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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It was so lovely to hang out with these wonderful women (Drs. Erin Thomas and Ivy Onyeador), yesterday! Grateful to Yale and Jack Dovidio for bringing us together 15 years ago!

A photo of me with Ivy Onyeador and Erin Thomas

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Seen at Walgreens, today. It is still July. That is all.

Photo of Halloween decorations at Walgreens

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the fact that this isn't an Onion headline...

NY Times headline that says "Justices reaffirm that children born in U.S. are Americans."

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

What is going on over at the Chronicle...

Chronicle of Higher Education article titled "Pauses in Ph.D. Admissions Are a Blessing in Disguise"

Chronicle of Higher Education article titled "There has never been a better time to start a Ph.D."

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The SCIP Lab had our inaugural lab retreat yesterday. It was much needed, and these students inspire me. Among other things, we did some team building during an escape room challenge!

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I don’t know if I should be worried about the fact that this is associated with our address, but whoever did this sure does have a great sense of humor.

A Home Depot mailer that is addressed to someone named “Felice B. Bogus”

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Life is stressful, but what’s really tearing me apart in this moment is 13 socks without a match. This has to be a record 😩

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’m giving a talk at the Society for Affective Science on Friday—my first time attending. If you’re around, come say “hi”! @affectscience.bsky.social

Ad for my Society for Affective Science Symposium: Bringing Emotion Research to Life: Real World Applications

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Out in Social Psychology of Education: Meike Bonefeld and her colleagues successfully validated a German version of my Bias Awareness scale among German teachers. They assessed awareness of biases toward "people with migration background." Super interesting! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

And Evanston is supposedly one of the most “progressive” towns in the Chicago metro area. evanstonnow.com/city-investi...

Photo of Evanston firefighters wearing Trump masks

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It’s that time of year again. www.facebook.com/100067893716...

A Shit Academics Say screenshot that reads (Manuscript in preparation (2024 crossed out, 2025)

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Given the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the awful ish that happened on US plantations, I continue to be baffled by this question (required if you want to submit demographic information to Manuscript Central and several societies). I feel a surge of anxiety and anger every damn time.

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Our friends let us borrow their Rise Garden, and my husband has really gotten into it. One month of growth! Eggplant, peppers, 3 types of lettuce, sage, mustard greens, kale, tomatoes, bok choy, some kind of bean thing, basil, cilantro, Swiss chard, cucumbers

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

To test these questions, we developed a method to facilitate these conversations. Parents and children watched animated videos and discussed questions about the behaviors that they observed (see a screenshot example below). 13/N

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

When we asked parents why they were not discussing racism with their children, they cited reasons like wanting to shield their child from the reality of racism or a belief that racism was irrelevant to their child’s life. 4/N

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I am thrilled that our paper is finally online at Dev Psychology: White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... A thread! 1/N

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Made it after 9 hours! 😭 And I had no clue that this is what Dino kale looks like when it’s growing

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Sharing our new paper out in SIPR: Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child-facing institutions Led by Leigh Wilton with Jessica Sullivan & Analia Albuja Grateful to be a part of it! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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