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Colin Tucker Smith
@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social
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Dad and partner | Associate Professor, University of Florida | implicit social cognition | reading and tennis | he/him

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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 3d
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏

Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8

Please share it widely!

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
That's good to know, thanks! It's still possible that the presence of the female targets makes the category different than if it were only male targets. Empirical question of course. Interesting work, glad you ran these experiments!

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
Oh, very true. I retract Quibble 1! (I got a bit into the weeds on the replication aspect of it and forgot about that when I came back up).

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
Quibble 3: The Registered Experiment (Exp. 2) deviates from earlier work by including female targets. The authors do note that in the limitations section, but this is a potentially important deviation. I'd love to see follow-up work on this (e.g., do effects replicate with male targets?).

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
Quibble 2: It’s difficult to assess claims without information about the DV’s reliability (especially when the DV is Evaluative Priming – a particularly “noisily measured individual-level construct” if I've ever seen one)
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
Quibble 1: I think it’s important to not refer to “implicit bias” when operationalizing it via a single measure (i.e., Evaluative Priming). For interesting discussion see Gawronski, Ledgerwood, & Eastwick, 2022: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Reflections on the Difference Between Implicit Bias and Bias on Implicit Measures
Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 4d
This was a nice read this morning, thanks! I have three quibbles that I'd like to raise. Not all that problematic for people engaging directly with the scholarship, but I always worry about the people just flying by the headlines... [1/4]

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 5d
📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social

Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go...

We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality.

Some findings >

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 11d
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In this moving performance of 'Bread and Roses,' @lucydacus and @sarahgoldstone_ bring to life the powerful lyrics that speak to the human struggle for dignity and equality. The inauguration ceremony ...
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 12d
Louise Penny’s books have been my therapy for the past two years!

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 25d
Course evaluations are in and I got the following comment:

"He gave such wholesome dad vibes."

I have many competing thoughts about this [insert 2025-appropriate indicator of laughter here].

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 26d
🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 27d
New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life.

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Reposted by Calvin K. Lai, Colin Tucker Smith

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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 28d
New paper out with Heidi Vuletich and Ayla Winegar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We discuss public policy implications of the Bias of Crowds model: How do environments activate and perpetuate biases and what can we do against it?
Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions: How Regional Variation in Implicit Bias Can Inform Public Policy - Heidi A. Vuletich, Maximilian A. Primbs, Ayla Winegar, 2025
Traditional psychological approaches to reduce discrimination typically focus on addressing the biases of people. This paper recommends policies aimed at changi...
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Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, David A. Broniatowski, William J. Brady , and 4 more

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Dec 11
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
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It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
Abstract When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well. Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · Dec 3
👩‍🎓Students: How does summer in Scotland sound?

There's still time to apply for the 2026 Summer School of Personality Science in Edinburgh, hosted by the European Association of Personality Psychology!

Apply here before December 15: https://ow.ly/bjxE50XBksg
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Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social · Dec 2
New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 27
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except for the student who submitted a 3-point Reflection assignment with their ChatGPT prompt included.

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 22
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Cool, that should fix everything!
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NCAA athletes and athletic department staff will not be allowed to bet on professional sports after the organization's membership voted as of Friday to rescind a rule change that would have permitted ...
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 21
Paperclip is to Bush era as Copilot is to Trump era.

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 21
Look, this is bad for many reasons, but also there seems to be no bottom to the “expertise doesn’t matter” push.
chadtopaz.bsky.social Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Nov 21
Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go.

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Nov 21
Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go.

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 20
Dear students: Having ChatGPT write your email to me is backfiring.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Colin Tucker Smith

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Michael Barlev @mbarlev.bsky.social · Nov 18
We're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM.

Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions.

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Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt , and 6 more

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Nov 17
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 17
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b

Reposted by Daxton R. Stewart

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 14
His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Nov 14
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
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Reposted by Olivier Corneille, Eric Hehman, Colin Tucker Smith

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Mayan Navon-Shapira @mayanna.bsky.social · Nov 14
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social:

Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?

👉 Read the full paper
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Nov 14
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · Nov 14
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DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor
Officials say it’s an effort to reduce costs and boost student outcomes, though the Florida governor wants to take down the “accreditation cartel.”
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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · Nov 10
This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.