Elizabeth Dunn

New review: We synthesized the fast-growing literature on empathic AI. Consistent finding: AI-generated emotional support is rated higher than human responses, but people's knowledge of the source dramatically shapes their perceptions. W/ @_desmond_ong @Amit_Goldenb @AnatPerry

People in different countries are accurate at guessing how many people in their society would be willing to donate 1% of their income to fight climate change, BUT they systematically UNDERESTIMATE support. @climatenews @ClimateReality

Would you prefer to get $0.10 for sure, or a 0.01% chance of getting $1,000 for every bottle recycled? My PhD student extraordinaire Jade Radke tested it with people in British Columbia and Alberta by setting up recycling tables and asking people to return beverage containers. We find that people much prefer the chance to win $1,000 over the sure $0.10; they feel happier about the opportunity to get money; and they bring 47% more bottles to recycle when the probabilistic option is offered! Our work offers interesting policy implications for current beverage container recycling programs in Canada. This builds on the Nobel-Prize winning work by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, showing that probabilistic rewards may be more motivating than small certain gains in getting people to recycle. The only country in the world that has a similar recycling lottery is Norway and their bottle return rate is close to 100%! The probabilistic refund could be their secret sauce. Hope Canada can adopt this innovative idea as well! See our newly published paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

For the first time, "The Handbook of Social Psychology," the most authoritative guidebook to our field, is FREE to read, download, and share. the-HSP.com.

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is even worse.

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @JExpSocPsych, and I could not be more excited to be in the role! We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below! RT for range! 1/n

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This was my favorite talk from the @TEDCountdown event in Seattle this past summer.

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! #item-accordion-item--9921__panel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spsp.org/events/annual-… @GabriellePfund @FrankMartela @DEMelnikoff

Statistics is hard enough for most people as it is; please stop using the phrases "type I" and "type II" errors. Unless, of course, your goal is to confuse people - in which case, congrats - you've succeeded! Just say "false positive" and "false negative" instead.

@jonj YES! This is what caught my interest--we are just hoping to find a personal connection (like a friend-of-a-friend who's involved in one of the churches)

@DunnHappyLab i found this group of organizations fascinating — this one and ones similar to it are trying to get churches to install solar panels and work through on possible financing: interfaithsolar.org & cornerstonefund.org

I am searching for people to interview for my new book who either: (1) moved to the Midwest for climate-change reasons or (2) belong to a church that has installed solar panels. Probably a long shot, but if you have any leads, please let me know!

New binge-worthy podcast alert! It's called Love Factually (Get it? Factually!). What can we learn about relationship science from the best rom-coms (!). Hosted by two of my favorite psychologists @EliJFinkel & @PaulEastwick. You can check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lov…

Help needed! Do you know about happiness/well-being intervention studies with backfiring effects? Convincing null findings would be also welcome! Please RT! @DunnHappyLab @ashleywhillans @JessieSunPsych @lbaknin @rlucas11 @slyubomirsky @sarahpressman @angeladuckw @kairuggeri

You can check out our project website here: happinessmegastudy.com/home

The project is led by a dream team of happiness & methods experts, including @ashleywhillans @JessieSunPsych @lbaknin @rlucas11 @slyubomirsky @sarahpressman @angeladuckw @DG_Rand @flxhlzmstr @katy_milkman @kim_doell @kairuggeri @duniganfolk @HTClelland and PI @szaszibarnabas

What are the most effective ways to promote happiness worldwide? We want to find out with a Global Happiness Megastudy! Grad students/post-docs/faculty can get involved by designing an intervention or collecting data. For more info, visit tinyurl.com/3ze2wyvf. Please RT!

This was the best talk i saw at TED2024. Highly recommend!

The truth is, us humans haven’t reached our potential for how generous *or* how happy we can be says @DunnHappyLab. Listen to her full conversation with @TEDChris about how the 2 are intertwined on The TED Interview: t.ted.com/AlUwzrb