Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓

@jayvanbavel · New York, NY · joined 21 Apr 2011

Psychology Prof @NYUPsych | Author of @PowerOfUsBook (https://t.co/bG3QVlNURs) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooper | Keynote Speaker @TheLavinAgency

68 589Followers

1 793Following

22 741Posts total

213.6KViews on collected posts

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel12h

This is revealing: "nearly every one of the Gen Z-ers we spoke to explicitly asked for systemic, top-down change to social media platforms. Not through self-control apps or screen-time reminders but through the only mechanism they believe could work: regulation." One participant 21.9K views · 73 likes · 10 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel13h

Collaborative science is linked to bigger breakthroughs. Research papers and patents by teams are more highly cited than those produced by solitary individuals—even after adjusting for the number of authors. This means that great teams—rather than individual geniuses—have become 1.3K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel14 Sep

Groups make more economically rational decisions. A paper compared Individual and Group Behavior in the Ultimatum Game. Groups offered less than individuals. But groups were also willing to accept lower offers. "This pattern of results supports the hypothesis that groups are ht

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel14 Sep

This is a huge problem and it's harming prospective students because faculty just begin to ignore any outreach (I hear countless private complaints from faculty this so I'm glad it's turning into a public conversation). 7.4K views · 32 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel13 Sep

I’ve pointed out that AI is killing cold outreach. Let’s check in on how that’s going. We’re months away from the Fall *2027* PhD admissions cycle and I’ve gotten about 75 inquiries. I expect this to increase exponentially until December. And this is just one of 10-15 categories

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel3 Sep

@jayvanbavel One more? https://t.co/Cfrn6jlPfo 76 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel2 Sep

@jayvanbavel We need to make open and provenance-d data the norm. I've seen analyses published in respected journals that were erroneous because of basic pre-sort mistakes in the data analyses. The inferential analyses on the data should always be independently replicable, if not 87 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel2 Sep

New evidence of research fraud from Dan Ariely just dropped. In this case, it looks like he manipulated data to create an illusory finding to appease reviewers and get his paper accepted at Psychological Science. He is quickly building one of the big track records of fraud I've 1.1K views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel2 Sep

This new paper fails to replicate a highly cited finding by Dan Ariely (a) You can see the perfect results of a replication of Study 2 from Ariely and Wertenbroch on the role of deadlines in mitigating procrastination. (b & c) The new results do not replicate those of the https

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD ✓@jayvanbavel24 Aug

Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization Analyzing 1.7 million social media posts, a series of controlled experiments, and a large global survey covering 40 countries (total N = 49,222), we find that (1) strong ideologues post their opinions significantly more h

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 514this account1 095median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.04%this account3.94%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.74%this account1.68%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 514	1 095	5.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.04%	3.94%	2.04×
Engagement rate	0.74%	1.68%	0.44×

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74.5K24 Aug

12.9K2 Sep

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0.98%24 Aug

1.00%2 Sep

1.40%

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.68%.

What the audience does

Likes57.2%1 148 in total

Reposts13.4%269 in total

Replies3.2%64 in total

Quotes2.6%52 in total

Bookmarks23.6%474 in total

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