Ike Silver

The 5th HotFresh recommended paper is: Kirgios, E. L., Silver, I., & Chang, E. H. (2025) Does communicating measurable diversity goals attract or repel historically marginalized job applicants? Evidence from the lab and field, J Experimental Psychology: General psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men do? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... (1/14)

Sam is one of the most thoughtful scholars of dishonesty around. His latest on the topic - disentangling cheating from lying - is required reading!👇

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

What makes people feel entitled to rewards? Check out Corey’s paper for a provocative new take…

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

A new paper by Team Scientists @erikakirgios.bsky.social, Edward Chang, & co-author @ikesilver.bsky.social found that sharing measurable DEI goals increases applications from women & underrepresented job seekers, highlighting the of impact clear diversity commitments from companies: bit.ly/4187XZD

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes: 💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong 💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions w/ @danieleffron.bsky.social

I am worried that scientists will self-censor and not share their work because they view it as trivial relative to what is going on But let's not participate in the destruction of science. Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work Science matters; your science matters!

If everyone puts a drop in the bucket…

Why are streaks so painful to break? Research covered in today’s @nytimes.com by @jackiesilverman.bsky.social and Alix Barasch shows that loss aversion drives us to maintain our streaks, and that’s a motive we can harness to build habits. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 A field experiment w/ 13M federal student loan borrowers at risk of delinquency shows we can meaningfully reduce delinquencies with well-designed reminders. Work led by Rob Kuan (of Wharton). Read paper in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... What reminder ingredients matter?🧵

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

In happy news, our paper, "Thinking about God increases intergroup prosociality even when conflict is salient", is now out in GPIR! Particularly excited that this paper includes two amazing Fijian collaborators who played integral roles in leading fieldwork! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New work out in JEP:Gen with @erikakirgios.bsky.social and Edward Chang! How do historically marginalized job applicants respond to concrete, quantified diversity commitments in job ads? We conducted a large, preregistered field experiment to find out…

Delighted to receive the Journal of Finance DFA First Prize for "Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors" We show that behavioral econ findings not limited to the lab, they show up amongst the most sophisticated market participants.

what counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky

been seeing lots of work lately on whether LLMs can give ethical counsel, but i am not so optimistic. it's pretty hard to know good advice when you get it! and sometimes the best moral advice transcends the prompt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/plea... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Looking for a honeymoon beach read. What are your recent favorites? Looking for salacious intrigue, breezy hijinx, etc. Best if compatible with a fried attention span!

I've created a Starter Pack for academics in Behavioral Marketing. Feel free to nominate anyone whom I might have missed. go.bsky.app/8mGBELg

Cool little write-up today from #KelloggInsight about our work on moral judgments of whistleblowing among coworkers, led by newly minted prof @zberry.bsky.social. Do snitches get stitches? Read on to find out... insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/are-...

Why condemn seemingly harmless cases of plagiarism? In my first ever paper, we argued that concerns about false reputation - agents claiming credit for traits they lack - were the culprit. Of course back then we didn't consider how accuser motives might impact this situation...

Methinks the robot doth protest too much.

1. Thoughts on responding to reviews with which you disagree from my perspective as an author, reviewer, and action editor, a thread: #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

Making the case for the benefits to a charitable cause reduced people’s reputational concerns (eg bragging) about sharing their donations, increasing likelihood of recruiting a further donor by 12.4% @IkeSilver.bsky.social and @deborahasmall.bsky.social find: buff.ly/3u5rhc5 HT @bxjaeger.bsky.social

An intervention that emphasized positive consequences of sharing (“Your donation can start a chain reaction…”) increased sharing by 5.1% and likelihood of recruiting at least one later donation via word-of-mouth by 12.4%. @ikesilver.bsky.social, @deborahsmall.bsky.social doi.org/10.1287/mksc...

Chicago. Best city or greatest city?

Hold the Mariah Carey, it’s still spooky season in my household:

For creatures that usually struggle to remain principled and consistent across different situations ourselves, we sure do seem to expect/demand a great deal of moral consistency from others…

New Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...

On further reflection, the selection of @simine.com as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science is one of the most important milestones for the reform movement in psychology. There will be impact on the journal, sure. But more, selecting a committed, visible reformer illustrates its normalization.

Is this thing on? 🎤🌤️