Associate Professor of Psychology at UNCG. Doer of social psychology. Lover of running, Radiohead, oysters, and coastal breezes. I specialize in attaining long term goals.
www.uncgsocialcognition.com
Brittany Cassidy
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: COSSA Statement on the President’s FY 2027 Budget Request.
Full statement ➡️ cossa.org/wp-content/u...
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
Running an experiment to study racial discrimination?
Going to use names to signal race?
Here's a new tool!
This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on:
1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send
2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant
1/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social.
I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this:
Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff.
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🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.
Steps to counter this are in motion.
If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel
You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
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Lab fun on the day before Spring Break. Every year, we should take another picture with the background being the previous year’s picture.
Are you into Klee or Kandinsky? Social psychology observed at the Art Institute of Chicago. #SPSP2026
Social Cognition Lab grad students brought their A game to #SPSP2026. So proud of their hard work!
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
