Paul Stillman
@stillman.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist studying self-control and motivation. Assistant Professor at Boston University
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How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.
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Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
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November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Gonna channel @mtsw.bsky.social and say: “they hate universities and want to hurt them.”
If their racism towards foreign students can simultaneously damage universities and make it so only the wealthy can access higher education, that is, to them, killing three birds with one stone.
If their racism towards foreign students can simultaneously damage universities and make it so only the wealthy can access higher education, that is, to them, killing three birds with one stone.
They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Gonna channel @mtsw.bsky.social and say: “they hate universities and want to hurt them.”
If their racism towards foreign students can simultaneously damage universities and make it so only the wealthy can access higher education, that is, to them, killing three birds with one stone.
If their racism towards foreign students can simultaneously damage universities and make it so only the wealthy can access higher education, that is, to them, killing three birds with one stone.
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A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Today is Publication Day! 🎉
The Psychological Quest for Meaning is out!
Aimed at researchers, but we hope it is readable for anyone interested in how humans make sense of their lives.
Guilford Press is offering 15% off with code AU2E:
www.guilford.com/books/The-Ps...
The Psychological Quest for Meaning is out!
Aimed at researchers, but we hope it is readable for anyone interested in how humans make sense of their lives.
Guilford Press is offering 15% off with code AU2E:
www.guilford.com/books/The-Ps...
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today is Publication Day! 🎉
The Psychological Quest for Meaning is out!
Aimed at researchers, but we hope it is readable for anyone interested in how humans make sense of their lives.
Guilford Press is offering 15% off with code AU2E:
www.guilford.com/books/The-Ps...
The Psychological Quest for Meaning is out!
Aimed at researchers, but we hope it is readable for anyone interested in how humans make sense of their lives.
Guilford Press is offering 15% off with code AU2E:
www.guilford.com/books/The-Ps...
Marketing departments did this until very recently (I did hotel-room interviews in 2017). Only thing that ended it was the pandemic shifting first-round interviews to zoom (and so far it doesn’t seem like they are coming back). Kind of a surreal experience tbh
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Marketing departments did this until very recently (I did hotel-room interviews in 2017). Only thing that ended it was the pandemic shifting first-round interviews to zoom (and so far it doesn’t seem like they are coming back). Kind of a surreal experience tbh
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imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein
one of the grossest things I’ve ever read
one of the grossest things I’ve ever read
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein
one of the grossest things I’ve ever read
one of the grossest things I’ve ever read
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Using this approach, we find evidence for *both* impulse inhibition and dynamic competition. Notably, however, impulse inhibition occurs much less frequently (in only 26% of successful self-control decisions) and seems to be characteristic of impatient and present-focused individuals
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Using this approach, we find evidence for *both* impulse inhibition and dynamic competition. Notably, however, impulse inhibition occurs much less frequently (in only 26% of successful self-control decisions) and seems to be characteristic of impatient and present-focused individuals
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Kaleb Horton was my favorite living writer and now he’s gone. His writing could make you feel things deep in your core in a way that was truly unique. Just an immeasurable loss.
If you’re not familiar, Luke here gives a touching tribute.
If you’re not familiar, Luke here gives a touching tribute.
Put together some thoughts here.
In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either.
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either.
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Kaleb Horton was my favorite living writer and now he’s gone. His writing could make you feel things deep in your core in a way that was truly unique. Just an immeasurable loss.
If you’re not familiar, Luke here gives a touching tribute.
If you’re not familiar, Luke here gives a touching tribute.
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I wrote about George Harrison. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
George Harrison's Quiet Love Affair With Formula One
Just another guy at the track, The Beatle could shed fame, and just be himself
www.rollingstone.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wrote about George Harrison. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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🚨New in @PNASNews, led by @DSchultner & Ben Stillerman:
In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
🚨New in @PNASNews, led by @DSchultner & Ben Stillerman:
In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Me and some friends founded a popsci magazine. It's @sequencermag.bsky.social. We are writer owned and reader supported.
www.sequencermag.com
www.sequencermag.com
October 31, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Me and some friends founded a popsci magazine. It's @sequencermag.bsky.social. We are writer owned and reader supported.
www.sequencermag.com
www.sequencermag.com
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After years of sharing psych science with the public as a side project, I’m excited to share that I was selected for a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) given by @theNASEM + @schmidtsciences!
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3YEvKOL
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3YEvKOL
October 24, 2024 at 3:10 PM
After years of sharing psych science with the public as a side project, I’m excited to share that I was selected for a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) given by @theNASEM + @schmidtsciences!
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3YEvKOL
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3YEvKOL
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Sunday in autumn feels like a good time to revisit 17776
What football will look like in the future
Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.
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October 20, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Sunday in autumn feels like a good time to revisit 17776
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Psst... Opinion Science is back. New episodes start Monday, October 21.
Can you guess what Monday's episode is about?
Can you guess what Monday's episode is about?
October 17, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Psst... Opinion Science is back. New episodes start Monday, October 21.
Can you guess what Monday's episode is about?
Can you guess what Monday's episode is about?
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October 14, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Using my first post to introduce myself with a Learning Bayesian Statistics podcast episode I was on recently! Come have a listen 🎧
learnbayesstats.com/episode/115-...
learnbayesstats.com/episode/115-...
#115 Using Time Series to Estimate Uncertainty, with Nate Haines
Proudly sponsored by PyMC Labs, the Bayesian Consultancy. Book a call, or get in touch! My Intuitive Bayes Online Courses 1:1 Mentorship with me Our&nbs...
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September 26, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Using my first post to introduce myself with a Learning Bayesian Statistics podcast episode I was on recently! Come have a listen 🎧
learnbayesstats.com/episode/115-...
learnbayesstats.com/episode/115-...
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I'm very excited to share this new review in @natrevpsych.bsky.social with @charlottemoser.bsky.social, India Johnson, and Veronica Derricks, outlining our four “As” of the allyship framework. 1/5
A framework for understanding effective allyship
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
September 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
I'm very excited to share this new review in @natrevpsych.bsky.social with @charlottemoser.bsky.social, India Johnson, and Veronica Derricks, outlining our four “As” of the allyship framework. 1/5
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Excited to share that I am officially on the academic job market! I’m currently a postdoc at UChicago Booth and did my graduate training in social psychology at Ohio State.
If you know of any opportunities or have advice, I’d love to connect!
If you know of any opportunities or have advice, I’d love to connect!
September 18, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Excited to share that I am officially on the academic job market! I’m currently a postdoc at UChicago Booth and did my graduate training in social psychology at Ohio State.
If you know of any opportunities or have advice, I’d love to connect!
If you know of any opportunities or have advice, I’d love to connect!
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A framework for understanding effective allyship
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
September 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
A framework for understanding effective allyship
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
Review by Evava S. Pietri (evaspietri.bsky.social), Charlotte E. Moser (charlottemoser.bsky.social), Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson
Web: go.nature.com/3MNGhkZ
PDF: rdcu.be/dUc9T
Hell yeah
Congrats to Data Colada for the dismissal of libel claims. Great news for affirmation of scholarly criticism as normal and needed.
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September 11, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Hell yeah