can't wait to have Ana join us! this incoming cohort of PhD students is 🔥🔥🔥

Houston, We Have a Narrative Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you’ll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they’ll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great s...

this entire book was the most helpful thing I read in all of grad school, especially the A-B-T framework for how to frame your contribution and outline an abstract/intro/talk

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I found an asymmetry in how people perceive themselves vs others on social media. The findings suggest that misperceptions derived from social media may extend beyond morality/politics toward how we view persons. Presenting data blitz @ Authenticity Precon
@spspnews.bsky.social #socialpsych #spsp

thanks for sharing Linda!

great minds!!!!

interesting!!

I hope this paper changes our view of the types of leaders we should select and promote, as well as the type of leaders we try to be.

anyways, that's enough musings. here's the link!
dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

we wrote this paper at a fever pitch, mostly as a way for me to block out the job market blues. we have replicated these effects many, many times, with a variety of samples and methods.

I've never worked on a paper this polarizing! people either reacted with "duhh?!" or "no f*cking way" 😅

we find that communal traits like honesty, openness, care, and compassion define the ideal leader. we find evidence across eight studies (and five supplemental studies) that followers prefer communal leaders and will choose communality even at the expense of agency.

turns out, agentic traits like dominance, assertiveness, and even competence loom large in the minds of people when asked about the TYPICAL leader. but things shift dramatically when you ask about the IDEAL leader or the person people want to work for.

a man talking to another man with the words this is a business ALT: a man talking to another man with the words this is a business

✨ 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?

🧠 Interacting with AI changes how we see ourselves—when people read AI-generated advice before generating their own, they rated their own advice as less authentic.

in sum - use these tools with caution! 🚧

⚖️ When we told participants the advice was GPT-generated, they rated the same advice less favorably, revealing a persistent bias against AI in personal decision-making contexts.

💡 ChatGPT-generated advice was rated as higher quality, more effective, and even more authentic than human-generated advice—but only when people didn’t know it was from ChatGPT.

we replicated this with Claude and Gemini!

key findings summarized by the one and only ChatGPT. open-access link below!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

in line with past work, we document AI's ability to generate quality content as well as people's aversion to content written by these tools.

but what excited me most about this project is that we also found that reading ChatGPT-generated advice shaped SELF-evaluations.

⏰ new paper alert ⏰ from Merrick Osborne & me at Scientific Reports.

five preregistered experiments (+ three supplemental studies) explore LLM-generated personal advice and compare it's performance to human-generated personal advice.

this has been on my TBR for so long! I need to actually read it this year!

oh wow - thanks Ben!

thanks so much Vanessa!! 🥹

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...

thanks Pam!!

ohh fun! excited to read this in more detail.

Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself

The best academics can link their research to real-life stories. Well... I really only have one story, and it's my story.

This week on Hidden Brain, I talked about some personal parts of my life and then (of course) got nerdy talking about authenticity research.

open.spotify.com/episode/3Alp...

really cool work!

Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking From finding ideas and opportunities to landing new jobs or getting promoted, so much depends on “who you know.” Despite these benefits, many people struggle with the act and the idea of networking. ...

Yejin is a ⭐️ and it was such a delight to collaborate with her on this paper!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

most importantly, though, we offer three routes forward for dealing with authenticity in networking -- ignore it, embrace it, and transcend it -- for whom these strategies will be more or less authentic, and how we can shift mindsets around networking to reduce these pressures.

first, we review why different aspects of networking are so challenging for authenticity. to anyone who has been to a networking event or conference mixer, the environment feels ~less than ideal~ for authentic self-expression.

the second paper is with Yeijin Park and Ko Kuwabara now out at SPPC. we try to tackle the number one question my MBA students ask me -- can I ever be authentic in networking contexts??? answer: we think so!

Pinning down state authenticity: defining and validating a state authenticity measure The experience of feeling authentic (“state authenticity”) is both common and consequential, yet research remains hampered by operational disparities. Specifically, the continued reliance on unvali...

kudos to Blaine for keeping this paper alive through many dark nights of the soul!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....