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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg
@dulcewestberg.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @UCDavisPsych | Formerly a postdoc @UMNPsych, graduated first-gen @UCRiverside | I study identity using an intersectional lens & narrative methods
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UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This special issue will be a BANGER!

Consider submitting your work linking context and dynamics to personality pathology.

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):
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September 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science:
mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️
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September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
📢 New paper out! Check it out if you are interested in how themes of agency and communion shape racial and ethnic experiences and correspond with this aspect of identity!

👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Agency and Communion in Racial/Ethnic Narratives and Relations With Racial/Ethnic Identity
Examining agency and communion in narratives about race and ethnicity can reveal how experiences of autonomy and connection shape the development of racial/ethnic identity. Across two studies of racia...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🚨 New article with infographic! Kindly retweet! The full article is open-access and available here: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Great new review on mixed-methods research in AMPPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Congrats to @syeducation.bsky.social and @dulcewestberg.bsky.social . We need more of this work across the different areas of psych science!
June 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Just awful.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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January 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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It is not "hard," it is unconstitutional.
January 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
opening R to do analyses on my own project after my first quarter as an assistant professor feels WAY too good right now...😅
December 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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New paper in Collabra from @nguyenllpsych.bsky.social's dissertation, "Assortative Mating Patterns Based on Longitudinal Trajectories of Personality Traits and Relationship-Specific Characteristics." Check it out, it's a good one!
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
December 3, 2024 at 3:05 PM
✨ Big news: My dissertation research is officially published! ✨

This work holds a special place in my heart - not only because it represents years of effort, but because it is a tribute to the incredible mentors who guided me 🩵

doi.org/10.1111/jopy...
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives
Objective This study draws on life narrative data and an intersectional framework to explore features of narratives around structural domains, aiming to better understand the possible impacts of the...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Can a happy partner keep stress at bay? A new study from our very own Tiko Yoneda finds that happiness in a relationship is linked to lower stress hormone levels in older couples. #UCDavis #RelationshipScience www.ucdavis.edu/news/new-stu...
New Study Finds Partner’s Happiness Linked to Lower Stress Hormone Levels in Older Couples
Having happy intimate partners might not only lift our moods, but it also helps us manage stress, especially as we age, according to new University of California, Davis, research.
www.ucdavis.edu
November 8, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Can’t recommend this paper enough!
An old paper, but now published in the diamond open access journal Personality Science, "Where are race, ethnicity, and culture in personality research?", a brief commentary exploring some reasons for the continued inattention to these issues. doi.org/10.1177/2700...
October 25, 2024 at 7:37 PM
🚨 Recruiting PhD Students 🚨
I am currently seeking motivated graduate students to join me in the Psych Dept at UC Davis in Fall 2025! I study how young adults narrate experiences with domains including race, ethnicity, and nationality in relation to psychological outcomes.
October 9, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Hello colleagues! I am prepping a course on Multicultural Psychology (first time!). Any must-read articles, books, or teaching materials on diverse perspectives? Please feel free to share!
August 28, 2024 at 7:45 PM
We @ucdavispsych.bsky.social are hiring an Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology! Take a look if you are interested and share with colleagues: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06660
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Developmental Psychology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
August 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Excited to share this paper that the wonderful @syeducation.bsky.social and I recently wrote on integrating personality psychology and intersectionality, out now at Social and Personality Psychology Compass!

doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons
Consideration of how interrelated social structures relate with personality has been limited. In this paper, we discuss how researchers might apply an intersectional framework–which uses a social jus....
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May 10, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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We'll likely have a 2-year postdoc position in our lab (MetaMelb) in psych at Melbourne Uni, starting later this year.
If you have a PhD, do relevant stuff, & want to spend 2 years in Melbourne studying psychology research methods & practices, please get in touch!
Please share!
April 16, 2024 at 12:44 AM
In two studies, we examined themes of agency & communion in racial/ethnic narratives among U.S. young adults in relation to racial/ethnic identity.

If you're at SPSP this week, come chat with me about what we found!
February 7, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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If you’re going to #SPSP2024 and you’re free on Saturday from 1-5pm, come join us to do some group peer reviews of preprints and get a $120 gift card and some timtams (if you don’t know what timtams are, that’s a good enough reason to come!)
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Going to SPSP2024? The repliCATS team is running a peer review training workshop led by @fidlerfm.bsky.social @simine.com
🗓️ 10 Feb, 1-5pm
❔ Review psych preprints using our structured protocol
👩‍💻 Work in groups
💰 US$120 for all participants + Timtams

To register: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/spsp-2...
January 31, 2024 at 1:21 AM