Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor Minson is a social psychologist with research interests in group judgment and decision-making, negotiations, and social influence. Her primary line of research addresses psychological biases that prevent managers, consumers, and policy-makers from gaining maximum value from collaboration. She also studies the conditions that make people willing to listen and be receptive to views and opinions they strongly oppose. Her most recent work deals with structuring group interaction to maximize decision-making effectiveness.
Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, she served as a Lecturer at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where she taught Negotiations at both the MBA and the undergraduate levels. She received a PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University and a BA in Psychology from Harvard University.
Experiments:
- Argumentative Stance & Risk
- Political Issues Survey