New work in press at PSPB! With
@aashnapod
@AndreiCimpian
@adinamwilliams
We find intersectional male-centric and White-centric biases based on a list of 4,000+ first names in large-scale (English) text using word embeddings
Results overview ⬇️
Some news.
I’ll be joining the University of New Hampshire
@UofNH
as an assistant prof in Aug 2022! When I visited this campus in the woods, I couldn’t stop grinning from ear-to-ear. It felt RIGHT.
New chapter ahead! I'll be moving to
@EdinburghUni
this Fall.
I am immensely grateful for my time at UNH and the incredible colleagues and students I've gotten to work with. Excited for the new adventure in Scotland ✈️
#psychtwitter
please share!
I’m recruiting a PhD student at
@UofNH
to start Fall 2022. My group uses methods from soc, cog, and dev psych and computational linguistics to study questions about social groups and bias
In press!
@adinamwilliams
@AndreiCimpian
Our collective concept of a "person" is not gender-neutral but instead prioritizes men. Based on 630+ billion words, people think about "people" & "men" more similarly than how they think about "people" & "women"
At the end of in-progress manuscripts I have a section called "Graveyard" to dump snippets of discarded text. It helps me edit more decisively because something can always be resurrected as needed.
Officially out today at PSPB w/
@xphilosopher
Thinking a group has an biological “essence” relates to bias about group members. It is often thought that this is because essentialism CAUSES bias
We reexamine this given some surprising results
submitted >> in press JEPApplied
Do changes to gendered language matter?
Yale used the term “master” for a faculty leadership role for decades. “Master” emphasizes men (e.g., vs “mistress”). In 2016, Yale switched to a more gender-inclusive term “head.”
Story on Networking in Academia:
A few years ago, I was a grad student at Yale and Gordon Pennycook was a postdoc there. We’d never formally met. But I’d see him at the coffee shop near the dept ALL the time, and I’d always give a super friendly smile/nod to be collegial.
last day in my office at Yale -> first day in my office at NYU!
I thought these pictures would be taken a little closer together in time... but here we are.
It's lab page official!
Beyond excited to be starting a postdoc with
@AndreiCimpian
at NYU this summer. I don't know if Andrei knows this but he was my top choice.
Catch me in Greenwich Village when the pandemic lets up 💁♀️
I recently got my first invited talk request (that's not a job talk and that's not from a friend). I was already feeling very wholesome and seen.
After I accepted, they followed up that there's an honorarium...and I just... in academia where so much labor is unpaid...
Out in
@TrendsCognSci
today!
We see face-like objects—toast that looks like a face—as men more than women (Wardle et al)
Is this b/c of (a) bias in how we THINK about concepts or (b) bias in how we SEE faces?
I had so much fun writing this Spotlight
📢 I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024
@UofNH
!
Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Check out the Join Us! section of our lab website for a letter to prospective students w/ more info and FAQs. Apply by 1/15/24!
While postdocing with
@AndreiCimpian
I've been diving into computational NLP approaches with
@adinamwilliams
. These tools show that "people=men" in our shared, cultural understanding of concepts at a massive scale. See our
#apsvirtual21
flash talk for a sneak peak of this work!
How do folks decide which collaborations to say yes to? It seems every few weeks a tantalizing project comes across my email, and I want to join them all
I'm particularly uncertain as I JUST went from a 100% research postdoc to my first faculty job. Please send wisdom 🙏
Which makes more sense (intuitively)?
(a) "She is both a woman and a human being"
(b) "He is both a man and a human being"
Check out our JESP to find out what most folks said! (in bet-subj ratings)
New research out of Yale SOM looked at covid restrictions county by county in the U.S. and covid deaths down the line.
policies that helped: mask mandates, closing restaurants, stay-at-home orders, and limiting gatherings to 10 people
"Women are people too," but many of us seem to forget.
Our new article reviews the psychological tendency to think of a person as a man and draws on basic categorization research to explain why this bias occurs and what can be done about it.
Today I failed the marshmallow test (1/2). I ordered a cookie and a cortado, but my cortado took awhile. Even though I knew I would enjoy the cookie/cortado combo more than each individually, I couldn't resist and ate the entire cookie before my cortado was ready.
🧵 I’m overwhelmed by your support, including from many on the 21-22 psych job market.
Especially for them, here’s a jumble of #’s and reflections to help demystify as much as I can based on my own narrow experience.
Some news.
I’ll be joining the University of New Hampshire
@UofNH
as an assistant prof in Aug 2022! When I visited this campus in the woods, I couldn’t stop grinning from ear-to-ear. It felt RIGHT.
