Michael J. Bernstein

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social and I could not be more excited to be in the role! We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below! #SocialPsych #PsychSky 1/n

I also have never heard or seen that word before.

Thanks to everyone who joined us on our @spspnews.bsky.social free form session! The recording will be up on SPSP soon. @michaeljbernstein.bsky.social would love to hear from anyone interested in submitting an idea for a special issue! Hooray for science!

Join us!!!! We want your science!! 📝📝📝

Hi all! I could not be more excited to be part of the hosting for this. If you have ANY interest in potentially guiding a special issue one day, come to this to learn all about the process! @spspnews.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #SocialPsychology @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social

Please apply to postdoc with us at Northwestern/Kellogg. This position in the Dispute Resolution Research Center is a terrific opportunity.

I am on my first ever sabbatical (I kept pushing my first back for service related reasons & I have no regrets but it got pushed back so far that I'm now one year past when I could have taken my second sabbatical). I have written more in the past 6 weeks than I have in the prior two years. 😁

Should you text or meet face-to-face to have a conversation? Our research shows greater benefits when talking in-person. If it is necessary to text, have more intimate conversation when possible. New paper lead by @cmleckfor.bsky.social is out in @josoperrel.bsky.social now: doi.org/10.1177/0265...

SPSP is now offering five types of stipends to help cover registration fees related to the SPSP 2026 Annual Convention! Learn more about each registration below and be sure to submit your application before September 18 at 11:59 PM PT! More info: ow.ly/Pl6L50WMa2Z

I have the vaguest of memories that someone (perhaps associated with SPSP) gathered a collection of job materials from people on the job market which could be shared with people going on the market? Am I crazy? Any ideas on where these might be? @spspnews.bsky.social, #SocialPsych

#ICYMI: Jim Sidanius, widely regarded as one of the foremost social and political psychologists of his generation, is the newest addition to SPSP's Heritage Wall. Please join us in celebrating his contributions to our field. Learn more: ow.ly/Zeo850WpSvX

✨ SPSP Member Spotlight time! Meet Alison Jane Martingano, who's doing fascinating work on empathy and creating VR measures to move beyond self-reports. She also hosts a great podcast (Psychology and Stuff) and has the coolest temperature-tracking knitting project. 🔗: ow.ly/Ei4050Wa3M5

Ever wonder if people can change? New work by Jinseok Chun & Michael North show moral fixedness (beliefs that moral traits change less than competence or warmth) really is fixed! We assume morality reflects a person's core more than other traits!

It's #NationalVolunteerWeek! Today, we're spotlighting @michaeljbernstein.bsky.social of Penn State - Abingdon. For Michael, helping to plan the SPSP Annual Convention means fostering a sense of community and belonging in our field. Learn how to get involved with SPSP today: ow.ly/A2lr50VGhWu

U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months. Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move. #Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪 record.umich.edu/articles/uni...

#SocialPsych #PsychSky (cause I forgot to include these on the initial post).

@jexpsocpsych.bsky.social is happy to announce its first Call for Papers for the Special Issue entitled, "Current Directions in Social Dilemmas Research!" You can read all about it at the link below. Submissions are due Nov 30th. Please share with your networks! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

@jexpsocpsych.bsky.social is happy to announce its first Call for Papers for the Special Issue entitled, "Current Directions in Social Dilemmas Research!" You can read all about it at the link below. Submissions are due Nov 30th. Please share with your networks! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

If you're going to #SPSP2025, please consider coming to our Friday symposium on false political pessimism!

Join us for our SPSP symposium! We present research on responses to personal, blatant, systemic, and historical racial prejudice. Featuring 3 in-person talks & a recorded session from Keith on Whova. #SPSP2025

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

If you attend @spspnews.bsky.social annual convention next week, check out this panel organised by Drs. @jessiesun.bsky.social & Dale Shaffer-Morrison. The panel consists of academics who have worked in at least 2 countries. I'll be there to represent US to UK perspective. Will be candid as usual.

Pssst.... @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social just accepted its first proposal in 2025 for a Special Issue. I cannot wait to share more details! If YOU are interested in talking about what goes into guest editing a special issue, email me any time! #socialpsyc

Just found out we can buy a camel through our procurement website and I have so many questions including why, what department needs this, what does a camel eat for regular meals, what kind of treats do they like, and what is the weight capacity for riding a camel cause I don't want to hurt it.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

I got to yap about objectification theory for 45 minutes on this podcast. If you’re interested in listening, you an hear more here: open.spotify.com/episode/4opz...

Oh god... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I...

💡Check our latest SPSP Member Spotlight, featuring @kateratliff.bsky.social of the University of Florida. Dr. Ratliff's research focuses on formation, maintenance, and change in intergroup attitudes. Learn more: ow.ly/FzBf50UpWFq

@ryanlei.bsky.social giving a phenomenal talk at Penn State Abington today!

Pick a movie, keep one actor - the rest are Muppets Steve Buscemi Armageddon

🎓 Join SPSP's Reviewer & Editor Network - a new initiative that aims to make pathways to editorial leadership positions more broadly accessible. Help shape psychology journals by adding your expertise to our diverse scholarly community! 🔗: ow.ly/9a5950UlZF6

How do people behave after feeling the sting of social exclusion on social media? New #PSPB research suggests users quickly made new posts to reach broad audiences but took longer to engage in direct interactions with specific individuals. Learn more: ow.ly/gmgv50UkUmn

What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries? ... ... ... The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

We're so excited for this free, online workshop about peer review happening TOMORROW! Join us using the registration link below 👇

This happens everywhere I assume? Have other schools just solved the problem? PSU has this exact problem (raises are normally not announced until September, sometimes October, and once it happened in January). PSU just put the money we were owed in the next months' paycheck.

The best turkey is worse than the average of any other meat. Said by someone who still made turkey this year.

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

Paging all the smart survey methods people (such as @klauspforr.bsky.social uspforr.bsky.social and @awmercer.bsky.social ): Do we know anything about gender differences in mode effects?