Erica Boothby

Erica Boothby

Erica Boothby is a psychologist and the first author of the 2018 paper in Psychological Science that reported the liking gap, with Gus Cooney, Gillian Sandstrom and Margaret Clark.

Who they are

Boothby is first author of The liking gap in conversations: Do people like us more than we think? This page rests on that one paper. Her affiliation and wider career have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.

Key papers

Key ideas

What the 2018 paper proposed

The authors named the pattern the liking gap. It appeared among laboratory strangers, first-year college students in the same hall and members of the public at a personal development workshop, and it persisted for months among the students in the halls. See Liking Gap.

Sources

  1. Boothby, E. J., Cooney, G., Sandstrom, G. M., & Clark, M. S. (2018). 'The liking gap in conversations: Do people like us more than we think?' Psychological Science, 29(11), 1742-1756. doi:10.1177/0956797618783714