Our program is looking for sessional instructors! @taramarshall.bsky.social

Congrats @bonniele.bsky.social 🙌🏻
Bonnie is such a thoughtful researcher and is most deserving of this 🏆

We are accepting submissions for data blitz and poster presentations for our 🎉FULL DAY🎉 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! We encourage presenters to select both data blitz and poster options due to high volumes of submissions. Submit no later than 10/23: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

St. Mary's University in Calgary is hiring an Assistant Professor of Psychology (Tenure Track)

Closing date: 2025/11/14

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🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Definitely ask to be nominated especially if you are from outside the U.S. but also from Universities that you often don’t normally see award recipients. Look at the APS fellows list for names to ask

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RUSBULT EARLY CAREER AWARD CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RUSBULT EARLY CAREER AWARD The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) within the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) presents an annual award to a new i...

🚨RRIG awards call!🚨 Submit your applications for the Rusbult Early Career Award (due 08/26/25). Deadline is soon! Award recipients will be notified this fall and honored at the 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference in Chicago. Tell your friends!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) within the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) presents an annual award to a gra...

📣 Attention RRIG graduate students! 📣 Time to submit your applications for the Graduate Student Paper Award (due 09/06/25). We'll tell the winner this fall and you'll be recognized at the 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference in Chicago. Let's gooo! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sessional opportunity in Clinical Child Psyc in our program. Please share with anyone interested!

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

One more week to apply to join RRIG as a grad student, junior, or senior member! Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

Will Americans Vote for an Atheist? Conventional wisdom holds and previous research confirms that for a political candidate, atheism is anathema. But the United States is becoming a more secular nation. Does secularization mean that at...

Will Americans vote for an atheist? Across 4 survey experiments, authors find Democrats favorable, Republicans unfavorable. Importantly, for highly-religious Republicans, even describing the atheist as a patriotic war hero doesn't seem to matter (atheist = 👎).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations! This is so well deserved!

Recognizing Outstanding Scholars: APPLY FOR SPSP’S ANNUAL AWARDS AND FELLOW STATUS TODAY! Application deadline: 11:59 PM PT, April 21

As you recover after #SPSP2025, don't forget that applications for our 2025 Annual Awards are now open. Apply for yourself or on behalf of a colleague before April 21 and help us celebrate outstanding work in personality and social psych!

Apply here: ow.ly/yi2V50V6fiH

Relatedly: I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Absolutely. So many people are disinterested in politics, don’t think about govt, and don’t know how it works—unless there’s a major disruption that affects them directly. We can and should be making a concerted effort to reach them, and I ways that highlight civic duties rather than partisanship.

Science confirms the "sexual afterglow" is real — and pinpoints factors that make it linger longer Good news for couples: the positive effects of sex aren't just in the moment. According to a new study, the feeling of satisfaction after sex sticks around for at least a day, and this "sexual aftergl...

Scientists find that sexual afterglow can linger for at least 24 hours, and it’s especially powerful when sex is a mutual decision or is initiated by your partner. By contrast, sexual rejection can create a negative ripple effect lasting up to 3 days. www.psypost.org/science-conf...

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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)

If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.

There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

Kendrick Lamar performing during the halftime show for Super Bowl 59. He wears a blue and white leather jacket, black t-shirt, bootcut jeans, and white sneakers. He’s looking into the camera and smiling while saying “Say, Drake” during a performance of his Grammy-winning diss track, Not Like Us.

“Per my last email.”

Interview prep (for grad schools, internships, etc.)

An invite for Southeast Asian Social and Personality Psychologists gathering at SPSP conference in Denver. Detail: 2/20/25, 7pm at Assembly Hall Bar in Hyatt Regency

Are you a Southeast Asian social-personality psychologist attending #SPSP2025 in Denver? We are getting together on Thursday 2/20, 7pm local time at Hyatt Regency’s Assembly Hall Bar! RSVP on the Whova app in the meetup section (or just come through)! SEASAPP is back for our 5th year reunion!!

We’re looking for a sessional to (virtually) teach I/O psych at McMaster this summer …feel free to reach out with questions!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h3ok6...

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500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE!

We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist

SkypeAScientist.com

This. If you invite 40 people to a 2 hour meeting, or get them to complete 2 hrs of paperwork, you’re effectively ‘spending’ 2 weeks’ worth of productive institutional time…

Congratulations to the Relationship Researchers Interest Group award 🏆winners: Bill Chopik for the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award, and
Erin Hughes for the Graduate Student Paper Award! We can’t wait to hear more at the SPSP Close Relationships Preconference :)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RUSBULT EARLY CAREER AWARD CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RUSBULT EARLY CAREER AWARD The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) within the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) presents an annual award to a ne...

Call for Rusbult Early Career Award nominations! For new investigators (PhD ~ 2015) who have made original and important contributions to relationship science. See attached doc and please share widely :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Want to help plan the SPSP Close Relationships Preconference? Deadline for applications is this Friday :)

After Period of Chastity, Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again Studios obsessively focused on PG-13 franchises and animation in recent years, but movies like “Challengers” and “Saltburn” show eroticism has returned.

“Sex is back!” In the 2000s, studios obsessively focused on PG-13 franchises and animation. Recent films like “Challengers” and “Saltburn” show eroticism has returned to Hollywood.