Welcome from a fellow Bruin! I look forward to seeing many of you (in-person 🙌) this week for your course in Leadership Foundations

Are you rushing to finish your syllabus? Consider adding some growth mindset language! Our new paper out this week in SPPS shows that faculty who signal a growth mindset about ability narrow gender gaps in STEM. Here's what we found: 1/ tinyurl.com/6zfyp4s4

Alexandria, VA will follow Stockton, CA and other US cities in providing a guaranteed income with no strings attached. Stockton's pilot program led to reduced income volatility and increased ability to find full-time work. Ally Schweitzer #NPR dcist.com/story/21/08/03…

This is such important and life-saving work. Mask distribution, information, public promotion, and modeling from community leaders increased mask use and reduced covid transmission.

New USAID director Samantha Power will create an Office of Behavioral Science and Experimental Economics, signaling that a priority will be designing and testing agency programs to build more rigorous evidence about what works. npr.org/sections/goats…

Nobody is surprised, but that doesn’t mean outrage isn’t appropriate.

What could NIH have done differently during the pandemic? Dr. Francis Collins to Judy Woodruff: "Maybe we underinvested in research on human behavior. I never imagined a year ago ... that we would still have 60 million people" not get vaccinated. to.pbs.org/2xQQeuL

Honored to share this work in collaboration with the amazing Jana Gallus Hengchen Dai ! Thank you #sjdmonline Irene Scopelliti @SpillerSAS Abby Sussman Barbara Fasolo

I have a new story out today that I hope you’ll read: For FiveThirtyEight, the brilliant Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD and I examined why Democrats are still prisoners to racist tropes about who ‘deserves’ government benefits — and the dangers of this way of thinking. fivethirtyeight.com/features/democ…

Excited to share the virtual stage with these incredible scholars as we discuss Behavioral Consequences of Scarcity at 3:30pst on Friday #SPSP2022 Shai Davidai Supreet Kaur @vancejlarsen Sherry Jueyu Wu

Joseph Reiff (UCLA) found that simultaneous pre-commitment (now or later) decreases urgency while sequential pre-commitment (if not now, how about later) increases it #SSM #SSMChicago #EmbraceChangeSSM

Excellent talk by Joey Reiff on the unexpected negative emotional effects of peer comparison feedback on physicians. Also, leadership training buffers against burnout. #BehavioralScience SJDM, Society for Judgment and Decision Making Hengchen Dai

Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 BEAR UofT Cass Sunstein Varun Gauri Abby Sussman Suzanne Shu Katy Milkman daniel read 🇨🇦 @B_I_Tweets Elizabeth Linos Richard H Thaler Cait Lamberton Busara Center Eric J. Johnson BEworks Hengchen Dai & I show nudges’ estimated efficacy varies by 1-how impact is assessed, 2-targeted sample’s baseline motivation to adopt an activity, & 3-barriers nudges aim to tackle WP1 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… WP2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… WP3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ⬇️Details⬇️

It was an honor to contribute to this book with the wonderful Silvia Saccardo and Hengchen Dai - check out our chapter on why behavioral interventions are not one-size-fits-all

The Behavioral Interventions Scholars Grant is a great dissertation research funding opportunity from OPRE - check out the application and feel free to ask me about being a BIS grantee! grants.gov/search-results…

It was such an honor to receive the Best Paper Award from MOC Division of the Academy of Management at Academy of Management this week. Check out our paper (w/ Hengchen Dai Jana Gallus Kiki Koutmeridou) to learn about the cold chill effect, a downside of choice in donation contexts: bit.ly/coldchill