March News from the Accelerator
PSA newsletter March 2025
Quick read
The PSA-JTF1 Moral Experiences project is seeking collaborators in data coding and validation (secondary data collection) in 19 countries.
PSA 009 is seeking new collaborators for select languages: Armenian, Filipino, Romanian, Spanish (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico), Vietnamese, and Urdu.
A busy month for PSA members at the SPSP conference, and beyond!
SPSP Roundup
Great to see several of our fantastic PSA members presenting at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) convention in Denver, Colorado! The conference featured outstanding contributions from many Accelerators, including Sergio Barbosa, Barnabas Szaszi, Jing Lin, Shuxian Jin, Nicholas Coles, and Karen Akin, who shared their important research through engaging talks and posters. It was truly inspiring to see PSA members making such a powerful impact and showcasing the incredible work being done within the PSA community!
Building on this momentum, PSA director Savannah Lewis and Assistant Director Nadia Corral Frias led a thought-provoking roundtable on improving representation, access, and justice in psychological science.
A big shoutout to Valerie Jones Taylor PSA 005 - Stereotype Threat project for representing the PSA 005 team and sharing our findings to a packed audience! Your presentation was a standout and a great reflection of the hard work put into the project.
PSA Member Update
A round of congratulations to our members around the world. In Italy, Maria Montefinese was elected as a member of the steering committee for the Italian Reproducibility Network for the 2025-2026 term. 🌍
Congrats to Peter Adu , originally from Ghana, who has started a postdoctoral position at McGill University, in the Department of Social and Cultural Psychiatry under the supervision of Cécile Rousseau. Peter was most recently at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and just relocated to Montreal. ✈️
And a round of applause to Ayse Uskul for winning the SPSP Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Psychology Award ! 🏆
WHAT’S NEW IN BIG TEAM SCIENCE
ManyManys, the Big Team Science network, is dedicated to investigating cognition and behavior across species. They are hosting a series of open webinars exploring how reversal learning can be implemented with different taxa. Register in this Google Form or email themanymanys1@gmail.com.
PSA PROJECTS COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES
PSA-JTF1 Moral Experiences
We are seeking new collaborators in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United States (validation only), and the United Kingdom to help with next steps of the project: data coding and validation (secondary data collection). Learn more and express your interest HERE!
PSA 009 Gendered Leader
PSA 009 Gendered Leader is seeking collaborators only for the following countries/languages:
- Armenian (Armenia)
- Filipino (the Philippines)
- Romanian (Romania)
- Spanish (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico)
- Vietnamese (Vietnam)
- Urdu (Pakistan)
Please note that we have closed submissions for all other languages, and only researchers from the countries listed above should apply. If you are interested and meet the criteria, please reach out at psa.project.009@gmail.com.
PSA PROJECT UPDATES
002 Object Orientation
002 has received reviews from Current Psychology. You can check out the reviews here. The lead team is working on a revision that addresses the reviewers’ comments. If you have comments or questions about how to address these reviews, you can send them to psycsciacc002003@gmail.com. Look for an email from the PM asking for any final adjustments to the author list and affiliation information.
003 Gendered Prejudice
The revised manuscript has been resubmitted to PLOS One.
005 Stereotype Threat
We have finished final analyses and robustness checks! Valerie (Co-Project Leader) gave a great talk at SPSP which showcased our findings.
007 Semantic Priming
We are working on addressing feedback from NHB reviewers on our Stage 2 Registered Report.
008 Minimal Groups
We have collected over 12,000 participants across more than 30 countries, over half of which have met the within-country sample size goal of 200. If you can collect data in a country that is not represented or has yet not met the target see tracker, please reach out: psa-008@googlegroups.com.
009 Gendered Leadership
Most languages are now launched! The project team will send survey links to remaining labs as soon as they upload evidence of ethics. We are using this opportunity to remind all team members to complete the ethics quiz on Canvas.
JTF2 Dignity Honor Face
Data collection has been going very well. We have now collected data from over 11000 participants (including both student and community samples) in 29 countries! You can track our data collection here. The majority of translation is completed, with translations wrapping up in a handful of languages.
JTF3 Error Correction
Early data collection is going quite well, with over 1,500 total participants across 10 countries thus far! We are working on translating materials into as many requested languages as possible to roll out data collection in a wider set of locations and labs very soon.
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