Very cool that our paper got featured on SJDM.
After taking an intro finance class, students know more finance than they did before - but also think they know more made-up finance terms.
Essentially, intro education helps us know what we know, but not what we don't know.
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Thinking about a PhD program in organizational behavior or social psychology? Come work with me!
My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality.
More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/
I'm excited to be giving a TEDxOshkosh talk this fall, Nov. 15!
It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.
Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025
🎇 Our recent paper on the effect of introductory education on meta knowledge 👇
When everything feels familiar, that's exactly when you should be least sure you know it all.
Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.
The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:
Exciting news! A paper I wrote with Mitch Campbell, Andrea Miller, and my former lab manager Kevin Kennedy about a pro-diversity intervention for marginalized students was selected for SPSP/Sage/PSPB’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Collection! 🎉
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
Research by @stavatir.bsky.social & Risen suggests explaining learned material—a very effective learning strategy—is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance:
https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX
