Overcoming the Small-N Problem
Small samples negatively affect the quality of the information we use when making group-based estimates.
Research
Uncertainty Avoidance
Individual differences in uncertainty avoidance can predispose serenity or terror, tolerance or intolerance, and innovation or stagnation.
Policy Decisions and Evidence Use among Civil Servants: A Group Decision Experiment in Pakistan
In a lab-in-field experiment with elite civil servants in Pakistan, we investigate whether groups outperform individuals in a two-staged task which requires effective use of data and evidence.
Crisis Communications for COVID-19
Communication with employees, customers, investors, constituents, and other stakeholders can contribute decisively to the successful navigation of a crisis.
How to Lead in a Time of Pandemic
The world has never before confronted a crisis quite like COVID-19, one that has simultaneously tested both the limits of public health systems everywhere and the ability of countries to work together
How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only begin to imagine today.
Signing at the Beginning Versus at the End Does Not Decrease Dishonesty
In 2012, five of the current authors published a paper in PNAS showing that people are more honest when they are asked to sign a veracity statement at the beginning instead of at the end of a tax or i
Gender Differences in Volunteer’s Dilemma: Evidence From Teamwork Among Graduate Students
Undertaking logistical tasks in a teamwork setting exhibits a volunteer’s dilemma: it takes only one volunteer to take a costly action to generate a benefit to the entire team.
Anger and Anxiety in Masculine Stereotypic and Male Dominated (Msmd) Negotiating Contexts: Affect and the Study of Gender in Negotiation
In this groundbreaking Research Handbook, leading international researchers analyse how negotiators’ gender shapes their behaviour and outcomes at the bargaining table, in both work and non-work conte
Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts
People regularly face conflicts in which obeying one moral requirement means transgressing another.
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