Thekla Morgenroth
@theklamorgenroth.bsky.social
Assistant professor of social psychology at Purdue. Obsessed with my cat Kartoffel. Recruiting a grad student for Fall 2026!
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I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
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Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...
Department of Psychological Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
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October 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...
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🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026
Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders!
Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents!
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Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders!
Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents!
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Preconferences | SPSP
Explore SPSP Annual Convention preconferences—specialized sessions offering in-depth insights, networking, and collaboration in personality and social psychology.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026
Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders!
Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents!
ow.ly/xPHL50X68mH
Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders!
Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents!
ow.ly/xPHL50X68mH
New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people!
⬇️ Please see the full call below
We are very grateful for all contributions!
#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky
⬇️ Please see the full call below
We are very grateful for all contributions!
#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people!
⬇️ Please see the full call below
We are very grateful for all contributions!
#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky
⬇️ Please see the full call below
We are very grateful for all contributions!
#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky
Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist
Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.
Are you a social psychologist who studies gender? We invite you to complete a 15-minute voluntary and anonymous survey about your experiences with publishing your research. 1/x
September 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.
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#Psychjobs
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
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August 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#Psychjobs
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
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August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.
Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12):
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950
Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology
Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...
arxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.
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"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy.
spsp.org/news/charact...
#socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil
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#socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil
Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies | SPSP
Society polices women’s bodies through morality—holding them to standards men don’t have to follow.
spsp.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy.
spsp.org/news/charact...
#socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil
spsp.org/news/charact...
#socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil
Character & Context piece about our work on the moralization of women's bodies: spsp.org/news/charact...
Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies | SPSP
Society polices women’s bodies through morality—holding them to standards men don’t have to follow.
spsp.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Character & Context piece about our work on the moralization of women's bodies: spsp.org/news/charact...
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
March 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
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Come visit my poster at the LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe pre-con #SPSP2025! I'd love to tell you about my work on prototypes of nonbinary people.
February 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Come visit my poster at the LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe pre-con #SPSP2025! I'd love to tell you about my work on prototypes of nonbinary people.
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Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you!
Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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January 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you!
Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
First paper of 2025! Very grateful that I was asked to write a commentary on Jackson & Bussey (2024): "Conceptualizing transgender experiences in psychology: Do we have a ‘true’ gender?" (which is great and y'all should read!): bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
First paper of 2025! Very grateful that I was asked to write a commentary on Jackson & Bussey (2024): "Conceptualizing transgender experiences in psychology: Do we have a ‘true’ gender?" (which is great and y'all should read!): bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Now published (open access)! 😀https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3136
December 23, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Now published (open access)! 😀https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3136
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🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨
Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships?
If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships?
If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
December 22, 2024 at 1:27 PM
🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨
Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships?
If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships?
If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
Just reading through my students evaluations. This is exactly the kind of comment I want: "Really enjoyed the class! A great part of class were the times of exams and having the pictures of the instructors cats up." 😁
December 22, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Just reading through my students evaluations. This is exactly the kind of comment I want: "Really enjoyed the class! A great part of class were the times of exams and having the pictures of the instructors cats up." 😁
Super excited that our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" (with @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, and Abi Click) was just accepted at JPSP! What an exciting way to end the semester!
December 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Super excited that our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" (with @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, and Abi Click) was just accepted at JPSP! What an exciting way to end the semester!
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To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does.
Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne
Psychology's infamous bully
jimcoan.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:03 PM
To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does.
Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.
December 6, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.
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Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.
December 2, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.
So proud of @kirameans.bsky.social ! Go read this article in which we explore how power and status in social psychology (and psychology more broadly) is tied to the gender/sex binary.
December 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
So proud of @kirameans.bsky.social ! Go read this article in which we explore how power and status in social psychology (and psychology more broadly) is tied to the gender/sex binary.
New paper! "Heteroprofessionalism: The Power of the Gender/Sex Binary in the Workplace" with the magical @teriak.bsky.social and Jojanneke van der Toorn. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 23, 2024 at 5:44 PM
New paper! "Heteroprofessionalism: The Power of the Gender/Sex Binary in the Workplace" with the magical @teriak.bsky.social and Jojanneke van der Toorn. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...