Senior Lecturer & Social Psychologist at Wharton | Yale PhD | Social Blindspots | Social Connection | Impact at Work | Negotiation | Speaker & Facilitator
Philadelphia, PA
Joined September 2009
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What kinds of conversations spark instant connection?
Excited to share my first NYT Guest Essay, with @ericaboothby.
We argue that playful riffing — creating a little world together — forges and deepens relationships through shared reality.
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In @GlobeIdeas: How Taylor Swift’s friendship bracelets closed the liking gap trib.al/VaBWoJf
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🚀Applications for our PhD program @Cornell are now open! If you (or someone you know) is passionate about marketing, consider applying to our Marketing PhD program. Join us in shaping the future of marketing!
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Excited to share that our measure of Target-Specific Shared Reality (SR-T) is out at EJSP!
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With: Bjarne Schmalbach, Victor Keller, James Cornwell, Tory Higgins & Gerald Echterhoff
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Can computational tools, like LLM’s, turn segmentation algorithms, and NLP, improve theorizing in management? 💻Join us on 8/12/24 @ 11:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency Chicago: Burnham Room, featuring me, @BevisBurin71619 @malsobay @guscooney @LRWeingart @DrRSPeterson! #AOM2024
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People often like you more than you know.
The fear of rejection leads us to ruminate about minor mistakes—and stops acquaintances, roommates, and colleagues from sharing how much they enjoy our company.
Most people spend more time worrying about being judged than judging others.
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Congrats to Profs. Wendy De La Rosa, Sarah Light & Erica Boothby on being named among @PoetsAndQuants' 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023! 🎉
Prof. @wdlrosa: whr.tn/3Rnp4Rq
Prof. Light: whr.tn/3NtQ2FC
Prof. @ericaboothby: whr.tn/3RLbzfM
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Researcher @ericaboothby provides insight into the positive effects of compliments and why you shouldn’t be afraid to give them out in the @nytimes.
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Very fun to see @ericaboothby interviewed and our research on compliments featured in the @nytimes "Well" section (and in my email this morning)!
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Be honest – do you wonder what other people think of you? Psychologist @ericaboothby says many of us underestimate how much other people actually like us. This week, how others see us – and how we can use that information to see ourselves more clearly.
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How fun! @ericaboothby, @guscooney, Margaret Clark and I published a paper about the "liking gap", back in 2018. The take-away: People like you more than you think. A delightful new TikTok covering this paper is going viral today! Check it out: tiktok.com/@legalbaddie/vide…
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I'm excited to tell you about my new paper w @guscooney @ericaboothby. It describes a week-long #Talking2Strangers scavenger hunt intervention that makes people less worried about rejection & more confident in their convo ability. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 1/7
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I'm so excited to be sharing the results of my cross-generational study with charity partners today. We recruited 25-30's and 65-70's and investigated whether people’s expectations & experiences #Talking2Strangers differed depending on their own age and the age of their partner.
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NEW EPISODE! 🚨
@kate_ptrv chats with @GillianSocial about TALKING TO STRANGERS:
What are the benefits of talking to strangers, and why do people go to such lengths to avoid talking to strangers despite those benefits?
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Introducing the CANDOR corpus from @BetterUp: A 1TB, 850hr audio-video dataset of 1,656 unscripted conversations in America in 2020. CANDOR = Conversation: A Naturalistic Dataset of Online Recordings arxiv.org/abs/2203.00674
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“We fall into these social traps that lead us to be a lot more pessimistic about our social lives than reality warrants.” —@EricaBoothby
Why do we so often misjudge what people think of us? Join us for the latest in our "Mind Reading 2.0" series:
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/mind…
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By now, you may have heard of the "liking gap," but have you heard of the "thought gap"? Turns out, other people like us AND think about us more than we realize following a conversation. Love this paper by @guscooney @ericaboothby and Mariana Lee!
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We underestimate how much other people think about us, after a conversation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3467… You are more thought-of than you think.
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New #SPSPblog: Why Do People Avoid Talking to Strangers? by @GillianSocial & @ericaboothby ow.ly/Pn2W50EQwiw
