Associate Professor
@UCLAAnderson
. I study how non-monetary incentives and relationships motivate people. Mom of 4. Organizer of
#RunTheWorld
marathon
Super excited to be running this field experiment! And that is even before seeing any data. From the early days of my PhD, I have been dreaming about collaborating with the Red Cross to test the effects of honorific tokens. Now it’s applied to convalescent plasma donations 🙏❤️
Got the
@PoetsAndQuants
Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors award. Big thanks to my amazing students and colleagues! The article covers things like my new
#FEiSty
class where
@uclaanderson
MBAs are running actual field experiments, incentives, & Peter Fox
Very excited to share a job posting for a 2-year
#postdoc
in our Strategy Area at
@uclaanderson
.
Topics & methods include: incentives & personnel, behavioral strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, field experiments!
#EconTwitter
Join us for the first
#RunTheWorld
marathon, incl. half-marathon and relay teams! All virtual. All on March 20, 2021.
We already have a fantastic community. Check it out and help us spread the word so that our 👣 will truly cover the globe
Info & signup:
Working full-speed on a new course I'm about to give
@uclaanderson
: Field Experiments in Strategy (
#FEiSty
)
Goal: Have students run actual field experiments!
Looking for your input on:
(a) interesting field partners
(b) resources for my syllabus
🙏 for spreading the word
🚨Thrilled to share:
Relational Incentives Theory, Psychological Review
@APA_Journals
, w/ Joey Reiff, Emir Kamenica, Alan P. Fiske
How do incentives & social relationships interact? When & why do incentives backfire? Spoiler: it’s not about the money
🧵
#runtheworld
– We did it again! Thanks everyone who participated. What a special experience. Stay tuned for more impressions. Including from the others on Team Constrained Optimization
@J_R_Schroeder
@real_k_diehl
@ChrisMClapp
New article is out: Gender, power and emotions in the collaborative production of knowledge on
#Wikipedia
, with Sudeep Bhatia (
@sdpbht
). It was a pleasure working on this!
My research asks key questions about human motivation and incentives: how incentives and motivation work, why they matter, and how we can use them to shape society for the better.
✨ Two job postings for our Strategy Area at
@uclaanderson
Rookie:
'Seasoned' (can't help but smile) Assistant Prof.:
Excited to see your applications! And thx for spreading the word
I'm hiring a full-time RA together w/ Prof.
@hengchen_dai
&
@SherryJueyuWu
. This is a perfect position for those looking towards grad school in economics, business, or social psych. Apply by Apr 15:
Thanks for spreading the word!
We co-won the 2020 Wharton People Analytics Conference Research Paper competition with our field experiment on recognition at NASA. 🙌
@_ojung
@klakhani
New WP will be out soon! Abstract available on conference website:
Personal impressions from the inaugural
#RunTheWorld
marathon. This was the best run I have ever had. Not a step without thinking of this wonderful community and enjoying the terrific playlist.
I wanted to share some more about my research background and interests here. One of the
#incentives
I’ve explored in my past research is the effects of symbolic awards on volunteer retention with
@wikipedia
:
Can the prospect of public recognition encourage more workers to engage with internal crowdsourcing programs? If so, does the kind of recognition matter?
Nice write-up of our NASA field experiment in the
@AndersonReview
Ending the summer on a high with our 2nd
#runtheworld
marathon. This time wearing pink tutus to amuse the neighbors (it worked!)
More to come from the running randomistas.
In the meantime, we‘ll celebrate my best ever
#personalworst
. Worth it!
🎉My
#FEiSty
course where
#MBAs
are running actual
#FieldExperiments
w/ partner organizations has successfully concluded its 1st run. I'm thrilled about the results – all teams ran their own FE!
I share some highlights on LinkedIn:
Working full-speed on a new course I'm about to give
@uclaanderson
: Field Experiments in Strategy (
#FEiSty
)
Goal: Have students run actual field experiments!
Looking for your input on:
(a) interesting field partners
(b) resources for my syllabus
🙏 for spreading the word
We gathered a dream team to discuss what we need from research on incentives & what kinds of big-swing moves can (or can not) bring about positive social change.
These efforts laid the foundation for our new initiative, the Center for Incentive Design. More to come!
