Gabriele Paolacci

Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is taught in school.

Nature research paper: Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

It’s difficult to express how I feel about David Lynch and what he’s done. Our wedding tables were named after Blue Velvet. He co-wrote what probably is my favorite song, Mysteries of Love. Twin Peaks is home. He’s gone but he will always stay.

We find that competitive incentives do increase cheating, even when compared to non-competitive incentives that are uncertain. Interestingly, competition seems NOT to make cheating more prevalent: About the same number of people cheat. But may make it stronger: Those who cheat, may cheat more. 3/3

When incentives are competitive, they are also uncertain. This matters because being unsure about whether you’ll be paid might itself affect people’s tendency to cheat. But most past studies did not disentangle the effects of competition and uncertainty. This is what we do in this paper. 2/3

Competition increases the magnitude of dishonest reporting even when controlling for reward uncertainty - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Competition increases the magnitude of dishonest reporting even when controlling for reward uncertainty

New paper (with Andras Molnar)! Does competition increase dishonesty? Do competitive incentives (being compensated based on how well you perform relative to others) make people more likely to cheat? Many before us addressed this question... So why another study? 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking.

Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

More Options for Authors: Expanding the Paper Formats Considered at JCR - Journal of Consumer Research As of January 1, 2025, the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) will consider submissions in two additional formats: Registered Reports

Exciting developments at JCR! As of January 1st, JCR will consider two additional formats, registered reports and brief commentaries.

Details here:
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Thank you Susanne, this is helpful!

Thanks! I am less interested in papers suggesting failure was due to some theoretical moderator, and more interested in papers suggesting original stimuli aren't good anymore to test original effect (e.g., old products that aren't popular anymore, attribute levels that have become unrealistic, etc.)

I’m looking for responses to replications that attributed failure to stimuli becoming invalid with time (e.g., Shafir and Cheek 2024 JDM on choose/reject effects), or to stimulus selection more generally. Discussions also welcome (e.g., @olegurminsky.bsky.social and Dietvorst 2024 JCR). Pointers?

75% is the threshold for Certified Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes--there must be a lot of actual decisions flipping in that range, but that's an effect of a categorical boundary (vs. sheer probability that a reviewer likes the movie)

I'm excited to join this great team as Associate Editor. Look forward to helping @simine.com realize her vision for the journal and for the field!

Interested in a PhD in consumer behavior? Come to hear what we can offer at our Virtual Open House days (November 23, 6pm CET or November 27, 10am CET). We're a diverse, research-oriented group that is committed to open science. Here's all the info: www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-pro...

Vegan menu items were less likely to be chosen when they were explicitly labeled as "vegan"

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Congrats to @simine.com who will be the new editor-in-chief at Psych Science! Kudos to her and to the APS publication committee for an excellent choice -- an excellent editor who will be great for the journal and the field of psychology!
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