Our new paper is out today on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in low- and middle-income countries! More info 👇

Join UIC Psychology’s Social & Personality Program today at 3pm as we welcome Dr. India Johnson for her talk, “Signaling safety?: Exploring the efficacy of (in)congruent cues among Black women." We will meet in BSB Room 2057. #UIC #UICPsychology

Had my last lab meeting of the semester and I'm so proud of the undergraduate RAs in my lab for putting together incredible research proposals this semester! UIC Department of Psychology undergrads are the best!

What is next for growth mindset of intelligence research? Check out this new paper from Elizabeth Canning and @LimeriLisa to find out!

Excited to share one of the papers from my dissertation! We examine Black Americans' understanding of ingroup power. Psychological theories about power equate power to dominance - those who have greater control over resources are powerful & those with less lack power. (1/3)

Check out this new paper by Angela Byars-Winston and colleagues on improving undergraduate mentors' cultural awareness!

Does self-interest drive preferences for how much inequality there should be? If first making a decision behind a veil of ignorance and then outside of it, do people’s choices differ? We tested these questions in a simulated society Keith Payne Kurt Gray doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1…

UIC's Psychology department is hiring another full-time lecturer for undergraduate courses! This is the job I have now, and I really enjoy it! Everyone in the department is SUPER wonderful and the students are awesome! Here's a link with more info: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

So glad to have met such a remarkable & inspiring group of scholars through CASBS inaugural institute on diversity. Thanks Mary C. Murphy (marycmurphy.bsky.social) Sylvia Perry and Jennifer Richeson for leading the institute and creating a space for us to build a supportive, caring, thoughtful community!

Our editorial this month links two articles we've published this year that shift the focus of research on racial bias from individual-level biases to the systemic, structural and historic forces that shape them 1/5 go.nature.com/3XGEi6E

Absolutely 🫶 this paper proposing a sociohistorical model of social prototypes, which argues that to understand the societal prototypes of different groups, we must think about the history, social context, and goals of the dominant group. Social psychologists, don't miss this!!!

Check out Andrew I. Thompson new paper on predictors of anti-Asian policy support

Proud of my SROP (Summer Research Opportunities Program) student Eunhye Cho for presenting at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium! She presented our study on the effects of TV representations of Asians on anti-Asian attitudes. UIC Department of Psychology UIC Undergraduate Research UIUC Psychology Department

Congratulations to Franki Kung for winning the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for the project “Mechanistic Dehumanization of Asians: Identifying Causes, Consequences, and Countermeasures for a More Inclusive STEM Workforce. #psychology #Purdue

Thanks for organizing this panel @feadeh!

🚨New paper 🚨 where we examine the historical roots of implicit racial bias, this time in Northern and Western states. We trace implicit bias among white residents to population characteristics during the Great Migration. 🧵journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19… Keith Payne Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦

UIC Psi Chi & Dr. Josefina Bañales are co-hosting a panel on next Thursday that aims to spotlight undergraduate student leadership in our department, as well as to foster discussion on how to support undergraduate students’ leadership. Sign up link is in our bio! #UICPsychology