Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

Wow.

THREE DAYS to Early Bird register for SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class precon!
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Come hear @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social@celbaek.bsky.social @ishitas.bsky.social@cabauer.bsky.social(+more not on bsky)

Brochure: lnkd.in/dq2iBXA9
@sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social

🚨DEADLINE APPROACHING🚨 for our 2 open rank positions in social/political psych and cognition/perception, either of which can take a developmental angle. Deadline Nov 30th for full consideration,though we'll keep an eye out for great applications coming in soon thereafter: apply.interfolio.com/175417

There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons | Rafael Behr A declining sense of collective identity is corroding trust in our institutions and undermining democratic politics, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Nice for me to see this application of the public goods dilemma to salient UK challenges, right after I used the same game in teaching social psych. My lab has been implementing variations of this game to study political ideology and decision-making in adversity! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.

Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Join a fantastic department and school dear to my heart, and a chance to shape a groundbreaking Masters course!

SPSSI Journals In seven studies, this research demonstrates that both the general public and educators may hold culturally-shared, class stereotype-laden mental representations that they reflexively use both to sub...

Relevant to work from @alexbrowman.bsky.social published in our JSI special issue (spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) in addition to work on SDO in reverse correlations from @nourkteily.bsky.social @kunstjonas.bsky.social @chrispetsko.bsky.social

New PSPB paper out from work with @wnmerrell.bsky.social, Lei Fan, &Lotte Thomsen, showing consensus across the egalitarian spectrum in appearance of images of poor people generated through reverse correlation, alongside differential ratings of those images by egalitarianism in an independent sample

1 day left to submit an abstract to present at this!

Oops, deadline is of course Nov 30th, not Nov 1st!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨The Psychology Program at NYU Abu Dhabi is hiring! We have 2 open rank positions cutting across our strengths in social & political psych,cognition & perception, & developmental psych. Deadline Nov 1st, please spread far & wide; reach out if you are interested! apply.interfolio.com/175417

Off to Lisbon for my first SESP conference in 7 years! Please say hi if you see me and set your alarm for this 8.30am symposium on how resource ecologies shape psychology 🤓

This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8

SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include:
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff

Image of human face cutout looking toward cityscape silhouette, with "Psychology in Political and Economic Systems" written around the top. Logo credit: Sondos Eatamadi

Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi:
tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r
We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!

The paper I'm most proud of from the past year: I got to join fellow Sidanius labmates to connect decades of research on social dominance theory, which ended up showing how the original idea of a 'basic grammar of social power' put forward by Jim and Felicia in 1999 is more plausible than ever...

Thanks Gordon, we put our hearts and souls into this one!

Yesterday was my last day as faculty @lsepbs.bsky.social, a place dear to me, from my MSc 20 years ago to the first 10 years of my academic career! I will transition to LSE Senior Visiting Fellow, then focus on launching the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi 🤓

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just a reminder that it has been more than 60 days since Israel blocked any food, fuel, or medicine from getting into Gaza.

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Monbiot yet again goes straight to the key point everyone is dancing around!

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⭐ With registration for #EHBEA2025 closing in *just 4 days* 😱😱😱, let's recap on what we have planned ! 🎉

First up: Amazing Plenaries! 🧑🏻‍🏫

Kicking us off is Prof Russell Hill!

➡️ How STRANGE are your wild primates? Observer impacts on observational data collection 👀🙈 [1/10]

@ehbea.bsky.social

Thanks, Mark, we did our best to do Jim proud by going big and bold on theory!

Thanks, Gordon, we're incredibly happy to see this out, after a long year of deep work to link it all together in a way Jim and Felicia would be happy with!

Taking context seriously | BPS Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.

New follower welcome - @jsskeffington.bsky.social, who wrote for us here with a socio-ecological perspective on decision-making in contexts of poverty.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇

Last call! Deadline for our summer school on political intuitions is tomorrow. Application docs are few so there is still time to apply

maybe 250 words describing status

250-ish social justice words

smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?

And another 150 or so on race

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Flights and hotel booked for SPSP :-) Speaking at pol psych precon, then attending intervention sci precon organized by former PhD student Julia Buzan. Also excited about Saturday symposium on social psych in Palestine. Check them out, and let me know if you'll be in Denver and want to catch up!

Where Is Capitalism? Unmasking Its Hidden Role in Psychology - Karim Bettache, 2024 This article critically examines the pervasive yet often-neglected influence of capitalism on psychological processes and human behavior. While capitalist ideol...

Punchy interjection from Karim Bettache (showing PSPR being more bold),asking why psychology doesn't do more study of capitalism. I agree - it's hard to notice as it's like the water we swim in, yet we'd always check water to be sure it's not getting too harmful! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...