Do Narcissists Find the “I” in Team? How Narcissism in Teams Affects Individual Performance [PDF]→

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Herndon, A. E., Sulaiman, S., Stein, D. H., Schroeder, J., & Chatman, J. (2026). Do narcissists find the “I” in team? How narcissism in teams affects individual performance. [Academy of Management Discoveries Link]

  • Short Summary: In a study of 475 MBA program executives organized into 105 study groups, this paper finds that people perform better on individually graded, group-dependent tasks when their own trait narcissism is closer to their group's average narcissism level. The results challenge the assumption that narcissists uniformly harm their teams, suggesting instead that narcissists (and non-narcissists alike) thrive when surrounded by similarly-natured teammates due to shared working norms and culture fit.

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Spoken Disagreement Is More Constructive Than Written Disagreement [PDF]→

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Bevis, B., Schroeder, J., & Yeomans, M. (2026). Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written disagreement. [Nature Communications Link]

  • Short Summary: Spoken conversations with a disagreeing counterpart lead to greater understanding, lower conflict, more favorable impressions of one’s counterpart, and greater attitude alignment than written conversations (6 experiments).

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The Ordinary And Extraordinary Struggle of Social Life: Perceiving, Understanding, And Connecting with Other Minds [PDF]→

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Schroeder, J. (2024). The ordinary and extraordinary struggle of social life: Perceiving, understanding, and connecting with other minds. In Carlston, D., Johnson, K., & Hugenberg, K. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition. Oxford University Press. [The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition Link]

  • Short Summary: This chapter highlights challenges and opportunities for mind perception (how people attribute mental capacity to others) and mind reading (how people assess others’ mental states) through the lens of six different types of “minds.” Three minds illustrate forms of mind perception—invisible minds, those we cannot directly experience, dehumanized minds, those that seem weaker than our own, and anthropomorphized minds, those that we perceive but may not actually exist. The other three illustrate mind reading—misread and misunderstood minds, those that are apparent but not accurately inferred, and unlocked minds, those that can be accurately read using effective communication.

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A Voice Inside My Head: The Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Auditory Technologies [PDF]→

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Lieberman, A., Schroeder, J., & Amir, O. (2022). A voice inside my head: The psychological and behavioral consequences of auditory technologies. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170, 104133. [Science Direct Link]

  • Short Summary: This paper shows that listening to a message using headphones, compared to using speakers, increases a listener's felt closeness to the communicator(s) of the message because headphones localize sound inside a listener’s head (5 experiments).

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“Just Letting You Know...” Underestimating Others’ Desire for Constructive Feedback. [PDF]→

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Abi-Esber, N., Abel, J. E., Schroeder, J., & Gino, F. (2022). “Just letting you know...” Underestimating others’ desire for constructive feedback. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(6), 1362–1385. [APA PsycNet Link]

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Talking Shop: An Exploration of How Talking about Work Affects Our Initial Interactions [PDF]→

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Martin, S. R., Harrison, S. H., Hoopes, C., Schroeder, J., & Belmi, P. R. (2022). Talking shop: An exploration of how talking about work affects our initial interactions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 168, 104104. [Science Direct Link]

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Keep Talking: (Mis)understanding The Hedonic Trajectory of Conversation [PDF]→

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Kardas, M., Schroeder, J., & O'Brien, E. (2022). Keep talking: (Mis)understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(4), 717–740. [APA PsycNet Link]

  • Short Summary: This paper shows that people misunderstand the hedonic trajectory of conversation. They expect their enjoyment to decline as a conversation continues but instead experience stable or increasing enjoyment in reality (5 experiments).

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Hello, Stranger? Pleasant Conversations are Preceded by Concerns About Starting One [PDF]→

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Schroeder, J., Lyons, D., & Epley, N. (2022). Hello, stranger? Pleasant conversations are preceded by concerns about starting one. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(5), 1141–1153. [APA PsycNet Link]

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Ending Conversation is a Fraught Endeavor [PDF]→

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Schroeder, J. (2021). Ending conversation is a fraught endeavor. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(7), 552-553. [Cell Press Link]

  • Short Summary: This is a commentary discussing the provocative conclusion from Mastroianni et al. (2021) that “conversations rarely end when people want them to end.”

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Tell it Like it is: When Politically Incorrect Language Promotes Authenticity [PDF]→

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Rosenblum, M., Schroeder, J., & Gino, F. (2020). Tell is like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 75-103. [APA PsycNet Link]

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The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement [PDF]→

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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]

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The Sound of Intellect: Speech Reveals a Thoughtful Mind, Increasing a Job Candidate’s Appeal [PDF]→

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Schroeder, J., & Epley, N. (2015). The sound of intellect: Speech reveals a thoughtful mind, increasing a job candidate’s appeal. Psychological Science, 26, 877-891. [SAGE Journals Link]

  • Short Summary: This paper finds that people evaluate job candidates’ mental capacities more highly when they hear their “elevator pitches” than when they read them, and are more interested in hiring them (4 experiments).

  • Featured as Editor’s Choice in Science, 348, p. 877.

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Mistakenly Seeking Solitude [PDF]→

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Epley, N., & Schroeder, J. (2014). Mistakenly seeking solitude. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1980-1999. [APA PsycNet Link]

  • Short Summary: This paper finds that people prefer to sit in solitude in public settings (on buses, trains, cabs, and in waiting rooms) than to talk to a stranger, but when randomly assigned to talk to a stranger in these same settings, report greater happiness and no less productivity compared with sitting in silence or doing what they want (10 experiments).

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