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Overview

Francesca Gino is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a specialization in social psychology, sociology and political science, applied psychology, information systems and management, and cognitive neuroscience. The scope of their work extensively covers topics related to social and intergroup psychology, death anxiety and social exclusion, behavioral health and interventions, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, and ethics in business and education.

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • Conversational receptiveness: Improving engagement with opposing views (2020), published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • I Own, So I Help Out: How Psychological Ownership Increases Prosocial Behavior (2020), published in Journal of Consumer Research
  • Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Performance (2020), published in Management Science
  • Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions (2020), published in Organization Science

Francesca Gino frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include Maryam Kouchaki, Julia Lee, Bradley R. Staats, Juliana Schroeder, and Michael I. Norton. These professional partnerships reflect ongoing engagement in interdisciplinary research within their fields of study.

Their scholarly output appears regularly in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to the Academy of Management Proceedings, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, UNC Libraries, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science.

Best Publications

  • Contagion and Differentiation in Unethical Behavior The Effect of One Bad Apple on the Barrel

    Francesca Gino;Shahar Ayal;Dan Ariely

  • A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior.

    Adam M. Grant;Francesca Gino

  • Is yours a learning organization

    David A. Garvin;Amy C. Edmondson;Francesca Gino

  • Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior

    Francesca Gino;Maurice E. Schweitzer;Nicole L. Mead;Dan Ariely

  • The dark side of creativity: Original thinkers can be more dishonest.

    Francesca Gino;Dan Ariely

  • Too tired to tell the truth: Self-control resource depletion and dishonesty

    N.L. Mead;R.F. Baumeister;F. Gino;M.E. Schweitzer

  • Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting

    Lisa L. Shu;Francesca Gino;Max H. Bazerman

  • Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

    Francesca Gino;Gary P. Pisano

  • Reversing the Extraverted Leadership Advantage: The Role of Employee Proactivity

    Adam M. Grant;Francesca Gino;David A. Hofmann

  • Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end

    Lisa L. Shu;Nina Mazar;Francesca Gino;Dan Ariely

  • Self-Serving Justifications Doing Wrong and Feeling Moral

    Shaul Shalvi;Francesca Gino;Rachel Barkan;Shahar Ayal

  • Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Authentic Self-expression

    Daniel M. Cable;Francesca Gino;Bradley R. Staats

  • Good lamps are the best police: darkness increases dishonesty and self-interested behavior

    Chen-Bo Zhong;Vanessa K. Bohns;Francesca Gino

  • DYNAMICALLY INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE IN TEAMS: TRANSFORMING RESOURCES INTO PERFORMANCE

    Heidi K. Gardner;Francesca Gino;Bradley R. Staats

  • Paradoxical frames and creative sparks: Enhancing individual creativity through conflict and integration

    Ella Miron-Spektor;Francesca Gino;Linda Argote

  • The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth

    Francesca Gino;Lamar Pierce

  • Self-Serving Altruism? The Lure of Unethical Actions that Benefit Others

    Francesca Gino;Shahar Ayal;Dan Ariely

  • The red sneakers effect: Inferring status and competence from signals of nonconformity.

    Silvia Bellezza;Francesca Gino;Anat Keinan

  • Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass

    Francesca Gino;Adam D. Galinsky

  • The psychological costs of pay‐for‐performance: Implications for the strategic compensation of employees

    Ian Larkin;Lamar Pierce;Francesca Gino

  • "Reversing the extraverted leadership advantage: The role of employee proactivity:" Erratum.

    Adam M. Grant;Francesca Gino;David A. Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Maurice E. Schweitzer
Maurice E. Schweitzer University of Pennsylvania
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Adam M. Grant
Adam M. Grant University of Pennsylvania
Richard P. Larrick
Richard P. Larrick Duke University
David A. Hofmann
David A. Hofmann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto

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