Excited to welcome three new members to the lab: postdoc Kirstan Brodie (@kirstanbrodie.bsky.social) and graduate students Morgan Peace (@morganpeace.bsky.social) and Finneaz Moner (@finneazmoner.bsky.social)! You can learn more about them here: www.svmlab.org/people
I'm also recruiting a postdoc!
bsky.app/profile/youn...
I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.
Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🐶Now out at JNB🐶
We examine the prevalence and psychological correlates of lay beliefs in physiognomy - the idea that a person's character is reflected in their facial appearance.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world
Perspective by Shari Liu, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Joseph Outa & Minjae J. Kim
Web: go.nature.com/3Xwo40J
PDF: rdcu.be/eSMfa