IDS affiliates and graduate fellows from across multiple UW-Madison departments attended and presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology held February 26-28 in Chicago. The Society is the world’s largest organization of social and personality psychologists and includes researchers and practitioners from many academic disciplines. Conference Program
See a complete list of IDS-affiliated presenters below.




| Presenter | Title | Session |
| Stav Atir | When does learning make you more ignorant? | Evaluating and predicting performance and learning: New insights, new directions |
| Alexis Avery | Shades of inequality: Examining the impact of skin tone disparities in role allocation | Historical Psychology Preconference |
| Markus Brauer | Behavior change to promote equity and inclusion | Cognitive, social, and cultural pathways to behavior change |
| Nick Buttrick | Ethnic status threat causes preference for guns over civic action | Gun psychology: Wide-ranging consequences for cognitions, emotions, attitudes, and intentions |
| Sara Chadwick | Sexual coercion: Not hot! Experiencing sexual coercion predicts lower sexual desire among women partnered with men | Sexuality Preconference |
| Abbie Clapp | Development and validation of the novel Behavioral Objectification from a Partner (BOP) Scale among women partnered with men | Love under pressure: Diverse relational risks and their consequences |
| Chloe Hart | The cultural scripts of expressing romantic interest in the modern era | Sexuality Preconference |
| Morgan Jerald | Preconference Speaker | Gender Preconference |
| Morgan Jerald | Preconference Speaker | Social Cognition Preconference |
| Randy Lee | Gratitude is associated with taking costly prosocial action | How gratitude and awe foster adherence to prosocial commitments |
| Paula Niedenthal | Historical migration and the evolution of emotion culture | Historical Psychology Preconference |
| Kamila Redd | Are students their own worst enemy? Findings from a multisite campus climate survey | Poster Session D |
| Elizabete Romanovska | Beyond deficit models: Examining Black women’s sexual information-seeking as a predictor of sexual empowerment | Poster Session C |