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Ike Silver

@ikesilver.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Southern California. I study spaces where morality, politics, and marketing collide.

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sjdm-tweets @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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...
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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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)
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The El Greco Fallacy, this Time with Feeling: How (not) to Measure Group Differences in Emotional Intensity - Affective Science
We all get angry. And some of us get angrier than others. But are such differences systematic across groups? Affective scientists often make claims about group differences in emotional intensity by co...
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Sam is one of the most thoughtful scholars of dishonesty around. His latest on the topic - disentangling cheating from lying - is required reading!👇
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
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...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
What makes people feel entitled to rewards? Check out Corey’s paper for a provocative new take…
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
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.
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Behavior Change for Good Initiative @bcfginitiative.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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
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Stephen Floor @snf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I, for one, think Apple’s new AI-powered summary tool is great.
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
✨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
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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!
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If everyone puts a drop in the bucket…
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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Get Motivated With a Streak
Here’s how getting on a roll can help you achieve your goals.
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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨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?🧵
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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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...
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Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined | Annual Reviews
A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing people are meaningfully ...
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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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/...
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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…
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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.
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Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Are market experts prone to heuristics, and if so, do they transfer across closely related domains—buying and selling? We investigate this question using a uniq
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ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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
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ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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
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ChatGPT Gives Moral Advice. Here’s Why You Probably Shouldn’t Take It
Before turning to a large language model for ethical counsel, consider what makes for good advice
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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!
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Mohamed A. Hussein @mhusseinlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
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-...
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Are Whistleblowers Seen as Heroes or Snitches? It Depends.
Reporting workplace misconduct often requires choosing between morality and loyalty. New research explores how that trade-off is viewed by others.
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
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...
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Methinks the robot doth protest too much.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
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
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
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...
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Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Chicago. Best city or greatest city?
On the State St bridge over the Chicago River looking west toward the city.
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Hold the Mariah Carey, it’s still spooky season in my household:
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
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…
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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
New Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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.
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Is this thing on? 🎤🌤️
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
new working paper implies the existence of an old vacationing paper, which sounds more appealing tbh #AcademicSky
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