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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

across the river, the scorpion stings the frog. "Sorry about that," says the scorpion, as they both drown. "It's just my nature." It turns out that people, like the scorpion, may be biologically predisposed to behaving badly. In short, our View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 1989 (Revised December 1989)
  • Case

Beef Hormone Trade Dispute

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Trade; Agribusiness; Food; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • October 2015
  • Article

Hormones and Ethics: Understanding the Biological Basis of Unethical Conduct

By: Jooa Julie Lee, Francesca Gino, Ellie Shuo Jin, Leslie K. Rice and Robert A. Josephs
Globally, fraud has been rising sharply over the last decade, with current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Science
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  • April 6, 2011
  • Blog Post

Boost Power Through Body Language

By: Amy Cuddy
Keywords: Nonverbal Behavior; Power; Influence; Hormones; Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Power and Influence
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  • October 28, 2012
  • Editorial

Act Powerful, Be Powerful

By: Amy Cuddy
Keywords: Power; Influence; Nonverbal Behavior; Hormones; Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Power and Influence
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  • March 20, 2013
  • Blog Post

Want to Lean In? Try a Power Pose

By: Amy Cuddy
Keywords: Power; Nonverbal Behavior; Hormones; Psychology
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  • January 11, 2013
  • Editorial

TED Weekends: Life Hack With Body Language

By: Amy Cuddy
Keywords: Nonverbal Behavior; Power; Psychology; Hormones; Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Power and Influence
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  • September 2002
  • Background Note

Note on WTO Disputes: Five Major Cases

By: David A. Moss and Nick Bartlett
Summarizes five major trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO): (1) the Brazil-Canada aircraft dispute, (2) the European Union/United States foreign sales corporation dispute, (3) the Asian/United States shrimp and sea turtle dispute, (4) the United... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Conflict Management; Negotiation; Brazil; Canada; European Union; Asia; United States
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  • November 1991
  • Case

Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard
Monsanto has yet to receive FDA approval for BST, a growth hormone for cows. Anti-BST groups have successfully lobbied Wisconsin and Minnesota, major milk producing states, to ban milk from BST-injected cows; the FDA has charged Monsanto with improperly promoting BST... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Safety; Food; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Conflict and Resolution; Research and Development; Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Minnesota; Wisconsin
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Leadership Is Associated with Lower Levels of Stress

By: Gary D. Sherman, J. J. Lee, A.J.C. Cuddy, Jonathan Renshon, Christopher Oveis, James J. Gross and Jennifer S. Lerner
As leaders ascend to more powerful positions in their groups, they face ever-increasing demands. This has given rise to the common perception that leaders have higher stress levels than non-leaders. But if leaders also experience a heightened sense of control—a... View Details
Keywords: Stress; Cortisol; Control; Leadership; Emotions; Power and Influence
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Social psychologist Amy Cuddy, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, uses experimental methods to investigate how people judge each other and themselves. Her research suggests that judgments along two critical trait dimensions – warmth/trustworthiness and... View Details
  • Article

No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students

By: Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
Intertemporal choices between a smaller sooner and a larger delayed reward are one of the most important types of decisions humans face in their everyday life. The degree to which individuals discount delayed rewards correlates with impulsiveness. Steep delay... View Details
Keywords: Delay Discounting; Impulsiveness; Intertemporal Choice; Testosterone; Decision Making; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Research

Professor Cuddy studies the origins and outcomes of how we perceive and are influenced by other people, investigating the roles of variables such as culture, emotions, nonverbal behaviors, and hormone levels. Much of her work focuses on social categories (e.g.,... View Details

  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

shows that simply holding one's body in expansive, "high-power" poses for as little as two minutes stimulates higher levels of testosterone (the hormone linked to power and dominance in the animal and human worlds) and lower... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

challenge of counting backwards from 2027 by 17s. The test was conducted in front of a panel of judges, who were instructed not to smile. The researchers collected saliva samples from the women seven times throughout the experiment in order to measure levels of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

messes up your brain is what it does. If you want to be happy, you need love. If you have love, it means that you have a a neuro-- a a a you have a hormone in your brain, a neuropeptide, that functions as a View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

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

would benefit from a field experiment on this topic, please write to Francesca Gino directly at fgino@hbs.edu. Related Reading: How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat How to Spot a Liar Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

makes us feel pleasure and “releases a hormone called oxytocin that helps modulate social interactions and emotion. Being kind is good for our own and our employees' mental health." And that translates to improved morale and performance.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 10 Mar 2011
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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