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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

@drlarisa.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29/09/2026
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested. Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #metascience
Do God Primes Prime God? Convergint evidence against the efficacy of experimental religious priming.

WIll Gervais, MEara Geraty, Aiyana Willard

then the rest of the image is a screenshot of the table of contents.plot summarising bayes factor results testing:
Prime -> Religious concepts (overt primes yield positive evidence, scrambled sentence negative)

Prime -> prosociality: universaly evidence strongly favoring the null result across 4 primes and 2 operationalisations of prosociality

Prime -> suspicion: fairly universal evidence in favor of priming methods causing suspicion

Religious concepts -> $$$: four independent sets of evidence favoring the null
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Cydney Hurston Dupree @cydneydupree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mixed feelings about this one. The Arday case is painful, and I get vulnerable in this piece. But the message is important, and it draws some of my favorite research, led by Brittany Torrez with @mwkraus.bsky.social . My latest, in Times Higher Ed. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Group activity in my psych of religion seminar: create a new religion, discuss similarities/differences to existing religions, think through why actual religions do/don't work like their invented religion. Lots of creative answers! Students are amazing. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you so much to @samuelronfard.bsky.social for sharing his work on learning from disagreement with our lab last week! Lots of cool data about, eg, the extent to which people value learning from disagreement for themselves & others across development. Learn more here: www.utmchildlab.com.
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CHILD LAB @ U of T
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Eva Kundtová Klocová @kundtova.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper in Evolution and Human Behavior, special issue on Magic, Witchcraft, Myth, and Taboo (link below). When a moral transgression threatens the whole community, saying sorry to one person cannot restore collective trust. Why do so many cultures use costly public ritual instead?
a metal candle holder with the word ‘reconciliation’ written in various languages
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New study @nature.com establishes predictors of White nationalism in the US. Among the predictors are higher worship attendance & belief that non-White and non-Christian groups have too much power, along with being low-SES, conservative, GOP, & politically disaffected. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States - Nature
Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am so used to working on my way to and from conferences (yay, pilots and train conductors and other people helping me get places!) that I did not fully process that driving for five hours meant that I could not use those same five hours to edit papers.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New at @jssreligion.bsky.social. We asked Christians what actions help build the Kingdom of God on earth: we find the more Christians affirm Christian nationalism, the more they deprioritize charity & justice while prioritizing Christian statism & evangelism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Neil's photos have been lowering my cortisol for years and also, even with the photos I was unprepared for how lovely Ithaca is. At Cornell for a conference currently & very much enjoying both the intellectual and the natural environment.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nothing makes you realize the kids are alright more than sitting & talking with a couple dozen of them for a couple hours at office hours. It would be great if the Ranting Pundits convinced that they know What Is Wrong With Higher Education could meet these students full of great questions & ideas.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy barrage of e-mails day to all who celebrate. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now out online! Why do kids sometimes bomb possibility reasoning tasks and other times totally nail it? We review the lit and show how differences in a set of common ancillary cognitive demands in these tasks "push around" the age at which children succeed - psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New research by @mv1691.bsky.social @ericdknowles.bsky.social & Napier ... finds that Latinos told Whites will accept them within "White" then show higher racism & conservatism. Essentially pulling ladder up after themselves. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
new paper out: *~*~*~*~ "Revisiting the 5- to 7-Y ear Shift: The Age of Metacognitive Control?" (by Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social , McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social , Ullman) *~*~*~*~ sharable paper link: bit.ly/5to7_2026 free pdf draft: www.tomerullman.org/papers/5to7s...
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Revisiting the 5- to 7-year shift: The age of metacognitive control?
Abstract. The term 5- to 7-year shift refers to the marked changes in behavior observed as children transition from preschool age to school age. In 1996, a
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Mary Katz @marykatz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who gets to claim a religious exemption? In the eyes of Americans, the answer depends heavily on political ideology, not just the belief itself. My first first-author paper is out in @spspnews.bsky.social’s Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! New paper 🧵1/10
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
I am pretty sure @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social will use this against my claim "enough books is really enough."
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Jamin Speer @jaminspeer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
***NEWLY ACCEPTED PAPER*** I have a new short paper with Margaret Leighton We use decades of data (HERI) on incoming college freshmen to show that students' life goals have changed dramatically over time. Students really are very different than they were in the past! Here are the key findings:
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Savoring this last week of summer & thinking of ways to enjoy myself once school starts ("enjoy life" is basically my goal for this academic year). What are you all looking forward to this year? #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Out in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations: The Future of Latines’ Racial Categorization and Sociopolitical Attitudes Amid Rising US Diversity tinyurl.com/4hateszc This work—led by @mv1691.bsky.social—examines how (re)racialization could shape the politics of U.S. Latines in the coming decades.
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Hanna @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reason-giving isn't a Western invention. New in Child Development: 360 children aged 5–9 in China, Kenya & the US spontaneously gave each other reasons to settle disagreements — and did so more when they disagreed than when they agreed. academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...
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Children across diverse societies exchange reasons to resolve disagreements
Abstract. The exchange of reasons in rational discourse is crucial for resolving disagreements. In a preregistered cross-cultural study, 360 5- to 9-year-o
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Played hooky yesterday to see Operation Mincemeat on Broadway. A+ decision, highly recommend.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Up: The Iconic Flying House
Alt: Carl's house on its way to Paradise Falls from my movie soulmate, Up.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thank you to Zoe Johnson King for sharing her work on praiseworthiness in lab meeting today! What a fun and thought-provoking interdisciplinary conversation. She wrote a whole book about this topic that you can read if you also like to think about interesting things: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from
Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst
By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST*
We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety.
We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I got a mysterious e-mail from CogSci saying that they are aware of an "ongoing issue with proceedings content" and are working with UC Merced to fix it. I'm not at the conference and have no idea what this is about - can any of you fill me in?
