Dr. Suzanna Forwood

Hi, thank you for inviting me.

No, so this is nuts as a topic for research.

So my area is normally like regular food choice.

And I was chatting with a colleague who works on deservingness and social justice and the idea that we do things because we feel that we deserve them.

And this paper was a mashup of the two.

So this is what happens when two academics with non-overlapping topics kind of come up with something in the middle space.

It's all about self-gifting.

So what do we allow ourselves to do?

Either because we're celebrating a success or because we're consoling ourselves from a bad day.

And we were really just interested in exploring the relative likelihoods of different behaviours.

takeaway wins takeaway wins over the other four that we we looked at but what this study really points us to is that this is a huge area actually self-gifting what the the little daily behaviors that we do uh when things are going great or things are going bad there's quite a lot of questions in this space that haven't really been explored fully so i'm not going to be able to answer all your questions but yeah it's a it's an it's an interesting one

It kind of has to be.

So what we do here is a little bit of hypothetical.

So on this study, we're asking people to imagine a day.

And they are actually randomized to different instructions.

So some of them are asked to imagine a regular day.

Others are asked to imagine a really bad day and we give them a kind of, your meeting went badly, your boss is upset with you.

We kind of give them a bit of an unpacking of what a bad day might be.

And then the third group were given, you've had a really good day, you nailed that meeting and your boss has taken you on side and given you a little well done and your teammates are really happy with you.

And so everyone didn't see the others.