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Lewis Doyle
@lewisdoyle.bsky.social
Social Psychologist and Cat Whisperer.
Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey.
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Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.

With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.

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Could AI feedback in education damage teacher-student relationships?

Our interview study suggests that teachers’ & students’ concerns about AI go way beyond its perceived reliability.

Find out more here: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

With @drrobnash.bsky.social, Viktoria Jakcsiova, and Ellen Turner.
‘They want You to Read Their Work’: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives on the Use of AI for School Feedback - Technology, Knowledge and Learning
Providing feedback is time-consuming for teachers, but new Artificial Intelligence tools aim to reduce this burden and improve feedback quality. We asked teachers (N = 12) to trial an AI tool for prov...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds

‼️ Recent work by Lewis Doyle, Andrei Cimpian, Louise Goupil & Sébastien Goudeau
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September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Preschool-aged kids whose parents are working class are less likely to be called on when they raise their hand compared to kids with middle/upper class occupations.

Early socialization indeed.
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From @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social

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September 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Whether students played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out, they were less likely to have their participation attempts accepted if they came from a working-class background”

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September 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New in @pnas.org.

Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.

With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
September 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Examining How White Teachers’ Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Their Self-Efficacy and School Choices: Learn how teacher education programs can incorporate cross-racial engagement to provide all students with equitable educations.

➡️ bit.ly/4lVo18Y
August 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@bpsofficial.bsky.social have written a nice piece about the impact of our work on biases in education: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist....

Check out the original research here: doi.org/10.1111/bjep...
'We have a duty to carry out socially relevant research' | BPS
Ella Rhodes reports on the impact for British Psychological Society journals.
www.bps.org.uk
June 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪

Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...
May 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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New blogpost looking at the psychology of felt safety at live music events: tinyurl.com/4kcs7x2p. Draws on interview, ethnographic and survey data. With @profjohndrury.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Danielle Evans, Fiona Green, @sanjeedah.bsky.social and @lewisdoyle.bsky.social.
April 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Two days before learning that “research programs based on gender identity […] do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans” and seeing my NIH grant terminated, I had a paper published on male defaults: [1/2]
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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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March 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I recently spoke to @samdenno-twinkl.bsky.social about some of my research on bias in education. Check out the podcast here: tinyurl.com/4jyyxusw
March 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Published on the day I presented it at #SPSP2025!

Three studies (N = 1,608) with @lindatropp.bsky.social and @matteasters.bsky.social showing the potential of interracial contact experiences to increase White teachers' self-efficacy and reduce racial bias in school choices.

doi.org/10.3102/0013...
February 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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This TICS paper turned out to be unexpectedly timely... We could have called it "Why DEI and Merit Go Hand in Hand" given recent developments... Valuing diversity and excellence/merit aren't opposing forces -- they're complementary.
February 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Our pre-print is now available on our research into experiences of disruptive behaviour at live music events. Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social Hanna Eldarwish, Danielle Evans, Fi Green & Jane Wen
February 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New paper in @easpinfo.bsky.social with @matteasters.bsky.social detailing an empathy intervention with teachers in England.

Students (notably boys) whose teacher had been encouraged to make them feel valued and heard had better end of year behavioural records.

doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
An Empathy Intervention Reduces the Gender Gap in School Discipline and Facilitates Belonging
School disciplinary sanctions increase sharply during adolescence, with students from certain backgrounds disproportionately affected. Strong teacher–student relationships that cultivate trust, respe...
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January 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New paper with an amazing team on the allure of the meritocracy belief. Our intuition tells us that effort brings about success in life (of course it does), but this oversimplification ignores important external factors and threatens to perpetuate inequalities.
doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.12.008
January 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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👋 New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: "Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive"

I learned a lot from my co-authors, a fabulous group of experts on meritocratic beliefs 👇 Fun fact: This paper grew out of a 2023 symposium at @easpinfo.bsky.social in Krakow.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
January 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM