Published Work
+ denotes student author. * denotes shared first authorship.
+ denotes student author. * denotes shared first authorship.
+Berry, Z., Lucas, B.J., and Jachimowicz, J.M. (2025). People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Open access here.
covered by HBS Working Knowledge
Frank, E., +Krautter, K., Wu, W., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2025) Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion. Administrative Science Quarterly. Open access here.
He, J., Jachimowicz, J.M., & Moore, C. (2024) Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Settings. Organization Science
covered by Wall Street Journal
Szaszi, B., +Habibnia, H., +Tan, J., Hauser, O. P., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2024). Selective insensitivity to income held by the richest. PNAS Nexus.
Bailey, E., +Krautter, K., Wu, W., Galinsky, A.D., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2024). A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion is Associated with Performance Overconfidence. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Open Access here.
+Krautter, K., +Büchner, A., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2023). Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards From Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Open Access here.
covered by HBS Working Knowledge
+*Bredehorst, J., +Krautter, K., Meuris, J., & *Jachimowicz, J.M. (2023). The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work Over Time: A Dynamic Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion. Organization Science. Open Access here.
+Kwon, M., Lee Cunningham, J., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2023). Discerning Saints: Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality in Teams. Academy of Management Journal. Open Access here.
*Jachimowicz, J.M. & *Weisman, H. (2022) Divergence Between Employee and Employer Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research. Research in Organizational Behavior. Open Access here.
covered by HBS Working Knowledge, The Economist
+Wang, K., +Bailey, E., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2022). The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passion produces greater performance in part because of preferential treatment by others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
covered by HBS Alumni, The Economist
+Blesch, K., Hauser, O.P., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2022) Measuring Inequality Beyond the Gini Coefficient May Clarify Conflicting Findings. Nature Human Behaviour. For open access, click here. For data, code, interactive maps, and additional simulations, see: www.measuringinequality.com
covered by HBS Working Knowledge, Press Release
Landis, B., Jachimowicz, J.M., Wang, D, & Krause, R. (2022). Revisiting Extraversion and Leadership Emergence: A Social Network Churn Perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
covered by Wall Street Journal
Witte, M., Hensel, L., ... & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2022). Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Open access here.
Jachimowicz, J.M. (2022). Embracing field studies as a tool for learning. Nature Reviews Psychology. Click for open access.
*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. (2022) Inequality in Researchers' Minds: Four Guiding Questions for Studying Subjective Perceptions of Economic Inequality. Journal of Economic Surveys.
Jachimowicz, J.M., Frey, E., Matz, S.C., Jeronimus, B.F., & Galinsky, A.D. (2022). The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
covered by HBS Working Knowledge
Jachimowicz, J.M., Wihler, A., & Galinsky, A.D. (2021). My Boss’ Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
*Gladstone, J.J., *Jachimowicz, J.M., *Greenberg, A.E., & Galinsky, A.D. (2021). Financial Shame Spirals: How Shame Intensifies Financial Hardship. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
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., *Mo, R., Greenberg, A.E., Jeronimus, B.F., & Whillans. A.V. (2021) Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent than Intense Happiness. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Open access here.
covered by Forbes, top post on r/science, Psychology Today, PsyPost
+Götz, F., +Gvirtz, A., Galinsky, A.D., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2021) 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., *Lee Cunningham, J, Staats, B., Gino, F., & Menges, J.I. (2021) Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions. Organization Science.
*Jachimowicz, J.M., *Gladstone, J.G., Berry, D., Kirkdale, C.L., Thornley, T., & Galinsky. A.D. (2021). Making Medications Stick: Improving Medication Adherence by Highlighting the Personal Health Costs of Non-Compliance. Behavioural Public Policy. Outside paywall 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., 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., 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.
covered by HBS Working Knowledge
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.
covered by 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.
covered by Pacific Standard, Ars Technica, Slate
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.
covered by Quartz, Harvard Business Review, Columbia Business School Ideas at Work, Princeton University Press Release, Cambridge JBS Press Release, The Hunger Project Press Release