Professor @NYUPsych. Research: stereotypes, explanation, concepts. Married to @JoeCimpian. Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/andreicimpi… 🏳️🌈🤎
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💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @PNASNews! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a 2nd PhD and join my lab @PsychIllinois back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human!
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Looking for a lab manager! Join us! 😀
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ALT Lab manager position in the Cognitive Development Lab Please forward to motivated students! Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/182022 Deadline: March 2, 2026 Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu
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New #SPSPblog: How Social Support Relates to Children’s Political Ambition—Especially Girls’ by Rachel Leshin, @AndreiCimpian, & @Reut_Shachnai ow.ly/Q6Is50Y6uHW
ALT A smiling teacher stands behind a diverse group of elementary students seated at a table. Two students wearing "I VOTED" stickers look at each other while holding pencils over papers, with a "Town Hall" drawing visible in the background.
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🧵 New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why?
To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold.
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This matters for understanding misinformation and polarization.
If partisan endorsement starts as social signaling, it may gradually become genuine belief through repetition and self-perception. What begins as fitting in may end as sincere conviction.
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Full paper supplement: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gf38…
Huge thanks to amazing 1st author Bethany Lassetter co-authors Natalie Hutchins and @lucaspbutler
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🚨 Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Edinburgh: work with a terrific young PI (Zach Horne) on topics pertaining to partisanship and hostility on social media 👇
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14 Oct 2025
🚨 Our colleagues @NYUAbuDhabi are hiring! Looking for someone to bridge social and dev perspectives to study topics related to social cognition, attitudes, stereotypes, political psych. Not-to-be missed opportunity to join an excellent group! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/175417
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More information about the benefits packages at NYU Abu Dhabi: drive.google.com/file/d/1myM…
Questions? Feel free to reach out to @AndreaCVial @jsskeffington
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13 Oct 2025
Applying to our PhD program in Cognition & Perception?
Join one of our webinars (on Oct 27 or Nov 6) to learn about the program and how to craft your application.
Read more and sign up here:
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💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @PNASNews! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a 2nd PhD and join my lab @PsychIllinois back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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