Catherine Thomas (@catcthomas) 's Twitter Profile
Catherine Thomas

@catcthomas

Social and cultural psychologist using behavioral science to understand and mitigate poverty & inequality | Assistant Prof @UMich | s/h🏳️‍🌈

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linkhttps://sites.lsa.umich.edu/catherine-thomas/ calendar_today02-04-2010 00:03:02

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Dean Karlan (@deankarlan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨

👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries!

Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances.

A short primer in 22 tweets🧵
Catherine Thomas (@catcthomas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating (and frightening) work by Michael Schwalbe et al: Resistance to true news that didn’t align w political beliefs was greater than susceptibility to fake news that did. This means it may be harder to spread truth in today’s media climate than we thought..

Ellen Reinhart, Ph.D. (@ecreinhart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉 My dissertation research on who feels they contribute to society is out in JPSP! 🎉 - 📄 paper APA Journals ➡️ psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps… - 🚨 American Psychological Association press release ➡️ apa.org/news/press/rel… 🧵👇(1/12)

🎉 My dissertation research on who feels they contribute to society is out in JPSP! 🎉

- 📄 paper <a href="/APA_Journals/">APA Journals</a> ➡️ psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps…

- 🚨 <a href="/APA/">American Psychological Association</a> press release ➡️ apa.org/news/press/rel…

🧵👇(1/12)
Robb Willer (@robbwiller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in Science Magazine! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in <a href="/ScienceMagazine/">Science Magazine</a>! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 

🧵👇

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Christina Bauer (@christinabauera) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨News! tinyurl.com/y3vskm73 Low-SES students are often portrayed as lacking skills. We test the effect of reframing this narrative in a field trial (N=786). Highlighting the strengths low-SES students show boosted grades over one semester, closing an SES-performance gap.

The Agency Fund (@agencyfund) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In both policy and research, agency tends to be understood in terms of personal freedom: the absence of social constraints. The problem with this view is that it misses perhaps the most important aspect of human agency, which is that it is built socially. This presents us with

In both policy and research, agency tends to be understood in terms of personal freedom: the absence of social constraints.

The problem with this view is that it misses perhaps the most important aspect of human agency, which is that it is built socially.

This presents us with
Catherine Thomas (@catcthomas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Society for Personality and Social Psychology and psychologists in the Intervention Science community, do you want to partner with organizations to design psychological interventions to solve social problems? Apply now for the The Agency Fund's $10,000 Agency Intervention Innovations Award and get matched with an org!

<a href="/SPSPnews/">Society for Personality and Social Psychology</a> and psychologists in the Intervention Science community, do you want to partner with organizations to design psychological interventions to solve social problems? Apply now for the <a href="/AgencyFund/">The Agency Fund</a>'s $10,000 Agency Intervention Innovations Award and get matched with an org!
Thomas Talhelm (@thomastalhelm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Want to attend the SPSP Culture Pre-Conference? Register now! Spots are filling up. We filled up the 125 spots SPSP gave us, so SPSP raised our limit to 163. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) #SPSP2025 spsp.org/events/annual-…

Want to attend the SPSP Culture Pre-Conference? Register now! Spots are filling up. We filled up the 125 spots SPSP gave us, so SPSP raised our limit to 163. <a href="/SPSPnews/">Society for Personality and Social Psychology</a> <a href="/iaccp/">Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)</a> #SPSP2025 spsp.org/events/annual-…
Catherine Thomas (@catcthomas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're hiring! The Behavior, Culture, and Inequality Lab in University of Michigan's (University of Michigan) Department of Psychology is *hiring a full-time Lab Manager* to start in August 2025. Please share widely! Full details are here (applications due March 15): careers.umich.edu/job_detail/258…

We're hiring! The Behavior, Culture, and Inequality Lab in University of Michigan's (<a href="/UMich/">University of Michigan</a>) Department of Psychology is *hiring a full-time Lab Manager* to start in August 2025. 

Please share widely! 

Full details are here (applications due March 15): careers.umich.edu/job_detail/258…
Paul Piff (@pkpiff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm recruiting a post-doc! Are you interested in emotion, morality, or collective action? Do you want to live in sunny SoCal? If your answer is yes to either (and ideally both), consider applying! Start date is between May and June 2025. More info here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482