Erin Cooley

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Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change We present a framework for the study of social inequalities and social change. This framework aims to motivate researchers to move beyond the predominant focus on isolated pairs of identity-based g...

I am very happy that a first article from a project Johannes Ullrich and I have been working on for quite a while is now published in Psychological Inquiry (open access):

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Response to: “Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change” Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)

We are very grateful for the comments we received and cannot recommend reading them enough.

Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi and @erincoo-psych.bsky.social highlight strengths and weaknesses and outline how a shift of perspective might be helpful:

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Our team developed a scale to measure subjective perceptions of one's own status as it relates to the perceived racial economic hierarchy. We think there are a lot of interesting research questions that could be asked with this measure! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxIg-CmV5...

Oh gosh I just used this in my stats class this semester and it’s always been such a helpful demonstration! Thanks so much for preserving this resource!

I have been so touched by Sam both personally and through his work on racism in the criminal justice system. Here is a link to the innocence project, one of the places listed to donate in his honor: innocenceproject.org

This is absolutely devastating. Sam made such an impact on me and I admired him so much. I am so devastated to see this.

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Oh man, I needed this!

An Aberrant Abundance of Cronbach’s Alpha Values at .70 - Ian Hussey, Taym Alsalti, Frank Bosco, Malte Elson, Ruben Arslan, 2025 Cronbach’s α is the most widely reported metric of the reliability of psychological measures. Decisions about an observed α’s adequacy are often made using rule...

just when I thought we had a good handle on p-hacking, I stumble upon alpha-hacking! Sigh. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Learning while Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression In this article, we explore the use of two published datasets for teaching a wide range of students about regression models, with a particular focus on interaction terms. The two datasets come from...

Joint work with @erincoo-psych.bsky.social et al. available today: Learning while Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression. We provide two case studies for teaching interactions in regression. There is an accompanying app on our resource page! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oh and I second severance. I was totally on the fence for the first two episodes and then got hooked!

I love this.

This is so obviously true and yet so seemingly hard for a lot of people I have worked with to accept: "Science can never be, nor has it ever been, dispassionate and objective."

Our new paper in @science.org shows that misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it’s shared more & read less. bsky.app/profile/will...

I highly recommend listening to Keith’s conversation about his new book here! Super interesting ideas for our current political climate.

The Science of Hierarchies

I was interviewed for Colgate University's podcast to talk about the research I work on with @ryanlei.bsky.social, social media-less, phenom Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, Will Cipolli @datascicollab.bsky.social, and many wonderful students: open.spotify.com/episode/72oa...

Congrats @neilrhester.bsky.social !! This looks awesome. Excited to add this paper to my syllabus :)

Awesome—thank you!

Well this is a bit of a cliff-hanger. What does the next slide say?? We have some work that perceiving people in groups facilitates social categorization which enhances the category-based prejudice directed toward them…does the next slide nuance those findings?? Conflict with it?? The suspense!

The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.

I have always loved the construct of intellectual humility and this feels like a such an important demonstration of what it can do! I would imagine it simply makes you a better scientist as well.
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Teaching undergrad stats for psychology, I love trying to help students think about null hypothesis significance testing more deeply than the binary “reject or fail to reject the null” that they come in fixating on. This article was fun/interesting to read with that goal in mind.

Haha I have no idea! Must be the pre-holiday rush!

*scribbles you off "recommended reviewer" form for paper we are submitting this week* (I am not kidding :) )

I really don’t mean this in an unkind way but I don’t see any evidence in this article or a clear take-home? Am I missing it?

Hi everyone. I'm a social psychologist by training but also dabble in developmental and health psychology. My work explores White people's willingness to confront their own racial biases, the consequences of this awareness (or lack thereof), and how they socialize their children about racism.

Manny Galvan doesn’t seem to be on here yet! But this paper, led by Manny, was really interesting to work on and think about.

Perceptions of Falling Behind “Most White People”: Within-Group Status Comparisons Predict Fewer Positive Emotions and Worse Health Over Time Among White (but Not Black) Americans - Nava Caluori, Erin... Despite the persistence of anti-Black racism, White Americans report feeling worse off than Black Americans. We suggest that some White Americans may report low...

The work above is building on our prior work. We are really interested in figuring out why many white Americans are so despondent despite, or perhaps because of, growing wealth inequality that favors their racial group. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is so kind! Thank you Gordon!