We find that regions with more Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s show higher levels of modern White Supremacist activity but, unexpectedly, lower levels of modern implicit and explicit racial bias

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New by @maxprimbs.bsky.social et al.

Still trying to get my head around the findings, a bit of a head-scratcher

I love this type of research question & research design, so I'll be sure to dig in.

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New meta-analysis on stereotype threat.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I feel like the field needs a summit to reach consensus on whether stereotype threat effects are real or not! Getting whiplash here.

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New PSPB paper by @apoorvasarmal.bsky.social et al.

Large N confirmation that racial shifts ==> increased White ingroup favouritism.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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I hope to see this by @giudittascalco.bsky.social in print some day, bc I'm not at #SPSP2026.

Looks really interesting.

Quote from man after losing to woman: "She can only beat me if I'm not interested in playing. And subconsciously I wasn't interested today"

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Netflix doc The Queen of Chess showcases some Grade A sexism to observe.

(claims women aren't smart enough, don't have "the personality", to win chess!)

But also, male ego-defensiveness par excellence, such as:

Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group a...

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New research led by Patrick Kotzur (one of my amazing collaborators!).

Experimental (and longitudinal) evidence that positive contact ==> reduces fear of refugee crime.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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New study doesn't surprise me much (but is interesting).

For dog stereotypes, is some truth, some exaggeration. As we often find for some human stereotypes.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

Who cares about groups? The Group Orientation Scale measures differences in the general motivation for group belonging and concern for group goals

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Pleased to see a paper from the SIT crowd on individual differences in being groupy.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

IMO, SIT has long dismissed individual differences in group behaviour, in ways that set back our understanding.

Brexit and Wellbeing: Strained Intergroup Relations and Positive Intergroup Contact Predict Wellbeing of Remainers and Leavers Post Brexit

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New study by Birtel & Tausch on Brexit contact & well-being

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Twin study

Much right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)-education link (r = -.46) from heritable or shared-variance confounds

But 28% is unexplained, so education might play role in reducing RWA (but likely less so than many expect)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Draw‐A‐Woman Scientist Test: Exploring Schoolchildren's Perceptions of Women Scientists You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

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Cool study by Goldstein & Sweetman

You know the Draw-a-Scientist test for kids.

Here, introduce the Draw-a-Female-Scientist test.

Boys draw female scientists with fewer feminine features, with less realistic images.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

talk title: stable people, stable environments, stable attitudes? Contact effects reconsidered.

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My colleague Rose Meleady gave a fantastic talk today.

I'm truly blessed to work with such talented people, and I know it.

Check out her work today! scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians Pedestrian crashes are not equitably distributed; people of color and males are overburdened. The aim of this study was to examine if driver yielding …

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Study finds only 28% drivers yield to pedestrians at crosswalk!

Worse for non-White & male pedestrians

More expensive ($$$) cars ==> lower pedestrian yielding "odds of yielding decreased 3% per $1000 increase."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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by @chriscrandall.bsky.social & crew

On how a political leader can shape prejudice norms.

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We were so worried that we were heading for a high-RWA world....

.... that we didn't notice we're actually heading for a high-SDO world.

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Timely food for thought:

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!”
- Winston Churchill

Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings - Nature Reviews Psychology The literature assumes that intergroup contact is naturally occurring, positive and consistently associated with positive outcomes, but these premises are inconsistent with everyday intergroup contact...

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New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact

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

(If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady)
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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New paper by @chrispetsko.bsky.social & connor

Implicit bias NOT moderated by background images

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“How can we expect to see a meaningful criminal justice response to the thorny and complex problem of deepfake intimate image abuse in the UK when fewer than 2 percent of rape cases reported to the police result in a charge or summons? If rape has effectively been decriminalized, what possible hope is there of usefully policing digital crimes?”. - Bates, L. (2025). The new age of sexism: How the AI revolution is reinventing misogyny. Simon & Schuster.

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Powerful words from #LauraBates in her new book, The New Age of Sexism:

www.amazon.co.uk/New-Age-Sexi...

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New #PrejudiceResearch paper.

Latent factor tapping cultural racism from various correlated indicators

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing-looking book about to drop, led by @chrispps.bsky.social, on #authoritarianism

Will be asking Santa for this one. I've been (reasonably) good.

academic.oup.com/book/61784

For the most part, very true

(see literature on generalized prejudice)

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APA PsycNet

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Not sure how this one got through the net...

...but if you follow me, you might be interested in this paper on SDO, RWA, generalized prejudice across the lifespan

By Zubielevitch et al. #JPSP

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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I'm excited by this new paper @gpir-sage.bsky.social 👇

Especially the neutralizing effects of local immigration attitudes (undoing negative effects of national identification)

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Turns out that when you spend your life blaming immigrants & ethnic minorities for all the bad things in your country....

.... many people then find it credible when you're accused of being racist.

Who knew?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

OSF

🚨 New preprint!

We reviewed 263 studies on racial & ethnic prejudice measures. Most are psychometrically weak and conceptually narrow. Only 4% meet high-quality standards. We call for rigorous, theory-driven, culturally sensitive tools.

📖 osf.io/xwbyz_v1

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#PrejudiceResearch scholars will want to check this out

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Leave me alone for a few days.

Busy with the latest by #LauraBates

While some research argues that intergroup contact is robust to whatever you throw at it,

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There's a TON I disagree with re this paper.

I especially balk at this assertion (below). Show me the receipts, please.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....