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Erica Bailey

@ericabailey.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof @ UC Berkeley | Studying authenticity & the self | PhD @ Columbia | Community College alum | she/her

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Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Apr 24

can't wait to have Ana join us! this incoming cohort of PhD students is 🔥🔥🔥

Duke Identity and Diversity Lab @dukeidlab.bsky.social · Apr 18

More graduating senior news! Ana is headed to @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social for her PhD in Business Administration! She will be working with @sakierahudson.bsky.social Hooray! 🎓

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Apr 24

this entire book was the most helpful thing I read in all of grad school, especially the A-B-T framework for how to frame your contribution and outline an abstract/intro/talk

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Houston, We Have a Narrative

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you’ll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they’ll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great s...

press.uchicago.edu

Reposted by Erica Bailey

CameronJBunker.bsky.social @cameronjbunker.bsky.social · Feb 18

I found an asymmetry in how people perceive themselves vs others on social media. The findings suggest that misperceptions derived from social media may extend beyond morality/politics toward how we view persons. Presenting data blitz @ Authenticity Precon
@spspnews.bsky.social #socialpsych #spsp

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

thanks for sharing Linda!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

great minds!!!!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

interesting!!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

I hope this paper changes our view of the types of leaders we should select and promote, as well as the type of leaders we try to be.

anyways, that's enough musings. here's the link!
dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

we wrote this paper at a fever pitch, mostly as a way for me to block out the job market blues. we have replicated these effects many, many times, with a variety of samples and methods.

I've never worked on a paper this polarizing! people either reacted with "duhh?!" or "no f*cking way" 😅

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

we find that communal traits like honesty, openness, care, and compassion define the ideal leader. we find evidence across eight studies (and five supplemental studies) that followers prefer communal leaders and will choose communality even at the expense of agency.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

turns out, agentic traits like dominance, assertiveness, and even competence loom large in the minds of people when asked about the TYPICAL leader. but things shift dramatically when you ask about the IDEAL leader or the person people want to work for.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 11

✨ 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?

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

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Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

🧠 Interacting with AI changes how we see ourselves—when people read AI-generated advice before generating their own, they rated their own advice as less authentic.

in sum - use these tools with caution! 🚧

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

⚖️ When we told participants the advice was GPT-generated, they rated the same advice less favorably, revealing a persistent bias against AI in personal decision-making contexts.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

💡 ChatGPT-generated advice was rated as higher quality, more effective, and even more authentic than human-generated advice—but only when people didn’t know it was from ChatGPT.

we replicated this with Claude and Gemini!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

key findings summarized by the one and only ChatGPT. open-access link below!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

in line with past work, we document AI's ability to generate quality content as well as people's aversion to content written by these tools.

but what excited me most about this project is that we also found that reading ChatGPT-generated advice shaped SELF-evaluations.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Feb 7

⏰ new paper alert ⏰ from Merrick Osborne & me at Scientific Reports.

five preregistered experiments (+ three supplemental studies) explore LLM-generated personal advice and compare it's performance to human-generated personal advice.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Jan 10

this has been on my TBR for so long! I need to actually read it this year!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Jan 10

oh wow - thanks Ben!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Jan 7

thanks so much Vanessa!! 🥹

Reposted by Erica Bailey

Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Jan 6

In a new paper at OrgSci, we find gendered responses to expressions of passion—a commonly used criterion in evaluating potential—both penalizes women and advantages (unexceptional) men in high-potential selection 1/8 w/ Joyce He (UCLA) & Celia Moore (Imperial)

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Jan 2

thanks Pam!!

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Dec 30

ohh fun! excited to read this in more detail.

Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Dec 30

The best academics can link their research to real-life stories. Well... I really only have one story, and it's my story.

This week on Hidden Brain, I talked about some personal parts of my life and then (of course) got nerdy talking about authenticity research.

open.spotify.com/episode/3Alp...

Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself

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Erica Bailey @ericabailey.bsky.social · Dec 18

really cool work!