Gijs Bijlstra
@gijsbijlstra.bsky.social
Social Psychologist | Radboud University | Behavioural Science Institute | RaFD | Radboud Social Cognition Lab
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Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities
Every year, billions of people celebrate Christmas all over the world – a religious event that is characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic envi...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
New publication: “Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning”
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning
Recognising emotional expressions is important for successful social interactions. Prior research has demonstrated that emotion recognition is influenced by evaluative associations people have with...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
New publication: “Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning”
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
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Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
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Digitaal Volkskrant-abonnement wordt gratis voor studenten
Digitaal Volkskrant-abonnement wordt gratis voor studenten
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October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Digitaal Volkskrant-abonnement wordt gratis voor studenten
There were no databases available with these two emotions for both social groups. With the help of Jeroen Derks (MPI, Nijmegen), we created computer-generated faces for our experiment. See below for some examples—in total, we created 4 individuals per group.
June 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There were no databases available with these two emotions for both social groups. With the help of Jeroen Derks (MPI, Nijmegen), we created computer-generated faces for our experiment. See below for some examples—in total, we created 4 individuals per group.
Vandaag is het 25 jaar geleden dat in Enschede de vuurwerkramp plaatsvond. Ik kan de dag me nog goed herinneren.
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De Vuurwerkramp
Geschiedenis podcast · Op 13 mei 2000 verandert Enschede voorgoed door de zogenoemde Vuurwerkramp. Een enorme explosie bij vuurwerkopslag SE Fireworks eist 23 levens, verwondt duizenden mensen en verw...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Vandaag is het 25 jaar geleden dat in Enschede de vuurwerkramp plaatsvond. Ik kan de dag me nog goed herinneren.
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I'm looking for a face database with White and Black male models expressing anger and sadness. Does anyone have any recommendations?
May 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I'm looking for a face database with White and Black male models expressing anger and sadness. Does anyone have any recommendations?
I am pleased to share that Tjits' 1st chapter of her PhD research has been published! We show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. The project was led by @tjitsvanlent.bsky.social in collaboration with Harm Veling, Rob Holland and @erikbij.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I am pleased to share that Tjits' 1st chapter of her PhD research has been published! We show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. The project was led by @tjitsvanlent.bsky.social in collaboration with Harm Veling, Rob Holland and @erikbij.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Come work with us!
Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.
Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.
March 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Come work with us!
Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.
Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.
I really enjoyed listening to this podcast on recent contact research findings. 👇
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Shades of Contact: New Evidence on Positive and Negative Contact
In this episode, we discuss new evidence on positive and negative contact - including whether "bad is stronger than good", whether we need to move beyond the simple labels of "positive" and "negative"...
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March 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I really enjoyed listening to this podcast on recent contact research findings. 👇
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open.substack.com/pub/contactr...
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Nijmegen kleurt rood! Vandaag staken we aan de Radboud Universiteit tegen de ongekende bezuinigingen van dit kabinet op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap. Samen met studenten en collega’s van de Hogeschool Arnhem en Artez 🟥💪 #WOinActie
March 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Nijmegen kleurt rood! Vandaag staken we aan de Radboud Universiteit tegen de ongekende bezuinigingen van dit kabinet op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap. Samen met studenten en collega’s van de Hogeschool Arnhem en Artez 🟥💪 #WOinActie
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Contact Researchers: What are your preferred control conditions for imagined contact interventions?
February 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Contact Researchers: What are your preferred control conditions for imagined contact interventions?
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Why do we have prejudices? How are they created? In this episode of In a Nutshell, Jara learns that stereotypes are not only bad. With her guest, @gijsbijlstra.bsky.social, she embarks on a journey to understand the power of prejudices, what we can use them for, and when we need to overcome them.
