Immigrant | Assistant Professor in Org Behavior @HarvardHBS. I study the experience, antecedents, and consequences of passion.
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6 Feb 2025
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
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12 Aug 2025
Team scientist podcast roundup:
David Yeager on @MostlyAdmiring bit.ly/4mehJSf
@jonj on @HiddenBrain bit.ly/3HilgQj
@jayvanbavel on Plain English bit.ly/3HpNNTU
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8 Jul 2025
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.
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Jon M Jachimowicz retweeted
10 Jun 2025
🚨 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/pspa0000455
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10 Apr 2025
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 🚀
9 Apr 2025
I will be leaving HBS and joining Kellogg’s MORS group this summer. I’m very grateful to the amazing HBS community for all the support over the years. Special shoutout to my OB colleagues: it was not an easy decision to leave, and I know I’ll miss each of you dearly.
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25 Mar 2025
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.
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6 Feb 2025
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
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6 Feb 2025
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
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17 Jan 2025
🚨 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
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15 Jan 2025
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!
26 Nov 2024
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!
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6 Jan 2025
And yes, if you're wondering, the thought that I (as the mediocre man on this author team) benefit the most from passion also crossed my mind (all research is ultimately mesearch!) :)
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6 Jan 2025
For a more practicioner-friendly audience, we summarized the findings from our research in this @HarvardBiz article, including some recommendations for what organizations can do to fix the gendered passion bias.
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6 Jan 2025
Seemingly innocuous and even beneficial stereotypes of women as more diligent create a shifting standard that begets a lower bar for “mediocre men.” Quoting Madeleine Albright: “There’s plenty of room in the world for mediocre men. There is no room for mediocre women.”
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6 Jan 2025
In a new paper @OrganizationSci, we find gendered responses to expressions of passion—a commonly used criterion in evaluating potential—both penalizes women and advantages (unexceptional) men in high-potential selection 1/8 w/ @joyce_c_he @ProfCeliaMoore
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6 Jan 2025
We also find that expressions of passion are seen as inappropriate for women—in particular those expressions which are highly affective and likely evoke stereotypes of women as "overly emotional" (rather than verbal statements of high identity-relevance).
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We find evidence across two studies: an actual talent review process and a preregistered experiment using videos with trained actors (plus two supplementary studies). Across both, passion boosts mediocre mens' potential because it shifts predictions of their diligence
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