Aidan Campbell
@aidanvcampbell.bsky.social
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Psychology PhD student at University of Toronto interested in: effort | self-control | wellbeing
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Aidan Campbell
Greg Depow
about 1 month ago
I wrote a piece with Nick Hobson in Harvard Business Review (
@hbr.org
) on how leaders can use empathy wisely to help their employees feel supported while benefitting their own well-being. Check it out and share let me know what you think.
hbr.org/2026/01/five...
#empathy
#leadership
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How Leaders Can Practice Wise Empathy
Empathy has become a baseline expectation of modern leadership, but practiced without judgment it can backfire, leaving leaders depleted and employees feeling misunderstood. Effective leadership requi...
https://hbr.org/2026/01/five-steps-to-identify-the-right-emotional-response-for-each-moment?ab=HP-hero-featured-1
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Aidan Campbell
Michael Inzlicht
7 months ago
Effort feels bad. We dodge it, minimize it, complain about it. But we also crave it. In our new paper, we revisit the effort paradox and show why the aversion and the attraction make sense. With
@aidanvcampbell.bsky.social
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@blairsaunders.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effort paradox redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior
Effort is a fundamental paradox in human behavior: while organisms typically avoid it as costly and aversive, effort is also valued and actively pursu…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065260125000127
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🎉 Our paper is now out in Communications Psychology! We explore how effortful leisure (like puzzling) can be a source of meaning in daily life. Across 5 studies (N = 2,569), we find: - Effort makes leisure feel more meaningful - But not necessarily less enjoyable 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life - Communications Psychology
Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00292-9
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Aidan Campbell
Michael Inzlicht
9 months ago
Japan gets something we don't: the subway cleaner and burger cook aren't weird for caring so much about his work—they're practicing a philosophy of presence. Meanwhile we optimize everything into meaninglessness. New post!
open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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Why We Love Hard Work
In the busiest train station in the world, I stare at a man fully absorbed in his work: cleaning station walls.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/why-we-love-hard-work?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Aidan Campbell
Michael Inzlicht
9 months ago
🚨New paper alert! 🚨 I've been fascinated by this contradiction for years: we hate exerting effort, yet we value things more when they're difficult to achieve. Is the effort paradox real, illusory, or adaptive? Have a read!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effort paradox redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior
Effort is a fundamental paradox in human behavior: while organisms typically avoid it as costly and aversive, effort is also valued and actively pursu…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065260125000127?dgcid=author
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Aidan Campbell
Michael Inzlicht
10 months ago
I confess: I spent decades selling a self-control narrative that was wrong. My latest post explains why willpower doesn't work the way we thought, and how we accidentally created a moral meritocracy around personality traits we don't choose.
open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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The Self-Control Industrial Complex
A Confession
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/the-self-control-industrial-complex?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Aidan Campbell
Michael Inzlicht
11 months ago
The Paradox of Hard Work: Why do people enjoy doing difficult things?
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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The Paradox of Hard Work
Why do people enjoy doing difficult things?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/effort-paradox-hard-work/682156/?gift=aCs66LCnN09Ss7iWu5ygTfvdQvplvD_T9BS_m0oTbqI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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reposted by
Aidan Campbell
Greg Depow
11 months ago
Received news that my paper with
@minzlicht.bsky.social
was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin🥳. In it, we examine how trait measures of empathy predict everyday state empathy, and what this teaches us about how we measure and experience empathy:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#empathy
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Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
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