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April Bailey

@ahbailey.bsky.social
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Lecturer (assistant prof) at the University of Edinburgh. Social cog, gender, androcentrism. Formerly at Yale, NYU, UNH, and Colgate. Dancer. Wanabee cyclist

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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you for this Josh—very kind! Worth noting our ideas have deep philosophical roots in de Beauvoir's account of woman as 'the other.' Adding to her philosophical claim about wider culture, we show this is a feature of social cognition, empirically measurable in how people think about categories
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nominations open for ISCON's early career award! For researchers in social cognition. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take 🎯
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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People think of women as one thing, men as many
People seem to represent men and women in a conceptually balanced manner: for example, seeing women as warm (not agentic) and men as agentic (not warm). Emerging evidence, however, suggests people mig...
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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New PPLS Perspectives episode! PG student Madeline Horner speaks with social psychologist Dr @ahbailey.bsky.social about why we often imagine a “person” as a man — and how subtle gender biases shape language, research, and real-world decisions. Listen here: edin.ac/4tpw8yY
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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My student Madeleine Horner interviewed @ahbailey.bsky.social about her fascinating research on gender and the prototype of the person concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDg...
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PPLS Perspectives - S3 Episode 3: Linguistic Diversity, AI, and the Human Mind
YouTube video by The University of Edinburgh: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
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Yanzi Huang @yzhuang.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If you’ll be at @spspnews.bsky.social this week, consider joining the symposium my advisor Peter Mende-Siedlecki & I are co-chairing on Friday (3:30-4:40 pm; @Room E350), featuring talks from @ahbailey.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Cy Butler, and me! #SPSP2026
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
postdoc opportunity! would be a good fit for an intergroup person with NLP chops interested in the role of historical narratives bonus, Edinburgh is a phenomenal city to live in with wonderful, walkable quality of life elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz @drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Going through your post-conference notes is a true exercise in self-reflection. In the middle of my notes from SESP I see the intriguing word: "Kaarbo" No idea what it means.
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Submit your blitz talk or poster abstract for consideration by Oct 23rd! All are welcome
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social
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Preconferences | SPSP
Explore SPSP Annual Convention preconferences—specialized sessions offering in-depth insights, networking, and collaboration in personality and social psychology.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
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GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
There is still time to register for the GENDER.ED Welcome Reception! 25 Sep 5-7pm, CMB Join us for networking, the exhibition 'The Pill. Angry Chuckles', and a discussion on 'Researching Contraception, Gendered Relationships and Social Justice' Visit: edin.ac/45Qu9cd
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social
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Preconferences | SPSP
Explore SPSP Annual Convention preconferences—specialized sessions offering in-depth insights, networking, and collaboration in personality and social psychology.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 19/03/2025
The president of Princeton speaks out: “The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Growing up is finding yourself doing stuff your advisor did and finally understanding why they did it.
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Isha Smith-Ramakrishnan @ishasr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Excited for the upcoming @spspnews.bsky.social! My co-chair @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and I have organized an incredible symposium exploring how intersectionality shapes perceptions of the Pan-Asian diaspora. We’re honored to be joined by @jinxungoh.bsky.social and @yzhuang.bsky.social!
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'll be in Denver ya'll! @spspnews.bsky.social Still deciding what to attend? Come check out my talk. It's our first time presenting this work! It's part of the symposium chaired by Sara Hendrick, "Equality Struggles: Men’s Home Roles, Women’s Professional Access" ✨
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please join @mikeypasek.bsky.social @sakierahudson.bsky.social @mzarate.bsky.social @giudittascalco.bsky.social and me for our symposium on Intergroup Derogation and Apathy #SPSP2025 on Sat. 1:45. @spspnews.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
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Research Specialist 2025 — Crockett Lab
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Yihan Qian @yihanqian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New paper in @pnas.org with my incredible advisors @linbian.bsky.social & Susan Goldin-Meadow found that the EQUAL gesture mitigates gender stereotypes subtly communicated to children via biased language, which may offer a new approach to promoting equality with our 👐. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Carme Isern-Mas @isernmas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
⏳ 10 days left to submit your abstracts for the #BioXPhi Summit 2025 in Basel (June 25-27)! If you are working on experimental/empirical bioethics or moral psychology, we invite you to contribute. Submit by Jan 31st! 📝 ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou...
