The takeaway: awareness isn’t enough on its own.

Manuscript in progress.
Open to feedback and collaboration.

Awareness matters, but only the right kind
• Emotion regulation turns threat into motivation
• Internal motivation drives real change
• Context shapes whether change lasts

Research shows awareness alone rarely works and can even backfire. We propose the AEM framework:
• Awareness matters, but only the right kind
• Emotion regulation turns threat into motivation
• Internal motivation drives real change
• Context shapes whether change lasts

Our paper, The Implicit Bias Paradox, asks a simple question: if people know about bias, why doesn’t behavior change?

Just presented at AES 2026.
Our paper, The Implicit Bias Paradox, asks a simple question: if people know about bias, why doesn’t behavior change?

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Incredibly grateful to the folks who have committed $5,000 to Project Implicit since our announcement of matching funds last week!

A generous donor is currently offering an additional $1,000 for any individual or group donation of $1,000 or more. Group gifts can be coordinated with our team.

Looking forward to learning, contributing, and growing through this opportunity. Thankful for the journey ahead

Grateful and humbled to share that I have been appointed as an Associate Researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, working with Prof. John Weisz, starting this spring.

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Why Some Ideas Go Viral—and Most Don’t What decades of research reveal about why certain content spreads—and how social forces shape what we all see.

While studies find that moral outrage & negativity goes viral on social media, this is also true of the offline world. Gossip is also mostly negative & about people we dislike

I explain why some ideas go viral--but most don't with @steverathje.bsky.social
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-some-i...

Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-...

Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact?

A contribution that altered policy or practice...
A paper that extinguished an active area of research...
An uncredited gem...

I'm giving a talk on "How Social Media Misleads Us about Public Opinion" to The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine in DC

Watch it online or in person: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45948_11-2025_beware-the-funhouse-mirror-how-social-media-misleads-us-about-public-opinion

An interview with @news.illinois.edu about the possibilities of change in implicit bias and the opportunities and pitfalls of implicit bias education:
news.illinois.edu/is-unintenti...

This paper explores how racial stereotypes shape policing, education, and media, and how unconscious bias fuels inequality. Writing it wasn’t easy, but it taught me to ask hard questions, think critically, and turn ideas into change. I’d love your thoughts.

I’m excited to share my first academic narrative review:

"𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆"
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Lots of people seem to have flocked here, so it's probably a good time to post that I'll be recruiting Ph.D. students to join my new lab in BU's psychology department this cycle!

more info about the lab and how to apply to BU here: cldlab.org/join