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@katy_milkman

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Prof. @Wharton, behavioral scientist, co-director of @BehaviorChange, #Choiceology podcast host & author of WSJ Bestseller HOW TO CHANGE (https://t.co/IuGdasw1Sm)

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@katy_milkman
Katy Milkman
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That feeling when you open your favorite newsletter from the @nytimes to read about their 8 favorite books of 2021 and find your book at the top of the list đŸ€Ż https://t.co/NKej3uWiTy
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@HSConvention
HomeschoolConvention
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Homeschooling Resources, Workshops & more! Attendees from 38 states!
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So many of my friends wrote great books in 2025! Here are over a dozen photos I took this year to celebrate newly released behavioral science books. Congratulations all 🎉
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So proud of the brilliant, amazing and delightful @hengchen_dai â€ïžđŸŽ‰
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SJDM, Society for Judgment and Decision Making
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Congratulations to Hengchen Dai who is the winner of the 2026 Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences! https://t.co/fqmPpHj7xv
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@alexolegimas
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My dear friend and co-author @R_Thaler had his account hacked and now he’s locked out. He hasn’t been able to get through to @X. @elonmusk plz help he drives a Tesla!
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@whartonknows
Knowledge at Wharton
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Is winning an auction always truly a win? Nobel Prize–winning economist @R_Thaler explained the origin of "The Winner's Curse," the title of his newest book with co-author @AlexOlegImas, during a @BehaviorChange event moderated by @AngelaDuckw and @Katy_Milkman.
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This December, >2 dozen podcasts are joining forces to raise $1M for 700+ families living in extreme poverty across 3 villages in Rwanda. I'm proud to be supporting this #PodsFightPoverty effort in my capacity as host of #Choiceology (and joining other great hosts I admire like
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@DG_Rand
David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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In @Nature , we ran experiments where voters had short (~6 min) text chats with an AI told to promote one candidate/side We tested this in: đŸ‡ș🇾 2024 US presidential race 🇹🇩 2025 Canada national election đŸ‡”đŸ‡± 2025 Poland prez election +MA psychedelics ballot https://t.co/imhD6YocKu
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Nature - Human–artificial intelligence (AI) dialogues can meaningfully impact voters’ attitudes towards presidential candidates and policy, demonstrating the potential of conversational...
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@BehaviorChange
Behavior Change for Good Initiative
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We do cutting-edge research on behavior change strategies that help people improve their health, savings, and educational outcomes. This Giving Tuesday, we hope you’ll choose to support our work and amplify our impact: https://t.co/0YlDjDxWYT
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Katy Milkman
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How can understanding “friction” in decision making help you break bad habits and reinforce good ones? I’m delighted to share a Q&A with the brilliant psychologist and best-selling author Professor Wendy Wood on this topic in the latest Milkman Delivers!
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@sdellavi
Stefano DellaVigna
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NEW with @evavivalt on forecasting social science. Results from the first 100 papers on the SSPP. Do people overestimate treatment effects? Are some predictors more accurate? Can forecasts be used for power calcs? Read on! @katy_milkman @Devin_G_Pope @lkatz42 @betsylevyp
@evavivalt
Eva Vivalt
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🚹 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... đŸ§”đŸ‘‡
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It wouldn’t be the ⁊@SJDMOfficial⁩ conference without a family dinner! I love this annual tradition of a meal with all of my current and former ⁊@Wharton⁩ PhD students and my students’ students. Thanksgiving came early for me ❀
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@BehaviorChange
Behavior Change for Good Initiative
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We enjoyed a lively conversation between @katy_milkman, @femonomics, and @juddkessler about how behavioral economics can help people get more out of life. We’re glad so many people joined us for this event!
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@alexolegimas
Alex Imas
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See 29:40 for when @katy_milkman made me explain how concavity generates risk aversion in Expected Utility Theory and why it can't explain risk aversion over small-stakes....without a whiteboard or slides! A lot of hand motions were made.
@angeladuckw
Angela Duckworth
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it was so much fun to host @R_Thaler and @alexolegimas @Wharton for a conversation about The Winner’s Curse and the evolution of behavioral economics. missed it? check out the recording on the @BehaviorChange youtube channel! https://t.co/04162Xtm3F
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I'm excited to share access to a video of the conversation @angeladuckw & I hosted live @Wharton with our brilliant friends @R_Thaler & @alexolegimas about their new book THE WINNER'S CURSE & how behavioral economics has evolved in the last 30 years.
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@R_Thaler
Richard H Thaler
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Heads up to all our Bay Area friends! ⁊@alexolegimas⁩ and I am having a conversation with some guy called Michael Lewis who can make anyone seem interesting! Come see if we can screw this up.
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Katy Milkman
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Alex Chan shares an updated take on how much opt-out organ donation matters. Does switching to this policy actually increase organs donated? Only in countries where consent is interpreted strictly (without requiring the additional consent of next of kin). @PennCHIBE
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Great talk from @sdellavi at @PennCHIBE conference about forecasts of social science experiments’ effects. We expect effects that are roughly 2x as big as we get.
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Katy Milkman
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Just fyi that our registration link went down for a couple of hours, but it’s working again and we’d love it if you joined us! Apologies for the hassle!
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Katy Milkman
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If you’re in Philly, don’t miss this special event tomorrow at @Penn! @Stanford Professor and @macfound “genius” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt will give a talk on Wednesday, November 12, at 4:30 pm. See flyer for info! Register: https://t.co/ETgx5M4Qj3
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