Lab News

2024

 

SPRING

  • Andrew Chen received the Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research

  • William Ryan to talk at SPSP 2024 on novel approaches to studying interpersonal moral decision making.

  • Simen Boe to present poster at SPSP 2024 on the moral forecasting error

  • Tory Benson to present poster at SPSP 2024 on disabilities and dehumanization

  • Weishan Zhang and Chenyu Wang to present poster at SPSP 2024 on data quality for scientific participant pools

  • Skyler Chen to present poster at SPSP 2024 on heterogeneous risk attitudes and marital satisfaction

 

2023

 

FALL

  • Sonya Mishra is going to be a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business

  • Derek Brown is going to be a professor at Columbia Business School

  • Stephen Baum is going to be a postdoctoral scholar at Washington University, St Louis Olin School of Business

  • Weishan Zhang will be starting her Ph.D. at UCLA Anderson School of Management (Behavioral Decision-Making program)

  • Mike Lin will be starting her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management (Marketing program)

  • Ashley Lee will be starting her PsyD at the University of Denver

  • Linda Kawamoto will be going to Yale School of Management as a pre-doc (Management group)

  • Kwan Limbhasut will be starting her Master's at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology Program)

SPRING

  • Kwan Limbhasut and Linda Kawamoto both received the Warner Brown Memorial Prize in Psychology

 

2022

 

FALL

  • Chenyu Wang to present a poster at NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) 2022 on norms and sunk cost fallacy

  • André Vaz (University of Lisbon) wins the best paper award at the 2022 European Social Cognition Network conference in Milan, for his paper with Clayton Critcher and André Mata (University of Lisbon).

  • Aastha Mittal will be starting a Ph.D. in management at Columbia Business School

SPRING

  • Kwan Limbhasut received the URAP Summer Award

2021

 

FALL

  • Chenyu Wang selected as a SPUR mentee for 2022 by SPSP

SPRING

  • Aastha Mittal and Derek Brown to talk at AOM 2021 on impressions of privilege

  • Daniel Stein to chair a symposium and talk at AOM 2021 on COVID-19 and its effects on cultural norms and rituals

  • Daniel Stein to talk at AOM 2021 on credit claiming behavior

  • Shoshana Jarvis received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • Sonya Mishra received Xlab research grant

  • Naz Dunar will be starting a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco

 

2020

 

FALL

  • Andrew Choi received an Xlab research grant

  • Sonya Mishra received an Xlab research grant

  • Shoshana Jarvis received a research grant from the center of Equity, Gender, and Leadership at UC Berkeley

  • Sonya Mishra received a research grant from the Equity, Gender, and leadership Grant Program at UC Berkeley

  • Chenyu Wang selected for the Undergraduate Visiting Program at Harvard. University

  • Derek Brown received Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award

  • Aastha Mittal to present poster at SPSP 2021 on relationship satisfaction

  • Chenyu Wang to present poster at SPSP 2021 on unsolicited advice

  • Naz Dunar to present poster at SPSP 2021 on the Eureka! Bias

  • Tory Benson to present poster at SPSP 2021 on credit claiming behavior

  • Weishan Zhang to present poster at SPSP 2021 on awkwardness aversion

  • Daniel Stein to present poster at SJDM 2020 on overclaiming credit in groups

  • Kristin Donnelly to talk at SJDM 2020 on repeated viewing

  • Stephen Baum to talk at SJDM 2020 on the competing preference illusion

  • Kristin Donnelly to give "data blitz" talk at SPSP 2021

  • Derek Brown to present at SPSP 2021 with a talk titled "How Perceptions of Advantaged Groups Stifle Diversity"

  • Jennifer Abel to speak at SPSP 2021 on underestimating others' desire for constructive feedback

  • Daniel Stein selected to chair a symposium on group rituals at SPSP 2021

  • Daniel Stein to talk at SPSP 2021 on alterations to rituals

  • Tina Badakhshan will be starting a Ph.D in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University

SPRING

  • Jennifer Abel (Paul) will be starting a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School 

  • Ranjana Dobal will be starting a Ph.D. in Marketing at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington  

  • Zoe Ferguson will be starting a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Washington

  • Neha Nair will be starting a Ph.D. in Marketing at UCLA Anderson

  • Megan Gorges will be starting a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School

  • Yin Li will be starting a Masters in Social Science with Quant Method concentration at the University of Chicago

  • Mike Rosenblum will be starting a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Management and Organizations at NYU

 

2019

 

FALL

  • Michael Rosenblum selected as the only graduate student speaker for the political psychology preconference at SPSP 

  • MAPP Lab members & friends attend the Psychology of Technology Institute's third annual conference in Washington, DC

  • Michael Rosenblum's talk on political correctness accepted at Heterodoxy Conference (and receives full scholarship to attend conference)

  • Sonya Mishra's talk on interesting conversations accepted at Society for Consumer Psychology Conference

SPRING

  • Daron Sharps publishes article in the Behavioral Scientist

  • Daron Sharps, Rachel Habbert, and Derek Schatz defend their dissertations and receive doctorates

  • Daniel Stein selected to give two talks at the INGROUP Conference

  • Daniel Stein and Derek Schatz selected to give talks at the Academy of Management

  • Michael Rosenblum successfully proposes his dissertation

  • Daniel Stein selected to give “data blitz” talk at the SPSP Morality Preconference

  • Kristin Donnelly selected to give “data blitz” talk at the SPSP JDM Preconference

  • Michael Rosenblum wins SPSP Outstanding Research Award

  • Daron Sharps publishes “The preference for distributed helping” (JPSP)