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Thekla Morgenroth

@theklamorgenroth.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of social psychology at Purdue. Obsessed with my cat Kartoffel. Recruiting a grad student for Fall 2026!

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social.
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Free-text responses are a crucial part of psychological research, enabling participants to respond without bias toward a predefined set of answers. Unfortunately, many established methods for analyzing such responses require extensive manual coding, which is time- and resource-intensive. To address this issue, automatic-processing methods based on word embeddings and clustering techniques have been proposed. In this article, we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity), a user-friendly, graphical tool that makes such automatic methods easy to use and understand for psychological researchers.
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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2
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Kira Means @kirameans.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hi folks! We are conducting a meta-analysis examining the relationship between different facets of gender or gender-related essentialism and prejudice against transgender people. Therefore, we are requesting your unpublished data to include in the meta-analysis! The inclusion criteria are: 🧵
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position. Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Faculty Lecturer - Department of Psychology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New paper, led by Pia Dietze (newly on bsky! @piadietze.bsky.social) and Riana Brown (@rrrianabrown.bsky.social): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Health-focused frames mobilize Americans to action to address LGBTQ inequality | PNAS
“More than 1 in 8 LGBTQ people live in states where doctors can refuse to treat them.” This headline describes a flurry of laws passed in 2025 allo...
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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Teri Kirby @teriak.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
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A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...
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Department of Psychological Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
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Z. Ferguson @z-fergu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders! Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents! ow.ly/xPHL50X68mH
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Preconferences | SPSP
Explore SPSP Annual Convention preconferences—specialized sessions offering in-depth insights, networking, and collaboration in personality and social psychology.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people! ⬇️ Please see the full call below We are very grateful for all contributions! #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
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The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist
Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.
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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy. spsp.org/news/charact... #socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil
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Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies | SPSP
Society polices women’s bodies through morality—holding them to standards men don’t have to follow.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Character & Context piece about our work on the moralization of women's bodies: spsp.org/news/charact...
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Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies | SPSP
Society polices women’s bodies through morality—holding them to standards men don’t have to follow.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
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Z. Ferguson @z-fergu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Come visit my poster at the LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe pre-con #SPSP2025! I'd love to tell you about my work on prototypes of nonbinary people.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
First paper of 2025! Very grateful that I was asked to write a commentary on Jackson & Bussey (2024): "Conceptualizing transgender experiences in psychology: Do we have a ‘true’ gender?" (which is great and y'all should read!): bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Now published (open access)! 😀https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3136
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The Moralization of Women's Bodies
Women's bodies have long been subject to societal control. We examine a form of gender/sex bias that may be used to justify and maintain such control: the moralization of women's bodies. Across two s...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨 Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships? If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Just reading through my students evaluations. This is exactly the kind of comment I want: "Really enjoyed the class! A great part of class were the times of exams and having the pictures of the instructors cats up." 😁
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Super excited that our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" (with @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, and Abi Click) was just accepted at JPSP! What an exciting way to end the semester!
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does. Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
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The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne
Psychology's infamous bully
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Excited that this work was just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology! "The Moralization of Women's Bodies." With the magical @shellkryan.bsky.social , Madisyn Arnold, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.
The academic journal Perspectives on Psychological Science is back after a long hiatus
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
So proud of @kirameans.bsky.social ! Go read this article in which we explore how power and status in social psychology (and psychology more broadly) is tied to the gender/sex binary.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
New paper! "Heteroprofessionalism: The Power of the Gender/Sex Binary in the Workplace" with the magical @teriak.bsky.social and Jojanneke van der Toorn. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Y'all, I am SO freakin excited to share this paper! Rejected by 4 different journals but now finally out in Sex Roles: "Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism" with @teriak.bsky.social, Miriam Zehnter & @shellkryan.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...  🧵
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Finally re-set my password so I can post on here again. Only took me a few months 😆. Anyway, new paper! "The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric" with the magical @kirameans.bsky.social, Allie Mueller, and Kris Sass. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵
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The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric - Thekla Morgenroth, Kira K. Means, Alexandria S. Mueller, Kris D. Sass, 2024
Transgender rights are a polarizing topic. When examining the rhetoric used by those opposed to transgender rights, it often seems like their arguments contradi...