Some impressions from our inaugural Incentive Design Conference! Built on the premise that we need to try more interdisciplinary collaboration and co-creation with practitioners and stakeholder communities to address pressing societal issues.
#runtheworld
5! 🌸🕶️ In Team Running Away From Sickness w/ the wonderful
@J_R_Schroeder
+1. My kids participated, too, via artwork 😆
Thank you to everyone who made this day so special!
Join us for the first
#RunTheWorld
marathon, incl. half-marathon and relay teams! All virtual. All on March 20, 2021.
We already have a fantastic community. Check it out and help us spread the word so that our 👣 will truly cover the globe
Info & signup:
Our
#RunTheWorld
anniversary was a blast. Submissions are still trickling in but here is a first snapshot 🙃 Certificates going out soon. We ran in 10 countries.
Next event: Sep 24!
Sign up & join us if you haven't already:
Excited to present and get feedback on our new paper on recognition incentives at NASA at the BYU-Utah Winter Strategy Conference this morning
-> program, papers, participants:
In the 'Best Academic Article' category of the 2019 Hindsight Awards:
1st: Robinson, C. D., Gallus, J., Lee, M. G., & Rogers, T. The demotivating effect (and unintended message) of awards
View the 2nd and 3rd place winners at:
Let's do this again! Join us for
#runtheworld
on Sep 16. If you're not yet signed up, do so asap:
We'll send out bibs, playlist & cheers this Friday via email.
Impressions from our 2nd
#RunTheWorld
. More than 80 people ran 'together' in 16 countries, on 5 continents.
And we have our next winner of the coveted Lanterne Rouge award. (I won't give it away, you'll have to check it out: )
Join us on March 19, 2022!
Thanks for spreading the word! We're still in beta mode so apologies for any rough edges. :) More to come!
PS: we also have a
#halfmarathon
and team track. Spread the word to Antarctica, please
#RunTheWorld
#GlobalMarathon
#RemoteRun
🫶🏻 A true highlight!
As were the panels commemorating Danny Kahneman. "People believe the reasons b/c they believe the conclusions." "We believe what the people we trust believe."
Thanks,
@CDR_Booth
@Freakonomics
. Will the Kahneman videos be posted?
@R_Thaler
Another highlight: bumping into superstar scholars at every turn. Here are a few👩🎓 who picked the same Saturday morning coffee shop (if you read
#HowToChange
, research by
@janagallus
on symbolic rewards at Wikipedia is featured, as is R Gershon’s work on tandem goal pursuit).
Excited to be a part of this:
13 research grants from the Ford & Sloan foundations focus on the sustainability, maintainability & security of open-source digital infrastructure.
@FordFoundation
@SloanFoundation
#RunTheWorld
4 was so much fun. On Twitter and beyond. Wonderful to re-connect. Join us for the next one, on Mar 18.
Thanks Team 11 Kids, you are amazing! Defying any & all boring stereotypes of academics
@J_R_Schroeder
@ProfAWBrooks
@lesliekjohn
And thx to all at the hangout!
Virtuelle Marathonläufe: Sporttrend in Corona-Zeiten: Boom der virtuellen Läufe
Schöner Artikel in der
@faznet
, der auch die Unterschiede unserer offenen
#RunTheWorld
Initiative zu kommerziellen Veranstaltungen thematisiert.
#OpenUserInnovation
🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭Ein schöner Bericht samt Radiointerview mit Details zu unserer
#RunTheWorld
Gemeinschaft.
„Diese Hessin wuppt in den USA einen weltweiten Online-Marathon“
via
@hessenschau
Morgen ist es soweit! Macht mit 🌏🏃♀️🏃
Team J finished
#runtheworld
6! What a blast
@J_R_Schroeder
. We did quite a bit more than a marathon.
Everybody else: enjoy! And if you are celebrating over the weekend, send us your pics early next week!
How our 'footsteps' have spread in just 2 weeks.
If you know people in Africa, Asia, or South America, please help us further spread the word 🙏
Join the
#RunTheWorld
community:
Our inaugural
#RunTheWorld
marathon is coming up tomorrow and I am getting all these wonderful photos of people around the world with their bibs. Here’s one I just have to share: hybrid, distanced, and intergenerational.
