Dan Goldstein
dggoldst.bsky.social
Dan Goldstein
@dggoldst.bsky.social
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
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For Sunday at the SJDM conference, please note the following changes to the program!
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
So cool to see a bunch of present and past Microsoft Research NYC researchers' work in this keynote address
Jon Kleinberg gave a great keynote at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2025 conference in Denver.

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November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Repost this to let people know you are at SJDM 2025 in Denver!

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November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Before #MSFT offered "Facilitator" in Teams meetings, @dggoldst.bsky.social et al. developed something similar.

People preferred their #statusQuo, but #AI facilitation
- made people more open to both human and #LLM facilitation.
- didn't seem to impact decisions

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November 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Every hotel lamp should have three switches. The switch locations should be determined by pretests conducted in dark rooms. Each switch should reverse the light's state, independent of the other two switch positions.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Every time I come to Denver I can't believe how much space they have. It's like they took a city and scaled up all the streets and distances 150%.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

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November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
People say I don't impart enough useful advice so I want to share with you three red flags:

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3. 🚩
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I've been working on this with amazing colleagues at Harvard Business School and Microsoft:

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November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Makers of pumpkin spice dish soap: just because you can doesn't mean you should
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's been 14 years and I wonder if the person in Call Me Maybe ever called.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Despite its flaws, AI is amazing
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Magentic Marketplace is an open-source simulation environment for studying how AI agents interact and transact in digital markets. Its modular design lets researchers experiment with different market setups, agent behaviors, and system dynamics at scale. msft.it/6014tMvva
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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AI agents are transforming digital marketplaces, mediating discovery and transactions between consumers and businesses. The new Magentic Marketplace provides an open-source, extensible simulation environment for studying different agentic market designs: msft.it/6014tyz9q
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Yang, A. X., & Teow, J. (2025). Framing affects postdecision preferences through self-preference inferences (and probably not dissonance). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(2), 574–595. doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have an electric toothbrush that pulses every 30 seconds to let you know when to switch to another quadrant of your mouth.

Number of times I have stood there obeying it for 2 minutes: 0
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Maier, M., Harris, A. J. L., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Duckworth et al (2025). A national megastudy shows that email nudges to elementary school teachers boost student math achievement, particularly when personalized. PNAS, 122(13), e2418616122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Quick update from Peru

The Incas somehow shaped rocks to have flat faces and precise angles so they fit together with no gaps.

The top of the wall was reconstructed later and has big gaps.

Some things get worse as time goes on.
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Naborn, J., & Bogard, J. E. (2025). EXPRESS: The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts. Journal of Marketing Research. doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Szaszi, B., Goldstein, D. G., Soman, D., & Michie, S. (2025). Generalizability of choice architecture interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology, 4(8), 518–529. doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Generalizability of choice architecture interventions - Nature Reviews Psychology
Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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You should apply to do an internship with us!

- Make sure you attach a research statement (we don't consider anybody with no statement for interviews)
- The application site will probably go down for a day or two on Nov 17, and the link may change

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everywhere I go, the countries look different, but the shopping malls look strikingly similar. This is Lima, Peru.
October 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM