CHOP-ick. Associate Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at Michigan State University My opinions do not reflect the views and opinions of my employer.
East Lansing, MI
Based in United States
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I surveyed 4 personality handbooks and asked 2600 people how important it is to study each topic (from 1 to 5). All were rated above midpoint (yay!), but mental health/psychopathology, genetics/heritability/neurology, emotion regulation/happiness, and change/identity stood out.
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Every April Fools Day, I look my students in the eye and tell them how much I appreciate them
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Every morning, I wake up and read the obituaries. If my name isn’t in there, I have breakfast. Then, I complete yet another university-mandated training of some sort. This has been my life for 17 years.
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I've had 4 proposals/defenses the last 2 weeks. I have 8 the next 2-3 months. A normal professor would complain and be overwhelmed. Not me, though. In a time of anxiety, I'm getting some of the best sleep I'll ever get. Then, I wake up, ask one question, and sign the form.
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Before criticizing a city, it's important to give it a chance: immerse yourself in its culture, meet its people, try its food, take part in its long-storied traditions. Anyway, that's why I'm at this Taco Bell underneath an overpass in Lansing, MI
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I've started the habit of drinking out of this glass beaker during meetings with students. Every couple of minutes, I make my eye twitch and cough VERY violently.
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There's been a university truck parked in our lot for nearly *four* years--unmoved and untouched. I've started putting fake "parking tickets" on their windshield every time I walk by. Folks...I don't think they're gonna notice anytime soon.
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CRL Lab is at Fenway!
Funny thing: every professor is given free tickets behind home plate. But they never use it on their students for some reason. You should ask your advisor why they don't like you as much as I like my lab.
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In my last year at MSU, I'm considering entering fake maintenance requests, but in the style of Edgar Allan Poe stories. They start out innocently enough, but then turn...sinister...
Here's a brief thread...
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Thanks to Brooke Soulliere (undergrad first author), Dro Carrillo (grad student), and a crew from UGA (Brandon Weiss, Josh Miller, and Keith Campbell (@wkeithcampbell) for dreaming up the idea in the first place!
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🔑 Main takeaways:
✔️ People DO judge you based on your tattoos
✔️ They tend to agree on their impressions
✔️ But they're mostly wrong
✔️ …unless its really wacky--they might guess you're open-minded
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.1…
Open Access: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/54…
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