Lab News
2024
FEBRUARY
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
AUGUST
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)
APRIL
Kwan Limbhasut and Linda Kawamoto both received the Warner Brown Memorial Prize in Psychology
2022
OCTOBER
Chenyu Wang to present a poster at NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) 2022 on norms and sunk cost fallacy
AUGUST
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
APRIL
Kwan Limbhasut received the URAP Summer Award
2021
DECEMBER
Chenyu Wang selected as a SPUR mentee for 2022 by SPSP
APRIL
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
MARCH
Shoshana Jarvis received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Sonya Mishra received Xlab research grant
FEBRUARY
Naz Dunar will be starting a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco
2020
NOVEMBER
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
OCTOBER
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
SEPTEMBER
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
AUGUST
Tina Badakhshan will be starting a Ph.D in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University
APRIL
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
DECEMBER
Michael Rosenblum selected as the only graduate student speaker for the political psychology preconference at SPSP
NOVEMBER
MAPP Lab members & friends attend the Psychology of Technology Institute's third annual conference in Washington, DC
OCTOBER
Michael Rosenblum's talk on political correctness accepted at Heterodoxy Conference (and receives full scholarship to attend conference)
AUGUST
Sonya Mishra's talk on interesting conversations accepted at Society for Consumer Psychology Conference
MAY
Daron Sharps publishes article in the Behavioral Scientist
Daron Sharps, Rachel Habbert, and Derek Schatz defend their dissertations and receive doctorates
MARCH
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
FEBRUARY
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
JANUARY
Daron Sharps publishes “The preference for distributed helping” (JPSP)