Jess Tracy

If you are or ever have been a Terry Gross fan, listen to this. Seriously can’t recommend enough: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tal…

@EliJFinkel @lauriesantos When I was in college I lent my car to my friend @chrisbouton so he could do this for his gf at a college a few hours away. It ended their fight and they are still happily married today— 30 yrs later!

1/2: Ok, looking at you, @LaurieSantos. Given your expertise on SAY ANYTHING, did this author get it right? ** When Real Life Calls for a Cheesy Rom-Com Gesture** "The big boombox moments ... are cliché. Yet they can also sustain love in real life." nytimes.com/2025/04/22/mag…

I often say I'm in academia for the late morning starts and wearing hoodies to work, but @neelpatel knows the truth: "...scientists are driven by a passion to imagine what is possible, by dreams of turning very idiosyncratic obsessions into something that stands some glimmer of a chance to change the world..." So well said.

I'm also super honored to see my book Take Pride on this incredible list - thanks so much @sapinker!

So honoured to be invited back to @HiddenBrain to answer listener questions-- many thanks to @ShankarVedantam and the amazing Hidden Brain team! Listen @ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hid… (or check out my original interview @https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/emotions-2-0-the-feeling-that-moves-us-forward/)

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Love this interview with my friend ⁦@LenMandy⁩ of How to fall in love with anyone fame! nytimes.com/audio/app/2025…

Economic sociologist Brooke Harrington (@EBHarrington) explains how the tech billionaire "broligarchy" keeps the masses in check by sowing division on the internet

@FriedrichMGoetz @capitalMagazin Wow!! Congrats!!!

Humbled and honoured to be featured on this year's 40-under-40 list for Germany by @capitalMagazin along with so many fantastic people who are working towards a better tomorrow in society, science, politics, and business.

@minzlicht So psyched for you and this research!

It's finally happening. After many months Health Canada has approved of our first cannabis administration study. Part of the approval process requires us building...yes...a weed box for participants to smoke and get high. Not the most inviting or best use of tax payer funds (when you can see and smell cannabis users everywhere in the city), but baby steps people!

@Dynamos9596 It’s the same book, they just retitled it for the paperback version. So get either! And thanks!!

@ProfJessTracy is the book Take Pride or Pride: The secret of success? Found both but not sure what the difference is?

I don't want to do the thing I explicitly advise against in this podcast, so I'll just say that this was a really cool experience and I'm especially thrilled that my parallel parking brag made the final cut.

Happiness. Sadness. Guilt. Anger. Fear. So often when we think about emotions, we think about how we experience them as individuals. But what happens when we experience them with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of other people? This week, we kick off a new series called Emotions 2.0. In our first episode, @Amit_Goldenb looks at how group dynamics shape – and sometimes distort – how we feel. hiddenbrain.org/podcast/emotio…

@jayvanbavel This seems like a case where the effect legitimately could have changed. Could it mean that in the almost 20 yrs since the first paper women have become less affected by the stereotype?

Stereotype threat does not replicate Prior research found that women (not men) underperform on a math test to assess gender differences (d=0.82; Johns et al. 2005). But 8 studies (N=1502) failed to replicate stereotype-threat among women (d=0.01). osf.io/preprints/psya…

@HaleyDLynch @lwcampoli @BeaconPressBks Thanks Haley! Can’t wait!

Fighting for social justice can burn ya right out, but there are still many radical joys to be had. @ProfJessTracy is here to remind us Why We Matter in this gorgeous new book!

For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

Sex is great, but have you ever watched a qualified, experienced woman eviscerate an ignorant, unprepared sociopath for two hours?

Holy sh*t. This new Kamala Harris ad, which will air on Fox ahead of the debate, will mess with Donald Trump as it uses the words of Trump’s own cabinet & inner circle to show how he is unfit & unable to serve. This is so good. Watch & share it below.

Excited to share our paper in @PNASNexus, with @ProfJessTracy, Nick Rule, & Laura Tian! We show that the muscles people use to pose a smile—and the intensity of those activations—reveals personality, enabling others to form accurate personality judgments. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…