Senior Lecturer & Social Psychologist at Wharton | Yale PhD | Social Blindspots | Social Connection | Impact at Work | Negotiation | Speaker & Facilitator
Joined September 2009
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Erica Boothby retweeted
4 Sep 2025
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
18 Oct 2023
In @GlobeIdeas: How Taylor Swift’s friendship bracelets closed the liking gap trib.al/VaBWoJf
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Erica Boothby retweeted
18 Sep 2024
🚀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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Erica Boothby retweeted
14 Aug 2024
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
8 Jul 2023
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
19 Dec 2023
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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10 Dec 2023
Honored to be named one of @PoetsAndQuants 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023! Grateful for this recognition and for my incredible students who make teaching so much fun.
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Erica Boothby retweeted
14 Nov 2023
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
3 Nov 2023
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
5 Jul 2023
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
13 Apr 2023
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
12 Dec 2018
Have you ever walked away from a conversation with a new person and questioned 'I wonder if they like me?'
The "liking gap" could be the reason why we underestimate how much other people like us.
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Erica Boothby retweeted
21 Jun 2022
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
22 Mar 2022
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
10 Mar 2022
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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Erica Boothby retweeted
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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22 Feb 2022
Honored to be selected as an APS Rising Star by @PsychScience! Thanks to @profbohns & Margaret Clark for nominating me, and to all my amazing collaborators and supporters. And huge congrats to everyone else who received this acknowledgement 🌟 x.com/PsychScience/status/14…
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9 Feb 2022
Ever wonder how you come across to others, especially when meeting someone new? Had fun talking with the inimitable @ShankarVedantam about the social illusions that cloud our perceptions - and what we can do about them on @HiddenBrain
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8 Feb 2022
“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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Erica Boothby retweeted
8 Feb 2022
“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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