Andrei Cimpian

Andrei Cimpian

@andreicimpian.bsky.social

Professor, Department of Psychology, New York University Research: gender, stereotypes, motivation, explanation Past President, @cogdevsoc.bsky.social Married to @joecimpian.bsky.social Website: https://cimpianlab.com

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Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

🤦‍♂️ You know those books about famous scientists that we read to kids, hoping to inspire them? Well, they probably won't do that. I'm excited to see this new work out in PNAS @pnas.org. Led by @jessgladstone.bsky.social. (Jess is new to Bluesky -- give her a follow!) 👇

Jessica Gladstone@jessgladstone.bsky.social

New in PNAS! Gabby Applebaum, @andreicimpian.bsky.social, and I analyzed 422 bestselling children's science biographies (1,355 scientists!) to see what messages they send about how success happens. Turns out, not always motivating ones. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2612021123 (cont'd below)

urldefense.comChildren’s books about scientists convey demotivating messages | PNASBiographies of scientists are widely used to spark children’s interest and broaden participation in science. In telling the stories of successful s...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

Online Now: The ongoing urgency of diversity science

dlvr.itThe ongoing urgency of diversity scienceEfforts to extinguish DEI provoke questions about the ongoing significance of diversity science. We argue that this evolving context makes such research increasingly pressing, and we pose four questions that this environment both calls for and newly allows research to answer. Such science remains indispensable to society’s capacity to manage social differences.
Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

💖 Love these studies! We often think we're being inclusive when flagging women's gender explicitly when talking about their accomplishments (e.g., "A woman won the Nobel prize in chemistry")... but this often backfires. Free pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1GtCF... 👇

drive.google.comBaileyKreitmanCimpian_JEPG.pdf
April Bailey@ahbailey.bsky.social

"Space4Women" "Girls Who Code" "WNBA"... all help to include women in male-dominated domains We asked: Does a gender-emphasis ("women") ITSELF help communicate inclusion (space IS "for women") or backfire (space is actually "for men")? 7 experiments out today in JEP:G --> doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange
@rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social

I've seen lots of chatter about how this paper finds that liberal profs don't push their students leftward, but not enough chatter IMO about how students do shift leftward in college regardless. Knowledge, not faculty pressure, moves people leftward! Shameless plug for my related recent paper 🤗⤵️

Rebecca Peretz-Lange@rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social

💥 New paper: Children Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them I enjoyed the opportunity to yap about two of my favorite things: Structural explanation and liberal arts education! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comChildren Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them - Rebecca Peretz-Lange, 2026Children are highly aware of social inequalities by the preschool years, and they spontaneously generate explanations to make sense of them. In particular, chil...

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Dr. Allison Master
@allisonmaster.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Read this (with powerful quotes from Lisa Limeri) about the censorship currently happening at Texas Tech and how they are trying to hide it from prospective students 👇 www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

chronicle.comAt Texas Tech, Even Some Student Research on Gender Will Be BannedA ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research.

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Luke Butler
@lucaspbutler.bsky.social

NEW PAPER with Bethany Lassetter, @nataliehutchins.bsky.social, & @andreicimpian.bsky.social out now in Cognition! Open access link (free until late August): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nNS02Hx32... Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? 🧵 🧵 🧵 below:

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Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

✨ Update: this paper is now in press at Cognition! Children's partisanship disappears (a) when responses are private and (b) when accuracy is incentivized, suggesting that agreement w/ the ingroup functions as a public signal of group support. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1-Qvu... Thread below 👇

drive.google.comLassetterHutchinsButlerCimpian_Cognition.pdf
Andrei Cimpian@andreicimpian.bsky.social

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

doi.orgOSF

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Luke McGuire
@lmcguire.bsky.social

In a new paper published in PHAIR, we ask today's emerging adults in the UK whether they thought about stopping eating meat when they were younger...

