Thinking Structurally: How Structural Attributions Impact Support For Solutions and Willingness to Take Collective Action

Funded Research Proposal

Though nearly everyone recognizes the importance of addressing issues like climate change, gender bias, and police brutality, we face bitter and debilitating conflict with respect to the causes of these challenges. In this project, we study the consequences of “structural attributions” for social problems — that is, believing a problem was caused by policies, infrastructure, and/or institutions.Read More

Silence Helps Men but Hurts Women: The Differential Gender Effects of Silence in Negotiation

Funded Research Proposal

Current literature consistently shows a gender gap in people’s performance in negotiation. In this research, we aim to use a GPT Negotiation Bot to understand whether men and women may be perceived differently when they use silence — a common and important conversation strategy — in negotiation.Read More