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Maurice E. Schweitzer is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on several subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, safety research, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics within these fields. Major themes include experimental behavioral economics studies, conflict management and negotiation, misinformation and its impacts, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, ethics in business and education, and emotions and moral behavior.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schweitzer include the following:

  • "A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Worry at work: How organizational culture promotes anxiety" (2020), published in Research in Organizational Behavior
  • "The Conversational Circumplex: Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing informational and relational motives in conversation" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Embracing Complexity: A Review of Negotiation Research" (2022), published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "The (better than expected) consequences of asking sensitive questions" (2020), published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Frequent coauthors include Einav Hart, Eric M. VanEpps, Polly Kang, Eugen Dimant, and Zhiying Ren.

The venues where Schweitzer frequently publishes reflect their research focus and include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Feeling and believing: the influence of emotion on trust.

    Jennifer R. Dunn;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Decision Bias in the Newsvendor Problem with a Known Demand Distribution: Experimental Evidence

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Gérard P. Cachon

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

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

  • Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting

    Lisa D. Ordóñez;Maurice E. Schweitzer;Adam D. Galinsky;Max H. Bazerman

  • Goal Setting as a Motivator of Unethical Behavior

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Lisa Ordóñez;Bambi Douma

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

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

  • Promises and Lies: Restoring Violated Trust

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;John C. Hershey;Eric T. Bradlow

  • Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes

    Devin G. Pope;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • In the Moment: The Effect of Mindfulness on Ethical Decision Making

    Nicole E. Ruedy;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • The Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Gender on Ultimatum Game Decisions.

    Sara J. Solnick;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Can Nervous Nelly negotiate? How anxiety causes negotiators to make low first offers, exit early, and earn less profit

    Alison Wood Brooks;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Stretching the Truth: Elastic Justification and Motivated Communication of Uncertain Information

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Christopher K. Hsee

  • Prosocial lies: When deception breeds trust

    Emma E. Levine;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Anxiety, advice, and the ability to discern: Feeling anxious motivates individuals to seek and use advice.

    Francesca Gino;Alison Wood Brooks;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Blinded by Anger or Feeling the Love : How Emotions Influence Advice Taking

    Francesca Gino;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Are liars ethical? On the tension between benevolence and honesty

    Emma E. Levine;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Smart People Ask for My Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence

    Alison Wood Brooks;Francesca Gino;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • The Cheater’s High: The Unexpected Affective Benefits of Unethical Behavior

    Nicole E. Ruedy;Celia Moore;Francesca Gino;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Risky business: When humor increases and decreases status.

    T. Bradford Bitterly;Alison Wood Brooks;Maurice E. Schweitzer

  • Fairness, Feelings, and Ethical Decision- Making: Consequences of Violating Community Standards of Fairness

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Donald E. Gibson

  • Decision Bias in the Newsvendor Problem with a Known Demand Distribution: Experimental Evidence.: Experimental Evidence.

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Gerard P. Cachon

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino Harvard University
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Laura J. Kray
Laura J. Kray University of California, Berkeley
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Christopher K. Hsee
Christopher K. Hsee University of Chicago
Gretchen B. Chapman
Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher F. Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris Geisinger Health System

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