👇 Thread on a new paper in JEP:G by fabulous first author @sophieharnold (pls give her a follow!). We find that parents and coaches of youth chess players show bias against girls. This bias was worse among those with "chess = brilliance" beliefs.
PDF: https://t.co/B8NS8V0DX3
Linguists! Please spread the word to your UG students:
The Racial Justice Committee in the Dept of Linguistics at the University of Toronto has started a new program to help support students who identify as Black or Indigenous and are applying to graduate school in linguistics.
Come join us! I think this is a great journal with lots of different types of research submitted which makes reviewing more fun for me! If you want to try out being an AE with guidance, this opportunity is for you!
Applications due November 1, 2023. Self-nominations encouraged. More information on qualifications, editor contact information, and how to apply is here: https://t.co/YWxHyoPlGM 4/4
Call for Editorial Fellows at #JEPGEN! The editorial leadership team at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General seeks nominations for six editorial fellowship positions for early-career psychologists (ECPs) from historically underrepresented groups. 1/
Fellows will work closely with the editorial team to develop editorial leadership skills and will be mentored to serve as the action editor on approximately 6 manuscripts over the course of the year. 3/
First paper of my dissertation is out! We (@PolynSean and @brownschmidt) developed a family of computational models for a binary semantic classification task, in which participants judged target words for the referent’s size or animacy.
https://t.co/PbyZMCMNMF
Really enjoyed presenting work on speech-gesture integration during multimodal language processing using eye-tracking in visual world paradigm with @duffalab and @brownschmidt at #GESPIN2023 today. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for the great discussion 🙌🏻🤗
Those seeking to be licensed as attorneys should not be required to reveal their mental health history, including whether they have ever had a mental health diagnosis. Statistical data show no connection between treatment history and competence. https://t.co/9QIq6B8EEA
New paper out in JEP:G on inequality in preschool. We started video-recorded observations in 2017, 6 years later the paper is finally out! Thanks to my amazing co-authors @Kmil_San@AutinFred@NM_Stephens@HazelRoseMarkus JCCroizet @AndreiCimpian
https://t.co/7M2TfrFx6J
From the Editorial Office at #JEPGEN, check out this new paper by Minyu Chang (@MinyuChang) and colleagues, "Comparing word frequency, semantic diversity, and semantic distinctiveness in lexical organization" https://t.co/gaOCjOSmR9 @APA_Journals
From the Editorial Office at #JEPGEN: Check out these cool new findings by Mila Mileva (@MilaMileva09) and Nadine Lavan (@nadinelavan) that "provide the first estimate of the time course of the formation of voice trait impressions" @APA_Journals
It's been a long time coming but our paper "Trait impressions from voices are formed rapidly within 400 ms of exposure" is finally out in JEP:General!
Another fantastic collaboration with @nadinelavan
➡️Online first version available here: https://t.co/rlkO1Y4trE
Calling all psych faculty on #academictwitter
Do you have undergraduates or post-baccs in your lab who are considering applying to PhD programs in psychology? What about graduate students and post-docs interested in mentoring?
Please consider sharing information about NPSP!
New paper in PNAS: “Even lawyers don’t like legalese.” With Frank Mollica and @LanguageMIT.
Article here: https://t.co/ckoKrfxg1C
@MIT News story here:
https://t.co/tRde5mUobe
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APS invites nominations for Editor of #Psychological Science, one of the most influential empirical journals in the field. Submit nominations by Friday, June 2, 2023.
https://t.co/RUBt6tYFBY
From the paper: participants were... "more likely to judge that the target individuals were friends with one another when a high rather than low proportion of their friendships were mutual" 2/2
From the Editorial Office at #JEPGEN: Check out this really cool new paper by Claudia Sehl (@ClaudiaSehl) and colleagues, "The social network: How people infer relationships from mutual connections" https://t.co/OnRKVoDclr @APA_Journals 1/2