First Behavior, Opinions, and Relations between Groups (BORG) lab meeting down, and we're already getting featured our on our department's Instagram. Very excited to be working with these three great undergrad students!☺️ www.instagram.com/p/C_TOZB3ugx0/

Excited to announce that I'll be launching my undergraduate research lab--the (Wiezel) Behavior, Opinions, and Relations between Groups (BORG) Lab-- at Elon University this Fall! (1/2)

It was very cool to see Patrick Grzanka give the presidential keynote at #SPSSICon2024 yesterday. I still remember some 14 years ago, when I was a wide-eyed political science undergrad taking his human event course. (1/4)

Terrific Kurt Lewin Keynote Address by Linda Tropp, using examples from decades of work on intergroup relations to illustrate "Socially Relevant Research" as an alternative to a tight dichotomy between "scientific/basic" research and "useful"/"applied" research (1/4)

Do differences in climate beliefs between liberals & conservatives translate into differences in climate action? Interesting work by @mikeberkwein.bsky.social and his team, who looked at a global mega-study investigating the effectiveness of 11 climate interventions, found that (1/6)

Are sustainable behaviors better adopted socially or alone? Janet Lopez & her team first had participants describe behavior change goals, and then write a letter regulating their goals to either themselves (individual regulation) or to another person (social regulation). (1/2)

Is starting sustainable behaviors seen as more impactful than stopping *un*sustainable ones? @rrrianabrown.bsky.social finds that when participants evaluate a person that either starts or stops using products which are described as either sustainable or unsustainable, (1/4)

Much of the work on cross-race relationships and interactions focus on the benefits for members of dominant groups. Régine Debrosse & colleagues' work considers the impact on people of color. (1/4)

Very interesting mega-study on stereotype variability (among US participants) by Selin Toprakkiran. Using data from Project Implicit, and targets from 28 nationality groups and 6 racial/ethnic groups to delve into the nature of stereotype variability, her team found that … (1/4)

Bookmarking a number of symposia to sit in on at #SPSSICon24. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to meet up and join me! ☺️