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@stavatir.bsky.social

Assistant Prof @ UW-Madison studying how we know what we know and what we don't know. (she/her)

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Speakers and Talks TEDxOshkosh speakers and talks

I'm excited to be giving a TEDxOshkosh talk this fall, Nov. 15!

It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.

Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025

11.08.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‡ Our recent paper on the effect of introductory education on meta knowledge πŸ‘‡

25.07.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When everything feels familiar, that's exactly when you should be least sure you know it all.

Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.

The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:

31.01.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting news! A paper I wrote with Mitch Campbell, Andrea Miller, and my former lab manager Kevin Kennedy about a pro-diversity intervention for marginalized students was selected for SPSP/Sage/PSPB’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Collection! πŸŽ‰
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

23.01.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research by @stavatir.bsky.social & Risen suggests explaining learned materialβ€”a very effective learning strategyβ€”is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance:

https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX

19.01.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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