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Today's Psychology of Inequality lecture is on social mobility and meritocracy:

Today's psychology of inequality lecture is on educational inequalities, featuring @LewisDoyle_ and my work

Just about to begin this week's Psychology of Inequality lecture on the psychological effects of poverty:

Today's Psychology of Inequality lecture is on Money, Power, and Status -- a fun one!

I’m off to UCL to present my work on educational inequality at their Leading Edge Day focused on Children and young people growing up in poverty

New paper alert! Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it Led by Julie Dickinson, with Patrick Leman and me - check it out: doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.1…

British Journal of Social Psychology is seeking proposals for special issues/sections. Check out the call here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/2…

Fancy joining our gang of associate editors at BJSP? Call out for applications: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/2…

Wow! Matt Easterbrook Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @reavey_paula Maxine Woolhouse this is great news. We have the Coop onward. Really looking forward to meeting the lead of this campaign Ali Scowen in a few weeks time! Great work by the Co-op #makeit10

Job alert! Lecturer at Surrey: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

New paper! Building on our work showing that teachers, like us all, exibit biases, we find that teachers exhibited a bias blind spot: they perceived unconscious bias as an issue for other teachers but not for themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Lewis Doyle

New paper with Vladislav Grozev! Belonging and identity compatibility predict deeper learning and self-efficacy among uni-students during the pandemic. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper with Rebekka Kesberg Mark Brandt Bram Spruyt and Felicity Turner-Zwinkels using funky analyses to show that predictions from System Justification Theory hold for some subpopulations across four countries, but not others. …library-wiley-com.sussex.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1002/ej…

Our special issue on "Nuances of social class" is now published in International Journal of Social Psychology (tandfonline.com/toc/rrps20/3...). Edited by Matt Easterbrook, @toonkuppens, and me. All papers are available in English and Spanish!

If you want to do a PhD that uses social psychology to understand and reduce educational inequality, get in touch! We have new PhD studentships advertised at Sussex Psychology: sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun… sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

Eleanor Miles and I are encouraging applications for a PhD project investigating 'when and why people focus on individual solutions to structural inequalities'. Deadline for apps is 5th Jan. Please spread the word and get in touch if you're interested! sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/degr…

New paper. Teachers' implicit SES and ethnicity biases were more likely to emerge when assessing low-quality work (S1) and when working under high cognitive load/overworked (S2). Clear advantages for White middle-class students. Matt Easterbrook Profprharris doi.org/10.1007/s11218…

Groups or values? Testing the effectiveness of online social cure, group-affirmation, and self-affirmation manipulations on wellbeing outcomes Matt Easterbrook onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper in SPPS with Lusine Grigoryan !! The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies Across 29 Samples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

How do individuals understand, perceive, and react to inequality? #EQUAL_NNF A useful review of the literature on the social psychology of economic inequality, by Matt Easterbrook. Cognitive heuristics, accessibility of info, self-interest, context, culture wider.unu.edu/publication/so…