For the next several months I then continued to run into “Gordon” aka Ethan at coffeeshops and house parties and had to act like we were acquaintances. Which I guess, at this point, we technically were.
I’ve still never met Gordon Pennycook.
A stranger and I were chatting at the airport about how bad it would be if we accidentally picked up the wrong laptop from security.
He goes, "and I use mine for work so it would be worse for me"
"under review" ->> "in press"
Most of the lit on essentialism and social groups focuses on biological essences.
We find that people think of the essences of certain social groups, not as biological, but as shared values.
New paper from
@ahbailey04
on essentialism about social categories (in JEP:G)
Some categories are seen as having a biological essence (e.g., women, white people)
But others are seen as having an essence constituted by *values* (e.g., Christians, punks)
Students sending thank you emails to profs at the end of term... you're doing gods work.
"Professors such as yourself are what make UNH such a great place to attend." 🥹🥹🥹
preprint with Josh Knobe
@xphilosopher
Thinking a group has an innate “essence” relates to bias directed at group members. It is often thought that this is because essentialism CAUSES bias to increase
We reexamine this in the face of surprising results
Hiring a part-time research coordinator
@UofNH
to start ~Fall! Our current 🔥 RC
@NichDiMaggio
is heading off to grad school!
In-person or remote. Recent or current undergrads can apply. Folks from marginalized groups encouraged. RTs welcome.
Details:
Had my first zoom meeting today! In the first 2 minutes I adjusted my seat cushion, inadvertently pushed the chair back (without realizing it), and promptly fell to the floor and out of frame.
#killinit
I was also rejected (from the PhD program) where I'm currently doing my postdoc!
Rejections don't mean everything, and if it's right for you, keep going.
Just realized that I was rejected (for undergrad) where I’m currently doing my PhD & was denied (from the PhD program) where I’ll be doing a post doc 🥲 hang in there, y’all!
Now in press at JEP:Gen! With psychologists
@ElifGozdeIkizer
@AndreiCimpian
and philosophers Daniel Wodak and Robin Dembroff
We asked English and Turkish speakers whether languages should have gender pronouns? race pronouns? totally neutral pronouns?
Teaching and research are often framed as enemies
But I'm teaching in my area for the first time, and I'm surprised how synergistic it's been! I wrote an R&R this week using citations from class. It's also pushing me think more "big picture" and see my work in a broader context
I'm clearly coping with
#COVID19
anxiety via mis-placed tweeting but... one ray of sunshine was the "pleasure to accept your manuscript in its current form" email sitting in my inbox this morning
Just in time for PhD recruitment season, our new lab website is up!! Thank you to my lab manager Nich for putting this together 🙏
We're considering PhD apps this cycle. Apply by Jan 1. Folks from underrepresented groups especially encouraged
My mom wrote to congratulate me today on my one year anniversary of becoming Dr. Bailey. I wasn't even thinking about it—so sweet 😊!
And my what a year it's been.
A mentor recently sent a note saying he was impressed by my code. If you're a mentor, do stuff like this!
Esp. as a woman who entered grad school with 0 experience, I always cringe when I shared code, assuming it's inelegant. I needed to hear this and your mentees might too :)
My phd student Trish just got their first big thing, a summer research funding fellowship! I'm SO happy. This has real stakes for them. Is this what mentorship feels like? 10/10 would recommend.
As a grad student I was tasked with coordinating the brown bags in the dept. This week I gave my first invited brown bag talks
@PsychIllinois
and
@StanfordPsych
! Full circle moment.
Thank you to the organizers for having me and to the depts for engaging so deeply 🙏
My partner and I decided that because we're working from home we're basically coworkers. We designated my partner to be the head of HR. We considered reporting our work place romance to HR... but decided it'd be more exciting if we kept it a secret.
#keepthesparkalive
As an assistant prof, I finally get the emails thing. It's not just about the *emails* it's that many of the emails morph into multi-step bonus *tasks* on your to-do list
Junior grad student: How can one person read all of these great papers?!
Senior grad student: How can one person do all of these great study ideas?!
Assistant Professor: How can one person read all of these g*ddamn emails?!
#SPSP2020
was a year of firsts. First time talking at the gender preconference, first time in New Orleans, first time attending as EC, first time missing my flight... 🤦♀️
...🤦♀️🤦♀️
Had a blast speaking at
@NYUAbuDhabi
's psych department! Thank you for inviting me.
