Kyle Ratner
@kyleratner.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
https://spl.psych.ucsb.edu
https://spl.psych.ucsb.edu
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🚨 New paper out! 🚨
Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity!
With @kyleratner.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...
Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity!
With @kyleratner.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...
youngkihong.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity!
With @kyleratner.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...
Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity!
With @kyleratner.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...
Could not be happier for former honors student Anna Sofia Guerra!!!! Anna Sofia just accepted an offer to be a Project Coordinator in Keely Muscatell's lab at UNC!!!
August 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Could not be happier for former honors student Anna Sofia Guerra!!!! Anna Sofia just accepted an offer to be a Project Coordinator in Keely Muscatell's lab at UNC!!!
This paper holds a special place in my heart. I was working on an earlier draft (almost 3 years ago!) when my wife went into labor with my son. We still call him Bouba, although lately he has been more of a Kiki ;)
New paper out in JEP:G with Allison Auten and @kyleratner.bsky.social
youngkihong.com/uploads/jepg...
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com/uploads/jepg...
A thread 🧵
youngkihong.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This paper holds a special place in my heart. I was working on an earlier draft (almost 3 years ago!) when my wife went into labor with my son. We still call him Bouba, although lately he has been more of a Kiki ;)
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Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.
Home
colorado.edu
June 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Excited to be chairing my first ever symposium today at #SPSP2025! We have a great lineup including Suraiya Allidina, @kyleratner.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social. Come check it out! @spspnews.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Excited to be chairing my first ever symposium today at #SPSP2025! We have a great lineup including Suraiya Allidina, @kyleratner.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social. Come check it out! @spspnews.bsky.social
Caught a bit of this On Point episode about de-churching. Challenges some of the CW that de-churching is only a phenomenon of the political left. A lot of food for thought for political psychologists www.wbur.org/radio/progra...
Next episode
The latest show topics from On Point, updated daily.
www.wbur.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Caught a bit of this On Point episode about de-churching. Challenges some of the CW that de-churching is only a phenomenon of the political left. A lot of food for thought for political psychologists www.wbur.org/radio/progra...
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“The system has become so instrumentalized—How can this help me succeed?—that deeper questions about meaning/purpose are off the table, questions like: How do I become a generous human? How do I lead a life of meaning? How do I build good character?”-David Brooks www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM
“The system has become so instrumentalized—How can this help me succeed?—that deeper questions about meaning/purpose are off the table, questions like: How do I become a generous human? How do I lead a life of meaning? How do I build good character?”-David Brooks www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
bib.experiments.kordinglab.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
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📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858
Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
November 11, 2024 at 1:06 PM
📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858
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Philip Zimbardo passed away this week at 91. The silence surrounding news of the passing of a scholar of his prominence is very unusual, but won't surprise many who question the authenticity his famous work. To me, it is an ending to a tragic tale of the pursuit of a meaningful intellectual legacy.
Philip Zimbardo Obituary (1933 - 2024) - Legacy Remembers
View Philip G. Zimbardo's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
October 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Philip Zimbardo passed away this week at 91. The silence surrounding news of the passing of a scholar of his prominence is very unusual, but won't surprise many who question the authenticity his famous work. To me, it is an ending to a tragic tale of the pursuit of a meaningful intellectual legacy.
Writing this was cathartic! Thank you to my parents & wife for encouraging me to share our story. I hope it resonates w/ others feeling the squeeze of academia, raising kids, & supporting aging parents. www.science.org/content/arti...
After a family health crisis during my sabbatical, I’m trying to embrace the positive
“Academia expects us to hit our professional stride when a lot of us are also trying to start families and support aging parents,” this professor writes
www.science.org
October 9, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Writing this was cathartic! Thank you to my parents & wife for encouraging me to share our story. I hope it resonates w/ others feeling the squeeze of academia, raising kids, & supporting aging parents. www.science.org/content/arti...
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For those interested, my department has a FULLY FUNDED Masters Program in Experimental Psychology. The deadline is February 1. Faculty support student interests in behavioral neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, and developmental psychology.
Feel free to share!
www.wm.edu/as/psych-sci...
Feel free to share!
www.wm.edu/as/psych-sci...
January 3, 2024 at 8:08 PM
For those interested, my department has a FULLY FUNDED Masters Program in Experimental Psychology. The deadline is February 1. Faculty support student interests in behavioral neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, and developmental psychology.
Feel free to share!
www.wm.edu/as/psych-sci...
Feel free to share!
www.wm.edu/as/psych-sci...
Yet another beautifully rigorous paper by Youngki Hong that I had the fortune of working on with him! #psychscisky
spl.psych.ucsb.edu
January 2, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Yet another beautifully rigorous paper by Youngki Hong that I had the fortune of working on with him! #psychscisky
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Attention neuroscientsts!
We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
neurosynth compose
Neurosynth-Compose App
compose.neurosynth.org
November 28, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Attention neuroscientsts!
We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
Ohio State v Michigan rn! Makes me wonder do these “controlled intergroup conflicts” work like prescribed burns to remove the fuel underlying our racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, us v them competitive nature, etc or instead primes the pump for more??? Depends on whether your team wins the game?!
November 25, 2023 at 6:05 PM
Ohio State v Michigan rn! Makes me wonder do these “controlled intergroup conflicts” work like prescribed burns to remove the fuel underlying our racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, us v them competitive nature, etc or instead primes the pump for more??? Depends on whether your team wins the game?!
📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu
November 16, 2023 at 8:08 PM
📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu
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Does the public hate experiments?
No!
"We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at scale."
Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on support of experimentation
www.iza.org/publications...
No!
"We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at scale."
Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on support of experimentation
www.iza.org/publications...
October 18, 2023 at 2:12 AM
Does the public hate experiments?
No!
"We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at scale."
Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on support of experimentation
www.iza.org/publications...
No!
"We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at scale."
Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on support of experimentation
www.iza.org/publications...
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🚨 Science Resources for BlueSky 🚨
Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.
#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.
Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.
#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.
BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
Sheet1
Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list
11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...
docs.google.com
September 28, 2023 at 7:18 AM
🚨 Science Resources for BlueSky 🚨
Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.
#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.
Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.
#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.
Recs for a free social media aggregator to embed posts on my lab website (my old posts from twitter & potentially new ones here)? I use the feed of these posts to share news on my lab website and don't want recent twitter ones to disappear if switch to posting w/ Bluesky. Thanks for any suggestions!
October 6, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Recs for a free social media aggregator to embed posts on my lab website (my old posts from twitter & potentially new ones here)? I use the feed of these posts to share news on my lab website and don't want recent twitter ones to disappear if switch to posting w/ Bluesky. Thanks for any suggestions!
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Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share!
resourcesdatabase.com
#RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R
resourcesdatabase.com
#RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R
resouRces - resouRces: Database of Resources to Learn & Teach R
resourcesdatabase.com
September 27, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share!
resourcesdatabase.com
#RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R
resourcesdatabase.com
#RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R