Dr. April H. Bailey

I'm a Lecturer of Psychology (Assistant Professor equivalent) at the University of Edinburgh and lead the BIAS Lab research group.

Postdoctoral training, New York University
Ph.D., Yale University
B.A., Colgate University

I use methods from social and cognitive psychology alongside tools from computational linguistics to study questions about social groups. Much of my work focuses on gender as well as its intersection with other identities (e.g., race and sexual orientation). My work also addresses concepts, essentialism, impression formation, power, and the downstream well-being and organizational consequences of social bias.

My work has been feated on the Opinion Science Podcast and by Scientific American

Highlights

Bailey, A. H., & Leshin, R. (in press). People think of women as one thing, men as many. Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Bailey, A. H., Dembroff, R., Wodak, D., Ikizer, E., & Cimpian, A. (2024). People's beliefs about pronouns reflect both the language they speak and their ideologies. Journal of Experiental Psychology: General.

• Bailey, A. H., Williams, A., & Cimpian, A. (2022). Based on billions of words on the internet, PEOPLE = MEN. Science Advances. 8, eabm2463.
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• 2025 ISCON Early Career Award ⭐ recognizes an outstanding early-career social cognition researcher

• 2024 APS Rising Star ⭐ recognizes outstanding early-career psychology researchers