The spark ✨ of engaging conversations and Q&A were just the midsemester boost I needed. Special thanks to
@AndreaCVial
🙌
Me to me Sat morning: "I'm exhausted, gonna call it early tonight and go straight to bed after dinner"
Me at 1am: 🤩🤥🙃🤡💃👍😭
But truly... grateful to (re)connect with so many of you at
#SPSP2023
. I found it extra joyful and extra meaningful during this first faculty year
Thrilled to announce that after 4 years of listening to harry potter audio books almost every night I realized that "Diagon Alley" is "diagonally" and "Knockturn Alley" is "nocturnally"
Recently i was prepping for a intense career thing that my partner knew about. To help, he emailed me a pdf file called "Resources," but when I opened it and it was just this, made my day.
Doing media interviews for the ~1st time this week
I'm surprised, I'm enjoying it!
I always (falsely) thought of it as me watering down the science. Instead it's been me conveying the science to extremely thoughtful science writers who have diff fresh perspectives and priorities
New preprint w/ Josh Knobe and George Newman!
What causes certain social groups to be essentialized more than others?
There is good evidence that beliefs about biology increase essentialism. We ask whether bio is necessary (or only sufficient).
@Sakiera_Hudson
breaking down her intersectional approach to prescriptive gender stereotypes!
Much of what we know about gender steroetypes is based on "women" and "men" categories....i.e., presumed straight and White (in the US)
Giving a talk to prospective PhD students on Interview Day! It's a bit of a moment. I remember sitting in those seats and listening to talks by
@chazfirestone
@Jill_Jord
and others on my own interview day.
New Haven! I'll be giving a talk
@yale
Psych Dept Mon (10/4) from 2:30-3:45pm, Kirltand Rm 207 (2 Hillhouse Ave). Come through to see new data on how men are at the center of our institutions AND our minds.
Inspired by
@Ivuoma
who is constantly telling me to
#takeupspace
Had a dream I was speaking in a symposium with Nina Strohminger, David Melnikoff, and John Bargh but then when it was time for my talk the whole audience got up and left
Completely unrelated, excited for my talk in SocialCog Precon this morning
#SPSP2023
!! See you ALL there 😘
PIs, what policies do you have for RA deadlines/attendance/dropping the ball-ness?
I want to strike a balance between being firm and flexible. Esp since folks from marginalized backgrounds often face additional challenges
How firm is too firm? How felxible is too flexible?
A suitor asked me to teach him something after learning I was getting a PhD. I told him people tend to think of a person as a man. Thank god he "double checked" me by Google image searching the word person, otherwise...decades of research would've been down the drain
Thank you
@forbes
for the excellent coverage of our recent work, led by
@AndreaCVial
!
We found that accommodating OTHERS sexism at work caused perceivers to view YOU as sexist, highlighting personal reputational stakes
Just gotten my third rejection for the same paper and appreciated this thread, in particular the image of Dr. King maniacally laughing at the realization that rejections couldn't force her out!
Hey ECRs, related to the recent buzz I'm offering an experience of failure in my fantastic career. My 1st job (SMU) had a pretenure sabbatical in yr 4. This was a wonderful time of analyzing & writing up all the great studies I'd conducted during my 1st yrs as a professor
What about internal direct replications? I like to see my own findings at least twice before being too confident about them, and most of my papers include programatic studies with built-in direct replications or straight-up direct replications in supplementary materials
Data are coming in, and they makes sense ✅
Pilot study is showing effects ✅
I'm asking questions and the participants are teaching me!!
Today is a good science day
I am thrilled to be chairing (my first!) symposium at
#icps
on gender, just in time for
#IWD2019
. Talks cover gendered language (hen), metoo, leadership, and quota-based hiring, presented by Robbie Sutton, Christa Nater, Anna Lindqvist, and yours truly. Tomorrow, 1pm, rm351
Being back in New Haven this weekend was bliss 😊
Thank you to all who made Jacks celebration so special!! Bonus, it felt like a mini con getting to catch up with so many friends / collaborators
@RDembroff
@xphilosopher
@BenedekKurdi
@carlsonr_
et al.,
I'm drafting letters of rec this week for two absolutely outstanding research assistants who are applying for grad school in clinical and social+ psyc. This is a new task for me.
Please send advice / common mistakes my way!
For years I've been having mild hallucinations in the corners of my eyes (flashing lights etc.) and have been worried about what it might mean...
Today I realized it's because I wear glasses and the lens reflects stuff sometimes.
🤦♀️
Excellent talk by Gracie on perceptions of mind and moral harms. Both percived agency and experience can increase beliefs that a victim was harmed. Regional Five College Conference at NYU!
@mgreinecke
First-year grad students talks today at Yale; they're crushing it! With everything virtual, it's great to be able to tune back in to support folks and hear what they've been working on.
I got selected to lead a mentoring lunch at SPSP 2021! I'm excited. The mentoring lunches I attended with
@cmossrac
and
@LorneJCampbell
still stand out as some of my most helpful spsp grad student experiences