mark brandt
@mjbsp.bsky.social
Social/Personality Psychology, Michigan State University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it
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mark brandt
@mjbsp.bsky.social
· Dec 14
Two political psych starter packs!
Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.
Check them out if you haven’t already
1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj
Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.
Check them out if you haven’t already
1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj
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In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇
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Does feeling blue make you feel less Blue? Using surveys across three countries, Bernardi et al.'s article from our October issue finds that depressed mood weakens voters' partisanship and party loyalty. Read the full piece open-access for more doi.org/10.1111/pops...
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Does feeling blue make you feel less Blue? Using surveys across three countries, Bernardi et al.'s article from our October issue finds that depressed mood weakens voters' partisanship and party loyalty. Read the full piece open-access for more doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social:
tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)
Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens
(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)
tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)
Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens
(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)
Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid (23054)
tiu.nu
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social:
tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)
Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens
(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)
tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)
Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens
(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)
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If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
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Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):
What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):
What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
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A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up.
First part is about my time on the job market
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First part is about my time on the job market
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November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up.
First part is about my time on the job market
1/3
First part is about my time on the job market
1/3
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I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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it is very difficult to convey to fledgling researchers that writing academic research involves a *recipe* not a *formula*
formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped
formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
it is very difficult to convey to fledgling researchers that writing academic research involves a *recipe* not a *formula*
formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped
formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped
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This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
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Do any meta-analyses or other reflection pieces exist that catalog the sorts of mechanisms specifically, and outcomes generally, studied as consequences of providing white Americans information on their declining population share?
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Do any meta-analyses or other reflection pieces exist that catalog the sorts of mechanisms specifically, and outcomes generally, studied as consequences of providing white Americans information on their declining population share?
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Where do attitudes towards women's rights come from? Morell et al. find varying influences between young men's & women's attitude formation, with men shaped more by family cues. Read the full piece for more findings & what they mean for the growing gender divide in politics: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Where do attitudes towards women's rights come from? Morell et al. find varying influences between young men's & women's attitude formation, with men shaped more by family cues. Read the full piece for more findings & what they mean for the growing gender divide in politics: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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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
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
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Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
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
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
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New preprint out 📄
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”
Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”
Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New preprint out 📄
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”
Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”
Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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"Much work remains to be done identifying the contours of what constitutes 'the system' and thus what constitutes system justification, as well as when and among who we should expect system justification to occur most."
By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social
#SocialPsyc #PolPsych
By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social
#SocialPsyc #PolPsych
Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis: Authoritarian Personality and System Justification Across Class
Introduction The status-legitimacy hypothesis (SLH) posits that low-status individuals are more motivated to justify oppressive social systems than high-status beneficiaries. However, recent researc...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"Much work remains to be done identifying the contours of what constitutes 'the system' and thus what constitutes system justification, as well as when and among who we should expect system justification to occur most."
By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social
#SocialPsyc #PolPsych
By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social
#SocialPsyc #PolPsych
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What drives the desire to involve the government in healthcare? In our October issue, Alva et al. explore motivations of vulnerability & find the primary source of support for government in healthcare is not self-interest but concern for vulnerable others. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What drives the desire to involve the government in healthcare? In our October issue, Alva et al. explore motivations of vulnerability & find the primary source of support for government in healthcare is not self-interest but concern for vulnerable others. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
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POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
Cornell University, Psychology
Job #AJO31185, WDR-00055818(EVG) Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
I’d guess that this is mostly due to older, religious folks dropping out of the sample as younger, less religious folks join
However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV
However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV
The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’d guess that this is mostly due to older, religious folks dropping out of the sample as younger, less religious folks join
However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV
However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV
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Is fact-checking harmful or helpful to political candidates? Prike et al. in our October issue study the effects of fact-checking misleading statements & find that correcting false claims does hamper support for candidates who are not well known. Read their full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is fact-checking harmful or helpful to political candidates? Prike et al. in our October issue study the effects of fact-checking misleading statements & find that correcting false claims does hamper support for candidates who are not well known. Read their full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...