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I'm an Intercultural Psychologist & Ph.D Candidate @ Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. I study about the psychology of refugees and forced displacement. I also post about my vegan cooking and travels. 🇲🇾🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇬🇷🇸🇵🇹
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Hi bsky friends... I need some #r-help#phdsky#phdlife#r#rstats

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I've just started my 2nd year and I've been invited to share my research at a Malaysian university!🥰 (I won't jinx it by sharing the uni's name. 🤞) Living the academic's life ... research and present. ✌️ #phdlife#phdsky

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Don't let temporary emotions to drive you to make decisions with lasting consequences.

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The Taliban recently issued a new law banning women from singing in public or letting their voices be heard outside the house. In response, Afghan women have been singing songs about resistance and posting videos of it on social media. bit.ly/3MrPgrK

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Don't make me tap the sign again Stop assuming you know someones ethnicity by what they look like. Stop gatekeeping culture because someone "doesn't look enough" like "what they are supposed to"

An illustrated chart visually describing how a mixed race person can look many different ways. There is no "right way" to look mixed
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Oxford University launched a Palestine Crisis Scholarship which "provides access to higher education to students displaced by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank through the provision of full graduate scholarships to study at Oxford." More info here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

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I wished I was given this when I was younger. It would have saved me many unnecessary heartaches and detours.

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🚨New Publication🚨 Intergroup contact does more than reduce prejudice. Positive outgroup experiences relate to positive pro-mixing attitudes, via increased levels of outgroup respect and outgroup understanding. We looked at inter/ethnoreligious contexts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to mixing: Testing novel emotional mediators of intergroup contact effects
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to mixing: Testing novel emotional mediators of intergroup contact effects

Although numerous studies have documented the robust effect of positive intergroup contact experiences in reducing prejudice and improving positive at…

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Review essay highlighting the importance of norms for social change. A key example is that norms promoting cross-group contact is related to more comfort with contact #SocialPsyc#prejudice#psychscisky#poliskyonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Paper title: The role of norms as a promoter of social change
Abstract: Life in society revolves around social norms. These norms play a crucial role in regulating and influencing individuals’ behavior, both at the societal and individual levels. They offer a psychological framework that reduces uncertainty, guides behavior, and aids people in adapting to their social surroundings. Moreover, by observing prevailing social norms, individuals gain insights into societal trends that preserve cherished values and traditions across generations, thus mapping the dynamics of social stability and change. Social change is closely tied to shifts in these norms, which can occur at varying speeds, influenced by factors at multiple levels of analysis, including societal, group, and individual levels. In this article, I analyze the various concepts of social norms found in the literature, with a particular focus on their role in psychology. I describe the main sources of normative influence and illu
Path models showing that parents' descriptive and injunctive norms are related to children's norms and their participation in collective action.
Line plot showing the interaction between participant ethnic group and peer norms when predicting comfort with cross-group interaction. Non-indigenous people are much more comfortable with cross-group interaction when peer norms are supportive.
Bar graph showing that across Peru, Haiti, and Venezuela people have more cross group contact when they also report high contact norms.
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A recent New Scientist cartoon:

A science lecture.

A scientist stands on a stage holding a pointer and gesturing to a slide depicting the earth on fire. 

In the audience one member turns to another amd says “I prefer her earlier, funnier theories”.
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Ling Ling
@linglingtai.com
I'm an Intercultural Psychologist & Ph.D Candidate @ Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. I study about the psychology of refugees and forced displacement. I also post about my vegan cooking and travels. 🇲🇾🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇬🇷🇸🇵🇹
303 followers290 following166 posts