorably to Black immigrants as compared with native-born Black Americans. More info here: depts.washington.edu/sibl/.
depts.washington.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Big thank you to Fasika Hailu for sharing her work with my lab today! Interesting findings showing that participants respond more favorably to Black immigrants as compared with native-born Black Americans. More info here: depts.washington.edu/sibl/.
Next office hours are 11/6 10-12 Eastern. More info in thread below, sign-ups here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... Hope to see many of you!
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Next office hours are 11/6 10-12 Eastern. More info in thread below, sign-ups here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... Hope to see many of you!
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
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Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Religion Is Sometimes Raced: #Christian #Nationalism as In-Group #Protection
By @brooklynwalker.bsky.social, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, Brian R. Calfano, Andrew R. Lewis & @aesokhey.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
#Religion Is Sometimes Raced: #Christian #Nationalism as In-Group #Protection
By @brooklynwalker.bsky.social, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, Brian R. Calfano, Andrew R. Lewis & @aesokhey.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Religion Is Sometimes Raced: #Christian #Nationalism as In-Group #Protection
By @brooklynwalker.bsky.social, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, Brian R. Calfano, Andrew R. Lewis & @aesokhey.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
#Religion Is Sometimes Raced: #Christian #Nationalism as In-Group #Protection
By @brooklynwalker.bsky.social, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, Brian R. Calfano, Andrew R. Lewis & @aesokhey.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit!
We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Developmental Perspective on the Racial Socialization of White Children: Linguistic and Social‐Cognitive Considerations
While there is growing consensus that it is important to talk about race and racism with children (a process called racial socialization)—particularly with White children—what to say when having thes...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit!
We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Me, some days: Wow, I can't believe how much I am getting done today! It feels good to cross so many things off my to-do list! *whistles happily*
Next day, every single time: My brain does not work at all today. I wonder why, no one can tell, it will be a mystery forever.
#AcademicSky
Next day, every single time: My brain does not work at all today. I wonder why, no one can tell, it will be a mystery forever.
#AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Me, some days: Wow, I can't believe how much I am getting done today! It feels good to cross so many things off my to-do list! *whistles happily*
Next day, every single time: My brain does not work at all today. I wonder why, no one can tell, it will be a mystery forever.
#AcademicSky
Next day, every single time: My brain does not work at all today. I wonder why, no one can tell, it will be a mystery forever.
#AcademicSky
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...
Thank you so much to Kyle Dobson for visiting with my lab today & sharing work on civilian-police interactions. Super helpful to think about these interactions at multiple levels of analysis & from both police & civilian perspectives! More about Kyle's fabulous work here: kyleshdobson.com.
Kyle S. H. Dobson, Ph.D.
Personal Website
kyleshdobson.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you so much to Kyle Dobson for visiting with my lab today & sharing work on civilian-police interactions. Super helpful to think about these interactions at multiple levels of analysis & from both police & civilian perspectives! More about Kyle's fabulous work here: kyleshdobson.com.
Thank you to @anahidmodrek.bsky.social for visiting with my FAQs about Life seminar this week! We read her fabulous work with @tanialombrozo.bsky.social showing positive effects of explaining on test scores & appreciated chatting with her about this research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Allow Me to Explain: Benefits of Explaining Extend to Distal Academic Performance
How does the act of explaining influence learning? Prior work has studied effects of explaining through a predominantly proximal lens, measuring short-term outcomes or manipulations within lab settin...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thank you to @anahidmodrek.bsky.social for visiting with my FAQs about Life seminar this week! We read her fabulous work with @tanialombrozo.bsky.social showing positive effects of explaining on test scores & appreciated chatting with her about this research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology."
Introduction to PSPR Special Issue
@jadler.bsky.social
Introduction to PSPR Special Issue
@jadler.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology."
Introduction to PSPR Special Issue
@jadler.bsky.social
Introduction to PSPR Special Issue
@jadler.bsky.social