New work with @zenamello.bsky.social -- using the person-centered approach, we found that social class discrimination, particularly discrimination that occurs in school negatively relates to academic outcomes. Classism from teachers was most common onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Our new measures of dating app aggression among MSM are here!! 🚨Now published in JSR with co-authors @jackiewoerner.bsky.social @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social and @ahlewis.bsky.social !!
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So fun to see @pniedent.bsky.social interviewed as a Michigan alum at the umich social at #SPSP2026! The Michigan magic is so real! Go blue! (Or cough cough, I mean…On, Wisconsin!!! 😂) @morgancjerald.bsky.social
Proud advisor moment after watching @abbie-clapp.bsky.social’s great presentation on our new BOP Scale!! We found that aspects of the BOP scale predicted things like lower desire & more sexual coercion experiences four months later in women partnered with men!
Congrats to our two “best data blitz” winners at the sexuality pre-conference! Grace Wetzel presented on adapting scripts to facilitate women’s orgasms and Carly Wolfer presented on an intervention for women’s sexual pleasure!
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Come learn more men’s sexual objectification of their women partners!! We made a scale and it’s pretty awesome! Today (Friday) at 9:30AM in E255! @abbie-clapp.bsky.social
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That’s a wrap for the SPSP pre-conference day! I was very lucky to get to end the day with a FEAST in Chinatown with this group of incredible gender and sexuality scholars and friends! 😍
Love this way of promoting your lab’s work! Very cool!
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.
Group of red and gray human-shaped figures standing on a light surface, with red figures clustered in the center symbolizing leadership or focus.
📊New research finds that the 2024 election in the United States was associated with increased acceptance of prejudice toward groups targeted in campaign rhetoric, similar to patterns observed following the 2016 election.
Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/VemK50Y3W2u
Anthropologists just upended our understanding of “normal” testosterone levels
So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
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Not testosterone, not sexual selection...
"That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.
You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us."
"Why forgo all these opportunities to get in front of huge audiences and defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate. Once you concede that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s rights are a good thing, you’ve already lost."
Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
We are hiring an Associate Prof in Social Psychology at UW-Madison! All areas of specialization are open. It’s a quick turnaround time for apps (due Jan 9th) but we are excited to add someone to our area!! Please apply and spread the word! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
Omg amazing! Congrats to Jordan! We will get these projects out eventually!! Love to see the progress! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
👀 With this brief visual overview, take a look at the recently completed ANCHRR project that will continue to serve as a model for decolonizing research-- centering Indigenous leadership and shifting the narrative in youth suicide prevention from risk to resilience. 💓
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The Chadwick Lab survived the Haunted Forest at Schuster’s Farm!! We also survived eating donuts and drinking cider along the way… Not sure we’ll ever be able to top this lab social gathering, but we shall try!!
Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
There is still time to submit an abstract to the SPSP Sexuality pre-conference! The deadline is October 23rd. Can’t wait to see you all there! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Very touched that my students submitted for me to get this UW-Madison Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!! Love to feel that teaching on gender & sexuality topics matters to & inspires our undergrads!
It is time!!! The submission portal is open for the SPSP Sexuality Preconference, which will take place in Chicago on Feb 26, 2026! This year’s theme is “The State of Sex,” & submissions for presentations are open until October 23rd! We hope to see you there! www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/9/...
Pew earlier this month: "In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal...Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin."
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Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to give one of this year’s plenary talks at the International Academy of Sex Research in Portland, Maine!! This community of scholars has always been so supportive of my work, and it was a joy to share it on the big stage!
Woohoo! Our Feminist/Queer Science article was selected as an Editor's Choice paper(!), which is offered to those that "represent the best science that is exceptionally important, impactful, & deserves visibility for the whole field!" Read it here! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
