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Jon M Jachimowicz

@jonj.bsky.social

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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

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Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

📢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==

Northwestern Faculty Search -

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Aug 26

#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

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Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢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.

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careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jul 28

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jul 7

"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."
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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...

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congrats!!!!

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Zachariah Berry @zberry.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨 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...

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · May 13

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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simine vazire @simine.com · May 8

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....

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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · May 6

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...

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...

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · May 6

🚨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!

Abstract: Globally, women continue to bear a disproportionate share of unpaid household labor. Recent research highlights that gender disparities in cognitive labor—the “thinking work” required to anticipate and monitor household needs—are even more pronounced than in physical household labor. Traditional theories attribute these inequalities to time availability, relative resources, and gender norms. However, it remains unclear whether these frameworks apply equally to cognitive and physical household labor. This paper introduces a new theory of gendered cognitive stickiness to explain how the domestic mental load is distributed. We argue that cognitive labor’s invisibility and lack of clear boundaries make it uniquely resistant to negotiation. Even women who successfully bargain their way out of physical chores remain disproportionately responsible for cognitive labor. Using a large-scale survey of 2,133 partnered, heterosexual U.S. parents, we find that while women’s employment and earnings have reduced their physical household labor, these factors do not alleviate their cognitive household burden. Mothers perform nearly all of this work, regardless of their time or resources. Cognitive labor remains an “unbargainable burden” for women, exposing a hidden constraint that suggests progress toward gender equality in the home is even more incomplete than previously recognized.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · May 1

🚨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.

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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ajua duker @ajuaduker.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 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

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congrats!!!

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Marie Stadel 🟥 @mariestadel.bsky.social · Mar 28

📣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...

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Mar 27

Congrats!!

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Sophia Pink @sophiapink.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨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%.

Screenshot of title + abstract of the paper.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Mar 20

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...

Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers

Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

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Jon M Jachimowicz @jonj.bsky.social · Mar 7

this guy turned 4 years old today, but he will always be our little puppy to us

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 5

🎉 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.

Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

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

Link to open-access paper: www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...

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

There is SO MUCH MORE in this paper—additional data and analyses, theorizing, speculating, & more. I'd strongly encourage you to read the final piece! And massive thanks to co-authors Emma, Kai, & Wen for this amazing (passionate!) collaboration. 8/8

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