Good times with past & present lab at SPSP 🌴 @margauxwienk @SamAWKlein @Gabriel35193931 @jahchwe @dongwon_oh @HennaVartiainen @SPSPnews Soon to be AI-ed in: @HehmanLab @MBMeshar @Youngki

New in @PsychScience led by Youngki Hong: Facial stereotypes (e.g., trustworthiness) lead to consequential biases in criminal sentencing, hiring, and politics. We show these biases can be eliminated via a training that dismantles the associations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… (1/6)

Now that large-scale piloting of LGBTQ+ questions for national surveys of the scientific workforce is finally underway, @TravisYork at @AAAS and I have asked @NSF to consider making crucial information about these efforts available to the public. PDF: shorturl.at/ghkz9

New work in SPPS led by Youngki Hong: The dimensional structure of face impressions shifts across group boundaries, and this goes above and beyond mere ingroup favoritism. Ingroup facial dominance = trustworthy, outgroup facial dominance = untrustworthy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

My lab has 1-2 open postdoc positions for September 2024 (or earlier)! We study person perception, bias and stereotyping, social categorization, emotion, and other topics using fMRI, behavior, and computational modeling. Non-neuro or neuro focus welcome. freemanlab.org/postdocs2024

NSF is conducting mass piloting of LGBTQ+ questions on college graduates & PhDs, on target to produce the first official statistics on LGBTQ+ representation in STEM in 2026. This would ensure equity via data-driven policies & benefit science for all. (1/2)news.columbia.edu/news/natio…

Registration is now open! Join us for a FREE, first-of-its-kind symposium & think tank on the inclusion & advancement of LGBTQ+ people in STEM at @AAAS in DC on May 30, featuring policymakers, researchers, community members, @NSF, @NIH, & @WHOSTP. eventbrite.com/e/inclusion-a…

If you're going to #SPSP2023, check out presentations by @freemanlab folks, including @youngkidhong, @jahchwe, @MBMeshar, and @dongwon_oh! Details below. @SPSPnews

Thank you @ScienceMagazine for the coverage and @k_langin for tracking this issue for 5 years now lnkd.in/eCmt2cuX

🚨SIGN-ON: NSF is refusing to move forward with collecting LGBTQ+ data on its national STEM workforce surveys to ensure the equity of LGBTQ+ scientists. It has made its final decision. Please sign this open letter to the NSF Director and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Update: @NSF is making a decision now whether or not to collect LGBTQ+ data on the US STEM workforce. After years of delays, it completed a pilot with n=7,800. There weren’t any issues. The scientific community can’t improve a problem it refuses to measure.nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Thrilled to announce @AAAS & I have secured a $2M award to improve LGBTQ+ disparities in STEM! We'll work with U.S. universities to transition them to legal & ethical sexual orientation & gender identity data collection to create transformative change in LGBTQ+ equity in STEM.

Today, we wrote the White House @WHOSTP requesting that @NSF act on its near-completed pilot data and begin measuring & reporting sexual orientation & gender identity by 2023, and develop an infrastructure for addressing LGBTQ+ disparities in the US STEM population starting 2024.

Job alert 🚨 We’re hiring a lab manager for my lab at Columbia starting Fall 2022! We study the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in person perception, emotion, social decision-making, stereotyping/bias, social vision, & other phenomena. Link: freemanlab.org/labmanager202…

I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining Columbia's Department of Psychology this January! I'm looking forward to new collaborations and directions in my lab's work. I'll miss my amazing colleagues at NYU dearly and am grateful for all I've learned from them over the years.