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Dr. Lynn Hasher: Can you really have too much information? And, what happens when you do?
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Inhibition operates to filter, disengage, and suppress:

Filter out irrelevant information

Disengaged from no longer relevant information

Suppress competitors from coming to mind

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May (1999) found that it was more difficult for older adults (than younger adults) to ignore misleading distractors when solving the Remote Associates Test.
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Poster Session I with authors present started! Do not miss the very interesting works!
Come and check @drabhipatra's poster [1144] from @MossResearch where they provide evidence in support of use-dependent and error-based learning mechanism involved during word retrieval from individuals with #aphasia. #psynom20
Are you interested in speech errors? We got you covered, come and check @JohnAlderete10 and @MattGoldrick's poster [1137] where they report supportive evidence for models incorporating cascading activation from phonological encoding to articulation, #psynom20
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How do we move from hiring to retaining women (especially woman of color)? There is work that finds women of color are much more likely to leave an institution than other demographic groups - this is true even when people have tried to do cluster hiring.🧵(1)
The experience for women of color is that they are treated badly or their group is treated badly. @VirginiaValian says it’s important to spend informal time with women so they feel important to the department. (2)
But it takes a village - all people in the department needs to take this action to avoid making women feel marginalized. (3)
@GiaMMacias @WomenInCogSci
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@VirginiaValian (of @Hunter_College; author of “Why so Slow?”) presents the keynote at @WomenInCogSci entitled “Still too Slow: The Advancement of Women.”

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@VirginiaValian @Hunter_College @WomenInCogSci @VirginiaValian presents results by Cooley et al. (2018): Women are perceived as more “feminine” when they smile than when they don’t smile. Even more true for Black women compared to white women.
@WomenInCogSci #psynom20
@VirginiaValian @Hunter_College @WomenInCogSci @VirginiaValian on intersectionality and universal gender effects:
Across the world, women are underrepresented in science and engineering, but this is particularly true for Black and Latinx women.
@WomenInCogSci #psynom20
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How to Create a Diverse and Inclusive Lab at @SocietySpark with @ToriPea3, @MaddBlackProf, @anjames3, Alejandro Lleras, and Wendy Francis.
@SocietySpark @ToriPea3 @MaddBlackProf @anjames3 @MaddBlackProf: Recognize that not all students will take the “default” career path of academia.

Faculty advisors need to be flexible and encourage students to pursue other interests.

Yes, this is a challenge as it may lead to a decrease in lab productivity.
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@SocietySpark @ToriPea3 @MaddBlackProf @anjames3 @MaddBlackProf: “Publish or perish” is NOT the way to create an antiracist, equitable system.

We need to make changes at the individual AND institutional level.
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