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Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit 2025 | Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Another semester, another kladdkaka mud cake!! After an infamous stretch last semester where I had one of these babies a day for 7 days straight I created a "weekend only" rule for myself. I had a paper rejected today though so am making an exception
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Michael J. Bernstein @michaeljbernstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social and I could not be more excited to be in the role! We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below! #SocialPsych #PsychSky 1/n
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I made my first 3D plot! I was extremely proud of myself. I think it visualizes the clustering differences between red and blue better than the 2D plot. My (non-psych) partner shrugs and says they look the same 🥲 3D's better right? ps. Can you see which one is (sig) more clustered, red or blue?
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Congratulations David!!! Well-deserved. This'll be an excellent talk. If you were on the fence about the SocCog precon, let this push you over the edge (then hop on over to Gender in the afternoon 😘)
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
ISCON is pleased to announce that David Melnikoff has been awarded the 2024 Early Career Award in Social Cognition. Among his accomplishments, David has some impressive work developing formal models of flow. He'll be giving a talk at the SPSP Social Cog preconference, check it out.
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I'm hiring two part-time, paid research assistants! Must be fluent in Spanish and able to work in the UK. Please share with your networks. Ideal for UK post-baccs looking for more research experience to supplement MSc work, other RA work etc. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Assistant
The Psychology department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit two Research Assistants on an 8-month fixed term, Guaranteed Hours contract.
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
New chapter ahead! I'll be moving to the University of Edinburgh this Fall. I am immensely grateful for my time at UNH and the incredible colleagues and students I've gotten to work with. Excited for the new adventure in Scotland
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
New work in press at PSPB! With Aashna Poddar, Adina Williams, and Andrei Cimpian We found intersectional male-centric and White-centric biases based on a list of 4,000+ first names in large-scale (English) text using word embeddings Results overview ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/os...
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Stanford started a pre-doc program and several faculty in psych (incl. myself) are recruiting: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc Great opportunity to get more research experience before starting a PhD! App deadline is Feb 29. Info about my lab's research: cicl.stanford.edu Please share 🙏
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Do folks have advice about dealing with singularity errors in mlms? lme4. The obvious (to us) issues don't seem to apply... Model's not that complex, 2(bet)x3(within), random intercept for participant N is adequate (600+) Balanced, little missing data (7), and no outliers @kunstjonas.bsky.social?
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024 at UNH. Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Apply by 1/15/24! I can't always reply individually to emails. But the "letter to prospies" on our website includes answers to FAQs: www.baileypsychlab.com/contact/join...
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Teaching and research are often framed as enemies But I'm teaching in my area for the first time, and I'm surprised how synergistic it's been! I wrote an R&R this week using citations from class. It's also pushing me think more "big picture" and see my work in a broader context
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
When collecting data online do you... (a) 'require response' in Qualtrics, ensuring p's don't skip q's by mistake (b) 'REQUEST response' for this reason ^^ but allowing them to skip q's (c) Neither Related, is there work on the effect of 'request response' for data quality?
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I will be recruiting one or more PhD students this year to work with me in the University of Illinois graduate program. My core interests are still in experimental studies of social cognition and evaluative learning.
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
New paper in Psych Science led by Clara Colombatto in which we show that, contra expectations of policymakers, vaccine nationalism actually decreases trust in leaders. Redistributive leaders are trusted more than nationalistic leaders —even by more nationalistic participants.
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Had a blast speaking at NYU Abu Dhabi's psych department! Thank you for inviting me. The spark of engaging conversations and Q&A were just the midsemester boost I needed. Special thanks to Andrea Vial p🙌
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
📢 I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024 @UofNH! Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Check out the Join Us! section of our lab website baileypsychlab.com for a letter to prospective students w/ more info and FAQs. Apply by 1/15/24! Please RT 🙏
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Amy Krosch @amykrosch.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Come work with me! Open rank, tenure-track position in psych and law (broadly construed) at Cornell. Please share widely and apply if interested! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26396
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I'm reviewing a paper. Some pilot studies provide useful stimuli for one of my projects. There'd be 0 scooping, just useful pretested stimuli I think it'd be uncool to use stimuli based on me being a reviewer AFTER I submit my review, can I see if they posted a preprint? Can I email them if not?
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
New work in GPIR co-led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social, Marilena Juettemeier, & me! Prior work finds evidence that the (proto)typical person is a man e.g., people list men as examples of "humanity" and "person" concepts overlap more with "male" than "female" in large-scale text corpora
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