Have you ever walked away from a conversation with a new person and questioned 'I wonder if they like me?' The "liking gap" could be the reason why we underestimate how much other people like us.

Ever wonder how you come across to others, especially when meeting someone new? Had fun talking with the inimitable Shankar Vedantam about the social illusions that cloud our perceptions - and what we can do about them on Hidden Brain x.com/HiddenBrain/st…

Honored to be selected as an APS Rising Star by Association for Psychological Science! Thanks to Vanessa Bohns & Margaret Clark for nominating me, and to all my amazing collaborators and supporters. And huge congrats to everyone else who received this acknowledgement 🌟 x.com/PsychScience/s…

Introducing the CANDOR corpus from BetterUp: A 1TB, 850hr audio-video dataset of 1,656 unscripted conversations in America in 2020. CANDOR = Conversation: A Naturalistic Dataset of Online Recordings arxiv.org/abs/2203.00674

NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Kate Petrova chats with Gillian Sandstrom about TALKING TO STRANGERS: What are the benefits of talking to strangers, and why do people go to such lengths to avoid talking to strangers despite those benefits? buzzsprout.com/1801436/102253…

I'm so excited to be sharing the results of my cross-generational study with charity partners today. We recruited 25-30's and 65-70's and investigated whether people’s expectations & experiences #Talking2Strangers differed depending on their own age and the age of their partner.

I'm excited to tell you about my new paper w Gus Cooney Erica Boothby. It describes a week-long #Talking2Strangers scavenger hunt intervention that makes people less worried about rejection & more confident in their convo ability. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/7

How fun! Erica Boothby, Gus Cooney, Margaret Clark and I published a paper about the "liking gap", back in 2018. The take-away: People like you more than you think. A delightful new TikTok covering this paper is going viral today! Check it out: tiktok.com/@legalbaddie/v…

Be honest – do you wonder what other people think of you? Psychologist Erica Boothby says many of us underestimate how much other people actually like us. This week, how others see us – and how we can use that information to see ourselves more clearly. hiddenbrain.org/podcast/mind-r…

People often like you more than you know. The fear of rejection leads us to ruminate about minor mistakes—and stops acquaintances, roommates, and colleagues from sharing how much they enjoy our company. Most people spend more time worrying about being judged than judging

In Boston Globe Ideas: How Taylor Swift’s friendship bracelets closed the liking gap trib.al/VaBWoJf

Very fun to see Erica Boothby interviewed and our research on compliments featured in the The New York Times "Well" section (and in my email this morning)! nytimes.com/2023/11/03/wel…

Researcher Erica Boothby provides insight into the positive effects of compliments and why you shouldn’t be afraid to give them out in the The New York Times. whr.tn/3u9xlQV

Honored to be named one of Poets&Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023! Grateful for this recognition and for my incredible students who make teaching so much fun.

Congrats to Profs. Wendy De La Rosa, Sarah Light & Erica Boothby on being named among Poets&Quants' 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023! 🎉 Prof. Wendy De La Rosa: whr.tn/3Rnp4Rq Prof. Light: whr.tn/3NtQ2FC Prof. Erica Boothby: whr.tn/3RLbzfM

Can computational tools, like LLM’s, turn segmentation algorithms, and NLP, improve theorizing in management? 💻Join us on 8/12/24 @ 11:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency Chicago: Burnham Room, featuring me, Burint Bevis Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي Gus Cooney @LRWeingart @DrRSPeterson! #AOM2024

Excited to share that our measure of Target-Specific Shared Reality (SR-T) is out at EJSP! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… With: Bjarne Schmalbach, Victor Keller, James Cornwell, Tory Higgins & Gerald Echterhoff

🚀Applications for our PhD program Cornell University are now open! If you (or someone you know) is passionate about marketing, consider applying to our Marketing PhD program. Join us in shaping the future of marketing! gradschool.cornell.edu/admissions/app…

Want to do a PhD with me at Duke University? I'm considering applications this fall for a new graduate student! ⭐️ For more info, check out this FAQ for prospective students to learn what the lab is focusing on & what I'm looking for in a graduate student. mindandculturelab.com/faq

What kinds of conversations spark instant connection? Excited to share my first NYT Guest Essay, with Erica Boothby. We argue that playful riffing — creating a little world together — forges and deepens relationships through shared reality. nytimes.com/2025/09/04/opi…