thanks jeni, i'm so glad to hear you found it interesting

People think of women as one thing, men as many People seem to represent men and women in a conceptually balanced manner: for example, seeing women as warm (not agentic) and men as agentic (not warm). Emerging evidence, however, suggests people mig...

People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic

We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY

New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

New PPLS Perspectives episode! PG student Madeline Horner speaks with social psychologist Dr @ahbailey.bsky.social about why we often imagine a “person” as a man — and how subtle gender biases shape language, research, and real-world decisions. Listen here: edin.ac/4tpw8yY

PPLS Perspectives - S3 Episode 3: Linguistic Diversity, AI, and the Human Mind YouTube video by The University of Edinburgh: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

My student Madeleine Horner interviewed @ahbailey.bsky.social about her fascinating research on gender and the prototype of the person concept:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDg...

If you’ll be at @spspnews.bsky.social this week, consider joining the symposium my advisor Peter Mende-Siedlecki & I are co-chairing on Friday (3:30-4:40 pm; @Room E350), featuring talks from @ahbailey.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Cy Butler, and me! #SPSP2026

@mohammadatari.bsky.social your network came to mind for this!

postdoc opportunity! would be a good fit for an intergroup person with NLP chops interested in the role of historical narratives

bonus, Edinburgh is a phenomenal city to live in with wonderful, walkable quality of life

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ah yes, a scared student at the nonverbal preconference. thank you also for your kind words about our pspr, glad to hear those nights writing till 3am are paying off for at least one person<3

yes, here at University of Edinburgh for just over a year now! loving scotland

your work on essentialism has been so influential to me

thanks so much gordon

thank you xanni!

Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin

thank you so much andrei!!

thank you Kate <3

Thank you Steve! Your SISPP course on computational social psych was one of the highlights of my phd training

Going through your post-conference notes is a true exercise in self-reflection. In the middle of my notes from SESP I see the intriguing word: "Kaarbo"

No idea what it means.

Submit your blitz talk or poster abstract for consideration by Oct 23rd! All are welcome

The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26

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This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

There is still time to register for the GENDER.ED Welcome Reception!
25 Sep 5-7pm, CMB

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The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26

@sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social

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Growing up is finding yourself doing stuff your advisor did and finally understanding why they did it.

absolutely key as a methods point

your familiarity finding makes sense to me too as part of the mechanism. i'm not sure if it's all of it given that in text data (presumbly?) authors know the referent's gender? hope we get a chance to chat in person later this week

Are Brenda, Juanita, and Latoya More Feminine Than Jia and Neha? Gendered Evaluations of Racialized Names Names are frequently used in social science research to manipulate identities such as race and gender. However, past research has shown that racialized names (i.e., names that are associated with part...

is it this paper? I don't think I'd seen this yet!

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

it's an interesting/troubling finding if it replicates. it seems to me like a potentially unique form of 'othering' given the primacy of gender in attributions of humanity (ala Ashely Martin's work)