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Erin Cooley

@erincoo-psych.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Psychology at Colgate University; social psychologist studying hierarchy, health and policy/political beliefs

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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Our Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Colgate University is hiring a TT position in Clinical/Developmental! Please share or apply! After 10 years here, I feel confident it’s a really special place with strong support for both teaching and research: apply.interfolio.com/171967
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Simone Sebben @simonesebben.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am very happy that a first article from a project Johannes Ullrich and I have been working on for quite a while is now published in Psychological Inquiry (open access): doi.org/10.1080/1047...
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Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change
We present a framework for the study of social inequalities and social change. This framework aims to motivate researchers to move beyond the predominant focus on isolated pairs of identity-based g...
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Simone Sebben @simonesebben.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
We are very grateful for the comments we received and cannot recommend reading them enough. Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi and @erincoo-psych.bsky.social highlight strengths and weaknesses and outline how a shift of perspective might be helpful: doi.org/10.1080/1047...
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Response to: “Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change”
Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Our team developed a scale to measure subjective perceptions of one's own status as it relates to the perceived racial economic hierarchy. We think there are a lot of interesting research questions that could be asked with this measure! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxIg-CmV5...
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have been so touched by Sam both personally and through his work on racism in the criminal justice system. Here is a link to the innocence project, one of the places listed to donate in his honor: innocenceproject.org
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Innocence Project
We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate! I love my job and Colgate has outstanding support for people who are passionate about both teaching and research. Please share with anyone who may be interested! apply.interfolio.com/164745
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Oh man, I needed this!
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
just when I thought we had a good handle on p-hacking, I stumble upon alpha-hacking! Sigh. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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An Aberrant Abundance of Cronbach’s Alpha Values at .70 - Ian Hussey, Taym Alsalti, Frank Bosco, Malte Elson, Ruben Arslan, 2025
Cronbach’s α is the most widely reported metric of the reliability of psychological measures. Decisions about an observed α’s adequacy are often made using rule...
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datascicollab.bsky.social @datascicollab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Joint work with @erincoo-psych.bsky.social et al. available today: Learning while Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression. We provide two case studies for teaching interactions in regression. There is an accompanying app on our resource page! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Learning while Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression
In this article, we explore the use of two published datasets for teaching a wide range of students about regression models, with a particular focus on interaction terms. The two datasets come from...
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is so obviously true and yet so seemingly hard for a lot of people I have worked with to accept: "Science can never be, nor has it ever been, dispassionate and objective."
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Our new paper in @science.org shows that misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it’s shared more & read less. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I highly recommend listening to Keith’s conversation about his new book here! Super interesting ideas for our current political climate.
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I was interviewed for Colgate University's podcast to talk about the research I work on with @ryanlei.bsky.social, social media-less, phenom Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, Will Cipolli @datascicollab.bsky.social, and many wonderful students: open.spotify.com/episode/72oa...
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The Science of Hierarchies
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Congrats @neilrhester.bsky.social !! This looks awesome. Excited to add this paper to my syllabus :)
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Well this is a bit of a cliff-hanger. What does the next slide say?? We have some work that perceiving people in groups facilitates social categorization which enhances the category-based prejudice directed toward them…does the next slide nuance those findings?? Conflict with it?? The suspense!
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I have always loved the construct of intellectual humility and this feels like a such an important demonstration of what it can do! I would imagine it simply makes you a better scientist as well. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour
Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Teaching undergrad stats for psychology, I love trying to help students think about null hypothesis significance testing more deeply than the binary “reject or fail to reject the null” that they come in fixating on. This article was fun/interesting to read with that goal in mind.
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hi everyone. I'm a social psychologist by training but also dabble in developmental and health psychology. My work explores White people's willingness to confront their own racial biases, the consequences of this awareness (or lack thereof), and how they socialize their children about racism.
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Manny Galvan doesn’t seem to be on here yet! But this paper, led by Manny, was really interesting to work on and think about.
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Erin Cooley @erincoo-psych.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Our team finds that White people who feel "last place"--that is, that their own status falls behind most White people, Black people, Asian people, and Latinx people--are most supporitve of alt-right ideology and events like January 6th: rdcu.be/dYnVL
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White Americans who perceive themselves to be “last place” in the racial status hierarchy are most drawn to alt-right extremism
Communications Psychology - White Americans who feel they are in “last place” – falling behind the perceived status of most white, Black, Asian, and Latinx Americans –...
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