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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on how personality and social structure mutually shape people's economic resources, intergroup relationships, and social identity. Please see the lab site for more info: saslab.ucr.edu

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Self and Society Laboratory

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

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Welcome! | Ringwald Lab

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Some highlights of the 2026 International Contact Research Network Summit (#ICRN2026) in Karlsruhe, happening today and tomorrow @contactresearch.bsky.social

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This research highlights the social and psychological forces that keep different-race individuals "around but not close". By identifying these normative trends, we aim to provide scholars and practitioners with more levers to encourage meaningful and cooperative cross-race engagement.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pathways to Stability: Despite these trends, the research identified critical exceptions. Individuals who formed cross-race kin relationships (e.g., through marriage) maintained the most stable cross-race contact over time.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Relationship Quality: Participants reported lower levels of felt closeness and fewer "high-effort" interpersonal behaviors—such as confiding in or seeking advice—with different-race contacts compared to same-race contacts.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Role Differences: Even when present in a network, different-race contacts frequently occupied less intimate roles (e.g., coworkers) and were less likely to be viewed as friends or kin.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Contextual Barriers: Different-race contacts were significantly more likely to be met in large, non-intimate settings such as work or college, while more intimate settings like the family of origin remained predominantly racially homophilous.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Using longitudinal data from the UCNets study (N=1,156 Bay Area adults), we examined the everyday social processes of how cross-race relationships are formed and maintained. Our analysis reveals a consistent “normative distancing” of different-race contacts within personal networks, including:

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New paper on cross-race contact from my lab, forthcoming in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: “Around but not close? Mapping normative trends in cross-race contact during adulthood”. Read the postprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A huge thank you to my co-authors Juan Garcia-Cardenas, Eileen Graham, and Daniel Mroczek for their work on this project.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This result suggests that class identity is more dynamic than previously thought, potentially responding to both losses in resources and new social comparisons (e.g., the "1% vs. 99%" discourse).

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

These data sets include data from the 1950s (American National Election Studies) and 1970s (General Social Survey) through the present day, and a longitudinal study examining within-person change (Health and Retirement Study).

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In three of four national data sets, we found evidence that Americans' class identity decreased, on average, following the Great Recession.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Theories of class identity formation predict that all of these factors would lead people to identify as a relatively lower class, but this prediction had not been tested. So we tested it.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The 2008 Great Recession was devastating: huge losses in income and wealth; massive increases in unemployment; and a growing sense that many people were falling behind with dimming futures.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Most past research has treated class identity as a static aspect of people's lives, with only very short-term change studied. We investigated the possibility of long-term change in class identity by using the 2008 Great Recession as an external source of socioeconomic change in Americans' lives.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

People's class identity—how they perceive their amount of social and economic resources and convert them into a "social class" to belong to.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Dr. Cheng! We are looking forward to the innovative research she will bring.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Dr. Cheng is a social–personality psychologist whose research focuses on the codevelopment of personality and educational experiences in youth. At the Self & Society Lab, she will spearhead our growing focus on class identity and lifespan transactions between personality and economic resources.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🎉 Major Announcement for the Self & Society Laboratory! We are absolutely overjoyed to share some exciting news as the quarter winds down: Dr. Rongxin Cheng will be joining the lab as a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar in January 2026!

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

As the new school year starts (and my third year as an assistant professor), I'm very honored that our @ucriverside.bsky.social Psychology PhD students voted me Faculty of the Year for last year.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Assistant or Associate Professor - Clinical Psychology (Tenure Track)

Position SummaryTeach at the undergraduate and graduate level, advise students, conduct research in area of expertise, participate in the intellectual...

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Postdoc responsibilities including conducting independent and collaborative research with me + the lab, leading contributions to journals + conferences, contributing to grant writing, and participating in the lab + department community.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We utilize archival datasets and other survey methods to investigate the interplay between personality, socioeconomic resources, and intergroup relations.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

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Postdoctoral Scholar in Social/Personality Psychology

University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated! jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

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University of California, Riverside - Jobs

UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Re: the measurement discussion in this thread, I usually call non-report tasks non-verbal behavioral measures. A bit too wordy, though

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

My research: profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/pro... Applying to UCR: psychology.ucr.edu/graduate-stu... Applications are due by December 1st!

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

I’m reviewing applications for PhD students to join me @UCRiverside Psychology in Fall 2025! Apply if interested in personality (broadly defined), socioeconomic conditions, or cross-race relationships. Please share/RT! More info: ⬇️

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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

I am looking for a lab manager for the brand-new Emotional Lives lab (starting this Fall) at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated :) jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/33028489

jobsportal.ucr.edu

University of California, Riverside - Jobs

UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Coming to #aps24sf? Make sure to come to our symposium on the Psychology of Segregation on Friday 5/24 @ 2:30pm, organized by Lindsey Burnside & including me, Arianne Eason , Sophie Trawalter, & Courtney Bonam!

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Many thanks to @joannemchung.bsky.social for the opportunity to write this piece and to everyone who gave me feedback on it: Adriana Germano, Joel Martinez, Kate McLean, @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social, @dulcewestberg.bsky.social, and Tiko Yoneda.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

and 2. Openness to Experience and protest

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