2019
4/8/19
Radically Normal: How Gay Rights Activists Changed The Minds Of Their Opponents
3/14/19
Episode 67: Stereotyping and Biases with Dr. Will Cox
02/15/19
Study: No race or gender bias seen in initial NIH grant reviews
02/01/19
No race or gender bias seen in initial NIH grant reviews 2018
01/28/19
2017
11/07/17
Badger Herald –Body hate and eating disorders, paired with pressures of campus, plague the minds of UW students
10/31/17
LemonWire – Researchers develop program that predicts sexual orientation.
10/24/17
UW-Madison Lab Uses Scientifically Proven Method for Overcoming Unconscious Bias
10/09/17
The New York Times, Science Section – Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine. This journalist interviewed me extensively to point out the problems in recent, widely-publicized paper that purported to show that artificial intelligence algorithms can identify who is gay or straight. I think the journalist did a great job summarizing things!
09/09/17
AKSARBENT – Junk science in Stanford’s artificial intelligence gayface study that Newsweek, The Guardian, The Economist and Big Gay missed A somewhat irreverent blog post that dissects the recent “AI gaydar” study, by (correctly) applying our work demonstrating the fundamental flaws in gaydar accuracy research to this new study.
06/15/17
A lot of my work was featured on this episode of Invisibilia on NPR, including interviews with me and Trish Devine. Our part starts around the 35-minute mark.
06/13/17
An article in Science Magazine interviewed me, discussing my work with Patrick Forscher, Trish Devine, and Markus Brauer experimentally testing for race and gender biases in the NIH grant review process: Can fake names tease out NIH reviewer bias?
05/07/17
An article in The Atlantic covers a lot of my recent work: Is This How Discrimination Ends?
03/24/17
CNN Health – The truth about ‘gaydar’
03/20/17
The Conversation piece inspired a few other outlets to cover my work
Attitude – There’s No Such Thing as ‘Gaydar’, According to a New Study
PopSugar – Everything You Thought You Knew About “Gaydar” Is Wrong
Out – Science Confirms ‘Gaydar’ Isn’t Real, But Stereotypes Certainly Are
Metro – Is there actually such a thing as a gaydar?
The WOW Report – Right or Wrong, Is “Gaydar” Really a Thing? Science Now Knows For Sure.
03/15/17
The Conversation invited me to write a popular press piece on my recent gaydar papers: Debunking the ‘gaydar’ myth
Reposted by Salon – Debunking the ‘gaydar’ myth
2014
04/08/14
A gay rights blog mentioned my upcoming article on Stereotyping to Infer Orientation and The Gaydar Myth: http://bookforum.com/blog/14430
02/21/14
The Association for Psychological Science posted about my recent article on plausible deniability for prejudice-based aggression
02/14/14
The Jury Room (a law website) discussed my Plausible Deniability paper: Racist Roads Not Taken and Prejudice-Based Aggression
2012
09/22/12
CNN Newsroom did a segment on the deprejudice article.
09/18/12
The APS press release for my article in PPS: Prejudice Can Cause Depression at the Societal, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal Levels, Researchers Argue
09/18/12
Stonehearth Newsletters: Depression may be caused by prejudice from the self or from another person
09/18/12
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science: EurekAlert!
09/18/12
Medical Xpress: Prejudice and Depression – Societal, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal
09/17/12
Healthy Reads discusses the integrated perspective on prejudice and depression here
09/16/12
“Maybe Days” blogged about the deprejudice article here.
09/13/12
Archpsychological posted a nice overview of the deprejudice article: Bullying and Cyberbullying: Are Depressed People Prejudiced Against Themselves?
- “But I Didn’t Know!” People Show Prejudice-Based Aggression When It’s Easily Deniable
- Health News
- Health Medicine Network
03/02/17
Big Think did an article on my plausible deniability for prejudice-based aggression paper: People Are Aggressively Prejudiced If They Think They Won’t Get Caught, Study Finds
01/05/17
2018
10/31/18
Breaking the Bias Habit: An Evidence-Based Intervention in Duke’s Biology Department
05/30/18
Wisconsin Public Radio, The Morning Show – Does Anti-Bias Training Work?
Researcher: Despite Good Intentions, Anti-Bias Training Can Actually Backfire
09/15/15
Live interview, Wisconsin Public Radio, Central Time UW Researcher Challenges Notion Of ‘Gaydar’ MP3 Download
Featured in this week’s issue of Inside UW-Madison
SFGate – Gaydar is probably not real, after all: Scientists debunk 2008 study that validated the phenomenon
2010
03/01/10 – I was mentioned in the APA Research Roundup: Evidence for the ‘Obama Effect’
2009
02/16/2009 – Researchers cite President’s role in reducing racism