Hanne K. Collins

Hanne is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at UCLA Anderson. Her research examines effective listening. In particular, she studies the conversational behaviors that ensure people are both being and feeling heard in order to foster interpersonal connection. In one stream of research, she studies these dynamics in the context of interpersonal conflict. Her work leverages rigorous scientific methods and cutting edge tools including a combination of experiments and computational social science techniques such as natural language processing. Hanne completed her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School in 2024.

Charles Dorison

Charlie is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Prior, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard Kennedy School (Decision Science Track) in 2020.

Charlie's research integrates theory and methods from behavioral science and organizational behavior to examine how individuals navigate social environments fraught with conflict. His primary line of research models how observers evaluate targets who do (vs. do not) fall victim to cognitive biases. This work generates testable predictions regarding when and why apparent errors can confer reputational benefits from observers. In his second line of work, he examines disagreement over strongly-held attitudes (e.g., politics), especially misperceptions of conflict counterparts and interventions to overcome these misperceptions. In a final line of work, Charlie investigates how emotions influence health decision-making.

Molly Moore

Molly is a Lecturer in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and her undergraduate degree in Economics, both from Harvard University.

Her research focuses on how impression management and observer expectations of behavior align with–and influence–people's decision making. She is especially interested in how this applies to the domains of selective exposure, disagreement, and gender. She teaches a variety of courses including: Making Decisions, Game Theory and Social Behavior, Microeconomics and Behavioral Economics. Outside of academics, she has competed as a USRowing National Team and CrossFit Games athlete.

Christopher Higgins

Chris is working as a research assistant at the Minson Conflict and Collaboration Lab where he assists on multiple projects related to disagreement in a conversation. He is interested in how disagreeing others interact in conflictual conversations. Also, he is curious about how failure is expressed and portrayed in the workplace.

Chris graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022, earning a B.S. in Psychology.

David Hagmann

David is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on how people revise their beliefs in response to information, and their desire to avoid potentially unpleasant news.

David received his Ph.D. from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics from Fordham University. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, David was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Joel Levin

Joel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Business, studying social and collaborative judgment. His primary line of research investigates how people make inferences about the quality of information and advice, and how they draw on those inferences to evaluate others.

Joel received a B.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and quantitative methods, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jennifer Logg

Dr. Logg is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Her research examines how people expect algorithmic and human judgment to differ.  She calls this program of work Theory of Machine. It uses a psychological perspective to examine how people respond to the increasing prevalence of information produced by algorithms. She has been invited to speak on the topic of algorithms with decision-makers in the U.S. Senate, Air Force, and Navy.  Poets & Quants named her one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors in 2022.

Michael Yeomans

Michael is currently an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour at Imperial College Business School. In his research, he uses natural language processing to study decision-making in conversation. Almost anywhere you find people on this earth, you will find them talking to one another, in pursuit of all kinds of goals, including: learning, teaching, co-ordination, self-presentation, connection, or even enjoyment. His work shows how conversation technology can help us understand our conversational decisions, and how to make them better. Michael completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto and in 2014, he completed a Ph.D. and an MBA in Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before joining Imperial, he was also a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kara Luo

Kara Luo is currently a Ph.D. student in the Organizational Behavior program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research interests are centered around how individual cognition and social interactions shape people's understanding. Kara employs various research methodologies, including surveys, experiments, and computational techniques such as modeling and natural language processing.

Previously, Kara completed her undergraduate degree and Master of Engineering at MIT, where she studied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Before starting graduate school, she was a research fellow at Minson Lab from 2021-2022.

Hayley Blunden

Hayley Blunden is an Assistant Professor of Management at American University's Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on how leaders can make challenging workplace interactions more productive. Her work examines both developmental interactions like advice, feedback, and voice, and collaborative ones like communicating virtually.

Ania Jaroszewicz

Ania is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Starting in summer 2023, she will be an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of California San Diego. Her research examines poverty, financial decision-making, and the psychology of asking and rejection.
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​Ania holds a Ph.D. in behavioral decision research from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as bachelor’s degrees in economics and psychology from the University of California Berkeley. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission and the World Bank.

Ariella Kristal

Ariella Kristal is a postdoctoral scholar in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School. She is interested in how environments can be structured to help people achieve their goals. Most of her work focuses on how individuals can achieve their self-control goals and how organizations can achieve their diversity goals.

Previously, she worked for the Behavioural Insights Team in London, where she applied findings from behavioral science to public policy. She focused on delivering policy advice and designing and implementing field experiments related to sustainable transportation, criminal justice, and organizational behavior.

Martha Jeong

Martha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). Her current research program focuses on decision-making and communication strategies. Martha explores our how subjective experience and attitudes toward the “decision-making experience” affect how we make decisions and how we feel about the decisions afterwards. She studies how we use information on how decisions were made to infer decision-making quality and influence decision-maker evaluations. Martha’s research aims to tackle the question: How can we structure organizational decision-making so that individuals not only make accurate decisions but feel motivated to make the best decisions and feel accountable for the decisions they make? In her research stream on communication, Martha looks at whether we adopt effective communication strategies in goal-driven communications, such as when we negotiate, seek feedback, or promote ourselves.
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​Martha received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, her JD at Harvard Law School, and her undergraduate degree at Rice University. Martha worked as a litigation attorney prior to her doctorate studies.

Anne Marie Green

Anne Marie is a pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard Business School. She is interested in political culture, polarization, and the communication of politics, values and morals between ideological opposites.

Anne Marie graduated summa cum laude in Political Science from Boston College, with a minor in Environmental Studies. Before coming to HBS, she worked in environmental advocacy and wrote her senior thesis on the politics of recycling. Beyond politics, Anne Marie enjoys playing rock music and walking up mountains.

Chris Umphres

Chris received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020 for research on overconfidence and social perceptions of sunk cost decision making. He is currently serving in the US Air Force as an F-35 pilot and working to assist the military in applying the principles of Decision Science to military decision processes.

Brad DeWees

Brad is a Ph.D. student on the judgment and decision-making track at the Harvard Kennedy School.  His research interests include the role of accountability in decision-making and how people evaluate the ideas of others.
​Brad completed his undergraduate work at the US Air Force Academy, where he was the top overall graduate from the Class of 2009.  He is an active-duty Air Force officer and will return to operational assignments after completing his Ph.D.

Celia Gaertig

Celia is currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Decision Processes from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sam Skowronek

Sam is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Behavioral Decision Making at the Anderson School of Managment at UCLA. In his research, Sam investigates what leads people in the workplace to engage in dishonesty and how different emotions, such as shame and embarrassment, affect decision making.

Sam received his Ph.D. from the Operations, Information, and Decisions Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BA in Economics from Georgetown University.