Abby Cassario
Social/personality psych PhD student at MSU interested in attitudes and belief systems. NC native with an affinity for dogs, Carolina Hurricanes hockey, craft beer, coffee, and swimming.
https://abigailcassario.github.io
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioIn academia, class background strongly shapes who advances and who stalls.
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- Cutting words from a manuscript and skimming recent papers in our target journal for guidance. In the year of our Lord 2026, tons of published experiments still make no mention of manipulation checks whatsoever. That's a... choice.... 😅
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioGlad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioSo honored to join the other exceptional social psych scholars in this forthcoming issue of PIBBS! 🧠📊 Our paper examines how insights from social neuroscience can inform better public policy @fabbs.org @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioCentral attitudes in political belief systems are more resistant to change than peripheral attitudes, but not necessarily less amenable to persuasive attempts: osf.io/6a8ue
- My brother cleans pools for a number of the Carolina hurricanes. A Scandinavian hockey mom told him America is the “land of opportunity.” True if you’re a once in a generation hockey player. The rest of us might prefer healthcare…
- Reposted by Abby CassarioJust finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
- Didn’t expect Italian Christmas cookies to be served at the conference I’m at but I am absolutely here for it 🇮🇹 🎄
- Reposted by Abby CassarioNeeded - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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- Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioIt's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
- Reposted by Abby CassarioNew research explores why openness/intellect stands apart from other personality traits. It turns out this trait may be less universal across cultures and rarely targeted for change. Read more in #PSPR: ow.ly/UGlJ50XqLqS
- Reposted by Abby CassarioJoin us for two fun days of moral psychology and philosophy! #MPRG2025
- The Moral Psychology Research Group's Online Gathering has a complete schedule of speakers, including Joshua Greene, Meltem Yucel, Paul Bloom, and Linda Skitka! Nov 7th and 8th sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
- Reposted by Abby CassarioCome work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social! I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social
- Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Abby CassarioTwo great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact
- Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social! I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social
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- Big shoutout to MSU's email spam filter for blocking emails from my external collaborators, but not actual spam from MDPI journals I get at 2am every night...
- My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioThis is an amazing opportunity for those seeking a PhD programme in Exeter: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res... If you’re interested in a PhD in social psychology on the following topics, feel free to contact me - Activism - Social movements - Resistance - Solidarity - Leadership - Intergroup conflict
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- Has anyone ever written an LOR for a medical school app and know what committees tend to look for? I’m writing one for an absolute rockstar of an RA and want to make sure I’m highlighting the right things!
- Reposted by Abby CassarioHi all! Having recently moved to @uh.edu, I’ll be reviewing graduate applications to join the newly minted Worldviews in Motion lab for Fall 2026! Please share with anyone who might be interested 😊 For lab info, check out our (though it’s mostly me atm) website: www.abdoelnakouri.com
- Reposted by Abby CassarioDid you hear the news? New interview dropped! Meet @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social in her interview with @msupsychology.bsky.social! Learn about her research interests, how to get involved, and the @psychresearchlist.bsky.social website. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...
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- Does anyone know of any *panel* data that has a question asking people to compare their *subjective* SES to that of their parents? I’m using some WVS/EVS data with an item like this right now but the repeated cross sectional design is… less than ideal for my specific question
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioCome join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
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- It's ~so~ much fun when your "small" "side" project ends up having 60 models per study across 4 studies with some machine learning thrown in for fun. 🤷♀️
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- I’ve been in Michigan for three years now and I still can’t tell whether that many Michiganders are awful drivers or if there are cases where it’s legal to take a left on red here
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- An academic job app wants my employment history going back three employers, which for me means a place I worked in college called "Wicked Weed." They also want my manager's name. My friends, does this sound like the kind of establishment where I'd know my manager's last name? 😅
- nice to know osf is a mountain goats fan
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioI'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioIn many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3
- NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- You are either a "the real deadline is ~actually~ at least 48 hours before the stated deadline" kind of academic, or you're a "deadlines are suggestions" kind of academic. Sorry, I don't make the rules. I'm the former, and it is less of a good thing than you'd probably assume...
- Reposted by Abby CassarioThe Full Release of the ANES 2024 Time Series Study is now available! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
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- Reposted by Abby CassarioNew article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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