Jon M Jachimowicz

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/10.1177/00…

@alexolegimas @GoogleDeepMind @ShaneLegg amazing, congrats Alex!!

Some news: This week I am starting at @GoogleDeepMind as Director of AGI Economics on @shanelegg’s team. I will be joining the other amazing cross-disciplinary scientists researching AGI there. My team will study how frontier AI could reshape the economy: what happens to work and labor, how wealth and power are distributed, how institutions adapt, how AI agents shape markets, and what kinds of models can help us reason clearly about futures that may look very different from the past. I’m incredibly excited to help build this research agenda. If AGI changes how society operates, economics is going to be critical for shaping our shared future. Many more announcements soon.

@Phelimb @Prolific 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?

Today we’re launching the Prolific 100% Human Guarantee. If an AI agent is detected in your Prolific study, you'll get twice the cost of that participant response back. @Prolific’s bot authenticity checks have been doing AI detection work for a while now, tested against major detection methods and achieving 100% accuracy. But it's the years of investment and 50+ checks before participants even see your study that make us especially confident. Read about our guarantee here, I would love to hear any other feedback: prolific.com/100-human-guar…

@robseamans @HarvardHBS HBS moved classes to hybrid at 843am this morning

"Harvard University announced an adjusted schedule, with differences among its schools. Harvard Business School was holding in-person classes as scheduled." I realize @HarvardHBS students live on campus, but how are faculty expected to get to campus to teach?

Team scientist podcast roundup: David Yeager on @MostlyAdmiring bit.ly/4mehJSf @jonj on @HiddenBrain bit.ly/3HilgQj @jayvanbavel on Plain English bit.ly/3HpNNTU

@alexolegimas @R_Thaler this is so exciting!! congrats, looking forward to reading

Longer thread incoming, but @R_Thaler and I have a new book coming out “Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies—Then and Now”, out on October 21. And our UK publisher is running a promo!

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-2-…

🚨 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/pspa00…

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 🚀

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/10.1177/00…

Link to open-access paper: hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/…

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

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/10.1177/00…

🚨 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 @econ_ra

Early registration ends tomorrow (January 16, 2025) — spots are running low, sign up for the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @SPSPnews while you can!