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New in Science Magazine: We content-analyzed 6 of the most widely used US textbooks and found that they depart from established scientific knowledge about sex & gender, instead portraying these categories in a manner consistent with essentialism. (OA) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Now out in PNASNews - We identify organizational celebrations of history as a social identity threat for Black Americans tinyurl.com/historythreat

First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by Joanna Z. Li): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. Short thread of the results ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/psya…

🎓 Officially a Doctor now! 🥳 Massive thanks to everyone who cheered me on! Thrilled to announce my next adventure as a postdoc at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business!✨

🚀Our field experiment (Yan Chen Alain Cohn & Al Roth) on Twitter shows that social media promotion can boost job market outcomes, especially for women❗️ ✅Job market candidates in the treatment group received one additional flyout, with women receiving 0.9 more job offers.

Huge congrats to Amit Goldenberg! Proud to have such an award-winning advisor!

Helping people feel gratitude can reduce their cigarette cravings, according to a study that challenges the idea that positive emotions do not reduce appetitive risk behaviors. Public health campaigns should take note, according to the authors. In PNAS: ow.ly/Erk650SuSBQ

New #SPSPblog: Gratitude Can Lead to Healthier Choices by Ke Wang ow.ly/3IMr50TRP6P

🚨 Call for Collaborators 🚨 Join our multi-country study on social preferences for political extremes funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation 🌍 We’re examining why people prefer extreme ingroups across multiple countries 🧠 Contribute to our project on political polarization! Details below👇

Honored to receive the Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award! Deep gratitude to my amazing advisors Jennifer Lerner Amit Goldenberg, James Gross, brilliant collaborators, and supportive peers!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Feeling incredibly excited and proud—my first-ever paper is published in Nature Communications! 🎉 In this study I co-led with the amazing Michael Pinus, we explored how emotion regulation treatment can spread within groups, impacting both treated and non-treated individuals.