Thomas Talhelm
I'm an associate professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I also founded Smart Air, a social enterprise dedicated to making low-cost air purifiers and teaching people how to build their own.
- Interesting to think about prevention vs. promotion focus as applied to romantic relationships. Jealousy = protect relationships from threats. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Neat finding: When startups advertised a job as having more freedom, they got FEWER applications! More and more companies are mentioning autonomy in their postings (especially startups).
- That’s particularly true in tech and knowledge economy jobs.
- So does mentioning freedom help? Researchers randomized job applicants to get an invitation to apply for a real job that emphasized autonomy or not.
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View full threadCredit to Ronnie Lee at Wharton @upenn.edu. 👏 Presentation at @unlv.edu
- I was happy to get the chance to present at UNLV Lee School of Business about how AI misunderstands China (even Baidu's AI!). Also happy to enjoy sunny and 60F compared to 19F in Chicago. 🥶 @unlv.edu
- Very cool post-doc opportunity at the University of Arizona. Includes fieldwork in Nicaragua!
