Social psychologist & professor at Rutgers University.
Studying how to reduce prejudice and discrimination.
Opinions are my own. he/him
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Calvin Lai
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"a PRS is not an internal predisposition waiting to be realized; it is a risk estimate derived from a model constructed from population-level DNA associations without clearly defined biological mechanisms."
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
The drop in support for marriage equality last year was not a blip, it has declined further, dropping 6 points from its high of 71. Whether or not gay or lesbian relations were "morally acceptable" dropped 9 points.
Support for LGBTQ rights broadly is diminishing.
news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...
The drop was driven almost entirely by a cratering of support within the Republican party by 21 points. 2022 was the inflection point when this decline started. It's now lower than it was in 2012 before President Obama publicly supported marriage equality.
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1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons.
Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.
Thrilled this is finally out in its JOP-formatted version! Hope it's useful to anyone working on LGBT politics, (electoral) discrimination, status differentials within & across identity categories, and non-textual experiments. Main findings in quoted thread. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Philip Ball
Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!
Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.
More soon!
John Holbein
"Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction."
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s...
Alejandra Caraballo
Alejandra Caraballo
@keithpayne.bsky.social, @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social, Heidi Vuletich and I are co-editing a new Social Cognition special issue titled "10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions". Deadline for letters of intent is July 15th.
bit.ly/3R9e8KB
Here is a new preprint by Chyei Vinluan and Megan Burns that examines Asian American discrimination experiences during the first year of the pandemic and solidarity perceptions and behaviors:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
