emotions - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike personal networking in pursuit of emotional support or friendship, and unlike... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

create social distance, or a lack of emotional connection, that leads to misunderstandings and mistrust. To help global team leaders manage effectively, the author shares her SPLIT framework for mitigating social distance. It has five... View Details

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

are already taking place.” On a Monday evening in early May, the South Scranton Intermediate School’s auditorium echoes with the voices of students, teachers, and parents, all wedged into uncomfortable wooden seats etched with decades of middle-school angst. There’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

before we fully locked and loaded the business case. It’s a great example of how we are trying to shift to be customer-focused, take some of the emotion out, and let the analytics help drive it.” “The genius of all-day breakfast,” says... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

consistent and emotional brand worldwide. With its primary core customer currently the “serious” runner, and its innovation strategy geared towards high-end performance, pursuing these objectives in light of the fiercely competitive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008): 78-84 Abstract Motivating employees begins with recognizing that to do their best work, people must be in an environment that meets their basic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and programs that promote social and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

educational, but it is one that caters to the different strengths of its players and encourages creative development. “For each of our games, we focus on three crucial ‘moments,’” explains Furlong. The situational moment involves when and where the game is played, the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

unwanted pregnancies. That was the good news. The bad was that not having their husbands' acknowledged support exacted a significant emotional toll on the women—and that can lead to its own health problems. "There is a human part of us,"... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

it’s the people’s Justice Department.” A positive tone at the top can chip away at hardened partisanship by exemplifying inclusiveness and refusing to give in to anger and blame, which are unproductive emotions anyway. Pluralism, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

unique to India before iTrust launched. “It would have saved a lot of time and emotional energy,” he writes. The Upside of the Economic Downturn Given a choice, Agarwala and Varma probably would have kept their day jobs had they foreseen... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

and Philando Castile and the emotions she felt as the mother of two sons who were four and seven years old. At the same time, McGruder was working at Viacom, where she was named senior vice president of programming at BET Networks in... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

the shared sacrifice it represented. “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”... View Details

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

India." This disclosure, which came weeks after the Indian government made a controversial decision to permit FDI in the country's multi-brand retail sector, created uproar in India. Lobbying by multinationals drew strong emotions in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details