Mikaela Spruill
Criminal Justice Postdoc at SPARQ @ Stanford | Cornell Psych Ph.D. | 1913 | Examining how individual judgments & decisions sustain systemic racial inequities | she/hers
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- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillCan AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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- *We are 3 days away from the SPSP Preconference submission deadline!* If your research breaks boundaries in social psychology or you are applying exciting methods to your research, apply today!! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
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- The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
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- Thank you all so much for having me!! It was a joy to share more about my research in psychology and law. If you want to learn more about legal judgment & decision making, intriguing Supreme Court cases and what “objectively reasonable” actually means to people, listen to this episode!
- New ep! What comes to mind when you hear the term “objectively reasonable”? @spruill.bsky.social shares her research on how legal standards in criminal justice aren't as neutral as they may seem and how lived experience influence jurors' priors links in 🧵 @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillCongratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillAt @spspnews.bsky.social, many asked for guidelines on using LLMs in the social sciences. Our new paper in AMPPS addresses exactly that! We provide a primer for evaluating LLMs in social science research, focusing on methodological rigor, replicability, and validity: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillFirst @spspnews.bsky.social symposium complete! I presented my work on differing gendered perceptions of East and South Asians. Really excited to continue this line of work as I wrap up my master’s thesis. Thank you to everyone who came to support! #SPSP2025
- ✨Starting in 30 minutes!✨ See you all there! @jadacopelandhayes.bsky.social @keturahragland.bsky.social
- Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!
- Happy SPSP Day to those who celebrate! I’m looking forward to starting this conference off sharing new research, “Right, Wrong or Reasonable? Morality in Legal Decision Making” in the Moral Pre conference!! #SPSP2025
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- Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!
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- “To treat the symptoms of creative maladjustment would be to dull a necessary and noble pain that is an authentic moral response to injustice. For King, maladjustment to injustice is an illness with only one cure—justice.” Today’s very timely read.🤔 spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- “If you don’t understand yourself, you don’t understand anyone else.” -Nikki Giovanni 🤍🕊️✨
- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillICYMI: check out our october newsletter featuring @spruill.bsky.social ✨ the second marginalia science x boston college symposium is coming up; apply to be a speaker by oct 25 (more details and application link in the newsletter) t.co/CsK7PA9g9Q
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- My people have arrived!! Welcome to these brilliant scholars & wonderful humans!✨ @keturahragland.bsky.social @marc-alessi.bsky.social @snsmith.bsky.social @jwroberson.bsky.social @callmedanny-7.bsky.social @chadedarby.bsky.social @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social
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- “Whereas the law seeks to provide fair process in a timely fashion, science seeks to discover truth over time. This means that what was once fair may become unfair; the justice of yesteryear may be unjust today.”
- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillI am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...
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- This. This failure is the one I find myself returning to this past week. In the most progressive state in the U.S., we saw a distinct regression regarding the criminal legal system (see Prop. 36, as well). This should concern us all.
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- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillNow more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...
- Reposted by Mikaela SpruillI will be reading applications for our PhD program this year. Our lab studies social cognition, attitude formation and change, and social learning and memory. For more information, please read this document: benedekkurdi.com/files/Kurdi_.... The deadline is December 1.
- “Our struggle is not of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It is the struggle of a lifetime.” - John Lewis The work continues. May we persist on.
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- Being an Editorial Fellow with @pppl-journal.bsky.social has been an exciting and deeply enriching experience! It’s an honor having a hand in the advancement of our field of Psychology & Law. Applications are open for 2025 Fellows!!
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- Do you research the psychology of social oppression? Are you applying new methods to your experimental research? Are you breaking boundaries in mainstream social psychology? If so, apply to our preconference, Critical Perspectives in Psychology at #SPSP25!!!
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- Sankofa. “To go back and get it.” Immense gratitude to Stanford SPARQ and the Equal Justice Initiative for the journey of a lifetime. Together we disentangled deep truths and collectively imagined a better justice system. We all, lawyers & psychologists, felt a reinvigorating call to action.
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- “…behavioural ecology offers us the opportunity to correct the implicit or explicit ‘biologization’ of social categories while remaining grounded in biology.”👏🏾 This morning’s excellent & thought-provoking read☕️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- “First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.” -Octavia E. Butler
