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My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position
Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...
Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!
In a new paper published in PHAIR, we ask today's emerging adults in the UK whether they thought about stopping eating meat when they were younger...
So interesting!! Huge congrats, April and Rachel! 🤩
Joint first authors by @adamstanaland.bsky.social and @avial.bsky.social also wrote a lovely companion piece in The Conversation: theconversation.com/gender-confo...
❓ Why do children conform so eagerly to gender norms? A new study in Developmental Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social contributes some interesting new data on this question:
doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
Hope you find excellent people! 🤞
I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu
Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit!
Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...
We are now recruiting!
We welcome a global and diverse set of applicants for a new ERC Consolidator project funded by @erc.europa.eu
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
📣 Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...
📣 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇
You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ?
At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇
Some of our (sad) numbers on this topic: drive.google.com/file/d/1kATT...
Lab manager position in the Cognitive Development Lab Please forward to motivated students! Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/182022 Deadline: March 2, 2026 Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu
Looking for a lab manager! Join us! 😊
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New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Terrific new work by @linbian.bsky.social 👇
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
The emergence of political orientation: Authoritarian and social dominance attitudes in early childhood
📣From Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian & Sharon Shenhav
7/ Paper now out in the special issue of JEP:G
@apajournals.bsky.social on Political Thinking (editors: Boli Reyes-Jaquez & Tamar Kushnir)
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Grateful to Michal and our collaborators ❤️
Free pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1UvN2...
6/ If orientations toward authority and social hierarchy take root this early, it may help explain why political divides run so deep -- and why changing minds is so difficult.
Understanding these origins could shed light on polarization and intergroup conflict.
5/ An interesting wrinkle:
The parent-child link was stronger when mothers were primary caregivers.
This hints that socialization -- not just genetics -- may play a role in how these early attitudes form.
4/ Across two samples of Israeli mother-child pairs, 4- to 8-year-old kids showed systematic individual differences in their responses to our child-friendly measures of authoritarianism and social dominance.
Why do I say "systematic"? Their responses correlated with their mothers' ideologies.
3/ To make this work with young children, we designed measures using fictional groups on "faraway planets" -- no real-world politics involved.
Kids answered questions like whether it's okay for a character to disobey a king, or whether it's fair that one group has more resources than another.
2/ We measured two core components of political orientation:
* authoritarianism (attitudes toward authority/social conventions)
* social dominance (attitudes toward group-based hierarchies)
Political ideology guides individuals’ perceptions, goals, and behaviors in the socio-political arena, with profound societal consequences. Prior research on the emergence of individual differences in ideological orientation points to early adulthood as the critical age at which such differences first manifest. We challenge this conclusion and investigate whether systematic proto-ideological orientations are already present among children as young as 4 years of age. Specifically, we examined individual differences in children’s authoritarian and social dominance attitudes – two central, consequential ideological orientations among adults. To determine whether children’s early attitudes are valid markers of ideological orientations per se, we tested whether these attitudes were systematically related to parents’ ideological orientations, as is the case among young adults. Across two studies with Israeli mothers and their 4- to 8-year-old children (Ns = 154 and 190, respectively), we found systematic individual differences in children’s authoritarian and social dominance attitudes, measured with newly developed, child-appropriate measures: Children’s authoritarian attitudes corresponded to their mothers’ authoritarianism (Study 1), and their social dominance attitudes corresponded to their mothers’ social dominance orientation with regard to hierarchy (but not inequality; Studies 1 and 2). Notably, mother–child correlations were especially strong among children whose mothers were their primary caregivers, hinting at a possible socialization process. Together, these findings suggest that the seeds of ideology are apparent as early as age 4, and highlight the importance of developmental research for a deeper understanding of adult political ideology. We consider contextual limitations to the generalizability of our findings and offer directions for future research.
1/ Why do political disagreements feel so hard to resolve -- even with people we otherwise get along with?
New research, led by my friend Michal Reifen-Tagar, suggests one reason: the foundations of political orientation may be in place by age 4.
Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1UvN2...
Important new work on girls' and boys' sense of belonging in STEM across K-12 by @allisonmaster.bsky.social, @patelkhushboo.bsky.social, and colleagues! 💯
We're doing summerpsych.com again this year!
PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:
Gender differences in mathematics in 1st grade: what are the causes? How to reduce them?
This is the talk I will give (based on the doctoral work of Lilas Gurgand) at the next online research seminar of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London ⬇️
The journal article itself, in press at Developmental Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
Important new work by @melismuradoglu.bsky.social and colleagues on early beliefs about ability and their links to motivation ✨