Calvin Lai
@CalvinKLai
Social psychologist & associate professor @RutgersU. Studying how to reduce prejudice and discrimination. https://bsky.app/profile/calvinklai.bsky.social
Paper w/ @tcarpenter216 & @Alexgoedderz at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. Paper link and 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!
Interesting paper on why people follow rules: Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.
People think that the share of immigrants in their country is higher than it actually is. In most countries, the overestimation is more than 10 percentage points.
This week in academia, a not so short🧵... 1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-uni…
Cool people are the same everywhere. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-30…
"Inequality in Science: Who Becomes a Star?" dropbox.com/scl/fi/wjxf3r0…
This new working paper argues that female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around. How do they back up this claim? They look at the timing of sabbatical leaves. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female…
🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇
Cool paper in Nature using data for a few million kids in France: no gender gap in Maths test scores at the start of first grade, big gap by the end. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.
You've heard of those studies that document how much earnings women lose upon the birth of their first child, right? Well it turns out that the child penalty is actually much bigger than we had previously realized! Wow!
If you ✅ work on gender inequality in the labor market ✅ want to finally understand what this never-ending DiD literature is talking about ✅ teach recent advances in DiD then take a look at our WP with Lukas Riedel! 🔗rfberlin.com/research/child… @RF_Berlin
Remember those test optional policies that a bunch of universities adopted a few years back? Yeah, about that... ht @soumitrashukla9
"Floods", by @dev_a_patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/
🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…
Related: This new paper is important. How do individual names in the U.S. breakdown by race? "Our data cover the racial make-up of a larger set of names than any comparable dataset, containing 136k first names, 125k middle names, and 338k surnames."
Running a study like an audit or a conjoint where you use names to signal race? People have typically done so haphazardly; they typically choose 1-2 names per racial condition out of a hat. No more! We now have two papers (one of which I'm a coauthor on) that collectively…
Running a study like an audit or a conjoint where you use names to signal race? People have typically done so haphazardly; they typically choose 1-2 names per racial condition out of a hat. No more! We now have two papers (one of which I'm a coauthor on) that collectively…
What happened when some states barred the use of German in public schools after WWI? German-Americans were less likely to volunteer in WWII, more likely to marry in their ethnic group, and more likely to choose decidedly German names for their offspring.
New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. @MohammadAtari90 @slingerland20 @KevinHong1991 @JF_Schulz
These two new audit studies show that discrimination in the labor market against those with disabilities is huge. This is true even when performance won't be affected by the disability.
Incredible new dataset on police shootings in the U.S., courtesy of Tom Clark, Adam Glynn, and @milo_phd for their new book “Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America.” It covers all cities with 100K+ residents, and includes both fatal and nonfatal outcomes.
Interesting methodological advance about how to measure implicit bias more reliably and with better predictive validity.
Paper w/ @tcarpenter216 & @Alexgoedderz at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. Paper link and 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!