Jon M Jachimowicz

@jonj.bsky.social

Immigrant | Assistant Professor in Org Behavior @HarvardHBS. I study passion for work and how we can fix it. Pronounced Y-on Yah-Hee-Mo-Vitch | he/him

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Experience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications Psychology

The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t...

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🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Summer 2026. The lab conducts research on social ...

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📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:

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Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS. Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Waiting time during admission procedures increases social inequalities in higher education | PNAS

Many domains in life require people to wait to access better outcomes, such as waiting in line to access prized tickets for a show, waiting to obta...

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Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋@jinxungoh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

"People flourish when they see their careers as evolving journeys rather than fixed destinations, and yet so much of the discourse around passion pursuit focuses on ceaseless perseverance...Some pursuits of passion become less tenable over time as life circumstances change." hbr.org/2025/07/rese...

Research: When It’s Time to Leave a Career You’re Passionate About

If you’re someone pursuing your passion and thinking about quitting, ask yourself: Are you staying because you want to—or because you’re afraid of what others will think? It’s easy to assume that walk...

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Excited to come out to @umich.edu this week for the Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference. Our lab will be well-represented with five presentations—please stop by and engage with our work, we'd love to hear what you think!

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🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.

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I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior. 📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

Screenshot of title + abstract of the paper.