Associate Professor, Management of Organizations, Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Schroeder, J., Kardas, M., & Epley, N. (2017). The humanizing voice: Speech reveals, and text conceals, a more thoughtful mind in the midst of disagreement. Psychological Science, 28, 1745-1762. [APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: Disagreement on important political issues can incite dehumanization. This paper shows that hearing opposing opinions (vs. reading them) can reduce dehumanizing judgments of the opposition (4 experiments).
Schroeder, J., Fishbach, A., Schein, C., & Gray, K. (2017). Functional intimacy: Needing—but not wanting—the touch of a stranger. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 910-924. [APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: This paper shows that when intimacy is functional (i.e., for the purpose of achieving a non-relational goal), it leads recipients to prefer social distance from the service provider (7 experiments).
Schroeder, J., Waytz, A., & Epley, N. (2017). Endorsing help for others that you oppose for yourself: Mind perception alters the perceived effectiveness of paternalism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1106-1125. [APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: This paper shows that believing a person has less mental capacity makes givers expect paternalism will be a more effective method of helping the person (9 experiments).
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