So motivated to get out there with you all! 🙌🌏🏃♀️🏃
Watch this one. The brilliant
@ilanabrody
won the SJDM Student Poster Award. Huge congrats!
To find her poster on how offering choice in charitable donations can backfire, and to check out the many other great submissions:
@uclaanderson
#sjdmonline
I spent quite some time developing ideas for the kids' advent calendar. Later I tried
@OpenAI
's
#ChatGPT
for 3 seconds 😮 ...at least I enjoyed the process of idea generation...
Thoroughly enjoyed being part of this group that the wonderful
@janagallus
assembled.
If you do not know Jana's work, I urge you to take a look. She is changing the world.
Are you planning to
#reward
employees for what is ordinarily expected of them? Think twice. Rewarding normative behavior may be ineffective.
@janagallus
finds that awards failed to
#motivate
student attendance.
#DESMDM
Finish! And now the kids want to run, too. Just signed them up.
Thanks everyone in the
#RunTheWorld
Community for making this such an unforgettable run. Can’t wait to meet some of you later today and tomorrow.
Firefighters rock. For so many reasons. Fantastic achievement by
@ff_eschersheim
in the inaugural
#RunTheWorld
marathon. The team was so motivated that they ended up running significantly more than the 42.2km.
Our kids are big fans and would love to visit.
Still going through all the lovely emails from our inaugural
#RunTheWorld
event. But here's a team that's a hot contender for our sought after Lanterne Rouge award. 9h55 and all 3 walked the full marathon distance! 👏
Hiring: Postdoc(s) for our Behavioral Decision Making Group
@uclaanderson
.
Come join us! We are excited to review your applications and work with you.
What a great surprise. I'm on my run, next podcast comes up in my feed. And all of a sudden, I hear my research discussed on the
@NSQ_Show
. Thanks so much,
@angeladuckw
& Stephen Dubner. Greatly enjoyed listening to your discussion:
Very interesting piece on gamification and incentives. Reading this prompted a stream of ideas for future research. I cannot wait to read the full
#HowToChange
book!
When non-pecuniary incentives backfire:
Our field experiment showed how a peer comparison intervention increased burnout & lowered job satisfaction among physicians.
Can you think of another setting where peer comparisons are imposed?
Today is Wikipedia‘s 20th birthday! 🥳
Thanks to the wonderful community of Wikipedians for providing us with this public good. You changed the world for the better.
IT IS OUR 20TH BIRTHDAY! 🎂
Wikipedia started as an ambitious idea. Over 20 years, people like you have made it possible. If you are a Wikipedia reader, contributor, donor, or fan — today is for you.
Join the celebration:
#Wikipedia20
Welcome to the Bruin community, class of 2023. I‘m excited to meet and get to know you! We’ll have fun learning and discussing Business strategy, economics, and much else.
Wow, only 19% of donations went to research on breast cancer, and 55% to “public health education“ (whatever that means)
#CureKomen
@SusanGKomen
Please watch this short video:
Friends, colleagues, strangers, join our
#runtheworld
community.
Public commitment & a really fun community to help us stay or become active.
Next run: March 19, 2021 🗓
👉
Getting ready for Sep 24!
Our 4th
#RunTheWorld
- Impressions from the past:
- Sign up here if you're not yet a part of this:
- If you'd like to join an in-person hangout after the run: DM me
✨Thanks for spreading the word 🙌
Streets are packed here in Cambria, CA, but nothing can stop
@janagallus
now! Good luck to all runners around the world for today’s
#RunTheWorld
marathon.
You spotted Dr Fauci on the run? What a great
#RunTheWorld
anecdote. Perfectly fits the theme of our community.
The "next time" is set: Sep 18. Weekend before the next equinox.
This morning team
@Trade__Talks
(plus honorary member
@kirsty_mcvicar
) went on an excursion in the spirit of
#runtheworld
We didn't exactly run a marathon... but we did spot Dr Fauci, which was pretty cool!
Hopefully next time we'll get closer to a tweet-worthy distance...
Everyone has feelings about exercising. Here's a wonderful book from one of our
#runtheworld
-ers, Dan Lieberman. Bringing evolutionary biology & anthropology to the science of exercising/running, even standing. This makes you feel normal if you don't run, and fantastic if you do
In his new book, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman says that exercise is something humans never evolved to do, though the right kind does boost health