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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg

@dulcewestberg.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @UCDavisPsych | Formerly a postdoc @UMNPsych, graduated first-gen @UCRiverside | I study identity using an intersectional lens & narrative methods

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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Check out our paper examining narratives about race/ethnicity in different contexts among young adults! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jopy... Meaning making was higher in written relative to spoken contexts, highlighting the role of color-evasion. Conversation dynamics also uniquely shaped meaning making.
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Using a Master Narrative Framework to Examine Conversations About Race and Ethnicity
Objective Systemic racism, reinforced by color-evasive ideology, shapes the ways that emerging adults process and discuss race/ethnicity. In this preregistered and mixed methods study, we used a mas...
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
‼️‼️‼️ This special issue will be a BANGER! Consider submitting your work linking context and dynamics to personality pathology. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 18/09/2025
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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📢 New paper out! Check it out if you are interested in how themes of agency and communion shape racial and ethnic experiences and correspond with this aspect of identity! 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Agency and Communion in Racial/Ethnic Narratives and Relations With Racial/Ethnic Identity
Examining agency and communion in narratives about race and ethnicity can reveal how experiences of autonomy and connection shape the development of racial/ethnic identity. Across two studies of racia...
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My thought as well 😆
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So glad that you think so, thank you!!
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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 New article with infographic! Kindly retweet! The full article is open-access and available here: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great new review on mixed-methods research in AMPPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Congrats to @syeducation.bsky.social and @dulcewestberg.bsky.social . We need more of this work across the different areas of psych science!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks so much, Alma!!
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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just awful. Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Amazing! So excited to see you speak ☺️
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
opening R to do analyses on my own project after my first quarter as an assistant professor feels WAY too good right now...😅
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New paper in Collabra from @nguyenllpsych.bsky.social's dissertation, "Assortative Mating Patterns Based on Longitudinal Trajectories of Personality Traits and Relationship-Specific Characteristics." Check it out, it's a good one! doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Special thanks to @syeducation.bsky.social and Aerika Loyd for sticking with me through this paper - you’re the best cheerleaders and collaborators I could ask for - and to Jenn Lodi-Smith for her helpful and constructive editorial leadership!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Additionally, Meaning Making of narratives corresponded positively with the number of structural domains mentioned within and across stories. We hope this work helps bring an intersectional perspective into personality science and honors the experiences represented within.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In this paper, we examine young adults' experiences pertaining to race, ethnicity, gender, and social class using an intersectional lens and narrative methods. We found that ethnicity and race were most likely to be discussed in narratives across structural domains.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
✨ Big news: My dissertation research is officially published! ✨ This work holds a special place in my heart - not only because it represents years of effort, but because it is a tribute to the incredible mentors who guided me 🩵 doi.org/10.1111/jopy...
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Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives
Objective This study draws on life narrative data and an intersectional framework to explore features of narratives around structural domains, aiming to better understand the possible impacts of the...
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Can a happy partner keep stress at bay? A new study from our very own Tiko Yoneda finds that happiness in a relationship is linked to lower stress hormone levels in older couples. #UCDavis #RelationshipScience www.ucdavis.edu/news/new-stu...
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New Study Finds Partner’s Happiness Linked to Lower Stress Hormone Levels in Older Couples
Having happy intimate partners might not only lift our moods, but it also helps us manage stress, especially as we age, according to new University of California, Davis, research.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Very cool work, congrats Rebi!! 🥳
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Can’t recommend this paper enough!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
If you are interested please visit psychology.ucdavis.edu/graduate/gra... to learn more about our program and pines-lab.ucdavis.edu to learn more about my lab!
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Graduate Program
Program Strengths Our graduate program's greatest strengths are its flexibility in meeting the intellectual needs of individual students, the high level of cooperation and collaboration that exists wi...
