Cognitive Psychology - Publications - Faculty & Research

Summer 2011
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Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

By: Mukti Khaire

Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details

Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India

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28 Aug 2023
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How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

also shown that physical exercise increases effective cognition and memory in adults. A Gallup study also found that companies with high levels of employee engagement reported 23 percent higher profitability compared to companies with low... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

14 Feb 2012
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factors-psychological safety, cognitive flexibility, and psychological ownership-that enable the three steps that comprise this process. By illuminating the formation process of an entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2024
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Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin

We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details

Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital

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25 Jun 2012
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Collaborating Across Cultures

psychology along with management, Chua was born and raised in Singapore, itself a multicultural society. "I've always been fascinated by how culture changes the way people interact and innovate, and how collaboration is affected by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

and that’s what happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. Morrell: You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? Brooks: It’s become a lot more cognitive and... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

2022
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Social Interactivity in Live Video Experiences Reduces Loneliness

By: Benjamin T. Kaveladze, Robert R. Morris, Rosa Victoria Dimitrova-Gammeltoft, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, Judd Antin, Melissa Sandgren and Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt

Background: Loneliness, especially when chronic, can substantially reduce one's quality of life. However, positive social experiences might help to break cycles of loneliness by promoting more prosocial cognitions and behaviors. Internet-mediated live video... View Details

Keywords: Lonelines; Social Connection; Internet-mediated Communication; Experiment; Emotions; Well-being; Interpersonal Communication; Internet

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18 May 2016
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Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

self-views,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with Maryam Kouchaki, an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management. “Unethical behavior creates View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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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... View Details

24 Oct 2016
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Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

between right and wrong is not sufficient to avoid falling into the behavioral traps people can face when under pressure to succeed. Answering a single question, Madoff exhibits several all-too-familiar cognitive biases, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

August 2002
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Creativity Under the Gun

By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer

If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation

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13 Jun 2022
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Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

Listening, is forthcoming in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The findings were a surprise to the researchers, who assumed that extroverts would be perceived as emotionally attuned. “It was a little... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

2008
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Warmth and Competence As Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map

By: A. J.C. Cuddy, S. T. Fiske and P. Glick

The stereotype content model (SCM) defines two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, predicted respectively by perceived competition and status. Combinations of warmth and competence generate distinct emotions of admiration, contempt,... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Competency and Skills; Prejudice and Bias; Emotions; Business Model; Behavior; Research; Competition; Status and Position; Cognition and Thinking; Groups and Teams

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

their origins about three decades ago, the Behavioral Science areas of economics, ethics and managerial psychology have been rapidly evolving. In the 1980's and 1990's, early work by Max Bazerman in judgment and negotiation , Matthew... View Details

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Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen

Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details

Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being

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17 Sep 2012
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Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

which you can capture whether people are cognitively distracted is to actually look at the errors they make when they are entering data," says Gino, who, as a native of Italy, was in a good position to detect transcription errors. “People... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2011
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Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

identify five discovery skills that distinguish innovators from typical executives. First and foremost, innovators count on a cognitive skill that we call "associational thinking" or simply "associating." Associating happens as the brain... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

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