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Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
The brilliant @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social released a paper on dissecting class stereotypes in the US, i.e. how lower-class and upper-class in the US are seen. Turns out, the stereotypes are diverse - but also some common patterns emerge, like stereotyping lower class as uneducated.
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Dissecting Whiteness: consistencies and differences in the stereotypes of lower- and upper-class White US Americans
Economic inequality is increasing in the United States, making categorization and stereotyping based on social class more likely. Yet, social class stereotypes have received relatively little atten...
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Michael J. Bernstein @michaeljbernstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Any ECRs who focus on health disparities in medicine interested in giving an invited talk (Zoom or in person) at our campus on Feb 5th? An interdisciplinary Health Humanities group came to me late last semester for some names and those didn't work out so far. If anyone is interested, let me know. 😀
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
New paper in Psych Review, w Becca Neel @acceb.bsky.social We create two formal(ish?) models of prejudice preprint: osf.io/v4q7p Quick description:
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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 21/12/2023
Postdoc position in Tufts Psychology! Apply to work with Aerielle Allen, Lisa Shin, and Sam Sommers [@samsommers.bsky.social] on a 5-year project, Effects of Racism on Brain and Physiological Pathways to Health Disparities. #PsychSciSky
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Paper using machine learning to analyze tweets. By Badaan et al (@johnjost.bsky.social lab), w/ shoutout to my former PhD student Mark Hoffarth! Find many asymmetries: conservatives (vs liberals) nastier online. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Now published! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🎉🎉🎉 So cool and weird to see my sister's name next to mine on a published paper!
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
New paper led by the magical @statwood.bsky.social ! We discuss how anti-trans rhetoric often draws on essentialism & benevolent sexism, which are associated with worse outcomes for cisgender women - the group anti-trans folks allegedly try to protect. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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Amanda Diekman @amandadiekman.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Join us in Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University! I am chairing this search for a lecturer in social psychology (for best consideration, apply by Jan 2, 2024). indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20273
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Social Psychology Teaching Faculty
Full-time Teaching Faculty, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington.The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences seeks to fill a full-time teaching faculty L...
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
📢 I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024 @UofNH! Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Check out the Join Us! section of our lab website baileypsychlab.com for a letter to prospective students w/ more info and FAQs. Apply by 1/15/24! Please RT 🙏
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I will be reading applications and potentially accepting student(s) in the social psychology area at Northwestern. More details on applying are here: psychology.northwestern.edu/graduate/pro... I don't engage applicants pre-app but you can find out about our lab here: www.csinequality.com/values
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Our Values and Mission — Contending with Societal Inequality: A Social Science Laboratory
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Very excited to share the pre-print of our paper "Sexual Consent Norms in a Sexually Diverse Sample" that was just accepted at Archives of Sexual Behavior: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led by the magical Emily Harris.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
New preprint makes five recommendations for promoting civility in open science: (1) Critique the science, not the scientist (2) Be humble (3) Have empathy (4) Engage privately before publicly (5) Hold people accountable who act uncivilly osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Psychology
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Prof Michelle Ryan @shellkryan.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Excited to see this out! Our paper, led by Audrey Aday, shows that gender differences in systemitising and empathising, often used to justify gender inequalities, are not innate but due to gender differences in learning opportunities. #socialpsyc #psychsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Do Measures of Systemizing and Empathizing Reflect Perceptions of Gender Differences in Learning Aff...
Gender differences in systemizing and empathizing are sometimes attributed to inherent biological factors. We tested whether such effects are more often interpr...
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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
New work in GPIR co-led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social, Marilena Juettemeier, & me! Prior work finds evidence that the (proto)typical person is a man e.g., people list men as examples of "humanity" and "person" concepts overlap more with "male" than "female" in large-scale text corpora
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