My current number of citations is 566, and my h-index is 8 .

Job Market Paper

Invited resubmission to Science Advances.

Lira, B., Goldstein, D., Rogers, T., Ungar, L., & Duckworth, A. L. Coach not Crutch: AI assistance can enhance rather than hinder skill development. [ArXiv]

Published

Lira, B., Duckworth, A. L., Gardner, M., Quirk, A., Stone, C., Rao, A., … & D’Mello, S. K. (2023). Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Personal Qualities in College Admissions. Science Advances. [link]

Lira, B., O’Brien, J., Peña, P.A., Galla, B.M., D’Mello, S., Yeager, D.S., Defnet, A., Kautz, T., Munkacsy, K., Duckworth, A.L., (2022). Large Studies Reveal How Reference Bias Limits Policy Applications of Self-Report Measures. Scientific Reports 12(1) 19189. [link]

Putnam, S. P., Sehic, E., French, B. F., Gartstein, M. A., Lira, B., & Peltola, M. (2024). The Global Temperament Project: Parent-Reported Temperament in Infants, Toddlers and Children from 59 Nations. Developmental Psychology. [link]

Duckworth, A. L., Kautz, T., Defnet, A., Satlof-Bedrick, E., Talamas, S., Lira, B., & Steinberg, L. (2021). Students attending school remotely suffer socially, emotionally, and academically. Educational Researcher, 50(7), 479–482. [PsyArXiv] [PDF]

Under Review

Lira, B., Song, J., Alsobay, M., & Goldstein, D. Forecasting with LLMs: A Dataset for Rapid Backtesting Without Temporal Contamination. Submitted to ICLR 2026.

In Preparation

Lira, B., Castelo, N., Toubia, O., & Puntoni, S. Synthetic Contact: Digital Twins as a Scalable Tool for Consumer Insight and Reducing Partisan Misperceptions.

Sungu, A., Lira, B., & Duckworth, A. L. Performance gains, motivational pains: Evidence from AI adoption in Turkish teachers.

Lira, B., Goldstein, D., Rogers, T., Ungar, L., & Duckworth, A. L. Smart and Smarter: Pairing AI examples and metacognition improves writing skill.

Lira, B., Ungar, L., Gross, J., & Duckworth, A. L. Delivering motivational interventions at scale using Artificial Intelligence in Khan Academy.

Lira, B., Ungar, L., & Duckworth, A. L. Conversing with a Generative-AI powered chatbot increases critical thinking.