Immigrant | Assistant Professor in Org Behavior @HarvardHBS. I study the experience, antecedents, and consequences of passion.
Somerville, MA
Joined May 2011
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Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next.
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Hi Phelim, thank you so much for doing this, and releasing this goes a long way to earning trust. Just to double check, is the metric being used here whether Prolific identifies an AI agent is being used, or whether we / a third-party detects whether an AI agent is being used?
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Team scientist podcast roundup:
David Yeager on @MostlyAdmiring bit.ly/4mehJSf
@jonj on @HiddenBrain bit.ly/3HilgQj
@jayvanbavel on Plain English bit.ly/3HpNNTU
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Follow your passion. March to your own drummer. Land your dream job.
We hear this kind of advice all the time. But what happens when the dream job doesn't bring us the satisfaction we imagine? This week, as we continue our You 2.0 series, behavioral scientist @jonj looks at how to keep our passions alive.
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-…
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
In my new paper out now in JPSP (w/@brianjlucas & @jonj), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000455
LT is one of the kindest and most insightful scholars I have ever met. I am so glad our paths crossed at HBS, and thrilled that @KelloggSchool landed such a huge catch 🚀
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Excited to share new research published @ASR_Journal with @mabelabraham and @tristanbotelho. We explore how experiencing misrecognition—getting less or more recognition than deserved—influences how people subsequently evaluate others.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
There is SO MUCH MORE in this paper—additional data and analyses, theorizing, speculating, & more. I'd strongly encourage you to read the final piece! And massive thanks to co-authors Emma, @kkrttr, & Wen for this amazing (passionate!) collaboration. 8/8
We bring this all together in developing a theory of differentiated passion contagion, distinguishing the process of catching a state from the end state reached. This provides the foundation for our findings—& lays the ground for research on emotional contagion more broadly. 7/8
Finally, we find that passion caught from others holds less value than passion incited from within. If you are feeling low-passion and are looking to catch it from others, that might be a less effective strategy than figuring out your own passion roadblocks. 6/8
We next conducted a pre-reg experiment & find that passion contagion is particularly effort-laden—more so than contagion of positive affect & intrinsic motivation. There is sth unique about passion—which we speculate arises in part because of its strong societal emphasis. 5/8
Crucially, these effects were stronger when the focal employee was more distant in their passion levels from the rest of the team; and in particular, when they were the least passionate person on their team. When you're the least passionate person, you feel the most pressure! 4/8
First, we surveyed 829 employees three times per day for 20 consecutive work days, finding that while employees caught their teammates’ passion—consequently reported better performance—they also incurred costs associated with increasing their passion. 3/8
We suggest and find that high-passion teams also evoke pressures that lead employees to expend effort to increase their levels of passion. These pressures exist alongside the more automatic "catching" of passion—and negates its benefits. 2/8
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🚨 Full-Time Pre-Doc Positions in Zurich
Looking for full-time pre-docs (start date b/w June and October '25) to work with me on questions in behavioral economics, using experiments, speech data and AI methods! Link below, deadline rolling
tinyurl.com/predoc-graeber
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