Thinking about a PhD program in organizational behavior or social psychology? Come work with me! My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality. More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/

I'm excited to be giving a TEDxOshkosh talk this fall, Nov. 15! It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers. Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025

🎇 Our recent paper on the effect of introductory education on meta knowledge 👇

When everything feels familiar, that's exactly when you should be least sure you know it all. Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered. The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:

Exciting news! A paper I wrote with Mitch Campbell, Andrea Miller, and my former lab manager Kevin Kennedy about a pro-diversity intervention for marginalized students was selected for SPSP/Sage/PSPB’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Collection! 🎉 More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Research by @stavatir.bsky.social & Risen suggests explaining learned material—a very effective learning strategy—is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance: https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX