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Paula Niedenthal receives a well-deserved career award 🔥👇

People are generally happier to help than we think. Fantastic paper by Xuan Zhao!

Come work with me! I’m accepting PhD students this year. I study overconfidence, conversations, and gender bias, broadly defined. Read more about my work: stavatir.com Apply / learn more about the process: business.wisc.edu/phd/ Feel free to email me with any Qs.

Anyone know of any pre-registered experiments testing the happiness benefits of ANY workplace interventions (eg, flexible work policies, email-free Fridays, workweek reductions)? We can find ZERO, which seems crazy.

A nice piece by On Wisconsin on talking to strangers.

Huge congrats to Angela Byars-Winston and Markus Brauer (Brauer Group Lab) on the inauguration of the new Institute for Diversity Science. What a lineup of speakers from UW–Madison and the wider community. Here's to continued success of the institute!!

Congrats, Jirs! 🎉🎉

Loneliness is on the rise, yet people remain reluctant to connect with strangers. Why, and what can we do? A new piece I wrote with Xuan Zhao and Midge for Current Opinion in Psychology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1h973,rU%7EN…

Congratulations, Dr. Khoshimov!

Excited to see UW-Madison spotlighting my work on language and gender bias! business.wisc.edu/news/girlboss-…

Very excited to announce my new paper w/ @isobelaheck & Katherine Kinzler on how kids think about censorship and depictions of harm! Would kids censor if given the chance? If so, why? 1/n doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

This is going to be such an amazing pre-conference. Can't wait!

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…

Are you staying within your circle of competence? In recent research, we explain why feeling like an expert often leads to overestimating your knowledge—and how real expertise can protect you. We discuss our results in this HBR article. W/ David Dunning bit.ly/3ZOwq66

After lecturing on findings that show that, while they don’t predict it, talking to strangers makes people happy (⁦Stav Atir⁩) I asked my students how a 3-min dance party would feel and then played Dance With a Stranger by ⁦Lake Street Dive⁩ … and they danced!

Research by @atirstav & Risen suggests explaining learned material—a very effective learning strategy—is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance: buff.ly/4g2sxyX

What fuels thriving relationships? #Responsiveness: #Listening, understanding, and supporting each other. In our new chapter, Harry Reis and I present an integrated model of responsiveness and its powerful impact on #connection and well-being. elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo…