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Sally Xie
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Asst Prof at Simon Fraser University & Director of the Social-Cognitive Science Lab. I study how we make sense of others & ourselves in the modern world. https://socosci.com 🦉 https://sallyxie.org 🌌☯️🇨🇦🌺
Previously@ UofT • TMU • McGill • Princeton
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Sally Xie @xallysie.bsky.social · Nov 26
Hello!!👋 I'm Sally Xie. Excited to share that in a few weeks, I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor @SFU Psych! 🏞️ @sfufass.bsky.social

I'm recruiting a lab manager & my first grad student. If you're interested in social cognition/perception & transformative experiences, check out socosci.com🦉!
socosci
Xie Lab for Social Cognitive Science
socosci.com
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spspnews.bsky.social
Congrats to Abigail Cassario, one of the winners of SPSP's 2025 Student Publication Prize! Her research with Mark Brandt found minimal evidence that threats like unemployment, immigration, or COVID-19 shift people rightward.

Learn more: ow.ly/TunV50XhgP5
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October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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erichehman.bsky.social
We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here
1/n

guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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drmeltemyucel.bsky.social
Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us!

We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.
Moral Minds Lab - CHILDatabase Signup
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October 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology."

Introduction to PSPR Special Issue

@jadler.bsky.social
Since the inception of scientific psychology in the 19th century, the lead in conceptualizing scientific phenomena has been taken by scholars in Western contexts (North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand), who comprise only 11% of the world’s population. Today, the science and practice of psychology continue to be dominated by Western theoretical perspectives. Recognizing the necessity for inclusive excellence in the field and the barriers that Majority World scholars face in joining the global knowledge economy, Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) has taken several steps toward global inclusion. To further realize this goal, this Special Issue brings together nine contributions that reflect personality and social psychological theory rooted in diverse Majority World contexts, specifically stemming from African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, East and South Asian, and Indigenous American scholars. The contributions reflect several cross-cutting themes: the deeply historical contexts in which personality and social psychological phenomena play out in different geographies today; the important particularities of widely studied concepts in specific local contexts; and the dynamic interplay between individual people and the specificity of their social contexts. By curating indigenous concepts and theories, we aim to further catalyze dialogue across cultural distances in the field and to demonstrate how a decolonized editorial process can help promote inclusive science to improve the dominant perspectives in personality and social psychology.
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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jexpsocpsych.bsky.social
Looking to run more? A new paper by Emily Balcetis, Jordan Daley, Bradley Tao, &
Bryce Lexow highlights how to best finish that race! The takeaway? Runners get to the finish line by focusing on subgoals rather than the larger goal of completing the race

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
What motivates runners? Focusing on the “how” rather than the “why”
Many might think that when fatigue sets in during a running race, the key to perseverance is reminding oneself why the effort is worth it or focusing on reasons why they set the goal—intuition t...
www.eurekalert.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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spspnews.bsky.social
📣Just announced: Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a Special Issue focused on elevating theoretical perspectives from non-Western societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Learn more: ow.ly/6Z1O50X4Uug
New PSPR Special Issue Highlights Personality and Social Psychological Theory from the Majority World
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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youngkihong.bsky.social
Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
Postdoctoral Associate
jobs.colorado.edu
August 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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tiffanyito.bsky.social
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor
jobs.colorado.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Led by @chopwood.bsky.social, team (including @joaograca.bsky.social) showed that, across many countries:

✳️ greater #speciesism is associated with more right-leaning political ideology

(effect strongest in U.S.)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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spspnews.bsky.social
📊New research challenges assumptions about group favoritism. A study of 12K+ people across 45 non-Western countries finds economic inequality can lead people to favor advantaged outgroups over their own.

Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/Bkpx50WVb2G
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September 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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matanmazor.bsky.social
Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵👇
July 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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anuncivilphd.bsky.social
Who needs art history or Arfican American studies or cognitive science when you can learn how to amplify productivity with GenAI?
edburmila.bsky.social Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · Jul 23
Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.
July 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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rachitdubey.bsky.social
Headed to #CogSci2025 next week!

Interested in computational cognitive science applied to climate change and real-world policy? Come find me!

My lab at UCLA is recruiting 1–2 fully funded PhD students.

We work on:
• decision-making
• climate perception
• human–AI collaboration for policy design
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Meta-analytic support that success leads people to revise their goals upward and failure leads to downward revision. Very cool new model of the various moderators and mediators in these relationships, and what hypotheses follow. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of title page of an article published in Educational Psychologist titled "How (much) do people revise their goals after success and failure? The Triple-A model of goal revision."
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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winn-on-health.bsky.social
Well worth reading, IMO

I appreciate the multi-level, cross-correlated modelling described in the paper

#ConspiracyTheory
#Context
@realistresnevalgp.bsky.social
@crnetwork.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
xallysie.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to announce that the Social-Cognitive Science Lab is no longer operated solely by myself and a few imaginary creatures.
Welcome Cy Butler & Tomas Vanderkam to SoCoSci as we kick off our first year! socosci.com/blog/welcome...
Welcome Cy and Tom to the lab!
New peeps
socosci.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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spspnews.bsky.social
📈New meta-analysis reveals when "moral licensing" really happens. After good deeds, people act less morally only when being watched by others, not when alone. This explains why many online studies failed to replicate the effect.

Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/YFIp50WmjYE
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July 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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chujunlin.bsky.social
Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!
erichehman.bsky.social Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Jul 7
We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social

This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible
July 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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erichehman.bsky.social
We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social

This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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lobsters-feed.bsky.social
Your Brain on ChatGPT https://lobste.rs/s/rgjqbd ##cogsci ##vibecoding
Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…
www.media.mit.edu
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.
June 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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robraonain.bsky.social
Does being reminded of your ingroup's role in the harm experienced by outgroup members lead you to see them as feeling less 'human' emotions? Looking at inequalities arising from climate change and fast fashion, our new paper at @plosone.org challenges this earlier claim in #dehumanization research.
Does feeling collective responsibility for intergroup harm lead to infrahumanization?
Previous research has suggested that subtle dehumanization can occur as a consequence of harming others. According to this research, participants who feel a sense of collective responsibility for thei...
doi.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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spspnews.bsky.social
📊Research reveals that experiences of awe help children become more generous and kind. When kids encounter vast mysteries like rainbows or starry nights, they feel more relaxed and willing to help others.

Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/M5z950VZg5N
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May 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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sarahegaither.bsky.social
Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology
May 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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spspnews.bsky.social
📈New #PSPB research uses machine learning to map cultural differences beyond traditional theories like individualism-collectivism. The method reveals both known patterns and novel dimensions in comparing countries like USA, China, and Japan.

Learn more: ow.ly/C3bb50VXMqL
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May 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM