Ryan Lei
Associate Professor of Psychology at Haverford College. Interested in social cognitive development.
- Have been thinking of writing something that argues the underrepresentation of non-white samples in dev psych is because of embedded cultures of whiteness into structures -- particularly the primacy of the nuclear family. But where to send something like that
- Reposted by Ryan LeiA generous donor has offered to match $1,000 for any individual or coordinated group donation of $1,000 or more, up to 50 matches total. Group gifts must be coordinated with the Project Implicit team. To participate, contact our team: www.projectimplicit.net/contact-us/
- Reposted by Ryan LeiStreet art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
- The genius of Jim Sidanius was (among other things) identifying social dominance orientation as a way that people approach the world.
- Somebody (maybe on here?) recently called airport lounges upper middle class golden corral and this could not be more accurate
- Reposted by Ryan LeiProject Implicit is facing an existential threat. After almost 30 years, 60 million visitors, and hundreds of published papers, funding for our work has disappeared. We’ve never held a fundraising drive before, but we need your support to keep our site running. Please consider donating! 🙏
- Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support. Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...
- For the first time ever, I am done with grading before Christmas. A miracle, or better course design? You decide.
- Reposted by Ryan Lei“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
- It's been a challenging semester in many ways, but I'm taking a moment to reflect on the accomplishments of the past year. 👉 We published 5 papers, covering a range of topics from children's preferences for hierarchy to using neural networks to model person perception
- You don’t have to be a parent to know this is heartbreaking
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- wondering aloud: might LLMs be the death of humor? If they just generate the probabilistic words/phrases, then you dont get the unexpectedness that is characteristic of humor. Probably not all humor of course -- some of the LLM-generated roasts are somewhat amusing. but not what i'm talking about
- I ate it on a patch of ice walking to work this morning and if that’s not a metaphor for the end of the semester, idk what is
- Corny, but since it's thanksgiving season, I'm thankful that @sakierahudson.bsky.social invited me to be part of a fantastic new paper forthcoming in PIBBS on how intersectionality can be fruitfully and concretely applied in policy. Preprint link here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- #AcademicSky anyone remember a Science™️ article published that challenged the orthodoxy that men and women sorted into hunter and gatherer roles, respectively because of evolved biological diffs? I can't google my way to it so hoping someone knows what i'm referring to....
- My hot take for the day: abolish asking “how are you” as a greeting. takes too much energy to lie and say fine when everyone is just hanging on by a thread
- One thing I continue valuing about doing work with kids is that you have to interact with them to collect data
- The Wicked marketing has gotten out of hand
- why even bother having schedules @septaphilly.bsky.social? these days it’s more like show up and see what you get. Maybe it’s on time or maybe it’s 45 min late. or canceled.
- And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
- New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Increasingly believe tenure is protection for sucking at your job when service takes up all your time
- At a time when so much funding for diversity science has been pulled, I am SO thankful to the American Psychological Foundation (APF) for awarding me & former student (now PhD student!) Lizy Szanton the Springfield Grant to examine kid biases at the intersection of race and gender nonconformity.
- Spanberger's love for her family, and their love for her, is palpable on the screen and it is always so wonderful to see families that love each other like that in politics. But particularly Spanberger's husband crying when she was saying how much she loved him. Men should show their feelings!
- LFG Pennsylvaniaaaaaaa
- what is this new fresh hell where NSF is requiring a "one-time code" every time i go to submit a GRFP rec letter.
- So....what happens to folks hired into "AI & Psych" jobs when the AI bubble bursts? Chase the next hot thing?
- someone called me mid-career the other day and i was like how very dare you.
- it's recommendation letter season, and the requests are flooding in. Trying to reframe as a way for me to tell colleagues about the fantastic students that've worked in my lab. Hoping that gets me through the letters...
- 🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit! We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Every developmental psychologist Is like “but my lecture slides!”
- This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
