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Dr. Kira McCabe
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Personality Psychologist. I study personality traits/states, goals, & individual differences. Assistant Professor at Carleton University Former post-doc, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Vanderbilt University She/Her, Legally Blind, First Gen
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Still friends with people you randomly met in a university study group? 👯🧑‍🎓 In this preprint with André Kretzschmar, @chopwood.bsky.social@wiebkeb.bsky.social, we looked at social influences on personality change in a design that randomized first-semester students to peer groups (1/4)

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It’s been a long time coming, but I’m thrilled to *finally* announce that our meta-analytic review of the relation between spatial anxiety and spatial skills is published!!! It’s now available in online format from Psychological Bulletin! psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

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If you’re going to #SPSP2024 and you’re free on Saturday from 1-5pm, come join us to do some group peer reviews of preprints and get a $120 gift card and some timtams (if you don’t know what timtams are, that’s a good enough reason to come!) Please repost!

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Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. “Once we brought the test requirement back, we admitted the most diverse class that we ever had in our history,” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b...

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DKkiraomccabe.bsky.social

Yep. I got that feedback when I lived in Australia for a few years, too. And my response was similar to yours. I lived in southeast GA (practically FL) for 8 years, and that prepared me well enough. You also can avoid the dumb stuff I heard people do with said wildlife (usually involving guns).

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Also, I believe SPSP uses the term ECR for people who have a PhD, but who are pre-tenure. I need to double-check that though.

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DKkiraomccabe.bsky.social

I think using years as a metric favor those who had a more traditional path. I had 2 post-docs over a long time before getting an Assistant Prof position. I am still an ECR in power and status in many ways despite my years of experience.

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Dr. Kira McCabe
@kiraomccabe.bsky.social
Personality Psychologist. I study personality traits/states, goals, & individual differences. Assistant Professor at Carleton University Former post-doc, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Vanderbilt University She/Her, Legally Blind, First Gen
150 followers115 following11 posts