Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined January 2018
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I’m thrilled to announce that in Fall ‘23, I’ll be joining @StanfordGSB as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior. I’ll be investigating the nature of flow (nature.com/articles/s41467-0…) and other effortless, automatic forms of goal pursuit (e.g., nature.com/articles/s41562-0…).
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Friends, I'm hiring a post doc to join the culture group, please spread the word! michelegelfand.com/_files/ug…
Amazing postdoc opportunity 👇
New 📄: Support for a computational model of how task representations (e.g. thinking in terms of binary wins/losses vs. streaks of consecutive wins vs. physical distance to a target, etc.) shape the experience of flow, enjoyment, and objective performance osf.io/preprints/osf/v93cp_v…
First, avoid binary representations: they place a strict ceiling on I(M;E). Compared to binaries, streak representations will boost I(M;E)—& thus flow—unless your success rate is low, in which case proximity representations (thinking in terms of distance from a target) are best.
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The Management Division at Columbia Business School is excited to announce the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position! Please help spread the word! They will receive a research budget and collaborate with faculty. See the job ad below, and please reach out with any questions.
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Please come join us at the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @SPSPnews in Denver!
Hoping to bring together research across psych and OB that has often remained siloed. Schedule below!
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🚨New in @PNASNews, led by @DSchultner & Ben Stillerman:
In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.
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Great opportunity with top researcher
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Last but not least, it’s been said before but if you have a chance to work with @LindseyDrayton as an editor I highly recommend it!
She is truly in a class all her own as far as journal editors go, and helped improve this paper at every stage.
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This paper has been significantly updated -- including its title 🧑🏫 In "Causation, Meaning, and Communication", Ari Beller develops and tests a computational account of how people use and interpret different causal expressions (like "caused", "enabled", and "affected"). 1/3
Excited to introduce the 'Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Language' 🎱➡️💬 (led by Ari Beller, cicl.stanford.edu/member/ari…) which captures how people's causal representations of what happened translate into language.
📰psyarxiv.com/xv8hf
📎github.com/cicl-stanford/cau… 🧵
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The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior
Opinion by Amitai Shenhav (@amitaishenhav)
Free access before Nov 13: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jpv%…
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Excited to share this review paper that outlines evidence that minority group members live in ‘tighter’ social worlds. An enormous thank you to @MicheleJGelfand for all the mentorship and guidance on this! Empirical work to follow! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jrTj…
Colleagues--our new paper on Minorities living in tighter worlds is out. Loved collaborating with the great @WeavingMorgan on this! Stay tuned for the empirical paper that tests these ideas! cc @_alice_evans authors.elsevier.com/c/1jrTj…
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Ryan Carlson (@carlsonrw) is interested in motivation, introspection, and morality. His job market paper is “Quantifying Accuracy and Bias in Motive Introspection.”.
📝 drive.google.com/open?id=1NA…
🌐 carlsonr.com
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My Rumelhart Prize presentation, IMHO I think one of the best talks I've ever given, very much inspired by the audience. "3 ages and 3 intelligences: explore, exploit, empower" AI, life history, the significance of children, elders and caregiving.
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My awesome department @UCSDCogSci is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF040….
I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!