Dorky Profesora
@dorkyprofessor
Assoc. Prof. @ PUI | Psych of belonging, the self, motivated perceptions | awkward, bicultural 🇦🇷 🧉mom w/autoimmune arthritis |she; opinions mine, if that
Attention social/personality (and adjacent) psych faculty at primarily undergrad institutions! We want to hear about your latest research!
Are you at a small institution and miss having a Brownbag series to keep up on social-personality psychology research? Then plan to attend SPSP's inaugural invited talk series this year! Apply to give a talk here: tinyurl.com/SPSPinvitedtalk
Do you identify as Latino/a/x/e? Do you do research on Latino/a/x/e populations? Join our professional development session this Sat February 10 at 9:30 am at SPSP!
The impact (good or bad) that you have on people through your teaching and mentoring will likely be greater than the impact of your research on society.
What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?
For the first time, "The Handbook of Social Psychology," the most authoritative guidebook to our field, is FREE to read, download, and share. the-HSP.com.
Multiple retakes on exams generally do not work. It actually sets students further behind and increases the achievement gap. 🧵
I have been pushing back on this for decades. One of the dumbest 'innovations' we've ever fallen for. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Our purchasing system is designed to discourage purchases. Our travel system to discourage travel. It should be easier for you to just pay for things out of your own money or not purchase them at all. Success!
All social-personality psychologists: Miss having a brownbag? You can still connect with other researchers! Join SPSP this Thurs, March 13 (1-2 PM ET) for the next talk in the new PUI Invited Research series. Register here: ow.ly/YfB650VeQyA
Sign up to attend a talk from the new SPSP Invited Speaker Series! Every month a different scholar will present on their research and you can engage and network with other scholars in the chat. spsp.org/news/spsp-news…
Social cognition grad students & postdocs on the job market: Do you want to practice your job talk in my lab meeting? Its a low-stakes opportunity to get constructive feedback & prepare for Qs you might get from hiring committees. DM me if you’re interested! (plz rt widely)
🚨Final Reminder🚨 Are you working to develop community and support underrepresented groups in personality and social psychology? SPSP can help! Apply for a Community Catalyst Grant before the deadline on June 1. Apply here: ow.ly/vWuz50S2bJ7
Once you have a PhD you learn that nobody really cares what your PhD is in, just that you have one. If you want to: Do research and practice ➡️ Counseling psych PhD Practice ➡️ Masters in counseling, social work, etc Research &/or teach ➡️ PhD in relevant subfield
Happy to see this published. In a preregistered replication we find that senders who use smileys (😊) in their emails are perceived as warmer but less competent, independent of the formality of the context.
New in Organizational Behavior, from @LindaLaiProf and @LewendM: The Dark Versus Bright Side of a Smiley: A Preregistered Replication of Experiment 3 in Glikson et al. (2018) “The Dark Side of a Smiley" doi.org/10.1525/collab…
Our new publication in the news. Woot. So proud of first author and my doctoral student advisee @soori_breeze 😃 news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1226…
Please help spread the word to students who might be interested. @CMNavarroFlores and I are recruiting our first counseling psychology PhD students @UTKPsych (2024-2025 academic year). Application deadline is in three weeks. Apply through this link: psychology.utk.edu/graduate-stude…