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  • 24 Feb 2016
  • News

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

  • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Research Summary

    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
    • Research Summary

    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
    • November–December 2019
    • Article

    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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    • 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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    • 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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    • November 2015
    • Article

    The Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity for Both Expressers and Recipients

    By: Li Huang, F. Gino and Adam D. Galinsky
    Sarcasm is ubiquitous in organizations. Despite its prevalence, we know surprisingly little about the cognitive experiences of sarcastic expressers and recipients or their behavioral implications. The current research proposes and tests a novel theoretical model in... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 17 May 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

    audience of the day with the president, believing the last idea he hears is the one most likely to be chosen. If true, the president is no better or worse than most of us in allowing cognitive biases to cloud our thinking. We are, for... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 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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    • 2016
    • Article

    Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self

    By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister
    We propose that escape theory, which describes how individuals seek to free themselves from aversive states of self-awareness, helps explain key patterns of materialistic people’s behavior. As predicted by escape theory, materialistic individuals may feel dissatisfied... View Details
    Keywords: Materialism; Escape; Self; Negative Emotions; Self-awareness; Emotions; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Motivation and Incentives
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