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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

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Social & political psychologist, Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, trying this out...

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our @spspnews.bsky.social Preconference on Economic Inequality&Social Class is back,co-organized with Efraín García Sánchez, Kristin Laurin,& @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social! Datablitz submissions now open, keynotes @keithpayne.bsky.social & Jean-Claude Croizet Find us here: spsp.org/events/annua...
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
THREE DAYS to Early Bird register for SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class precon! lnkd.in/dF87-jFT Come hear @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social@celbaek.bsky.social @ishitas.bsky.social@cabauer.bsky.social(+more not on bsky) Brochure: lnkd.in/dq2iBXA9 @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚨DEADLINE APPROACHING🚨 for our 2 open rank positions in social/political psych and cognition/perception, either of which can take a developmental angle. Deadline Nov 30th for full consideration,though we'll keep an eye out for great applications coming in soon thereafter: apply.interfolio.com/175417
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Nice for me to see this application of the public goods dilemma to salient UK challenges, right after I used the same game in teaching social psych. My lab has been implementing variations of this game to study political ideology and decision-making in adversity! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons | Rafael Behr
A declining sense of collective identity is corroding trust in our institutions and undermining democratic politics, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Join a fantastic department and school dear to my heart, and a chance to shape a groundbreaking Masters course!
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
New PSPB paper out from work with @wnmerrell.bsky.social, Lei Fan, &Lotte Thomsen, showing consensus across the egalitarian spectrum in appearance of images of poor people generated through reverse correlation, alongside differential ratings of those images by egalitarianism in an independent sample
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
1 day left to submit an abstract to present at this!
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨The Psychology Program at NYU Abu Dhabi is hiring! We have 2 open rank positions cutting across our strengths in social & political psych,cognition & perception, & developmental psych. Deadline Nov 1st, please spread far & wide; reach out if you are interested! apply.interfolio.com/175417
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Off to Lisbon for my first SESP conference in 7 years! Please say hi if you see me and set your alarm for this 8.30am symposium on how resource ecologies shape psychology 🤓
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi: tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!
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Logo credit: Sondos Eatamadi
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The paper I'm most proud of from the past year: I got to join fellow Sidanius labmates to connect decades of research on social dominance theory, which ended up showing how the original idea of a 'basic grammar of social power' put forward by Jim and Felicia in 1999 is more plausible than ever...
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Yesterday was my last day as faculty @lsepbs.bsky.social, a place dear to me, from my MSc 20 years ago to the first 10 years of my academic career! I will transition to LSE Senior Visiting Fellow, then focus on launching the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi 🤓
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Just a reminder that it has been more than 60 days since Israel blocked any food, fuel, or medicine from getting into Gaza.
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Monbiot yet again goes straight to the key point everyone is dancing around! Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
⭐ With registration for #EHBEA2025 closing in *just 4 days* 😱😱😱, let's recap on what we have planned ! 🎉 First up: Amazing Plenaries! 🧑🏻‍🏫 Kicking us off is Prof Russell Hill! ➡️ How STRANGE are your wild primates? Observer impacts on observational data collection 👀🙈 [1/10] @ehbea.bsky.social
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New follower welcome - @jsskeffington.bsky.social, who wrote for us here with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Taking context seriously | BPS
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇
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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Last call! Deadline for our summer school on political intuitions is tomorrow. Application docs are few so there is still time to apply
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
maybe 250 words describing status250-ish social justice wordssmaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?And another 150 or so on race
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Flights and hotel booked for SPSP :-) Speaking at pol psych precon, then attending intervention sci precon organized by former PhD student Julia Buzan. Also excited about Saturday symposium on social psych in Palestine. Check them out, and let me know if you'll be in Denver and want to catch up!
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Punchy interjection from Karim Bettache (showing PSPR being more bold),asking why psychology doesn't do more study of capitalism. I agree - it's hard to notice as it's like the water we swim in, yet we'd always check water to be sure it's not getting too harmful! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Where Is Capitalism? Unmasking Its Hidden Role in Psychology - Karim Bettache, 2024
This article critically examines the pervasive yet often-neglected influence of capitalism on psychological processes and human behavior. While capitalist ideol...
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? @jsskeffington on why we need to go beyond crude identity politics & consider how ideological views vary among ethnic minority groups #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity
What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My first blog for @lseinequalities.bsky.social let me get a political psychology point off my chest that's been bugging me since November! @lsepbs.bsky.social @denisebaron.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity
What is the political psychology behind the surge in support for figures like Donald Trump? Taking stock of the research, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that we need to go beyond crud…
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
First PhD publication from Julia Buzan is now out! We used discrete choice experiments to examine the socioeconomic dimension of choosing graduate jobs with short v. long term benefits, finding important roles for current financial strain, perceptions of control, &connections to a job.Check it out ⬇️
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Just one week left to apply for either the 2-year post-doc or 1-year Lab Manager roles at my new lab at NYU Abu Dhabi!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I feel a bit like this about open science. The reforms will likely lead to positive outcomes, even if we overestimate their ability to solve our problems (e.g., replication crisis) The open science movement got us to THINK about what we're doing. That's a positive spin-off if nothing else.
carton, at climate summit, audience member objects "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing"
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Happy to announce that I have taken up the post of Associate Professor in Psychology at NYU Abu Dhabi 👩‍🎓 Feeling grateful as the location & intercultural setting is what my family needs, and the political psychology group I'm joining is fantastic. Leaving LSE in May 💔🥲
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I taught on a course of Thom's at CEU last year and it was so impressive: smart, thoughtful students from across the disciplinary spectrum, taking a deep dive with big thinkers on questions that matter. This one looks excellent, hope you will take a look.
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Giving an online talk tomorrow at ICS Lisbon on my work with Lotte Thomsen bridging Relational Models Theory and Social Dominance Theory, open to all!
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm chairing the ISPP award committee for the Jim Sidanius Early Career Award The deadline for nominations is 15 January 2025 To nominate someone, simple email me argument as to why they deserve the award and a CV of the nominee ispp.org/awards/sidan... #polisky #polpsych #prejudice #socpsych
Text from the linked website. The text reads, How to Nominate:
Nominees must be current ISPP members and within 10 years of having received their PhD. All nominations must include the following: An argument as to why he/she deserves the award and a CV of the nominee. To complete a nomination, simply send these materials to the Committee Chair by the deadline.

The award recipient will be strongly encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting and Awards Reception.

2025 Award Committee:
Chair: Mark Brandt (Michigan State University)

Email

Committee: Lene Aaroe (Aarhus University), Angel Saavedra Cisneros (Bowdoin College)

THE NOMINATION PROCESS FOR 2025 NOW OPEN.  The deadline for nominations is 15 January 2025.

Winners will be notified by early April 2025.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Looking for reviewers before Christmas
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Starter pack of people I share a research group with who are studying decision-making in contexts of adversity go.bsky.app/CN2PKvY
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