Matt Easterbrook

New paper with @LewisDoyle_ & it's an important one: Teachers marked identical work by a White British or Black Carribean student who was or wasn't eligible for free school meals. FSM students were given lower marks. #makeit10 @BPSOfficial doi.org/10.1111/bjep.1…

How do individuals understand, perceive, and react to inequality? #EQUAL_NNF A useful review of the literature on the social psychology of economic inequality, by @MattEasters. Cognitive heuristics, accessibility of info, self-interest, context, culture wider.unu.edu/publication/so…

New paper in SPPS with @grigolus !! The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies Across 29 Samples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

Groups or values? Testing the effectiveness of online social cure, group-affirmation, and self-affirmation manipulations on wellbeing outcomes @MattEasters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper. Teachers' implicit SES and ethnicity biases were more likely to emerge when assessing low-quality work (S1) and when working under high cognitive load/overworked (S2). Clear advantages for White middle-class students. @MattEasters @profprharris doi.org/10.1007/s11218…

Eleanor Miles and I are encouraging applications for a PhD project investigating 'when and why people focus on individual solutions to structural inequalities'. Deadline for apps is 5th Jan. Please spread the word and get in touch if you're interested! sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/degr…

If you want to do a PhD that uses social psychology to understand and reduce educational inequality, get in touch! We have new PhD studentships advertised at Sussex Psychology: sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun… sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

Our special issue on "Nuances of social class" is now published in International Journal of Social Psychology (tandfonline.com/toc/rrps20/3...). Edited by @MattEasters, @toonkuppens, and me. All papers are available in English and Spanish!

New paper with @RebekkaKesberg @mjbsp @BramSpruyt1 and Felicity Turner-Zwinkels using funky analyses to show that predictions from System Justification Theory hold for some subpopulations across four countries, but not others. …library-wiley-com.sussex.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1002/ej…

New paper with @VladislavGrozev! Belonging and identity compatibility predict deeper learning and self-efficacy among uni-students during the pandemic. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper! Building on our work showing that teachers, like us all, exibit biases, we find that teachers exhibited a bias blind spot: they perceived unconscious bias as an issue for other teachers but not for themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.100… @LDoyle_

@MikePasso @portsmouthuni Congrats Michael!

A great day celebrating my graduation from @portsmouthuni last week. Six years ago a surgeon told me my rugby career was over and I needed to find a new line work. I would never have imagined this is where that journey would lead, but I am so grateful that it did.

Job alert! Lecturer at Surrey: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

@mjbsp Congrats Mark!

@BridgetteRicket @jsskeffington @reavey_paula @MaxineWoolhouse @AliWimbledon @coopuk Wow that is brilliant! We are getting real momentum now!

Wow! @MattEasters @jsskeffington @reavey_paula @MaxineWoolhouse this is great news. We have the Coop onward. Really looking forward to meeting the lead of this campaign @AliWimbledon in a few weeks time! Great work by the @coopuk #makeit10

Fancy joining our gang of associate editors at BJSP? Call out for applications: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/2…

British Journal of Social Psychology is seeking proposals for special issues/sections. Check out the call here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/2…

New paper alert! Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it Led by Julie Dickinson, with Patrick Leman and me - check it out: doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.1…

I’m off to UCL to present my work on educational inequality at their Leading Edge Day focused on Children and young people growing up in poverty

Today's Psychology of Inequality lecture is on Money, Power, and Status -- a fun one!