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My lab is hosting 2 amazing Barnard undergrads this summer who just presented posters of their work! Kate McElvaney is asking how kids & adults from different religions think about redemption; Ari Estrin is studying evaluations of religious & secular transgressors. So lucky to work w both of them!
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I have once again misspelled my own name in the author list of a paper only for it to be caught by the lovely person copy-editing the article. Also, fun fact: every time I spell Heiphetz correctly, I am spelling it out in my head letter by letter.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New study finds experimental perspective taking on prejudice reduction has some limits (and works less well on highly prejudiced people) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... (I'm not keen on authors referring to prejudiced people as "principled" though).
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The effects of perspective‐taking on multiple dimensions of discrimination: Can one size fit all?
Reader environment loaded
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kiraharris.bsky.social @kiraharris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
1/4 Why do we gravitate toward some people over others? I'm excited to share new work with Peter Mende-Siedlecki, @andyluttrell.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social! We use perceptions of others' personality traits more in related contexts, but rewards elicit general positivity 🧵👇
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you to @trystanloustau.bsky.social for sharing her work on morality and politics in my lab meeting this morning! Her relevant work was recently accepted at JEP: General & you can read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (+learn about her other research here: trystanloustau.com).
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The Moralized Coalitions Model: The Coalitional Structure and Moral Dynamics of Partisan Stereotypes
<p>Partisan identity in the U.S. increasingly overlaps with nonpolitical social identities, fostering moralized, coalitional thinking. We propose the Moralized
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
💥 New paper: Children Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them I enjoyed the opportunity to yap about two of my favorite things: Structural explanation and liberal arts education! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Children Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them - Rebecca Peretz-Lange, 2026
Children are highly aware of social inequalities by the preschool years, and they spontaneously generate explanations to make sense of them. In particular, chil...
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Belief in magic emerges most strongly among those who are both scientifically oriented and residually religious. Secular rationalism does not erase belief in supernatural mechanisms. It affirms the individual’s agency to decide what they are academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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The magic of secularization
Abstract. Institutional secularization does not necessitate a secular public. In fact, as church memberships decline, more individualized sources of supern
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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New paper out today in Social and Personality Psychology Compass! What happens when our moral values come into conflict? Our new paper explores "metamorality": the second-order principles we use to navigate conflicting moral choices. W/ Jesse Graham
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Many things. The most often is probably post-decision rationalization* - makes it easy to just pick stuff, no agonizing involved *for non-psych followers: once people make a decision they convince themselves that was the best decision & end up happy with whatever they chose
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you so much to Philip Gorski for visiting with my lab today! Lots of food for thought from his presentation on a recent shift from rhetoric around White Christian nationalism to frameworks around "civilization," and the moral implications of these narratives.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excited to share our new study. Upshot: The more rightward White adults place Jesus on the ideological spectrum, the more solidarity they feel with other Whites. BUT it's the opposite for Black adults: the more conservative the Jesus, the less racial solidarity they feel. 1/6 doi.org/10.1093/socr...
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
1. New paper first-authored by @dymoral.bsky.social in press at Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psych! We ask how social identity shapes moral cognition. Full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/... + summary below: #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social 🧪
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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New Preprint! We gave neural networks infant-like curiosity and let them free to explore. They grew brain-like architecture, followed human synaptic development, and even started to display compositional thought. So we think curiosity doesn't just come from a complex mind... it helps us build one 👇
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Curiosity shapes brain-like architectures and functions
How does complex cognition emerge from simpler underlying processes? We show that two components are sufficient: infant-like curiosity and brain-like biophysical constraints jointly drive the emergenc...
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Alice Walker John Irving Anne Lamott Lois Lowry Ann Patchett #booksky
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Lauren (Palladino) Olson @lrpalladino.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My first-ever solo-authored paper is out today (open access!) in @journalrep.bsky.social! What drives Americans to switch their presidential vote based on race over the last 3 elections? I show that it's not general racial warmth, it's changing beliefs about discrimination. (🧵 1/3)
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
All formatted, all reference-d. It turns out references count toward the word limit and people like to give their articles long titles sometimes! But it is all done and submitted and it is time for me to take a nap.
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Julien Lie-Panis @jliep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵
Screenshot of article title page, "Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules"
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1. A story from my flight to the conference in Brno where I just gave a keynote. This is a story about a fabulous human and a somewhat less fabulous one.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Beloved The New Jim Crow I have many other history/sociology books in mind but I think the 3rd should offer some hope (and could be a novel or other literary work) and nothing like that is readily occurring to me. If any of you have a candidate in mind I'd love to hear!
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What a special treat to give this keynote at IACESR! Thank you so much for inviting me, for the amazing intellectual engagement, and for the chance to visit Brno for the first time.
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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨 Officially out at Child Development! A few years ago in Science, Ashley Thomas (ashleyjthomas.bsky.social) and colleagues argued that saliva could be a cue infants use to infer the strength of social relationships. academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...
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An associative learning account of how saliva becomes a cue for comfort
Abstract. A recent study by Thomas et al. (2022) showed that 8.5- to 10-month-olds use saliva sharing as an indicator of relationship closeness: infants ex
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Practicing talks is the bane of my existence, though actually giving the talks is one of the most fun parts of my job. Did you all ever get to a point where you gave new talks without practicing them, and if so, how far into your career were you?
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Kaitlin Sheerin, Ph.D. @kaitlinsheerin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Proud to have an article that means a lot to me spotlighted by APA. 🫶
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