What is going on over at the Chronicle...

The SCIP Lab had our inaugural lab retreat yesterday. It was much needed, and these students inspire me. Among other things, we did some team building during an escape room challenge!

I don’t know if I should be worried about the fact that this is associated with our address, but whoever did this sure does have a great sense of humor.

Life is stressful, but what’s really tearing me apart in this moment is 13 socks without a match. This has to be a record 😩

I’m giving a talk at the Society for Affective Science on Friday—my first time attending. If you’re around, come say “hi”! @affectscience.bsky.social

Out in Social Psychology of Education: Meike Bonefeld and her colleagues successfully validated a German version of my Bias Awareness scale among German teachers. They assessed awareness of biases toward "people with migration background." Super interesting! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And Evanston is supposedly one of the most “progressive” towns in the Chicago metro area.

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It’s that time of year again.

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Cool, cool, cool

Given the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the awful ish that happened on US plantations, I continue to be baffled by this question (required if you want to submit demographic information to Manuscript Central and several societies). I feel a surge of anxiety and anger every damn time.

Our friends let us borrow their Rise Garden, and my husband has really gotten into it. One month of growth! Eggplant, peppers, 3 types of lettuce, sage, mustard greens, kale, tomatoes, bok choy, some kind of bean thing, basil, cilantro, Swiss chard, cucumbers

To test these questions, we developed a method to facilitate these conversations. Parents and children watched animated videos and discussed questions about the behaviors that they observed (see a screenshot example below). 13/N

When we asked parents why they were not discussing racism with their children, they cited reasons like wanting to shield their child from the reality of racism or a belief that racism was irrelevant to their child’s life. 4/N

I am thrilled that our paper is finally online at Dev Psychology: White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... A thread! 1/N

Made it after 9 hours! 😭 And I had no clue that this is what Dino kale looks like when it’s growing

Sharing our new paper out in SIPR: Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child-facing institutions
Led by Leigh Wilton with Jessica Sullivan & Analia Albuja Grateful to be a part of it!
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