Jon M Jachimowicz
@jonj.bsky.social
Immigrant | Assistant Professor in Org Behavior @HarvardHBS. I study passion for work and how we can fix it. Pronounced Y-on Yah-Hee-Mo-Vitch | he/him
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Jon M Jachimowicz
@jonj.bsky.social
· Feb 6
"Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next.
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
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People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard.
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard.
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
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📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
Northwestern Faculty Search -
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu
October 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
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#Psychjobs
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
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August 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#Psychjobs
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552
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📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED).
Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000.
1/2
careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
@nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED).
Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000.
1/2
careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED).
Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000.
1/2
careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
@nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED).
Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000.
1/2
careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
great ideas 1003 and 1004 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social — two semesters long, each dept on campus got 2 weeks, 4 lectures a week, each one a different prof, to share the biggest idea in the field they are most excited about.
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
great ideas 1003 and 1004 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social — two semesters long, each dept on campus got 2 weeks, 4 lectures a week, each one a different prof, to share the biggest idea in the field they are most excited about.
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"People flourish when they see their careers as evolving journeys rather than fixed destinations, and yet so much of the discourse around passion pursuit focuses on ceaseless perseverance...Some pursuits of passion become less tenable over time as life circumstances change."
hbr.org/2025/07/rese...
hbr.org/2025/07/rese...
Research: When It’s Time to Leave a Career You’re Passionate About
If you’re someone pursuing your passion and thinking about quitting, ask yourself: Are you staying because you want to—or because you’re afraid of what others will think? It’s easy to assume that walk...
hbr.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"People flourish when they see their careers as evolving journeys rather than fixed destinations, and yet so much of the discourse around passion pursuit focuses on ceaseless perseverance...Some pursuits of passion become less tenable over time as life circumstances change."
hbr.org/2025/07/rese...
hbr.org/2025/07/rese...
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
In my latest out now in JPSP (w/ @brianjlucas.bsky.social
& @jonj.bsky.social), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
In my latest out now in JPSP (w/ @brianjlucas.bsky.social
& @jonj.bsky.social), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
In my latest out now in JPSP (w/ @brianjlucas.bsky.social
& @jonj.bsky.social), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
In my latest out now in JPSP (w/ @brianjlucas.bsky.social
& @jonj.bsky.social), we show across 10 studies (including w/nurses, teachers, & PhD students) that people considering giving up a passion pursuit overestimate how harshly others will judge them 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
Excited to come out to @umich.edu this week for the Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference. Our lab will be well-represented with five presentations—please stop by and engage with our work, we'd love to hear what you think!
May 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Excited to come out to @umich.edu this week for the Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference. Our lab will be well-represented with five presentations—please stop by and engage with our work, we'd love to hear what you think!
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My editorial on how journals can earn trust.
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My editorial on how journals can earn trust.
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨New working paper🚨
"Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers"
Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.”
w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social
📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Feedback welcome!
"Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers"
Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.”
w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social
📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Feedback welcome!
May 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🚨New working paper🚨
"Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers"
Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.”
w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social
📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Feedback welcome!
"Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers"
Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.”
w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social
📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Feedback welcome!
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🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨
How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships?
In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.
How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships?
In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.
May 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨
How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships?
In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.
How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships?
In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.
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I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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📣New preprint 📣
@leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
@leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
OSF
osf.io
March 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📣New preprint 📣
@leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
@leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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🚨New paper alert!🚨
Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.
📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.
Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.
📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨New paper alert!🚨
Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.
📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.
Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.
📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.
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Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
this guy turned 4 years old today, but he will always be our little puppy to us
March 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this guy turned 4 years old today, but he will always be our little puppy to us
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🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
March 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
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✨ new paper from me & blue-sky-less Rebecca Ponce de Leon! out now in JPSP ✨
we ask - does the prototype of leaders as being people high in agency match the preference of followers? do people really want to work for the Logan Roy, Ms. Cobel, or Don Drapers of the world?
we ask - does the prototype of leaders as being people high in agency match the preference of followers? do people really want to work for the Logan Roy, Ms. Cobel, or Don Drapers of the world?
a man talking to another man with the words this is a business
ALT: a man talking to another man with the words this is a business
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
✨ new paper from me & blue-sky-less Rebecca Ponce de Leon! out now in JPSP ✨
we ask - does the prototype of leaders as being people high in agency match the preference of followers? do people really want to work for the Logan Roy, Ms. Cobel, or Don Drapers of the world?
we ask - does the prototype of leaders as being people high in agency match the preference of followers? do people really want to work for the Logan Roy, Ms. Cobel, or Don Drapers of the world?
"Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next.
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next.
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In a new paper @ASQJournal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck!
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
The PB&J Lab - Resources
Resources
www.pbandjlab.com
January 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck!
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
Early registration ends tomorrow (January 16, 2025) — spots are running low, sign up for the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social while you can!
Please come join us at the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social in Denver!
Hoping to bring together research across psych and OB that has often remained siloed. Schedule below!
spsp.org/events/annua...
Hoping to bring together research across psych and OB that has often remained siloed. Schedule below!
spsp.org/events/annua...
January 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Early registration ends tomorrow (January 16, 2025) — spots are running low, sign up for the inaugural Meaning in Life and Work Preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social while you can!