Fa'a Samoa 🇦🇸🇼🇸 | Assistant Professor @UHMPsy | Psychology PhD student @StanfordPsych | Your favorite psychologist's favorite psychologist (maybe)

Interested in researching the psychological aspects of racism, colonization, and inequality in Oceania and beyond? Join my lab as a grad student for Fall 2025! Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Lab info: tinyurl.com/lab80821 Apply: psychology.manoa.hawaii.edu
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Now published and open access: "'When you live in a colony... every act counts': Exploring engagement in and perceptions of anti-colonial resistance strategies in Puerto Rico" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wil…
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🎉 Still in disbelief but my first first-author pub is out now in JPSP!! "Gentrification creates social class disparities in belonging" psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-… Takeaways...
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RT @luiza_a_santos: New paper now published in PNAS Nexus 🚨🚨! We test how empathy beliefs can act as a motivational lever to strengthen A…
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🎉 My dissertation research on who feels they contribute to society is out in JPSP! 🎉 - 📄 paper @APA_Journals ➡️ psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/… - 🚨 @APA press release ➡️ apa.org/news/press/releases/… 🧵👇(1/12)
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We are hosting our annual Paths to PhD - a student-led virtual info session & workshop for anyone considering applying to research positions and PhD programs in psychology - on Oct 26, 2024 Application is open now and due on Sep 29! bit.ly/paths2phd24
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Do you research the psychology of social oppression? Are you applying new methods to your experimental research? Are you breaking boundaries in mainstream social psychology? If so, apply to our preconference, Critical Perspectives in Psychology at #SPSP25!!!
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I’m happy to announce that I am currently on the postdoc market! My research investigates 1) the biases that marginalize race scholarship, 2) the impact of racial discrimination on belonging and mental health outcomes, and 3) prototypicality biases through an intersectional lens.
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Are you thinking of applying to PhD programs in psychology but unsure about how to start or whether it's a good fit? Apply by Sep 29th to Stanford Psychology's 8th annual Paths to PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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We’re hiring a full-time lab manager to work at @RutgersU in the Diversity Science Lab. Come study diversity & inclusion, prejudice & stereotyping, & social interventions with us! Please RT! Job Ad: bit.ly/LaiLabManager2024 Lab Site: calvinklai.com/
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sharing a chapter I wrote about colourism in East Asia & Southeast Asia with @JackieMChen @Pearson_HI and Joni Sasaki! we review research about colourism in these two regions with a focus on understanding their shared and unique origins and consequences ronda-lo.com/uploads/1/0/1/2…
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New paper out in @JCRNEWS How do consumers react to political ads that meddle in the primaries of the opposing party? In the most recent elections, Democrats did something strange.
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New 📝 alert! In a field experiment with 1000+ psych PhD students, we find that students use more racial modifiers when communicating about Black samples vs. White samples. But we also find that policies regulating sample reporting can reduce this bias. tinyurl.com/2s49tdb8
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Congratulations to @KengthsagnL who was recognized today at the @SPSPnews Awards Ceremony for the 2023 Heritage Dissertation Research Prize!
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Excited to share that I'll be joining the Department of Psychology at @uhmanoa as an Assistant Professor Fall 2024🤙🏾📚 Feeling grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the great research and teaching happening back home and looking forward to collaborating with my people!
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📚New paper out! Here, Marc Chappelle uses a framework of Sankofa (also leveraging LDA topic models) to identify trends in the scientific contributions of JBP and highlight where the journal has been, and inform where the journal might go. Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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