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

So interesting!! Huge congrats, April and Rachel! 🤩

April Bailey@ahbailey.bsky.social

People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

cell.comPeople think of women as one thing, men as manyPeople seem to represent men and women in a conceptually balanced manner: for example, seeing women as warm (not agentic) and men as agentic (not warm). Emerging evidence, however, suggests people mig...
Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇

Society for Philosophy and Psychology@socphilpsych.bsky.social

More hardworking than smart: Nature and origins of stereotypes about children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds 
⭐️From Eddie Brummelman, Aashna Poddar, Lena-Emilia Schenker & Andrei Cimpian

psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet

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Dan Larremore
@danlarremore.bsky.social

You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ? At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇

Cevian Labs@cevianlabs.io

Today we’re excited to announce a new product: COI Pond is a tool for faculty and grant staff that converts an academic CV into a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form. COA forms are tedious work, and COI Pond makes it a snap. Try it for free, here cevianlabs.io/coipond/start/ /1

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Charisse Pickron
@charissepickron.bsky.social

New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comFrom a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026Individual variations in face-perception expertise become apparent by the second year of life. We propose that infants’ “face diet”—the nature and quantity of t...

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John Holbein
@johnholbein1.bsky.social

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

6/ If orientations toward authority and social hierarchy take root this early, it may help explain why political divides run so deep -- and why changing minds is so difficult. Understanding these origins could shed light on polarization and intergroup conflict.

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@andreicimpian.bsky.social

4/ Across two samples of Israeli mother-child pairs, 4- to 8-year-old kids showed systematic individual differences in their responses to our child-friendly measures of authoritarianism and social dominance. Why do I say "systematic"? Their responses correlated with their mothers' ideologies.

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

5/ An interesting wrinkle: The parent-child link was stronger when mothers were primary caregivers. This hints that socialization -- not just genetics -- may play a role in how these early attitudes form.

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

2/ We measured two core components of political orientation: * authoritarianism (attitudes toward authority/social conventions) * social dominance (attitudes toward group-based hierarchies)

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

3/ To make this work with young children, we designed measures using fictional groups on "faraway planets" -- no real-world politics involved. Kids answered questions like whether it's okay for a character to disobey a king, or whether it's fair that one group has more resources than another.

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

Important new work on girls' and boys' sense of belonging in STEM across K-12 by @allisonmaster.bsky.social, @patelkhushboo.bsky.social, and colleagues! 💯

Dr. Allison Master@allisonmaster.bsky.social

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Super proud of the work that went into this one, which includes a systematic review and MEGA-ANALYSIS of the development of sense of belonging in STEM education across Grades K-12, with special attention to gender differences. (1/N) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.com“I Felt Like I Completely Belonged in That Class”: Gender and the Development of Sense of Belonging in K-12 STEM Education - Educational Psychology ReviewEducational Psychology Review - Sense of belonging is an important motivational belief that represents individuals’ sense of fit within an environment. However, many women report feeling a...

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Franck Ramus
@franckramus.bsky.social

Gender differences in mathematics in 1st grade: what are the causes? How to reduce them? This is the talk I will give (based on the doctoral work of Lilas Gurgand) at the next online research seminar of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London ⬇️

Andrei Cimpian
@andreicimpian.bsky.social

Important new work by @melismuradoglu.bsky.social and colleagues on early beliefs about ability and their links to motivation ✨

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social

“Children who believed that ability is relatively malleable tended to believe that everyone has the potential to reach the highest levels of ability.” Children’s beliefs about ability are linked with their motivation to learn, says @melismuradoglu.bsky.social. boldscience.org/why-do-child...

boldscience.orgWhy do children approach learning in different ways?Children’s beliefs about ability are linked with their motivation to learn

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Jennifer Tackett
@jnfrltackett.bsky.social

Speaking of early leadership motivations, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - we establish the emergence of dominance and prestige leadership motivations in adolescence, and further show nomological networks identical to young adults onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comDominance and Prestige Motivations to Lead in AdolescenceIntroduction Dual strategy frameworks of motivation to lead differentiate Dominance motivations, which leverage fear and control to gain power and status, from Prestige motivations, which rely on re...