In a Nutshell, s.2 e.9: Powerful prejudices with Gijs Bijlstra - Vox magazine
In the Vox podcast In a Nutshell, hosts Jara Majerus and Antonia Leise take a deep dive into the university's most interesting, strange, and exciting research. Every two weeks, they invite Radboud res...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Why do we have prejudices? How are they created? In this episode of In a Nutshell, Jara learns that stereotypes are not only bad. With her guest, @gijsbijlstra.bsky.social, she embarks on a journey to understand the power of prejudices, what we can use them for, and when we need to overcome them.
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#STEHTAUF, wenn Ihr Menschen seid! | FC Schalke 04
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February 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🔸 Call for Papers 🔸
“Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation”
To appear in a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology
Further Info: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id...
“Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation”
To appear in a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology
Further Info: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id...
January 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🔸 Call for Papers 🔸
“Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation”
To appear in a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology
Further Info: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id...
“Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation”
To appear in a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology
Further Info: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id...
I am pleased to share that Social Cognition has accepted our work, titled 'Causal Inference for Dummies: A Tutorial on Directed Acyclic Graphs and Balancing Weight.' The project was led by @maxprimbs.bsky.social. For more info, see his excellent thread and the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps....
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I am pleased to share that Social Cognition has accepted our work, titled 'Causal Inference for Dummies: A Tutorial on Directed Acyclic Graphs and Balancing Weight.' The project was led by @maxprimbs.bsky.social. For more info, see his excellent thread and the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps....
Deze concertregistratie van de Multitude tour van Stromae is zó ontzettend mooi ❤️
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Stromae - Multitude, le film (Full concert)
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December 20, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Deze concertregistratie van de Multitude tour van Stromae is zó ontzettend mooi ❤️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Wg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Wg...
I am very happy to share our latest paper on how situations can shape implicit biases and behavior—another project led by the amazing @maxprimbs.bsky.social. For more info on the manuscript, see his excellent thread below. 👇
New paper out in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.
We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.
December 17, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I am very happy to share our latest paper on how situations can shape implicit biases and behavior—another project led by the amazing @maxprimbs.bsky.social. For more info on the manuscript, see his excellent thread below. 👇
Several Radboud Social Cognition Lab members presented their research at the ASPO conference last week in Groningen. Seeing Afreen Khalid, Joël Hendrix, and Tjits van Lent present their wonderful research projects made me a very proud supervisor. 😊
December 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Several Radboud Social Cognition Lab members presented their research at the ASPO conference last week in Groningen. Seeing Afreen Khalid, Joël Hendrix, and Tjits van Lent present their wonderful research projects made me a very proud supervisor. 😊
Happy to be at ASPO 2024 in Groningen! The Dutch social psychology conference 🙂
December 12, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Happy to be at ASPO 2024 in Groningen! The Dutch social psychology conference 🙂
Volgende week ga ik samen met @jelliesierksma.bsky.social een bijdrage leveren aan deze meet up van Het Klokhuis over hokjesdenken, vooroordelen en stereotypen 🍏 🎓
Wat zijn vooroordelen en waarom hebben we ze? Dit gaan we 17 december bespreken met leerlingen uit groep 7 en 8 tijdens de Meet Up van het @klokhuis.bsky.social
Elke school kan de interactieve livestream volgen 👇https://hetklokhuis.nl/dossier/149/klokhuis-meet-up/855/hokjesdenken-17-december
Elke school kan de interactieve livestream volgen 👇https://hetklokhuis.nl/dossier/149/klokhuis-meet-up/855/hokjesdenken-17-december
Klokhuis Meet Up - Hokjesdenken | 17 december
Homepage van Het Klokhuis.
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December 11, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Volgende week ga ik samen met @jelliesierksma.bsky.social een bijdrage leveren aan deze meet up van Het Klokhuis over hokjesdenken, vooroordelen en stereotypen 🍏 🎓
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New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
December 5, 2024 at 3:56 PM
New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
I'm looking for software that can morph two emotional faces for a research project. Does anyone have any suggestions?
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 AM
I'm looking for software that can morph two emotional faces for a research project. Does anyone have any suggestions?