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When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams
By: Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful information about the world than similar...
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Morewedge, Carey K., and Michael I. Norton. "When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96, no. 2 (February 2009): 249–264. (Winner of Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Theoretical Innovation Prize For an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to social/personality psychology within a given year presented by Society for Personality and Social Psychology.)
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
behavior and cognition miss. The chapter seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for a turn towards historicism in entrepreneurial studies, which is already partly underway. The authors stress that the path will not be easy, but that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that it does so by eliminating potential...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
opportunity—and how they cognitively and emotionally reframe investment risk into a compelling narrative that transcends avoidance behavior and leads investors to invest. These findings expand our overall understanding of the complex ways...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
electronic-document access technologies, and on previous PARC research in fields like cognition and anthropology. The culmination of these efforts in 1991 produced two innovative systems devices: the E-Case, a portable electronic-document...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those...
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Sean Silverthorne
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The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions
Two studies address the debate over whether conscious or unconscious mental processes best handle complex decisions. According to Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow...
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Nordgren, Loran F., Maarten W. Bos, and Ap Dijksterhuis. "The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47, no. 2 (March 2011): 509–511.
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
intelligence, believes that "EQ competencies are not innate talents, but rather learned capabilities that can be developed to achieve outstanding performance." He continues, "High levels of cognitive ability (i.e., measured IQ of 120 or...
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by Bill George
- 22 Feb 2011
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notions of strategy, business model, and tactics. The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making Published: November 25, 2009 Gandhi once wrote that "a certain degree of physical harmony...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
and present themselves as more virtuous and ethical (Studies 1, 2, 3). We show this mechanism is exclusive for ethical dissonance and is not triggered by salience of ethicality (Study 4), general sense of personal failure, or ethically neutral View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
problem-solving that conserves scarce cognitive resources. We then review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
Abstract— Research on learning has primarily focused on the role of doing (experience) in fostering progress over time. Drawing on literature in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, we propose that one of the critical components of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56032 in press Cognition I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Ioannis Evangelidis Abstract—People often speculate about why...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
watchmaking, the study’s analysis reveals how technology reemergence is a decidedly cognitive process, unfolding in two phases: a first phase marked by a redefinition of meanings and values associated with the legacy technology and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
candidates—one of whom may be suited to the increasingly demanding CEO role. The key? Groom "inside-outsiders." These leaders view their role through the lens of someone who just bought the company—unencumbered by the cognitive...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
School Case 816-072 Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is...
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Martha Lagace