Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
@drlarisa.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com
Today: a hike, then buying all the food in the grocery store and doing some food prep while watching Top Chef. This is the life.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today: a hike, then buying all the food in the grocery store and doing some food prep while watching Top Chef. This is the life.
Thank you to @willgervais.com for visiting with my psych of religion seminar yesterday! Such a treat to discuss his nifty work on different pathways to atheism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
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November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thank you to @willgervais.com for visiting with my psych of religion seminar yesterday! Such a treat to discuss his nifty work on different pathways to atheism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
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📣📣 A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD:
"Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
📣📣 A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD:
"Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
How Politicians (mis)Perceive Policy Salience
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November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
Dec office hours: 12/8 10-12 Eastern. Theme=developing a research program; we can talk about this theme or any other work-related topics you want to discuss. Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Dec office hours: 12/8 10-12 Eastern. Theme=developing a research program; we can talk about this theme or any other work-related topics you want to discuss. Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open...
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New publication!📢
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social
Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social
Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New publication!📢
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social
Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social
Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
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Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
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#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
1. Last office hours a few people had questions about personal statements for grad school apps. I suggested a template that has worked well in my experience & have also laid it out in the thread below in case it's useful for you all.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
I was talking to a friend about the review process and I told them sometimes you just run into the wrong reviewer. It ain’t always you. 🤷🏾♂️
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was talking to a friend about the review process and I told them sometimes you just run into the wrong reviewer. It ain’t always you. 🤷🏾♂️
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📰Newly Published:
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
From loss to closer bonds: Pregnancy loss and the emotional bonds with children in later life - Ella Cohn-Schwartz, 2025
Having a pregnancy end without a live baby can result in mixed effects to the relationship with one’s living children, but this has mostly been examined in the ...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📰Newly Published:
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Cohn-Schwartz's study examines how experiencing a stillbirth affects mothers’ relationships with their adult children later in life, using data from women aged 50+ in the SHARE survey.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
Thank you to @larabuchak.net for sharing her work on faith in our lab meeting today! Super interesting thoughts on what faith is, what its relationship to evidence is/should be, & whether it's ever rational to rely on faith. More info here: www.larabuchak.net.
Lara Buchak
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November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thank you to @larabuchak.net for sharing her work on faith in our lab meeting today! Super interesting thoughts on what faith is, what its relationship to evidence is/should be, & whether it's ever rational to rely on faith. More info here: www.larabuchak.net.
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Kids with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar
YouTube video by 10 Seconds To Air
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November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
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🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thank you to @ryanlei.bsky.social & other Haverford folks for the chance to visit this week! Haverford students are amazing. My former lab manager Aaron Cohen was a Haverford grad & visit gave me a chance to talk about his work on redemption: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Yay!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thank you to @ryanlei.bsky.social & other Haverford folks for the chance to visit this week! Haverford students are amazing. My former lab manager Aaron Cohen was a Haverford grad & visit gave me a chance to talk about his work on redemption: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Yay!
Thank you to @davidamodio.bsky.social for chatting with my FAQs about Life seminar about nifty work, first-authored by @davidschultner.bsky.social, on the transmission of societal stereotypes to individual prejudice. Paper is here if you want to learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...!
PNAS
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October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Thank you to @davidamodio.bsky.social for chatting with my FAQs about Life seminar about nifty work, first-authored by @davidschultner.bsky.social, on the transmission of societal stereotypes to individual prejudice. Paper is here if you want to learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...!
Once I get to know students in my seminars, they live in my head during class prep, and I'm often guessing what they will think about the readings. Doing that now and can't wait to see how much my guesses line up with the class discussion we'll have during the week.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Once I get to know students in my seminars, they live in my head during class prep, and I'm often guessing what they will think about the readings. Doing that now and can't wait to see how much my guesses line up with the class discussion we'll have during the week.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about national identity are ultimately more oriented toward racial rather than religious considerations.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Race over Religion: Christian Nationalism and Perceived Threats to National Unity - Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead, Joshua B. Grubbs, 2024
Building on the insight that American religion is fundamentally “raced” and “complex,” we theorize American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “rac...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about national identity are ultimately more oriented toward racial rather than religious considerations.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Big thank you to Fasika Hailu for sharing her work with my lab today! Interesting findings showing that participants respond more favorably to Black immigrants as compared with native-born Black Americans. More info here: depts.washington.edu/sibl/.
depts.washington.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Big thank you to Fasika Hailu for sharing her work with my lab today! Interesting findings showing that participants respond more favorably to Black immigrants as compared with native-born Black Americans. More info here: depts.washington.edu/sibl/.
Next office hours are 11/6 10-12 Eastern. More info in thread below, sign-ups here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... Hope to see many of you!
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October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Next office hours are 11/6 10-12 Eastern. More info in thread below, sign-ups here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... Hope to see many of you!
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc
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Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Our new paper out in American Psychologist.
Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.
Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025