I am thrilled to announce that this framework is out! Who is responsible for inequality? @tanialombrozo.bsky.social and I show that answers depend on whether people are judging causes or obligations, and the past vs the future. doi.org/10.1177/1745...

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:

Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS. Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard. My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢 @nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢 @nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED). Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000. 1/2 careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

great ideas 1003 and 1004 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social — two semesters long, each dept on campus got 2 weeks, 4 lectures a week, each one a different prof, to share the biggest idea in the field they are most excited about.

"People flourish when they see their careers as evolving journeys rather than fixed destinations, and yet so much of the discourse around passion pursuit focuses on ceaseless perseverance...Some pursuits of passion become less tenable over time as life circumstances change." hbr.org/2025/07/rese...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 In my latest out now in JPSP (w/ @brianjlucas.bsky.social & @jonj.bsky.social), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Excited to come out to @umich.edu this week for the Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference. Our lab will be well-represented with five presentations—please stop by and engage with our work, we'd love to hear what you think!

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New working paper🚨 "Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers" Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.” w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Feedback welcome!

🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

📣New preprint 📣 @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data. doi.org/10.31219/osf...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior. 📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

this guy turned 4 years old today, but he will always be our little puppy to us

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

✨ new paper from me & blue-sky-less Rebecca Ponce de Leon! out now in JPSP ✨ we ask - does the prototype of leaders as being people high in agency match the preference of followers? do people really want to work for the Logan Roy, Ms. Cobel, or Don Drapers of the world?

"Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next. In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources

Early registration ends tomorrow (January 16, 2025) — spots are running low, sign up for the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social while you can!

Thrilled to finally have this paper officially out! Across eight samples (n=2k+), we find that having a larger strategy repertoire can benefit goal attainment. We also discuss challenges with measuring repertoire and flexibility more broadly. w/ Raymond Wu, J. Gross, @malfrie.bsky.social #AffectSci

We even tested this with AI🤖! Writing with ChatGPT made things easier, but those who wrote manually felt more meaning in their work. Automation might save us time, but it comes at a cost to how much we value what we do.

Has anyone ever done a critical incident study where participants let you know when a (somewhat rare) event happens? For example, let's say I want to hear from a participant on the day they take a sick day from work. How do you get a survey to that person on that day, and motivate them to respond?

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. https://buff.ly/4j0v3IF

I'm hoping to hire a postdoc this year to join our growing lab at Yale! Looking for someone interested in EMA/digital phenotyping, formal theories, complex systems, & computational psychiatry. If this sounds like you, please reach out! Official ad coming soon.

In a new paper at OrgSci, we find gendered responses to expressions of passion—a commonly used criterion in evaluating potential—both penalizes women and advantages (unexceptional) men in high-potential selection 1/8 w/ Joyce He (UCLA) & Celia Moore (Imperial) pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking. Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

It's time for an end-of-year update on @malengo.org! Our goal is to alleviate extreme poverty by facilitating international educational migration. Our flagship program supports Ugandan high school graduates in applying for and obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Germany. Here is what we're been up to!

Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science Comment by Judith P. Andersen Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq

Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal osf.io/preprints/ps... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky

We just watched “A Real Pain” an absolutely fabulous movie — highly recommend! One of the best this year.

Don't sleep on World's End south of Boston for a walk/hike. Fantastic views of the city surrounded by serenity

Please come join us at the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social in Denver! Hoping to bring together research across psych and OB that has often remained siloed. Schedule below! spsp.org/events/annua...

digesting bad news is always easier when your advisor drops everything to spend the day with you @AdamGalinsky

Hello world! Guess I’ll start posting here some more. Stay tuned for updates next week!

Happy to share my first first-author paper recently accepted at JPSP! osf.io/j3vp9 We ask: Do people blame current groups for the atrocities committed by their ancestors? If yes, when/why? We address these using repeated measures surveys and conjoint experiments.1/

If you’re interested in behavioral science & want to gain some experience before applying for a PhD, consider applying to be my full-time pre-doc. Bonus: by applying to this job ad you can also be considered for a role with one of my incredible colleagues! www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

Super excited to be co-organizing a reception for Asians and Asian diaspora (eg Asian Americans/ British/ Canadians) at #SPSP2024 in San Diego!! It will be on Thursday Feb 8 evening 7pm at the conference center Room 16A! We will hopefully have desserts and drinks! Come hang out!!!

@elijfinkel.bsky.social + I are happy to announce that we're hiring a postdoc to research constructive approaches to dealing w conflict. Please apply! The application deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Thereafter on a rolling basis. Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjAzNw==

New paper in Psych Review, w Becca Neel @acceb.bsky.social We create two formal(ish?) models of prejudice preprint: osf.io/v4q7p Quick description:

Forgot if I posted about my new paper now out in Social Cognition. This is part of my series on why it is important to disaggregate Asian Americans in research. We showed that South Asian men (particularly with facial hair) are hyper-masculinized relative to East Asian men.