Research

Publications

Anicich, E., Jachimowicz, J.M., Osborne, M, & Phillips, L.T. (2021). Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Racial Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Open access here.

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Lee, J., Staats, B., Gino, F. & Menges, J.I. (2021) Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions. Organization Science. 32(1), 64-85.

Media Coverage incl. The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal (again), Time, BBC, BBC (again), BBC (again * 2), Harvard Business Review (by us!), NYMag, NYMag (again), Huffington Post, WirtschaftsWoche, The Globe and Mail, CNBC, strategy+business, Boston.com, Lifehacker, Sodexo, HBS Working Knowledge, Inc., FastCompany, Quartz, The Economist, FastCompany (again), KXLF, Washington Post, KNX Los Angeles, & many others

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Mo, R., Greenberg, A.E., Jeronimus, B.F., & Whillans. A.V. (2020) Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent than Intense Happiness. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Open access here.

Media coverage: Forbes, top post on r/science, Psychology Today

Jachimowicz, J.M. (2020) Energy Conservation Behaviour: Three Thumbs Up for Social Norms. Nature Energy. Open access here.

Götz, F., Gvirtz, A., Galinsky, A.D., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2020) How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19. American Psychologist. accessible here. Data + Scripts here.

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Szaszi, B., Lukas, M., Smerdon, D., Prabhu, J., & Weber, E.U. (2020) Higher economic inequality intensifies the financial hardship of people living in poverty by fraying the community buffer. Nature Human Behaviour. accessible here. Data + Scripts here.

Jachimowicz, J.M., To, C., Agasi, S., Côté, S., & Galinsky, A.D. (2019). The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 153, 41-62. Data + Scripts here.

Media Coverage: HBS Working Knowledge

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Gladstone, J.G., Berry, D., Kirkdale, C.L., Thornley, T., & Galinsky. A.D. (2019). Making Medications Stick: Improving Medication Adherence by Highlighting the Personal Health Costs of Non-Compliance. Behavioural Public Policy. Outside paywall here.

Jachimowicz, J.M., Duncan, S., Weber, E.U., & Johnson, E.J. (2019). When and Why Defaults Influence Decisions: A Meta-Analysis of Default Effects. Behavioural Public Policy, 3(2), 159-186. Data + Scripts here.

Jachimowicz, J.M., Wihler, A., Bailey, E., & Galinsky, A.D. (2018). Why grit requires perseverance and passion to positively predict performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(40), 9980-9985. Full-Text access here. Data + Scripts here.

Reply to Comments (2019) available here, outside paywall here, Data + Scripts for Reply here, & Supplementary Information for Reply available here.
Media Coverage incl. Press Release, Scientific American, BPS Research Digest, FastCompany

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Hauser, O.P., O'Brien, J.D., Sherman, E., & Galinsky, A.D. (2018). The critical role of second-order normative beliefs in predicting energy conservation. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(10), 757-764. Full-Text access here. Data + Scripts here. "Behind The Paper" Blog here.

Media Coverage incl. Press Release, Pacific Standard, Ars Technica, Slate, Harvard Business Review (by us!)
Ranked #17 worldwide by the Financial Times on Business School Social Impact

Jachimowicz, J.M., Chafik, S., Munrat, S., Prabhu, J., & Weber, E.U. (2017). Community trust reduces myopic decisions of low-income individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(21), 5401-5406. Community Trust scale accessible here (English version) and here (Bengali version). Data + Scripts here.

PNAS Commentary by Martha J. Farah & Cayce J. Hook: Trust and the poverty trap.
Media Coverage incl. Quartz, Harvard Business Review, Columbia Business School Ideas at Work, Princeton University Press Release, Cambridge JBS Press Release, The Hunger Project Press Release

Manuscripts in revision and under review

Landis, B., Jachimowicz, J.M., & Wang, D. A Dynamic Network Perspective on Extraversion and Leadership Emergence: Enduring Winners or Fading Stars? Revise and Resubmit at Academy of Management Journal.

*Gladstone, J.J., *Jachimowicz, J.M., *Greenberg, A.E., & Galinsky, A.D. Financial Shame Spirals: How Shame Intensifies Financial Hardship. Revise and Resubmit at OBHDP.

Fetzer, T., Witte, M., Hensel, L., Jachimowicz, J.M., Haushofer, J., Ivchenko, A., … Yoeli, E. Perceptions of an Insufficient Government Response at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic are Associated with Lower Mental Well-Being. Working Paper Accessible accessible here. Data + Scripts here.

Jachimowicz, J.M., Frey, E., Matz, S.C., Jeronimus, B.F., & Galinsky, A.D. The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity is Linked to Higher Distress Intensity. Working Paper accessible here. Data + Scripts here.

Tan, J., Jachimowicz, J.M., Smerdon, D., & Hauser, O.P. Opposing Effects of Economic Inequality Concentrated at the Top or Bottom of the Income Distribution on Subjective Well-Being. Working Paper accessible here.

Tan, J., & Jachimowicz, J.M.. The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege. accessible here.

Cormier, G., & Jachimowicz, J.M. Quiet Fires Fail to Impress: Introverted Expressions of Passion Receive Less Social Worth. accessible here.

Phillips, L.T., Tepper, S.J., Goya-Tochetto, D., Davidai, S., Ordabayeva, N., Mirza, M.U., Szaszi, B., Day, M.V., Hauser, O.P., & Jachimowicz, J.M. Inequality in People's Minds. accessible here.

*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Davidai, S., Goya-Tochetto, D., Szaszi, B., Day, M.V., Tepper, S.J., Phillips, L.T., Mirza, M.U., Ordabayeva, N., Hauser, O.P. Inequality in Researchers' Minds. accessible here.

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