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  • June 2017
  • Article

When Novel Rituals Lead to Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology

By: Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Michael Inzlicht
Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked to the cultural evolution of large-scale group cooperation. Here we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can... View Details
Keywords: Ritual; Intergroup Dynamics; Intergroup Bias; Neural Reward Processing; Open Data; Open Materials; Preregistered; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Cooperation
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  • 5 Aug 2014
  • Conference Presentation

Language, Unearned Status Gain and Intergroup Dynamics in Global Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
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  • March 2021
  • Article

The Crowd Emotion Amplification Effect

By: Amit Goldenberg, Erika Weisz, Timothy D. Sweeney, Mina Cikara and James Gross
How do people go about reading a room or taking the temperature of a crowd? When people catch a brief glimpse of an array of faces, they can only focus their attention on some of the faces. We propose that perceivers preferentially attend to faces exhibiting strong... View Details
Keywords: Crowds; Social Cognition; Intergroup Dynamics; Emotions; Perception; Judgments; Analysis
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  • May 2014
  • Article

Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat

By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel
Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2005
  • Chapter

Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme

Meaningful leadership development needs to incorporate emotional and often unconscious aspects of human behavior. This chapter describes a leadership program designed to provide opportunities to learn, in-depth and through personal experience, about the exercise of... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions
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  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really drive behavior and contribute to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2024
  • Article

Backstage Matters: Collective Energy and Information Sharing on Global Teams

By: Wenjie Ma, Leslie A. Perlow and Eunice Eun
It is well documented that information sharing – which is central to team effectiveness – is complicated by cultural and geographical factors. However, little is known about the process of information sharing between subgroups within global teams. Building on Goffman’s... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Groups and Teams; Geographic Scope
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  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

coworkers with a different social identity. Our results highlight the important role of social identity in overcoming self-interest and enhancing intergroup competitions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303862... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2024
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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  • February 2016
  • Article

Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Equality and Inequality; Spoken Communication; Organizations; Japan; United States
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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

example, offering large financial incentives to the winners of intergroup contests would predictably pull these relationships into cutthroat competition. In addition, in an effort to keep the competition from becoming cutthroat or the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 31 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

offers a compelling explanation for the strong ownership concentration seen in German business and reveals the malleable relationship between family and business. It provides rich empirical evidence that offers a new interpretation of family-influenced businesses as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

explore the challenges of information collection and analysis. Students will, experientially, gain insights into how information is used and be exposed to a framework for identifying and evaluating information. In addition, the exercise will enable students to explore... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming improbability of actual colorblindness),... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

among those working closely with Japanese employees highlights intergroup contact as a factor in shaping the unearned status gain experience. Supplemental analysis of data gathered from 66 Japanese employees provided the broader... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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