To help instructors diversify course content, we’re building a database of articles focused on the relationship experiences of marginalized and underrepresented populations. Do you have any to recommend (perhaps one you’ve written yourself or read recently)? Recommend it here: tinyurl.com/IARRrecs

Reading bell hooks, 'Theory as Liberatory Practice," and came across this gem:

“Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as "natural," and so insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general /1

This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."

Plz consider submitting!

If you're using GPT to collect or analyze data from human subjects, this means that OpenAI might now be retaining your participants' data indefinitely.

Did your participants consent to this? Does your IRB protocol allow OpenAI to retain participant data? If not, then you might be in breach. 4/

Graduate student Karla Kenny has launched a survey focusing on relationship experiences of queer and trans people. Please share to help out.

I just went to show my students the ChatPlat website and it appears to not be active?? Anyone know anything about this?

There is a NSF FAQ includes questions like: "Can I still work with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)" and "There are still gaps in the achievements of certain groups of people. Can we still research those?"

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

New OA paper in Compass with @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social, and a number of non-blue-sky students and colleagues.

If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you:

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My second presentation at #SPSP2025, where I looked at racialized sexual minority men's experiences of discrimination, and how these experiences are associated with their relationships and mental health outcomes.

Slides 📽️: osf.io/9dhzj
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I am unbelievably excited to share that starting in fall of 2025, I will be an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University!

I’m so excited to share our new paper in JPSP from me, @lydiaemery.bsky.social, @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, Wendi Gardner, & @elijfinkel.bsky.social! We find that avoidantly attached people report self-loss due to their relationship, but external metrics fail to detect such loss. tinyurl.com/yaztcjc2

Searching for power analysis tips! I want to run a study with a 2x2 between-subjects design. Within each condition, I want participants to evaluate 4 random stimuli, drawn from a larger pool of stimuli. Is my best bet simulation or are there other options I'm not thinking of?

This survey is closing at the end of June! Thank you to everyone who has completed the survey so far. If you haven't taken it yet, we would still love to hear from you! To determine if you're eligible and to take the survey, you can follow this link: tinyurl.com/relscisurvey.

Relationship researchers!

We are conducting a study on research practices within relationship science! To determine if you’re eligible and to take the study, follow this link: tinyurl.com/relscisurvey. Eligible individuals can participate for a chance to win a $50 gift card.

“This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.” - @tomscocca.bsky.social