🧵Ok so I went to the annual SPSP Convention over the weekend, the largest in social/personality psychology. I took some notes on things I observed and thought I’d share here for anyone interested (I know I said I would post this earlier, my bad!)

To summarize, psychology is not letting go of woke (obviously). Much of this probably won’t be surprising for some, but I saw a good amount of doubling down on woke in addition to calls for a change in focus/execution (e.g., shifting towards an “empathy” focus in antiracism efforts, sustainability). Keep in mind this is just coming from me, a singular grad student who 1) hates the heavy political bias in my field, generally, 2) hates woke - left or right - and would love for it to die permanently, and 3) hates large networking events, especially the Society for Pretentious Sissies and Posers Convention. So make of my anecdote what you will.

I’m sure many in attendance were not so obnoxiously woke and I'm sure plenty had a great time this weekend for reasons I don't share (I am mostly grateful I did not have to use an “all gender” restroom this year, so that was nice).

🧵Alright guys. Psychologist John Jost (known for System Justification Theory) once again needs to tell us why he knows leftists are MUCH better than conservatives. This paper was published two days ago, and it's just...😑

Maybe, if I'm not too annoyed, I'll keep adding to this as I go through it. But for now I'll just start with the first couple pages because that's all I have in me at present. The paper starts out with a quote (very Marcuse-esque) from the German Communist and social scientist Kurt Lewin: