Professor, Management of Organizations, Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Schroeder, J., & Fishbach, A. (2024). Feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 111, 1-15. [Science Direct Link]
Short Summary: This paper finds that feeling known by a relationship partner is a stronger predictor of a person's relationship satisfaction than the feeling of knowing the partner (11 studies).
Belmi, P., & Schroeder, J. (2021). Human “resources”? Objectification at work. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(2), 384-417.[APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: This paper shows that people engage in more objectification—treating people akin to objects—in work contexts than in non-work contexts because people engage in more calculative and strategic thinking at work (7 studies).
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Habbert, R., & Schroeder, J. (2020). To build efficacy, eat the frog first: People misunderstand how the difficulty-ordering of tasks influences efficacy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104032. [Science Direct Link]
Short Summary: This paper shows that completing tasks in increasing-easiness order builds efficacy more than increasing-difficulty (or randomized) order, but people prefer to complete tasks in the opposing order in part because they inaccurately believe that doing so will enhance their efficacy (7 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., Caruso, E., & Epley, N. (2016). Many hands make overlooked work: Overclaiming of responsibility increases with group size. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22, 238-246. [APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: This paper finds that overclaiming (i.e., when group members’ contribution claims sum to more than 100 percent) increases as the group size increases because people fail to sufficiently consider their group members’ contributions (4 studies).
Schroeder, J., & Fishbach, A. (2015). How to motivate yourself and others? Intended and unintended consequences. Research in Organizational Behavior, 35, 123-141. [Science Direct Link]
Short Summary: This paper overviews three common motivational strategies and when they backfire: giving feedback, setting goal targets, and applying incentives.
Schroeder, J., & Fishbach, A. (2015). The “empty vessel” physician: Instrumentality makes physicians seem personally empty. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 940-949. [APA PsycNet Link]
Short Summary: This paper finds that individuals who have more need for medical care focus more on physicians’ traits relevant to their needs, perceiving physicians as more competent and failing to notice their personal emotions (6 experiments).
Rios, K., Markman, K.D., Schroeder, J., & Dyczewski, E.A. (2014). A (creative) portrait of the uncertain individual: Self-uncertainty and individualism enhance creative generation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1050-1062. [SAGE Journals Link]
Short Summary: This paper finds that self-uncertainty, relative to uncertainty in general, increases creative generation among individualists (5 studies).