New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989 That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country

💡New paper SPSSI Journal of Social Issues We found lower-SES PhD students experienced interpersonal disconnections both inside and outside of academia (bit.ly/3yat9j4) (work with Peter Ruberton, Joshua Smyth, Geoff Cohen, Valerie Purdie Greenaway, Jonathan Cook). (1/6)

excited to read this one!

!!!!! an incredible talk !!!!!

Early deprivation alters structural brain development from middle childhood to adolescence science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This study🤯Tracked tax records from Florence, Italy in 1427 (before Leo DeVinci was born) and matched them with descendants in 2011. Descendants of the richest decile are 12% wealthier than descendants of the poorest decile. Wealth inequality inherited across 600 years!

Excited to share new work conducted by Monica McDermott (@mon_mcdermott), Jenn Richeson (Jennifer Richeson) and myself: Varieties of White Working-Class Identity In press at Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (GPIR) psyarxiv.com/mjhdy

So excited to present some exciting social class research with Andrea Dittmann,@MindyTruong92, and Eric Knowles! #SPSP2023 - via #Whova event app

Very happy and proud of Fab.i.an Müller 🏳️‍🌈 my first PhD student who published his first PhD paper in the great risp with Nicole Stephens Cristina Aelenei and Bo Sanitioso on educational inequalities during COVID: rips-irsp.com/articles/10.53…

New paper out in JEP:G on inequality in preschool. We started video-recorded observations in 2017, 6 years later the paper is finally out! Thanks to my amazing co-authors Camille Frederique Autin Nicole Stephens Hazel Rose Markus JCCroizet Andrei Cimpian psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-…

New preprint! "Moving beyond the gradient: Social classes as group contexts defined by multiple forms of capital" osf.io/ph3ze/ In this work, we take a novel (in social psych) approach to examining U.S. social classes and their links to important health outcomes. 1/

New preprint! "Reasoning about others’ minds attenuates class differences in tests of logical aptitude" osf.io/preprints/osf/… TL;DR: In this work with Nick Fendinger and Andrea Dittmann, social-class gaps in deductive reasoning disappear when questions recruit theory of mind.

Now's the time to get off the fence. Read this careful and important letter to Society for Personality and Social Psychology about the need to speak up about the campus protests and the cause that animates them,and if you are a social-personality psych faculty, please sign (or let's have a discussion about why not)