Brittany Cassidy
@britcass.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at UNCG. Doer of social psychology. Lover of running, Radiohead, oysters, and coastal breezes. I specialize in attaining long term goals.
www.uncgsocialcognition.com
www.uncgsocialcognition.com
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Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!!
Goodness gracious.
Goodness gracious.
When do interaction/moderation effects stabilize in linear regression?: https://osf.io/35t84
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!!
Goodness gracious.
Goodness gracious.
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I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.
Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It
How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.
www.pewresearch.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.
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After the Louvre jewelry heist on Sunday, a photo distributed by The Associated Press showing three policemen outside the museum — and a sharply-dressed man — confused many people on social media. Who is the dapper man? Is he even real? nyti.ms/42TI9RE
October 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
After the Louvre jewelry heist on Sunday, a photo distributed by The Associated Press showing three policemen outside the museum — and a sharply-dressed man — confused many people on social media. Who is the dapper man? Is he even real? nyti.ms/42TI9RE
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New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
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Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.
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Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary
Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary
Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People With Nonbinary Gender Identities - Sara Emily Burke, Alexandria Jaurique, Benjamin M. Valen, Natalie M. Wittlin, Mackenzie L. M...
Academic The present review examines bias against transgender women and men and bias against people with nonbinary gender identities. A central contention is th...
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary
Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary
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FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
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More details about this (and a bunch of other little annotations tips and tricks for my #dataviz class) here! #rstats datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-07...
July 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More details about this (and a bunch of other little annotations tips and tricks for my #dataviz class) here! #rstats datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-07...
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🧪 Translation for NSF folks:
Yesterday's SCOTUS decision will likely soon result in these previously blocked actions:
-elimination of NSF divisions as an org unit
-closing Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, firing its staff
Can still be challenged in court (see below). But still 🤯🤯🤯
Yesterday's SCOTUS decision will likely soon result in these previously blocked actions:
-elimination of NSF divisions as an org unit
-closing Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, firing its staff
Can still be challenged in court (see below). But still 🤯🤯🤯
The Supreme Court has stayed the AFGE case, which prohibited the Trump administration from moving forward with Reductions-in-Force. Several quick notes based on a cursory skim: 1/
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
July 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🧪 Translation for NSF folks:
Yesterday's SCOTUS decision will likely soon result in these previously blocked actions:
-elimination of NSF divisions as an org unit
-closing Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, firing its staff
Can still be challenged in court (see below). But still 🤯🤯🤯
Yesterday's SCOTUS decision will likely soon result in these previously blocked actions:
-elimination of NSF divisions as an org unit
-closing Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, firing its staff
Can still be challenged in court (see below). But still 🤯🤯🤯
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🎉 New face database just dropped!
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
Thread 🧵👇
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
Thread 🧵👇
June 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🎉 New face database just dropped!
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
Thread 🧵👇
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
Thread 🧵👇
Attn @michaeljkane.bsky.social —perhaps you didn’t have this in its slushie form 😉
June 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Attn @michaeljkane.bsky.social —perhaps you didn’t have this in its slushie form 😉
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🎇It's #PubDay for THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (6e)!🎇
This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.)
And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵
This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.)
And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🎇It's #PubDay for THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (6e)!🎇
This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.)
And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵
This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.)
And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology
Impression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter...
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
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I get this question a lot via email and in class, so I thought I'd write a blog. I don't think the ideas are novel, but rather just synthesizing what others in the field have wrote. Hopefully it's helpful to others (i.e., a quicker read than some of the papers). www.akmontoya.com/post/i-found...
I Found a Significant Indirect Effect, But My Total Effect Is Not Significant! What Do I Do?
This question comes up a lot—via email, in workshops, at conferences. You've run a mediation analysis and found a significant indirect effect, but your total effect isn't statistically significant. No...
www.akmontoya.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I get this question a lot via email and in class, so I thought I'd write a blog. I don't think the ideas are novel, but rather just synthesizing what others in the field have wrote. Hopefully it's helpful to others (i.e., a quicker read than some of the papers). www.akmontoya.com/post/i-found...
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I often recommend to people read @lakens.bsky.social paper on sample size justification when thinking about study planning (online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...)
Here's two short videos on it I made for my old research methods modules:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1rM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMt...
Here's two short videos on it I made for my old research methods modules:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1rM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMt...
Sample Size Justification
YouTube video by Steele Research Limited
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I often recommend to people read @lakens.bsky.social paper on sample size justification when thinking about study planning (online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...)
Here's two short videos on it I made for my old research methods modules:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1rM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMt...
Here's two short videos on it I made for my old research methods modules:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1rM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMt...
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🎧 Catch the new 🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️
"First impressions are everything," 👀 but did you know those impressions can change? @britcass.bsky.social explains her research on person perception and shares why she enjoys mentoring the next generation of researchers.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
"First impressions are everything," 👀 but did you know those impressions can change? @britcass.bsky.social explains her research on person perception and shares why she enjoys mentoring the next generation of researchers.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
May 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🎧 Catch the new 🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️
"First impressions are everything," 👀 but did you know those impressions can change? @britcass.bsky.social explains her research on person perception and shares why she enjoys mentoring the next generation of researchers.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
"First impressions are everything," 👀 but did you know those impressions can change? @britcass.bsky.social explains her research on person perception and shares why she enjoys mentoring the next generation of researchers.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
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A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN
ritcheym.github.io
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
Timely and important work from @hayleyliebenow.bsky.social. You are missed around the lab but we love seeing your journey unfold :)
‼️ Latest paper out today in SPP Compass! 🧭
We propose a person perception perspective to better understand the mechanisms underlying anti-transgender bias, positing it may arise from disfluency in processing transgender individuals’ gender. Link: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We propose a person perception perspective to better understand the mechanisms underlying anti-transgender bias, positing it may arise from disfluency in processing transgender individuals’ gender. Link: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Timely and important work from @hayleyliebenow.bsky.social. You are missed around the lab but we love seeing your journey unfold :)
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I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
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When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5)
April 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5)
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Very excited to share this new paper, out this week.
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
In our recent review, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social & I bring together fMRI & fNIRS findings from the last decade to argue that babies not only perceive faces but they also attribute meaning to those faces. It’s a short read and we’d love to hear your thoughts. (4/5) doi.org/10.1177/0963...
April 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Very excited to share this new paper, out this week.
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale