Katy Milkman

What's the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset? What are the benefits of adopting a growth mindset for performance? A new episode of the #Choiceology podcast featuring psychology Professor @marycmurphy.bsky.social
answers these questions and many more.
www.schwab.com/learn/story/...

NYC, 10/4 @ 2 pm: Get tickets to see THIS MUCH I KNOW featuring a special, 1-time post-show Q&A w/ me about behavioral science. This play was inspired by Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow and is a must-see for all behavioral science junkies: www.59e59.org/shows/buy-ti...

Congratulations to my Wharton colleague @corinnelow.com on her fantastic new book HAVING IT ALL, which is a must read for women everywhere who are trying to juggle all the things. a.co/d/6v3ZNp2

🙏🏻 2 co-authors: Sean Ellis, Dena Gromet, Ella DeMay, Heather Graci, Jay Jung, Rayyan Mobarak, Ramon Zumaran, Mia Simmons, Christophe Van den Bulte, Shlomo Benartzi, Matthew Hilchey, Laura Goodyear, Dean Karlan, Nina Mazar, Daniel Mochon, Avni Shah, Dilip Soman, Jonathan Zinman, & Angela Duckworth.

The best-performing reminder campaign sent weekly emails to customers who hadn't made a savings deposit in the last week nudging them to save, and those who had already made a deposit were congratulated. This campaign boosted monthly one-time savings deposits by 1.32%.

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨
Can reminder emails compel Americans to save? We ran a 2 million person megastudy with a large US bank to find out. Our results published today in @pnasnexus.org suggest that the answer is: yes, probably, a little. 🧵
👀 the paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

‼️Event Alert‼️ Join @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & @katymilkman.bsky.social for a conversation with Nobel Prize winning economist @rthaler.bsky.social and Professor @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book, The Winner’s Curse.

📅 Thurs, Oct 23 | 4-5PM
📍 Huntsman Hall G06
📩RSVP: bit.ly/4nbI9EG

If you’re confused about why studies of the effects of Tylenol in pregnancy have disputed implications, you may want to better understand selection bias. This q&a (which doesn’t cover tylenol) could help! katymilkman.substack.com/p/what-is-se...

🥑 BIG (HEALTHY!) NEWS 🍎 My research team has partnered with @cnn.com to help you boost your wellness IQ. What is it? We built a 30 day challenge featuring 1 minute daily quizzes to teach you important, but often unfamiliar facts about how to live a healthier life.
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Want to learn about a cool new paper I co-authored with @erikakirgios.bsky.social and other academic superstars? Our science shows that the way I’ve teased you in this post is going to boost your attention! Learn more 👇🏻

This Much I Know

Join us on October 4th at 2 pm at 59E59 Theaters in NYC for a special showing of THIS MUCH I KNOW with a post-performance conversation. Tickets are available here: www.59e59.org/shows/show-d...

I'm incredibly excited to join Hayley Finn (who is Theater J’s Artistic Director and the Director of this show) onstage to discuss how behavioral science has woven its way into the plot of THIS MUCH I KNOW (as well as any other questions thrown at us about my field).

The play is called THIS MUCH I KNOW. It's about a psychology professor's search for his missing wife, which launches a time-hopping fugue. The Guardian gave this staging ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and called it "An invigorating theatrical brainteaser."

🔥BIG NEWS🔥 I'm making my off-Broadway debut on 10/4! Never fear: I'm *not* acting. Instead, I'm doing a post-show Q&A w/ the director of a new play inspired by Danny Kahneman's book THINKING, FAST AND SLOW. The play was written by the Tony Award-winning Jonathan Spector 🧵

To see the data and learn more about all of these topics, check out the book. It’s truly fantastic! My favorite read of the year so far: a.co/d/8pXixpm

But doesn’t worrying about this problem mean I’ll have to support a return to traditional gender roles and restriction of women’s autonomy and access to birth control? Absolutely not and this book strongly advocates against such policies!

But won’t population decline be good for the environment? Nope. If we all stopped procreating for the next 20 years it would only reduce carbon emissions 14%! Not nearly enough to avert catastrophic climate change. Our environmental problems need tech solutions (see prior point)!

Who cares? Mike convincingly made the case for people. We’re better off with more innovators, more demand for services & more people with unique tastes. It’s the spike in population over the last several hundred years that has brought giant improvements in quality of life & tech.

Why are fertility rates falling everywhere in the world (including sub-Saharan Africa where fertility rates remain the highest)? The data is unclear. What is clear is that there are no outliers and no known policy solutions.

Mike made the case with compelling data that while the human population has been growing for essentially all of our history as a species, we are on track for a massive global population collapse unless some enormous shift arises in trends, the likes of which we’ve never seen.

Last night I had the pleasure of interviewing @mikegeruso.bsky.social at a Zoom event about his phenomenal book, AFTER THE SPIKE: POPULATION, PROGRESS, AND THE CASE FOR PEOPLE (a.co/d/if8wE7u). This is a thread on my key takeaways from the conversation 🧵

This is happening tonight at 8 pm ET!

I’m hosting a Zoom chat with @mikegeruso.bsky.social ‬⁩on Wednesday, 9/17 from 8-9 PM ET about his fantastic new book AFTER THE SPIKE. I hope you’ll join us! Register at www.bit.ly/GerusoFANWebinar for this FAN‬⁩ event.

Join us on 9/10!

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What makes a great team? Hear the story of the famous Kon Tiki team expedition from Peru to Polynesia + an interview w/ teams expert @colinmfisher.bsky.social about the science of synergy. Learn the right size, structure, task types & composition of optimal teams:
www.schwab.com/learn/story/...

Earlier this week, we celebrated @angeladuckworth.bsky.social induction into a kind of psychologist’s hall of fame called The @spspnews.bsky.social Heritage Wall for her research on grit & motivation. To see her page on the Wall & donate to a fellowship in her honor, visit spsp.org/membership/a...

Congratulations to the fabulous @colinmfisher.bsky.social on publishing THE COLLECTIVE EDGE! It’s a fantastic playbook for how to build successful, synergistic teams (brought to you by an amazing researcher whose work on synergy is inspired by being a jazz musician on the side!).

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

BCFG is co-hosting a conversation between & @katymilkman.bsky.social and Team Scientist Emily Falk on her new book, What We Value.

📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 4–5:30PM
📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Co-hosted with @appc.upenn.edu, @asc.upenn.edu, and @pennmindcore.bsky.social