Joe Vandello
Social Psychologist studying manhood, masculinity, gender, lgbtq+ prejudice, underdogs. Amateur artist. Decent guitar player/bad singer. Aspiring optimist. Transgender ally.
- My new favorite hobby is watching videos of restaurants refuse service to ICE agents.
- To state the obvious...
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- Grading essays from a grad seminar in 2025 now means first having a reaction, "wow, this is really good; they seemed to have really grasped the material at a deep level" followed by a second reaction, "this feels like AI."
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- New paper by my student, Becky Upton: Across 60 countries, those countries with higher beliefs that manhood is a precarious social status tened to have more violence against women, attitudes more condoning of violence, and weaker legal protections for violence against women.
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- Concur. "the Replacements’ 1984 masterpiece Let It Be might be the greatest rock ’n’ roll album ever made about growing up, if not exactly getting old."
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- Reposted by Joe VandelloOne analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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- This is social psychology at its best. Great study. Change is hard.
- "Conversion therapy" is abuse.
- "We were breaking our own rules by providing access to an employer that thinks, in the words of Trump’s executive order, identifying as transgender violates “a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.”"
- This is an absurd and offensive overreach of non-experts telling experts what to teach. What's next, climate scientists can't talk about global warming? Biologists can't talk about evolution?
- Besides being another example of how Republicans try to blame everything on trans people, this is a reflection of how little Trump understands about trans identity. What does "want to have transgender for everybody" even mean? I want transgender folks to be happy, safe and free from govt intrusion.
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- This 2022 article by Mernyk and colleagues seems especially timely right now. "exaggerated perceptions of rival partisans’ support for violence are a major cause of partisans’ own support for partisan violence." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
- Spread the word: We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of South Florida Department of Psychology in Tampa. We will begin reviewing applications October 17th. nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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- As a professor who researches and teaches about the psychology of gender in a red state, I'm surprised I haven't had a knock on my door yet.