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
My goal is to understand how features of narratives correspond with psychosocial adjustment and identity and reveal sources of empowerment for young people.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
🚨 Recruiting PhD Students 🚨 I am currently seeking motivated graduate students to join me in the Psych Dept at UC Davis in Fall 2025! I study how young adults narrate experiences with domains including race, ethnicity, and nationality in relation to psychological outcomes.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Hello colleagues! I am prepping a course on Multicultural Psychology (first time!). Any must-read articles, books, or teaching materials on diverse perspectives? Please feel free to share!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
We @ucdavispsych.bsky.social are hiring an Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology! Take a look if you are interested and share with colleagues: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06660
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Developmental Psychology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Thanks very much!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
I’m very grateful for the editorial leadership of @joannemchung.bsky.social and to the anonymous reviewers at SP compass for their feedback and help with shaping this manuscript!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Here, we argue that consideration of how social structures relate with personality has been limited and discuss ways an intersectional framework–which uses a social justice lens to examine how structures are interconnected and impact individuals— can be applied at three levels of personality.
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Excited to share this paper that the wonderful @syeducation.bsky.social and I recently wrote on integrating personality psychology and intersectionality, out now at Social and Personality Psychology Compass! doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
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Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons
Consideration of how interrelated social structures relate with personality has been limited. In this paper, we discuss how researchers might apply an intersectional framework–which uses a social jus....
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simine vazire @simine.com · 16/04/2024
We'll likely have a 2-year postdoc position in our lab (MetaMelb) in psych at Melbourne Uni, starting later this year. If you have a PhD, do relevant stuff, & want to spend 2 years in Melbourne studying psychology research methods & practices, please get in touch! Please share!
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Spoilers available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
In two studies, we examined themes of agency & communion in racial/ethnic narratives among U.S. young adults in relation to racial/ethnic identity. If you're at SPSP this week, come chat with me about what we found!
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simine vazire @simine.com · 31/01/2024
If you’re going to #SPSP2024 and you’re free on Saturday from 1-5pm, come join us to do some group peer reviews of preprints and get a $120 gift card and some timtams (if you don’t know what timtams are, that’s a good enough reason to come!) Please repost!
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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Lots of life-things happening for me these days—yesterday, I moved into my office and lab at UCRiverside, and today, a paper that lays out the next years of my research program came out: “Studying Personality and Social Structure” compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Deviating from a preregistration can be justified if it leads to a test with higher validity - even if this comes at the cost of a less severe test (which is likely still more severe than if you had not preregistered). I give examples in Table 1.
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
The schedule is set and registration is live for the SPSP 2024 Personality Science Preconference, Feb 8th 8AM-noon (++ Happiness and Well-being Preconf. in the afternoon). Register here: spsp.org/events/annua.... Early bird registration ends in 1 month!
Personality science preconference schedule
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I'm looking to recruit a new Ph.D. student for Fall 2024, particularly someone interested in meta-science, and preferably intersections with diversity/structural perspectives. Full consideration given to applicants from inside or outside the U.S. Deadline is Dec 1. cla.umn.edu/psychology/g...
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Allison P. Harris @allipatter.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I'm hiring a predoctoral fellow! The fellow will work with me on my solo projects and with me @hlw.bsky.social and Ariel White on collaborative projects. Please share with colleagues, friends, and potentially interested students and reach out with questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Does anyone have a template for reviewing pre-registrations? I have assigned pre-registrations for a course assignment and would be grateful for examples of how others evaluate these. Thank you! #openscience
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
boooooo fwiw we once had a craigslist participant randomly propose to one of our interviewers. tread carefully!
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Research on "resilience" has long suffered from a lack of attention to societal structures. Our new paper, "Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience," has now been accepted at American Psychologist. Check it out! psyarxiv.com/yhmj9/ (trying not to cross-post, but...)
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Does anyone have a good resource that explains why the Myers-Brigg isn't scientifically sound, but for a non-specialist audience? And also preferably isn't condescending? #PsychSciSky
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