Publications


In Press. “The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards” (with Jana Gallus, Monica G. Lee & Todd Rogers), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.


2019. “Taking it to the next level: A field experiment to improve instructor-student relationships in college” (with Whitney Scott & Michael Gottfried), AERA Open.


2019. “Leveraging cognitive consistency to nudge conservative climate change beliefs” (with Hunter Gehlbach & Christine C. Vriesema), Journal of Environmental Psychology, 61, 134-137.


2018. “Reducing student absenteeism in the early grades by targeting parental beliefs” (with Monica Lee, Eric Dearing & Todd Rogers), American Educational Research Journal, 55(6), 1163-1192.


2018. “Some middle school students want behavioral commitment devices (But take-up does not affect their behavior” (with Gonzalo Pons, Angela L. Duckworth & Todd Rogers), Frontiers in Psychology9(206).


2017. “Mitigating illusory results through pre-registration in education” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 11(2), 1-20.


2017. “Questionnaires as interventions: can taking a survey increase teachers’ openness to student feedback surveys?” (with Hunter Gehlbach, Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Chris Benshoof & Jack Schneider), Educational Psychology, 38(3), 1-18.


2016. “Forecasting student achievement: The potential of natural language processing” (with Mike Yeomans, Christopher Hulleman & Hunter Gehlbach), In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 383-387.


Book Chapters


Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases (pp. 131-155)


Commentary: The Foundational Role of Teacher-Student Relationships. Social Influences on Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes in School Contexts (pp. 230-238)


Policy Briefs


Creating birds of a feather: The potential of similarity to connect teachers and students. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute. August 3, 2016