Ike Silver
Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Southern California.
I study spaces where morality, politics, and marketing collide.
- Reposted by Ike SilverThe 5th HotFresh recommended paper is: Kirgios, E. L., Silver, I., & Chang, E. H. (2025) Does communicating measurable diversity goals attract or repel historically marginalized job applicants? Evidence from the lab and field, J Experimental Psychology: General psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Reposted by Ike SilverDo women feel some emotions more strongly than men do? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... (1/14)
- Sam is one of the most thoughtful scholars of dishonesty around. His latest on the topic - disentangling cheating from lying - is required reading!👇
- Reposted by Ike Silverthis is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
- What makes people feel entitled to rewards? Check out Corey’s paper for a provocative new take…
- What makes people feel entitled to rewards—the effort they put into their work or the outcomes they achieve? Out now in PNAS; with Jin Kim and Jared Wong: Achievement. Effort seems to matter very little (if at all). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…
- While people readily say that bad act A is worse and deserves more punishment than bad act B, they are reluctant to say that B is less bad and deserves less punishment than A. When asked which of two acts is less bad, many opt to say both are equally bad (even when one is quite transparently worse!)
- Reposted by Ike Silver1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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- Reposted by Ike Silvernot paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
- I, for one, think Apple’s new AI-powered summary tool is great.
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- If everyone puts a drop in the bucket…
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- Reposted by Ike SilverNew open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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- New work out in JEP:Gen with @erikakirgios.bsky.social and Edward Chang! How do historically marginalized job applicants respond to concrete, quantified diversity commitments in job ads? We conducted a large, preregistered field experiment to find out…
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- Reposted by Ike Silverwhat counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky
- Reposted by Ike Silverbeen seeing lots of work lately on whether LLMs can give ethical counsel, but i am not so optimistic. it's pretty hard to know good advice when you get it! and sometimes the best moral advice transcends the prompt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/plea... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
- Looking for a honeymoon beach read. What are your recent favorites? Looking for salacious intrigue, breezy hijinx, etc. Best if compatible with a fried attention span!
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- Cool little write-up today from #KelloggInsight about our work on moral judgments of whistleblowing among coworkers, led by newly minted prof @zberry.bsky.social. Do snitches get stitches? Read on to find out... insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/are-...
- Why condemn seemingly harmless cases of plagiarism? In my first ever paper, we argued that concerns about false reputation - agents claiming credit for traits they lack - were the culprit. Of course back then we didn't consider how accuser motives might impact this situation...
- Methinks the robot doth protest too much.
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- Hold the Mariah Carey, it’s still spooky season in my household:
- For creatures that usually struggle to remain principled and consistent across different situations ourselves, we sure do seem to expect/demand a great deal of moral consistency from others…
- Reposted by Ike SilverNew Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...
- Reposted by Ike SilverOn further reflection, the selection of @simine.com as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science is one of the most important milestones for the reform movement in psychology. There will be impact on the journal, sure. But more, selecting a committed, visible reformer illustrates its normalization.
- Is this thing on? 🎤🌤️
