Study: For 60 Years, Kids' TV Cast Boys As Doers And Girls As Passive New research reveals that the language in kid’s TV is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes, and that little has changed in 60 years.  In some cases, it’s getting worse.

Study of 6,600 episodes of kids’ TV over 60 years finds boys portrayed as ‘doers’ and girls as passive. And male characters still dominate dialogue, 50% more than female characters. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

'The first author was a woman. She should be in the kitchen, not writing papers': Bias in STEM publishing still punishes women "What is the hard evidence, beyond anecdote and suspicion, that unconscious bias impacts on women's careers? Increasing numbers of studies show, in many different guises, just how potent such bias can...

So-called objective metrics in academia disadvantage women. Letters of reference for women tend to have less stand-out adjectives. Women's papers are cited less, their grants are smaller on avg & their papers have a harder time getting past reviewers.
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Assessing Personality States – The Development and Validation of a Five-Factor Model Personality States Inventory | European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Interested in within-person variations in personality? Then this scale assessing personality states is for you: doi.org/10.1027/1015...

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Our paper is now out: Trust in Close Relationships Revisited. All the buzzwords: bifactor modelling, invariance testing, construct, and a few others. Joking aside, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social is a very skilled and careful data wrangler/analyst while also able to relate theory and data. 👇

What we didn't learn from Depp v. Heard On the three-year anniversary of the verdict, the cycle of DARVO and misogyny continues.

On the three-year anniversary of the verdict in Depp v. Heard, I wrote about realizing the terrible truth that she was, in fact, the victim—and seeing the DARVO playbook weaponized against endless women online and in the courts ever since.
spitfirenews.com/p/what-we-di...

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Relationship Science Roundup - Vol. 10 The latest in the science of close relationships.

With everything going on in the world, it's good to do things you love. Catching up on some of the latest in the science of close relationships, from friendship to romance, to why the love languages aren't real. #relationshipscience #www.zoppolat.com/post/relationship-scienc...

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

Women’s brain health and brain capital - Nature Mental Health In this Perspective, the authors discuss the need to address the women’s brain health gap and its link to the concept of brain capital.

Addressing the women’s health gap could potentially increase the global economy by US $1 trillion in annual incremental GDP

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@naturementalhealth.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Why is Trump so fixated on toys for little girls? | Moira Donegan Asked about his tariffs’ impact, the president has repeatedly pointed to dolls – because they’re seen as feminine, childlike and frivolous

I wrote about Trump’s repeated comments about little girls’ dolls, and the gendered imaginary of the Trump trade war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Essex Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

My #SoNeAtLab @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a #PostDoc. Fully funded 2-year position from 01.10.2025. Application deadline: 01.06.2025.

Longitudinal #fNIRS #hyperscanning project in #parents & #children.

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New JPSP paper led by Alex Traut shows attachment anxiety decreases over time in women while avoidance stays stable with no partner co-development. With stellar researchers Fabian Gander, @chops310.bsky.social, @rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Alexander Grob doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

Learn more about the TLC Gratitude Fellows and their research using data available on The Global Gratitude Dataverse at our upcoming 2025 Global Gratitude Summit in May.

Check our their projects here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/2024-2025-gr...

Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci
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Newly Published

Novak & Miller used data from 143 mixed-gender couples who share a bed in their study to look at how physical closeness at bedtime relates to stress, attachment insecurity, and sleep problems.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...

#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

🌍✨ The Love Consortium is thrilled to announce the 2025 Global Gratitude Summit! ✨🌍

🗓 Date: Wednesday, May 14
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET
💻 Where: Free & virtual!

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Join us in planning the SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! Please share widely!

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

The 1950s And The Myth Of The “Traditional” Family How one decade redefined the family

Time to share again @alyceraybould.bsky.social's excellent piece on why believing history began in the 1950s is so problematic: "the work and crucial roles women have played in society over time are being erased from history" medium.com/exploring-hi...

See what TLC dataverse contributors Brett Peters and Bonnie Le have to say about the benefits they have seen from posting their dataset descriptions on The Love Consortium Dataverse.
Learn more here www.theloveconsortium.org/sharing-data...

What an excellent visualization of a excellent point that many have become numb to

Testing the congruency hypothesis using meta-analysis: Are changes in oral contraceptive use correlated with partnered women's sexual satisfaction? Based on claims that changes in women's hormone levels influence their mating psychology, the Congruency Hypothesis proposes that women in relationshi…

Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones.

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Good data management is the backbone of psychological science. But rarely are scientists trained in best practices.

Join TLC for our upcoming Virtual Symposium: Data Management for Psychological Science.

Check out www.theloveconsortium.org/engage for more information and to register.

Meta-Analyzing People’s Self-Disclosure of Sexual Information to Romantic Partners People disclose many aspects of their sexuality to close partners, such as their sexual attitudes, history, and behaviors, which is established to be beneficial for their own and their relationship...

It is often assumed that the longer a couple is together, the more they engage in sexual self-disclosure. But research doesn't support this. Factors that predict sexual disclosure include: relationship satisfaction, secure attachment, and sexual assertiveness. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sex differences in romantic love: an evolutionary perspective - Biology of Sex Differences Background Evolutionary selection pressures, most notably sexual selection, have created (and continue to sustain) many psychobehavioral differences between females and males. One such domain where ps...

"males fall in love on average one month earlier than females, and this may account for why males tend to say “I love you” first. These sex difference tended to decrease in multivariate analyses" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Union wehrt sich gegen Kritik, dass keine Frauen am Meeting teilnehmen: "Was glauben Sie denn, wer den Tisch gedeckt hat?" Berlin (dpo) - Ein von Markus Söder veröffentlichtes Foto sorgt derzeit im Internet für Spott und Kritik. Es zeigt die Spitzen von CDU und CSU bei Ges

Union wehrt sich gegen Kritik, dass keine Frauen am Meeting teilnehmen: "Was glauben Sie denn, wer den Tisch gedeckt hat?"

Women’s bodies are moralized more than men’s, study finds New research reveals that people judge women's bodies through a moral lens far more than men's, shaping societal restrictions on bodily autonomy. This bias may explain why women's choices—like appearance and health—often face greater scrutiny.

New research reveals that people judge women's bodies through a moral lens far more than men's, shaping societal restrictions on bodily autonomy. This bias may explain why women's choices—like appearance and health—often face greater scrutiny.

The trajectory of love: Study reveals how relationship satisfaction changes over time Does relationship bliss inevitably fade? A 20-year study tracking thousands reveals satisfaction declines in all relationships, but plummets faster before breakups.

Does relationship bliss inevitably fade? A 20-year study tracking thousands reveals satisfaction declines in all relationships, but plummets faster before breakups. #RelationshipGoals #LoveResearch #RelationshipSatisfaction #LoveJourney #EmotionalHealth