"A million deaths are a statistic"...until the number is so high that we start to know the gravely ill personally. Beginning to think tragedy follows an inverted U.

Grampa Joe what did you do during the pandemic? I fought against the scourge of women with PhDs calling themselves “Dr.” (silence) Grampa Joe, didn’t women with PhDs develop the vaccine that ended the pandemic?

Today is my husband's last "COVID wing" shift before he gets his first dose of vaccine tomorrow! The light is near - wear your masks and get 2 marshmallows come summer!

Happy tears today. Thanks to the thousands of brave #volunteers and steadfast #scientists who made this #CovidVaccine possible.

Seeking Black female participants for my dissertation survey!

So grateful! To nurses, researchers, coordinators, and this kid for holding my hand 🍻

Brett Kavanaugh thinking youthful transgressions should follow you until you die in prison. I would laugh but it's not even a little bit funny

I think it says something really revealing about humanity that during the hardest year in most of our lives we bought plants & adopted pets & learned to bake bread. We're hardwired to nurture, to take care, to look outside of ourselves & sustain something else. Remember that.

My 6-year-old niece was just sent home from public school for wearing a top that shows her shoulders. The school, however, does not enforce mask mandates. That would be an infringement on parents' rights.

Check out my first ever piece for for Big Think! You might even get some good ideas... If you don't like your @personality, you can change it bigthink.com/neuropsych/big…

Despite our tendency to glorify perfectionists, #perfectionism often gets in the way of achieving goals. Check out this thought-provoking (and helpful!) piece by Evy Kuijpers... psychologycompass.com/blog/mental-he…

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me @WUSTL in the Diversity Science Lab! We'll be conducting a large-scale study evaluating the efficacy of diversity training on police officers. Please RT! Job ad: bit.ly/LaiLabPostdoc2… Lab site: sites.wustl.edu/calvinlai/

I wrote up some of super neat implicit learning research led by @EleonoreSmalle for Big Think! Why are adults so bad at learning new languages? We may be trying too hard bigthink.com/neuropsych/lea…

Not that it's grounded in personal experience or anything*, but I loved writing up this super important work by @Nichole_Fairbro and colleagues! *obviously it is bigthink.com/neuropsych/tho…

Huge congrats to Shigehiro Oishi and Erin Westgate for winning this year's #SPSPnews Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize! Their work on the "psychologically rich life" is truly perspective-shifting. psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-74…

It’s great that The Wharton School is providing Joe with representation. UC Berkeley Haas and Esade should follow its lead. Correcting the scientific record is part of a social science professor’s work, not a hobby.

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