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    Jennifer Abel

    Jennifer Abel is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Broadly, her research interests include trust formation and conflict management. She received a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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    • March 2019
    • Article

    Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
    We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biolog­ical markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Biological Markers; Experiment; Victimization; Desensitization; Crime and Corruption; Behavior
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    • 24 Feb 2016
    • News

    Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

    • March 2019 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    HelloSelf: Foundation

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    On January 6, 2019, HelloSelf, a London-based “BrainTech” company, founded a year earlier by Charles Wells, soft launched. The proposition was simply to help its members “Be your Best Self.” The company provided its registered members with access to a clinical... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Start-up; Startup Management; Startup Marketing; Startups; Start-ups; BrainTech; Marketing Research; Strategic Decision Making; Strategy Development; Strategy Dynamics; Neuroscience; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Health ＆ Wellness; Health Care; Health Care Reform; Health Care Outcomes; Self-awareness; Mental Health; Wellbeing; Wellness; Funding; Equity Financing; Raising Capital; Synergies; Team Building; National Health Insurance; Artificial Intelligence; MVP; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Well-being; Marketing Channels; Decision Making; Strategy; Technology; United Kingdom; London
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Confidence, Self-Selection and Bias in the Aggregate

    By: Benjamin Enke, Thomas Graeber and Ryan Oprea
    The influence of behavioral biases on aggregate outcomes like prices and allocations depends in part on self-selection: whether rational people opt more strongly into aggregate interactions than biased individuals. We conduct a series of betting market, auction and... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Cognition and Thinking; Markets; Price
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      Caleb Kealoha

      Caleb completed his BA in Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did research in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, the Computational... View Details
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing

      By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
      Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe... View Details
      Keywords: Biases; Judgment; Decision-making; Nudge; Debiasing; Illusions; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Behavior; Change
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      • 01 Feb 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

      "The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury resort as opposed to a modest... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 2020
      • Article

      Subjective Semantic Surprise Resulting from Divided Attention Biases Evaluations of an Idea’s Creativity

      By: Goran Calic, Nour El Shamy, Isaac Kinley, Scott Watter and Khaled Hassanein
      The evaluation of an idea’s creativity constitutes an important step in successfully responding to an unexpected problem with a new solution. Yet, distractions compete for cognitive resources with the evaluation process and may change how individuals evaluate ideas. In... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking
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      • November–December 2019
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      Head, Heart or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time?

      By: Sebastian Reiche and Tsedal Neeley
      To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, we conducted a longitudinal study of a mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The... View Details
      Keywords: Language; Communication; Change; Employees; Attitudes; Emotions; Globalized Firms and Management
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
      We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Attitudes; Perspective; Behavior
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Lucía Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
      We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated... View Details
      Keywords: Crime; Biological Markers; Experiment; Victimization; Desensitization; Crime and Corruption; Perspective; Attitudes; Behavior
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      Overview

      By: Ryan L. Raffaelli
      Professor Raffaelli's research focuses on the concept of reinvention. This work examines how organizations and leaders manage processes of innovation adoption, institutional change, and cognitive framing. View Details
      • August 2018
      • Article

      Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products

      By: Goran Calic and Sébastien Hélie
      Paradoxes are an unavoidable part of work life. The unusualness of attempting to simultaneously satisfy contradictory imperatives can result in creative outcomes that simultaneously satisfy both imperatives by inducing search for, and selection of, novel and useful... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Business or Company Management; Performance
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      Reinvention and “Frame Flexibility”

      By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

      Adopting a radical innovation creates pressure for leaders to reframe their mental models while they also sustain their organization's existing capabilities and product category variants. Yet at key junctures in a product class and during technological change, a... View Details

      Keywords: Institutional Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diffusion Processes; Technology Adoption; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Emotions
      • 11 Jul 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

      Keywords: by Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin, and Joshua Schwartzstein
      • April 2014
      • Article

      Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs

      By: Adam Waytz and Michael I. Norton
      Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of "botsourcing"—the replacement of human jobs by robots—while examining how understanding botsourcing can... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Emotions; Cognition and Thinking
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      • August 1983
      • Article

      The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Componential Conceptualization

      By: T. M. Amabile
      Considers the definition and assessment of creativity and presents a componential framework for conceptualizing this faculty. Including domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation as a set of necessary and sufficient components of... View Details
      Keywords: Theory; Social Psychology; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics
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      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Behavioral Operations

      Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary P. Pisano
      • August 2010 (Revised February 2014)
      • Case

      Vitalia Franchise

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Beatriz Munoz-Seca
      Cathy Hoffmann has rapidly grown her novel facilities for day care therapy for elders with mild cognitive and physical problems. But she needs to decide whether to franchise or own the next expansion. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Ownership Stake; Franchise Ownership; Expansion; Health Industry; Spain
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