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  • 14 May 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Humblebragging: A Distinct-and Ineffective-Self-Presentation Strategy

Keywords: by Ovul Sezer, Francesca Gino & Michael I. Norton
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

generous to them” Humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, but it turns out to be a lousy self-promotion tactic, especially in business situations such as job interviews, according to recent research by Harvard Business School's View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • News

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

  • 27 Apr 2015
  • News

Science Shows Humblebragging Doesn’t Even Work

  • 29 May 2015
  • News

Humblebragging: You want to, but you shouldn’t

  • 16 Jun 2015
  • News

The rise of humblebragging, the best way to make people not like you

  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

Seeker Beware: The Relational Costs of Advice-Seeker Decisions By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

improving a firm's ability to understand and improve its architecture over time. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2554646   Working Papers Humblebragging: A Distinct-and Ineffective-Self-Presentation Strategy By: Sezer,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise Choices By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

While humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, it's a lousy self-promotion tactic that usually backfires according to recent research by Ovul Sezer, View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Humblebragging: A Distinct—and Ineffective—Self-Presentation Strategy

By: Ovul Sezer, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
Self-presentation is a fundamental aspect of social life, with myriad critical outcomes dependent on others’ impressions. We identify and offer the first empirical investigation of a prevalent, yet understudied, self-presentation strategy: humblebragging. Across nine... View Details
Keywords: Humblebragging; Impression Management; Self-presentation; Interpersonal Perception; Competence; Liking; Sincerity; Behavior; Perception; Interpersonal Communication; Personal Characteristics
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Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter

By: Ovul Sezer, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman
People often make the well-documented mistake of paying too much attention to the outcomes of others’ actions while neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In five experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing this... View Details
Keywords: Outcome Bias; Intentions; Joint Evaluation; Judgment; Separate Evaluation; Goals and Objectives; Prejudice and Bias; Judgments; Performance Evaluation; Outcome or Result
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  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview (25,829) While humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, it's a lousy self-promotion tactic that usually backfires according to recent research by Ovul View Details
  • Article

Family Rituals Improve the Holidays

By: Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Kathleen Vohs
Rituals are central to family life. Three studies (N = 1098) tested the relationship between family rituals and holiday enjoyment and demonstrated that family rituals improve the holidays because they amplify family closeness and involvement in the experience. In Study... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Behavior; Satisfaction; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 13 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 13, 2016

Samsung, however, has succeeded by its ability to strike a balance between the two. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51604 in press Journal for the Association of Consumer Research Family Rituals Improve... View Details
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Work Group Rituals Enhance the Meaning of Work

By: Tami Kim, Ovul Sezer, Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
The many benefits of finding meaning in work suggest the importance of identifying activities that increase job meaningfulness. The current paper identifies one such activity: engaging in rituals with workgroups. Five studies (N = 1,099) provide evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Groups; Meaningfulness; Task Meaning; Ritual; Teams; Organizational Citizenship; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Familiarity
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  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

suggests. No One Likes the Humblebrag Doctoral student Ovul Sezer would be justified in saying, “I just can’t get any work done; the media keeps calling about my last study.” But she knows better. That working paper, coauthored with HBS... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White