Colin Tucker Smith
Dad and partner | Associate Professor, University of Florida | implicit social cognition | reading and tennis | he/him
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThank you for supporting Project Implicit. With the additional $3K not included on the landing page, we’ve raised $6,763 or 13.5% of our goal in less than a month. Please help us protect scientific integrity and expand access to research and education by sharing. 4agc.com/landing/impl...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithI am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go... We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality. Some findings > osf.io/preprints/ps...
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- Course evaluations are in and I got the following comment: "He gave such wholesome dad vibes." I have many competing thoughts about this [insert 2025-appropriate indicator of laughter here].
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew paper out with Heidi Vuletich and Ayla Winegar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We discuss public policy implications of the Bias of Crowds model: How do environments activate and perpetuate biases and what can we do against it?
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith👩🎓Students: How does summer in Scotland sound? There's still time to apply for the 2026 Summer School of Personality Science in Edinburgh, hosted by the European Association of Personality Psychology! Apply here before December 15: ow.ly/bjxE50XBksg
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except for the student who submitted a 3-point Reflection assignment with their ChatGPT prompt included.
- www.espn.com/college-spor... Cool, that should fix everything!
- Paperclip is to Bush era as Copilot is to Trump era.
- Look, this is bad for many reasons, but also there seems to be no bottom to the “expertise doesn’t matter” push.
- Sorry about… reality, but if you want to start your day with some more bleak dystopian bullshit, here ya go. Sign up! Become a judge! Deport people! Earn money! Just (un)believable. join.justice.gov
- Dear students: Having ChatGPT write your email to me is backfiring.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithWe're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM. Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions. Details: apply.interfolio.com/177756
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithAnother reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
- Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
- His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."
- Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThis past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.
- I love a good bunt
- This World Series has been unbelievable to follow.
- Watching a baseball game that you care about is one of the best experiences in sportsfanness.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithSo useful!
- Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7
- So far, my favorite unexpected aspect of moving to Canada is how my daughters became huge baseball fans yesterday ❤️
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithGreat piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew paper from the lab! w/@davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social & Mina Cikara We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
- This part of the semester where we contact all the people and make all the schedules does not, let's say, play to my strengths...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithIn this invited piece for PIBBS I argue that implicit bias education is not inherently worthless but often ineffective (counterproductive) in its current form. I offer recommendations to improve it by making it measurable, agentic, integrated, broad, & evidence-based (MAIBE): osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Mboko!
- Feels dangerously like we’re giving Jan 6th the Lost Cause treatment (turning treasonous slavery defenders into misunderstood good ol’ boys). Moves faster with current media than late 19th century. Honestly could see a legitimate push for Jan 6th as a Federal holiday in the name of “unity” any time.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- This image popped up on my car radio this morning. One week ago I would have been VERY confused to learn that I immediately thought “Coldplay!” Life is weird…
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithWe (Goizueta Business School) are hiring a new lab manager for our behavioral lab. This is a great opportunity for recent undergrads who are hoping to get more research experience before a PhD. Would love to see your strong undergrads in this applicant pool. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/150128/...
- That feeling you get when one of your students’ work shows up in your feed does not get old.
- When do we think the system is fair and why? Ferrés et al.’s article in our June issue explores how comparing today’s society to past conditions or future alternatives can shape how people perceive fairness and legitimacy in the system. Read the full article online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithInterested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The BCD Lab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!
- This is definitely good news. At the same time, it’s a bit like noting that the arson that was done should not have been done. We will need active rebuilding.
- BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- We have moved to Canada and we cannot figure out how to watch the Stanley Cup finals and this does not feel very Canadian.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithOur paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities" The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc. The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...
- Three more weeks until I’m a Canadian!
- Zeitgeist: www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
- I’m not [even close to being] a lawyer but, if, based on Citizens United, “money is speech”, then actually IS the fed govt taking away money a form of regulating speech? Probably should read the article first…
- An immensely important First Amendment Q right now is when the government may regulate speech by imposing conditions on federal funding. Here’s a new @knightcolumbia.org series on this topic. 1/ knightcolumbia.org/research/fed...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithI’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithWith all that is going on at NSF, it’s important for me to describe how important NSF has been for my career and the careers of my trainees over the years. This funding is so important for so many reasons.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithSocial Psychologists: SESP is in Lisbon this year (Oct 16-18)! *The symposium submission deadline is May 16* More info & the submission portal here: www.sesp.org/annualconfer...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithI previously thought that Ono might have been a bit of a coward, but he couldn't have done much to kill the good will more effectively. A few notes on some of the claims in a 🧵. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNew paper, "Elegant theories and the problems of social psychology," in which I argue that social psych suffers from large inference gaps, or the distance between theoretical model and statistical tests, with some suggestions for how to improve things doi.org/10.1080/1046...
- I spent a lot of time with people in Tilburg's Psychology Dep't between 2009 and 2012. I was always so impressed that the students there were taking courses in English. This change would remove a significant advantage they currently enjoy relative to their EU peers.
- Folks, universities here are have decided to cut international psychology programs, which will be devastating to psychological science in the Netherlands. Please consider signing this open letter on behalf of my colleagues and me; anybody can sign. openletter.earth/against-lang...
- Six weeks until our move to Canada. I've learned so much about the political system over the past year. Watching the election returns tonight with much interest!
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithIs reflective reasoning always slower than, say, intuition? A paper used process dissociation to explicate deliberate control: - it wasn't reliably slower - it didn't reliably involve more self-reported deliberation (such as stopping to think) doi.org/10.1177/2378... #cogSci
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithNEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI
- Thank goodness. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
- Although I don’t see myself as a “refugee” or “fleeing” #5 isn’t so far from my family’s story. With some details from the others; (for us) deciding to leave required many individual reasons.
- Before you read this, try to guess why each is fleeing. (1) New Hampshire (2) Idaho (3) Texas (4) California (5) Florida www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThe work I love most blends learning about theory with answering something practical. Here, we got to hit both nails on the head! Come for the "Does implicit bias change generalize across implicit measures?" Stay for the "Can we reduce anti-fat bias?" Or vice versa. Just read the paper; it's great!
- 🚨New Paper w/ @joelleforestier.bsky.social at JEP: General!🚨 We conducted 2 mega-experiments totaling over 28,000 participants and 50 conditions. We wanted to find the most effective interventions to reduce implicit weight prejudice across 5 implicit measures. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithA colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithWhat are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa
- Oh wow. This is humor.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThe School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan is recruiting another postdoc aimed at improving community resilience and protecting vulnerable populations from compound wildfire hazards! Link: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Please share far and wide!!
- Dear Action Editor, you can say any date you like, but I can tell you right now you'll be getting my review exactly [insert date here] + 5 days.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithWhat is the future of Open Science? Join @annemscheel.bsky.social @nicholascoles.bsky.social @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for an exciting discussion during the Keynote Panel at the #SIPS2025 Online.
- One of my RAs is out sick and the participant pool closes Monday so I'm running participants like the good ol' days.
- No idea if this is new, but today I noticed that my cough drops are cartoonishly against me resting and repairing my body. What even is this?!
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- Power’s out in Gainesville so we’re listening to national championship on our hurricane radio. Seems appropriate…
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThis paper is now out in JEP:G (psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...), with a University of Illinois news release here: news.illinois.edu/study-finds-...
- Very heavily updated preprint with Tessa Charlesworth and Patrick Mair on international trends in explicit and implicit social group attitudes (2009–2019) using 1.4 million+ participants from 33 countries in the @projectimplicit.bsky.social International Dataset: psyarxiv.com/jmg7c/.
- This must stop.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithPostdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithHello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith📢 We are hiring! PhD position opening at the LIP lab on impression formation and learning. Please visit our website for more information: liplab.be Please share or repost this vacancy!
- At FL universities/colleges, we’re asked to voluntarily complete an annual survey on “Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity”. I approached it with an open mind. Once I got to questions referencing the Democrat party, I knew it was a push poll and dropped out. (It was obvious before then).
- This looks like a great post-doc opportunity!
- Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
- Reposted by Colin Tucker Smith🧵1/4 Excited to celebrate Anna Huang‘s first first-authored paper just published in EJSP. 🥳 In this theoretical article, Anna explores how Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) apply to individuals with Mixed racial-ethnic identities.
- I am considering trying to be less judgmental. One idea I had is to stop immediately looking at my watch after someone says "Good morning" to check whether they are one of those immoral people who think it's morning when it's not.
- As ever, shout out to the undergraduate students at UF whose talent and energy continues to inspire me. I do actively get the feeling that I'm vampiring that energy in these interesting times...
- There is it is. UF values our vital work. Thanks! So weird that they forgot to say this during any of their multiple emails telling us to stop doing anything related to DEIA two weeks ago.
- Important reading. Also this was NOT that long ago. For example, public schools in our liberal college town in Florida were desegregated by court order in 1970(!). When Donald Trump was 23...
- Today's anti-DEI initiatives are genealogically descended from the "massive resistance" movement against Brown v. Board. The pictures on this website depicting the parents and grandparents of today's anti-woke warriors are worth sitting with. segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/massi...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithAnalysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithThe 2024 data for all of the Project Implicit Demonstration tasks are on the OSF: osf.io/y9hiq/ Thank you to the Scientific Advisory Board for their work in making it available.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithUniversity messaging these past weeks
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithI created a R script to see how many times one of those words came up in my recent NSF grant submission. The answer was 355 (!) times. Laughing but crying. Mostly crying. Here's the code if you want to try it on your grant: github.com/calvinklai/d...
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithSome people’s research will be flagged and then will move on with clarification. Other people’s research will be flagged and… it’s done. The differences in who those people are will not be random.
- Reposted by Colin Tucker SmithI’m hiring a lab manager to start July 2025! Submit CV and cover letter as soon as possible as review will begin immediately. Link to the job ad is here: tinyurl.com/22ye3wsv Please share with any undergrads or mentees who might be interested!
