social psychologist studying group dynamics and inequality with theory-driven interventions, social network analysis. assistant professor @BarnardCollege.
Joined June 2016
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New paper out at @SPSSI Journal of Social Issues! In "Explaining the gender gap in negotiation performance: Social network ties outweigh internal barriers," we present a new take on the old question of why women fare worse in negotiations than men. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.co… 1/6
Studying social networks? @cyr_em & I invite talk submissions on "The psychology of social networks: The role of individual processes in real-world social networks" for the @SocNetAnalysts Sunbelt 2022 July conference (can be virtual). Abstracts due Feb 6 sunbelt2022.org/abstracts
These differing social trajectories predicted STEM persistence: Affirmed students were 11.7 percentage points more likely than controls to take the next course in the bioscience sequence, and this effect was statistically mediated by students’ end-of-semester friendships. 5/
Students in a high-stress gateway biology course completed an affirmation or control exercise & reported their social ties. By the end of the term, affirmed students had 29% more friends in the class & were more central in the class network on average than unaffirmed students. 4/
Unfortunately, weed-out STEM classes, w/ their competitive atmospheres & high threat, may undermine social connection. We found that a threat-reducing intervention, values affirmation, strengthened students’ social networks & increased subsequent persistence in STEM. 3/
Our paper “'What’s going on' in Ferguson? Online news frames of protest at the police killing of Michael Brown” is now out at GPIR! This work, led by @triddle42, w/@julia_gb & @leach_cw, examines how news sources oriented to diff. audiences frame protest in different ways. 1/
Please RT! After 4 yrs of organizing the SPSP Intervention Science preconference, it is time to pass the torch. We're looking for applications for junior (advanced grad to pre-tenured faculty) & senior (tenured/established) chairs for the precon organizing committee by May 24. 1/
ALT Information about how to apply to organize the Intervention Science Preconference at SPSP
Tfw you’ve been processing and re-processing awesome but messy field data for months, and you finally hit run on your analyses...
Join us at the #SPSP2020 Intervention Science preconference! Poster and early career data blitz submissions are due on November 15. Learn more and submit at meeting.spsp.org/preconferen… -- looking forward to your submissions!
ALT SPSP 2020 Intervention Science preconference information
Folks doing cool intervention work: There are a few weeks left to submit your research to the #SPSP2019 Intervention Science preconference! Check out meeting.spsp.org/preconferen… for info on how to submit abstracts for posters or early career data blitz. Deadline is Oct 31!
New paper out: Initial evidence for a social norms based approach to improve undergrads' attitudes toward seeking help for mental distress! rdcu.be/yATj
(this is the study that started it all -- it was my undergrad thesis at @AmherstCollege 🤓)
You don't see "stooge" so much in papers these days... not to mention calling 18-29 year old women "girls"! #1966science
