newsletter: January 2025
happy new year and happy January! meet this month's guest editor, Erica Bailey
hi, it’s Eliana!
🍾🍾🍾 happy 2025! 🍾🍾🍾 thank you for following our newsletter for another year 😊
I’m excited to introduce our first 2025 guest editor & Stanford Podcast collaboration feature (incoming), Dr. Erica Bailey!
about me I’ve actually designed a study about how difficult it is to answer questions like this. am I interesting??? do I have hobbies???!
I’m from Pittsburgh, PA originally. I had a few lost years before starting my academic journey at a community college in Columbus, Ohio which just so happened to have a good transfer program to Ohio State. the universe was looking out for me and plopped me down in Katie Coffman’s first class as a new professor (experimental economics). Katie taught me all about experiments and what it is that professors do all day—I was hooked. I graduated early and waffled for a while trying to figure out whether I wanted to do a PhD in economics, at a b-school, or be happy and free in consulting. academia won me back and I completed my PhD in Management at Columbia.
I’m now an Assistant Professor of Management (micro) in the MORS group at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley and am thrilled to call San Francisco home. I am most interested in the self and I study the self primarily by trying to understand what makes people feel authentic.
when I’m not doing research, I am surfing (badly) or thrifting (goodly).
📺 WATCHING 👀
I am obsessed with all things Bene Gesserit so I cannot wait for the Dune prequel. Fear is the mind killer!!!!!!! my other tv obsession is keeping up with the duality of british culture (Bake Off and Love Island UK).
📚READING 🤓
my favorite book of the year so far was The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. I’m a sucker for books centering a challenging woman protagonist with a dash of social commentary (My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Big Swiss, Bunny, School for Good Mothers etc.). this book happens to also have some… steamy scenes? it’s historical in a way that at first feels random and in the end is essential. very sad how relevant the book is to current events… okay that’s all I can say! read it!
👂LISTENING 🎧
my better half was on tour with Lake Street Dive this summer so I got to see them live about six (seven??) times and I became a true super fan. they are an incredibly talented group of musicians who also happen to be super nice and extremely interesting people??! come on. let the rest of us have something!!!!
I should also plug my partners band – of course I am completely biased but they are a great instrumental, horn-lead band if you like funk, jazz, make-you-move kind of music.
💻 SOME PAPERS I AM (TRYING!) TO READ ATM 👇
authors: Angelica Ferrara, Dylan P. Vergara
journal: Psychology of Men & Masculinity
year: 2024
Sexual assault victims face a penalty for adjacent consent
authors: Jillian Jordan, Roseanna Sommers
journal: PNAS
year: 2024
💎 💎 awesome work by Erica💎 💎
The Preeminence of Communality in the Leadership Preferences of Followers (in press)
authors: Rebecca Ponce de Leon, Erica R. Bailey
journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
year: 2024
Positive—More than unbiased—Self-perceptions increase subjective authenticity.
authors: Erica R. Bailey, Sheena S. Iyengar
journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
year: 2023
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate
authors: Erica R. Bailey, Aharon Levy
journal: Psychological Science
year: 2022
👓 OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU 👓
be on the lookout for our marginalia meetup in Denver during SPSP 2025 in the the Whova app!
EASP summer school applications are due soon! more info here [UPDATED DEADLINE: January 8th 2025]
the wy-lab at cornell is looking for a lab manager to start fall 2025, please have any interested undergrads email Jordan Wylie at jordan.wylie@cornell.edu
The Social area at the University of Delaware is looking to bring on a Continuing Track (i.e., teaching-focused) faculty member whose primary responsibilities will be the instruction of core undergraduate social psychology and quantitative (e.g., Research Methods; Stats) courses.
for those of you on the market, no matter where you’re at right now -- offer in hand, fingers-still-crossed, looking at post-docs, exploring options outside academia -- we support you!!!
feel free to email us with questions or ideas to add to this list!
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in support & science,
📚 MARGINALIA SCIENCE 📚
eliana hadjiandreou
ivy gilbert
jordan wylie
minjae kim