Ava Ma de Sousa
@avamadesousa
phd student @UCSantaBarbara | prev @UvA_Amsterdam & @UofT | co-host @mindsmatterpod | @SSHRC_CRSH fellow | emotion, social identity & collective action
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11-06-2019 19:59:42
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New ep🚨 How do behavioural and substance #addictions relate to #mentalhealth? 🤔What are the risk factors for these disorders? Andrew Kim, PhD, C. Psych answers these questions and discusses how we can best treat addictions and their mental heath co-morbidities 👩🏽⚕️ open.spotify.com/episode/5NHcBV…
New ep 🚨Abhilasha Ravichander speaks to us about all things AI! From the basics of #LLMs to #AI and #consciousness we hear where the field is currently at and discuss Abhilasha's own research 🧠🤖 open.spotify.com/episode/2WYTOJ…
💥 Our paper on social learning of prejudice (with Björn Lindström, Mina Cikara, and David Amodio) is now OUT in Science Advances!!! 🥳science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Have a look at the 🧵🔽 for an explainer, but also check out the full paper for brand new data & more context
Many thanks to Beth Fisher and Ava Ma de Sousa for having me on! Had a lot of fun talking about humor and brains on this one 🤓🧠
Excited to announce that Sa-kiera (you can call me Kiera) TJ Hudson 🏳️🌈 Gerald Higginbotham, PhD & I received U.S. National Science Foundation funding to launch the Black Social & Personality Psychology Network! The mission is to provide community & resources for Black social & personality psychologists. DM/email us if you're on the job market!
🚨New paper🚨 "Confidence in Moral Decision-Making" now published online in Collabra: Psychology (online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…). A shoutout to my great lab manager Mesude Okhan and collaborators Lydia Schooler, Sara Hollander, Maureen Gill Yoonseo Zoh M.J. Crockett. A thread:
We are hiring a PhD student at the UvA Amsterdam to study how culture shapes gender differences in emotion expression. If you know someone, please send them this: tinyurl.com/bdekcppz
I’m recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2025! Anyone who’s passionate about cognitive development, social learning, and theory of mind is welcome to apply. Learn more here, along with general resources for people applying to psychology PhD programs: folk.psych.ucsb.edu/join-the-team
I’ll be able to supervise PhD students at NUS in bioethics, philosophy, psychology. Thank you to my mentors Experimental Philosophy M.J. Crockett & especially Julian Savulescu for helping me get to this point. As 1st gen uni grad/perpetual student/actor, a secure job seemed out of reach.