Stav Atir
@stavatir.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ UW-Madison studying how we know what we know and what we don't know.
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Thinking about a PhD program in organizational behavior or social psychology? Come work with me!
My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality.
More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/
My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality.
More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/
Stav Atir
I am an Assistant Professor studying behavioral science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
stavatir.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thinking about a PhD program in organizational behavior or social psychology? Come work with me!
My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality.
More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/
My lab studies when people are overconfident about their knowledge/learning, alongside work on how language and communication shape inequality.
More: stavatir.com and business.wisc.edu/phd/
I'm excited to be giving a TEDxOshkosh talk this fall, Nov. 15!
It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.
Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025
It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.
Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025
Speakers and Talks
TEDxOshkosh speakers and talks
www.tedxoshkosh.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm excited to be giving a TEDxOshkosh talk this fall, Nov. 15!
It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.
Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025
It's about one of my favorite research projects, showing that people learn more than they expect from conversations with strangers.
Tix and more info: www.tedxoshkosh.com/attend/speak... @tedxoshkosh.com #TEDxOshkosh #TEDxOshkosh2025
🎇 Our recent paper on the effect of introductory education on meta knowledge 👇
New from the lab, w/@stavatir.bsky.social, in press at Management Science:
Anatole France said that true education isn’t what you commit to memory but the ability to separate what you know from what you don’t.
Does the classroom do that? Well, um, a 🧵… 1/n
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Anatole France said that true education isn’t what you commit to memory but the ability to separate what you know from what you don’t.
Does the classroom do that? Well, um, a 🧵… 1/n
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Learning More Than You Can Know: Introductory Education Produces Overly Expansive Self-Assessments of Knowledge | Management Science
pubsonline.informs.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🎇 Our recent paper on the effect of introductory education on meta knowledge 👇
When everything feels familiar, that's exactly when you should be least sure you know it all.
Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.
The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:
Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.
The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:
authors.elsevier.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When everything feels familiar, that's exactly when you should be least sure you know it all.
Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.
The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:
Our research shows that familiarity creates a spillover effect -making people report they know concepts they’ve never encountered.
The paper with @daviddunning6.bsky.social and Emily Rosenzweig in OBHDP:
Reposted by Stav Atir
Exciting news! A paper I wrote with Mitch Campbell, Andrea Miller, and my former lab manager Kevin Kennedy about a pro-diversity intervention for marginalized students was selected for SPSP/Sage/PSPB’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Collection! 🎉
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
January 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Exciting news! A paper I wrote with Mitch Campbell, Andrea Miller, and my former lab manager Kevin Kennedy about a pro-diversity intervention for marginalized students was selected for SPSP/Sage/PSPB’s Evidence-Based Policymaking Collection! 🎉
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
More here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
Reposted by Stav Atir
Research by @stavatir.bsky.social & Risen suggests explaining learned material—a very effective learning strategy—is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance:
https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX
https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX
January 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Research by @stavatir.bsky.social & Risen suggests explaining learned material—a very effective learning strategy—is underused because of the self-threatening nature of knowledge reflection involved in explaining, and offers remedies to overcome this reluctance:
https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX
https://buff.ly/4g2sxyX