lauraewallace.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Prof of Organization & Management @ Emory University,
Currently Principal Researcher at UChicago Booth.
I study how to change minds, build trust, and address societal disadvantage.
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Big congrats and welcome (back) to Chicago!!!
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This looks fun - how does it work? You tell your students to swing by a coffee shop rather than have office hours?
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Thomas Vaughn-Johnston led work on people who are dogmatically committed to neutrality (rather than extremity). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Haha yes! Love it
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We also identify people who are committed to having nuanced understanding of issues, and show that they are quite different than these neutrality ideologues.
We discuss implications for politically polarized attitudes, persuasion, intellectual humility, and our ability to address pressing issues
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also have to relearn how to use social media. here's me connecting marketing principles with folks' sociopolitical ambivalence, and the social expectations versus reality about expressing that to others
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Me!
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Awesome - thanks! I applied :-)
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In addition to research, I am passionate about mentoring and especially supporting mentees and colleagues from historically excluded groups. I’ve gotten to mentor some fabulous researchers through undergrad theses, and the SROP and Leadership Alliance summer programs.
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Other work examines how we can get people to engage in difficult conversations and when, specifically, growth mindsets are beneficial.
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How do perceptions of bias affect trust and persuasion? For example, my work finds that perceived bias can undermine trust and persuasion. However, perceived bias doesn’t always undermine persuasion – if biased sources switch positions, they can actually get a boost! psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-...
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How do the ways that we talk about and understand history affect societal disadvantage and institutional trust? As one example, I explore how organizational history celebrations can undermine trust and belonging among Black Americans. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Here’s some more about the research questions I tackle. A thread:
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Amazing! I’d love to be added as well!
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Reminds me of some of Russ Fazio’s first work on how personal experience creates strong attitudes!
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Shout out to co-first author @stephlreeves.bsky.social. Although we collaborated on this from the beginning, this started out as her dissertation work and she did a lot of the early heavy lifting on this project.
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This work suggests that organizations may want to be careful about the ways that they talk about their histories; looking forward to future work on how organizations might be able to talk about their histories without these negative consequences, perhaps by acknowledging & making amends for racism.
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Importantly, the negative effect of celebrating history vanishes when its clear that the organization has a history of having Black people in power, highlighting that this effect is specific to organizations that may have had a history of racism.
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This occurs for fictional orgs about which people could not possess knowledge and absent information about prior marginalization or racial makeup; the cultural context of historical racism leads history celebrations to be threatening absent content about that specific history.
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Many organizations have histories that marginalized Black Americans, a fact that Black Americans are particularly knowledgeable of. Therefore, when organizations celebrate their histories, it suggests that they are unaware of or condone this racist past.
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These kinds of organizational history celebrations are quite common. Although this might serve motives to feel good about the organization or highlight its prestige, our work demonstrates that this undermines belonging + interest in joining among Black Americans
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Imagine you encounter an organization celebrating it’s history in a relatively generic manner. “Our founder was amazing, we try to live up to the values he embodied when he built our company 75 years ago.” What inferences might you draw?
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Miss you too - hopefully at SPSP!
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Congrats, Lora! This makes me so happy!
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Hello from sweet one-eyed Rosie!
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I have a Fitbit, but I’d like to be able to track additional things, like how fatigued I feel, how much caffeine I drank, the type of work I did.
Also welcome suggestions for what I should measure.
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Will do ❤️
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My sister lives right by Lake Merritt and was just sending me some pics of those excellent white pelicans. So cool!
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Feel better soon, Raf!
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Thanks, Raf! This is helpful!
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(or even just evidence that people expect others with biased views to perform better)
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Very cool. Do you tell participants you are doing this from the start?
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Congrats, Steph!