Welcome to the
Minson Conflict and Collaboration Lab – MC²!
We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers from different parts of Harvard University interested in decision-making, negotiations, conflict, teams, advice-taking, consumer behavior, and the psychology of language. Below please find information on current lab members and lab alumni and their work.
If you would like to contact MC², please email: jminsonlab (at) gmail (dot) com
Minson Conflict and Collaboration Lab – MC²!
We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers from different parts of Harvard University interested in decision-making, negotiations, conflict, teams, advice-taking, consumer behavior, and the psychology of language. Below please find information on current lab members and lab alumni and their work.
If you would like to contact MC², please email: jminsonlab (at) gmail (dot) com
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Jenn LoggJenn is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University's
McDonough School of Business. Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She received my Ph.D. from the Management of Organizations department at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Her work examines why people fail to view themselves and their work realistically. Her research focuses on how individuals can assess themselves and the world more accurately by using advice and feedback produced by algorithms (scripts for mathematical calculations). She calls her primary line of research, Theory of Machine. Broadly, this work examines how people expect algorithmic and human judgment to differ. |
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Mike YeomansMike is currently an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour at Imperial College Business School. In his research, he uses natural language processing to study decision-making in conversation.
Mike completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto and in 2014, he completed a PhD and an MBA in Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. |
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Charles Dorison
Charlie is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is formally affiliated with the Dispute Resolution Research Center and the Management & Organizations Department. Previously, Charlie completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy (Judgment and Decision Making Track) at Harvard Kennedy School.
His research integrates theory and methods from emotion science, social psychology, and judgment and decision making to shed light on human behavior. Much of his current research explores conflict and collaboration at the interpersonal and intergroup levels. He is particularly interested in disagreements when individuals hold strong attitudes or when neo-classical economics provides a benchmark for rational behavior.
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David Hagmann
David is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on the myriad of ways in which people's engagement with information deviates from the standard economic account. David has developed a scale to measure people's "Information Preferences" and showed that the desire to remain ignorant is widespread, even when the information could lead to better decisions. His research examines the consequences of information biases for negotiations, public policy, and politics. David's ongoing work explores the role of personal narratives in overcoming avoidance. He finds that sharing personal narratives can build trust among people who hold conflicting political views.
David received his PhD from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Ania Jaroszewicz
Ania is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. Broadly, her research aims to everage behavioral economic insights to help connect people to resources they need. Her current research focuses on (i) identifying psychological barriers that prevent people in need from asking others for help, and (ii) finding ways to help people overcome those barriers.
Ania holds a PhD in behavioral decision research from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as bachelor’s degrees in economics and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission (consumer protection division), the Council on Environmental Quality, and the World Bank’s behavioral science unit. |
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Hayley Blunden
Hayley is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on workplace communication challenges, such as advice seeking, feedback delivery, and virtual interactions.
Prior to pursuing her PhD, Hayley worked in consulting and corporate strategy. Hayley earned her BA in Economics from The University of Virginia, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. |
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Ariella Kristal
Ariella is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School where she studies behavioral design. Specifically, she is interested in how environments can be structured to reduce bias in the workplace, in educational settings, in the online context, and in many others. She is also a Lara Warner Scholar of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.
Previously, Ariella worked for the Behavioural Insights Team in London, where she applied findings from behavioral science to public policy. She has focused on delivering policy advice and designing and implementing field experiments related to sustainable transportation, criminal justice, and organizational behavior. Ariella graduated from Yale University with a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. |
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Hanne Collins
Hanne is a PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Hanne is interested in understanding how people navigate the complexities of conversation, especially in the contexts of conflict and disagreement. She hopes to harness this understanding in order to optimize these interactions and help people get the most out of their conversations.
Hanne received her B.A. Honors in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. |
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Molly Moore
Molly is a PhD Student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, specializing in the judgement and decision making track. Her research focuses on how trust and social rewards can influence decision making.
Molly graduated Cum Laude with High Honors in Economics from Harvard College with a secondary in psychology and Spanish citation. Outside of academics, she is also on the USRowing National Team and won the World Rowing Championships in 2019 in the PR3 women’s pair. |
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Joel Levin
Joel is a PhD Candidate in organizational behavior at the University of Pittsburgh, studying social and collaborative judgment. His primary line of research investigates how people make inferences about the quality of information and advice, and how they draw on those inferences to evaluate others.
Joel received a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh with honors in economics and a minor in political science. In a past life, he was a musician who dabbled in commercial lending and managing a motorcycle shop. |
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Daniella Kupor
Daniella’s research interests are in the areas of decision making and consumer persuasion. Within these broad domains, she have several streams of research. Her research on decision making examines how interruptions and other situational variables influence preference formation, as well as how lay theories shape risk judgments. Her research on consumer persuasion examines the persuasive factors that influence decision making.
Daniella Kupor received a PhD in Marketing in 2016 from Stanford University. She received a BS in Psychology in 2008 from Brown University. |
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Martha Jeong
Martha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). Her current research program focuses on decision-making and communication strategies. Martha explores our how subjective experience and attitudes toward the “decision-making experience” affect how we make decisions and how we feel about the decisions afterwards. She studies how we use information on how decisions were made to infer decision-making quality and influence decision-maker evaluations. Martha’s research aims to tackle the question: How can we structure organizational decision-making so that individuals not only make accurate decisions but feel motivated to make the best decisions and feel accountable for the decisions they make? In her research stream on communication, Martha looks at whether we adopt effective communication strategies in goal-driven communications, such as when we negotiate, seek feedback, or promote ourselves.
Martha received her PhD in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, her JD at Harvard Law School, and her undergraduate degree at Rice University. Martha worked as a litigation attorney prior to her doctorate studies. |
lab alumni
Brad DeWees
Brad is a PhD student on the judgment and decision-making track at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include the role of accountability in decision-making and how people evaluate the ideas of others.
Brad completed his undergraduate work at the US Air Force Academy, where he was the top overall graduate from the Class of 2009. He is an active-duty Air Force officer and will return to operational assignments after completing his PhD.
Brad is a PhD student on the judgment and decision-making track at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include the role of accountability in decision-making and how people evaluate the ideas of others.
Brad completed his undergraduate work at the US Air Force Academy, where he was the top overall graduate from the Class of 2009. He is an active-duty Air Force officer and will return to operational assignments after completing his PhD.
Chris Umphres
Chris received his PhD in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020 for research on overconfidence and social perceptions of sunk cost decision making. He is currently serving in the US Air Force as an F-35 pilot and working to assist the military in applying the principles of Decision Science to military decision processes.
Chris received his PhD in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020 for research on overconfidence and social perceptions of sunk cost decision making. He is currently serving in the US Air Force as an F-35 pilot and working to assist the military in applying the principles of Decision Science to military decision processes.
Logan Berg
Logan is currently working as a Research Fellow in the Management, Leadership and Decisions Sciences Area at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Logan is currently working as a Research Fellow in the Management, Leadership and Decisions Sciences Area at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Celia Gaertig
Celia is currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business after she received her PhD in Decision Processes from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Celia is currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business after she received her PhD in Decision Processes from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sam Skowronek
Sam is currently a doctoral candidate in the Operations, Information and Decisions department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sam is currently a doctoral candidate in the Operations, Information and Decisions department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.