University of Michigan is hiring for an open rank faculty position in Social Psychology, all relevant content areas considered! Spread the word, and apply by September 15 at: apply.interfolio.com/147442

#econtwitter #econra Econ RA Listings I am hiring a full time Research Associate (predoc) for 12 months to work on projects primarily on disparities in education choices and outputs, starting in mid-August (🤞). Apply ASAP! The ad is now out: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_External/… RT widely!(1/3)

Funding Opportunity: The Agency Fund open call is live now! We're excited to announce our latest open call for grant funding. We anticipate having at least $1 million in awards available in this round. Deadline: October 31st, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. agency.fund/apply

Estimating the impact of unconditional cash transfers on twelve primary outcomes in middle- and low-income countries, from Tommaso Crosta, Dean Karlan, Finley Ong, Julius Rüschenpöhler, and Christopher Udry nber.org/papers/w32779

University of Michigan is hiring for an open rank faculty position in Social Psychology, all relevant content areas considered! Spread the word, and apply by September 15 at: apply.interfolio.com/147442

🚨 NOW OPEN 🚨 Submit your research to the SPSP Culture Pre-Conference! Accepting data blitz talks and poster, open to grad students, post docs, and non-tenured profs. Submit before 10/17 11:59pm Pacific. spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-pre… Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Can't wait to kick off the Fall 24 Research Center for Group Dynamics speaker series on systemic racism. Come to U-M ISR Thompson 1430 today for an overview of the series (and food!), and next week as I talk about our research on institutional interactions, race, and policing🚔

🚨New job posting🚨 Come to Northwestern to work with Christopher Udry and me at NU Global Poverty Research Lab! 🔗shorturl.at/QngEP

NEW PAPER w/ Erik Santoro Josh Kalla Roni Porat 🎗️🟣 There's a widespread idea that we will persuade other people more effectively if we listen to them first The NYT has said it, social psych says it, & my previous research has assumed it In a new study, we find it's likely wrong 🧵..

🚨 🥳 New first-author preprint!! Our longitudinal field experiment (N=1,485 dyadic conversations) shows that listening improves interpersonal perceptions but does not enhance persuasiveness!

🌍 Here is why intersection of development economics and cultural psychology in research can be powerful. Between 2017 and 2022 in rural Niger, researchers from World Bank, tested how culturally attuned psychological interventions could improve women’s economic outcomes.

Applying to graduate school? Join U-M's STAR Scholars 9/25 @ 4pm ET to learn about - finding your area of interest - finding programs/mentors - writing a statement of purpose - acquiring rec letters - GRE info - and more All are invited! Register at sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/se…

New research alert! PNAS Nexus People systematically and selectively underestimate the income of the top 1%, but not of other percentiles. This matters for policy and redistribution! Read the thread for more or check out shorturl.at/92olj... Jon M Jachimowicz Hooman Habibnia 1/8

People who think they're an expert claim knowledge about nonexistent things; real expertise helps people stay within their "circle of competence" instead. From Harvard Business Review. w/ @atirstav On Buffett, Moneyball, and mebamectin hbr.org/2024/09/resear…

We need to teach people to be critical not just of the news, but also of their minds. Our new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General finds: - people were more likely to believe and share politically aligned news over news that was actually true, even when the

Two days left to submit to Society for Personality and Social Psychology Intervention Science Preconference!

Fascinating (and frightening) work by Michael Schwalbe et al: Resistance to true news that didn’t align w political beliefs was greater than susceptibility to fake news that did. This means it may be harder to spread truth in today’s media climate than we thought..