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Andrei Cimpian

@andreicimpian.bsky.social
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Professor, Department of Psychology, New York University Research: gender, stereotypes, motivation, explanation Past President, @cogdevsoc.bsky.social Married to @joecimpian.bsky.social Website: cimpianlab.com

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There hasn’t been enough discussion in philosophy of this wonderful research by April Bailey (@ahbailey.bsky.social) She provides a mountain of evidence for the claim that people see MEN as the prototype of the category of human beings www.researchgate.net/profile/Apri...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Come join my lab at NYU as a postdoc! 😊 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191617 More about our work: cimpianlab.com
My lab is looking for a postdoc! 

Deadline (flexible): August 24, 2026

Start date (flexible): Fall 2026

Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've seen lots of chatter about how this paper finds that liberal profs don't push their students leftward, but not enough chatter IMO about how students do shift leftward in college regardless. Knowledge, not faculty pressure, moves people leftward! Shameless plug for my related recent paper 🤗⤵️
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Investigating the origins of partisanship: What motivates children to preferentially endorse their ingroups’ claims? 🚨By Bethany Lassetter, Natalie Hutchins, Lucas P. Butler & Andrei Cimpian
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Sherry Nguyen @sherrynghi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What makes students keep trying in math? In our scoping review, we examined motivational factors linked to effort investment such as perceived competence, interest, anxiety, beliefs about ability and effort, and the broader messages students receive from parents www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
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Frontiers | How hard did you try? A scoping review of the literature on effort investment in math
Like most high-level human skills, such as reading or playing the piano, learning math requires thousands of hours of effort. Despite its importance, researc...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 30/07/2026
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is ”Children’s books about scientists convey demotivating messages.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/oTon50ZuLj3 For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/TsjY50ZuLj2.
Dot plots for mindset messages about ability and interest. Diamonds with error bars mark marginal means.
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🤦‍♂️ You know those books about famous scientists that we read to kids, hoping to inspire them? Well, they probably won't do that. I'm excited to see this new work out in PNAS @pnas.org. Led by @jessgladstone.bsky.social. (Jess is new to Bluesky -- give her a follow!) 👇
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🚨 @lisalimeri.bsky.social and I wrote a little policy-oriented piece based on our research on how kids and adults think about ability: doi.org/10.1177/2372...
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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Read this (with powerful quotes from Lisa Limeri) about the censorship currently happening at Texas Tech and how they are trying to hide it from prospective students 👇 www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
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At Texas Tech, Even Some Student Research on Gender Will Be Banned
A ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research.
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Luke Butler @lucaspbutler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NEW PAPER with Bethany Lassetter, @nataliehutchins.bsky.social, & @andreicimpian.bsky.social out now in Cognition! Open access link (free until late August): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nNS02Hx32... Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? 🧵 🧵 🧵 below:
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Helping Kids! Lab @helpingkidslab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📣 Publication Alert! 💡 Prosocial behavior plays an essential role in promoting positive intergroup relations from an early age 💻 Read the whole article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social #NewPublication #ProsocialBehavior #OpenAccess
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
✨ Update: this paper is now in press at Cognition! Children's partisanship disappears (a) when responses are private and (b) when accuracy is incentivized, suggesting that agreement w/ the ingroup functions as a public signal of group support. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1-Qvu... Thread below 👇
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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cognitive representations of social relationships and their developmental origins | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Cognitive representations of social relationships and their developmental origins - Volume 49
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Shauna Bowes-Flores @shaunambowes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Really great to talk about the illusory truth effect (and our paper on how repetition affects belief in conspiracy statements @lkfazio.bsky.social) with Markham Heid at TIME Magazine! time.com/article/2026...
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Why False Claims Seem Truer the More You Hear Them
The more we hear a particular claim or piece of information, the more we tend to give it credence—regardless of whether it’s true.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!
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Senior Research Associate (RA2386) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...
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Luke McGuire @lmcguire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In a new paper published in PHAIR, we ask today's emerging adults in the UK whether they thought about stopping eating meat when they were younger...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
So interesting!! Huge congrats, April and Rachel! 🤩
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
❓ Why do children conform so eagerly to gender norms? A new study in Developmental Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social contributes some interesting new data on this question: doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...
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Laboratory Coordinator - 138788 | Careers at UC San Diego
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Helping Kids! Lab @helpingkidslab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We are now recruiting! We welcome a global and diverse set of applicants for a new ERC Consolidator project funded by @erc.europa.eu www.ucd.ie/research/new... 📣 Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... 📣 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇
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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ? At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Looking for a lab manager! Join us! 😊 apply.interfolio.com/182022
Lab manager position in the Cognitive Development Lab
Please forward to motivated students!
Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/182022 
Deadline: March 2, 2026
Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu
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Charisse Pickron @charissepickron.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026
Individual variations in face-perception expertise become apparent by the second year of life. We propose that infants’ “face diet”—the nature and quantity of t...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Terrific new work by @linbian.bsky.social 👇
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The emergence of political orientation: Authoritarian and social dominance attitudes in early childhood 📣From Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian & Sharon Shenhav
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
1/ Why do political disagreements feel so hard to resolve -- even with people we otherwise get along with? New research, led by my friend Michal Reifen-Tagar, suggests one reason: the foundations of political orientation may be in place by age 4. Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1UvN2...
Political ideology guides individuals’ perceptions, goals, and behaviors in the socio-political arena, with profound societal consequences. Prior research on the emergence of individual differences in ideological orientation points to early adulthood as the critical age at which such differences first manifest. We challenge this conclusion and investigate whether systematic proto-ideological orientations are already present among children as young as 4 years of age. Specifically, we examined individual differences in children’s authoritarian and social dominance attitudes – two central, consequential ideological orientations among adults. To determine whether children’s early attitudes are valid markers of ideological orientations per se, we tested whether these attitudes were systematically related to parents’ ideological orientations, as is the case among young adults. Across two studies with Israeli mothers and their 4- to 8-year-old children (Ns = 154 and 190, respectively), we found systematic individual differences in children’s authoritarian and social dominance attitudes, measured with newly developed, child-appropriate measures: Children’s authoritarian attitudes corresponded to their mothers’ authoritarianism (Study 1), and their social dominance attitudes corresponded to their mothers’ social dominance orientation with regard to hierarchy (but not inequality; Studies 1 and 2). Notably, mother–child correlations were especially strong among children whose mothers were their primary caregivers, hinting at a possible socialization process. Together, these findings suggest that the seeds of ideology are apparent as early as age 4, and highlight the importance of developmental research for a deeper understanding of adult political ideology. We consider contextual limitations to the generalizability of our findings and offer directions for future research.
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Important new work on girls' and boys' sense of belonging in STEM across K-12 by @allisonmaster.bsky.social, @patelkhushboo.bsky.social, and colleagues! 💯
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We're doing summerpsych.com again this year! PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:
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the Summer Internship
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Franck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Gender differences in mathematics in 1st grade: what are the causes? How to reduce them? This is the talk I will give (based on the doctoral work of Lilas Gurgand) at the next online research seminar of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London ⬇️
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Important new work by @melismuradoglu.bsky.social and colleagues on early beliefs about ability and their links to motivation ✨
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Journal of Cognition and Development, the official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief, with the term to begin on July 1, 2026. Application materials are due February 16. For more information, visit: cogdevsoc.org/journal/
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Speaking of early leadership motivations, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - we establish the emergence of dominance and prestige leadership motivations in adolescence, and further show nomological networks identical to young adults onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dominance and Prestige Motivations to Lead in Adolescence
Introduction Dual strategy frameworks of motivation to lead differentiate Dominance motivations, which leverage fear and control to gain power and status, from Prestige motivations, which rely on re...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🧵Women are underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. Why? One contributor: gender gaps in political ambition that emerge in childhood In new paper, we ask: What predicts kids' political ambition? We studied 367 children (ages 5-11) in the US & China. 1/8 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Lovely work by @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social, @linbian.bsky.social, and colleagues! 💯 Check it out 👇
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I love this work -- and working with Eddie! 🤩
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Casey Lewry @caseylewry.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I am thrilled to announce that this framework is out! Who is responsible for inequality? @tanialombrozo.bsky.social and I show that answers depend on whether people are judging causes or obligations, and the past vs the future. doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/
Image of Montreal with text noting that poster submissions for the upcoming SRCD conference are due on January 8, 2026
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Lora Park @lorapark.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇 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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Fan Yang @fanyangchicago.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Are we only morally obligated to others? Our new paper shows that people also see moral obligations to the self—bridging the usual divide between self-interest and moral goodness. Out in JPSP 🎉 with @laurasoter.bsky.social & Susan Gelman doi.org/10.1037/pspa... #MoralPsychology #GoodLife
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
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The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸‍♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
A screenshot of the article title, highlights, and other information.
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’m so, so happy about this, and so proud of you @ahbailey.bsky.social 💖💖💖
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📣📣 A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD: "Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
All of the time -- and I mean ALL of the time -- I get messages from people in tech that if we just promoted people with the right engineering degrees, and the Technical People were in charge, all would be fixed. That is why I wrote Why I Cannot Be Technical. You either get it or you don't.
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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"AI-Faces by Illinois" include 1,152 AI-generated images of children by age (3-15), gender, eight racial background, and emotion (smile, angry, sad). Images (osf.io/vurm5/) and Preprint available(doi.org/10.31234/osf...) with @brendacstraka.bsky.social and @Dr. Michael Rizzo!
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Elena Luchkina @elenaluchkina.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Seeking PhD students for 2026 @ UT Dallas! In the Early Cognition & Communication Lab, we explore the development of communication, abstract thought, and social bonds and consider the role of early exposure to AI. Apply by Nov 15, 2025 bbs.utdallas.edu/departments/... #phdlife #DevSci #CogSci
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Psychology PhD
Psychology PhD The Psychology PhD degree program offers advanced study and research training for students seeking to become leading scientists and scholars in the field The Psychology PhD degree progr...
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