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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jul 17

We (Goizueta Business School) are hiring a new lab manager for our behavioral lab. This is a great opportunity for recent undergrads who are hoping to get more research experience before a PhD. Would love to see your strong undergrads in this applicant pool.

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Senior Research Administrative Coordinator (Behavioral Lab Manager) - Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia | Careers at Emory Campus-Clifton Corridor

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute...

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Adam Morris @thatadammorris.bsky.social · Apr 30

Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Introspective access to value-based multi-attribute choice processes - Nature Communications

People routinely choose between multi-attribute options, such as which movie to watch. Here, the authors show people often have accurate insight into their choices, challenging the notion that people ...

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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · Apr 8

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Apr 7

The community of researchers I get to be a part of is one of my favorite parts of this career.

I'll be looking to build a community in Atlanta - please connect me if you know folks you think I'd be friends or collaborators with!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Apr 7

🌟 Exciting news! 🌟
This summer, one of my dreams is coming true: I’ll be joining Emory University - Goizueta Business School as an Assistant Professor of Organization & Management!

I'm so grateful for the wonderful mentors, collaborators, and friends who helped me make this happen.

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Feb 28

Big congrats and welcome (back) to Chicago!!!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 31

This looks fun - how does it work? You tell your students to swing by a coffee shop rather than have office hours?

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thomas Vaughn-Johnston led work on people who are dogmatically committed to neutrality (rather than extremity). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 29

Haha yes! Love it

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 28

We also identify people who are committed to having nuanced understanding of issues, and show that they are quite different than these neutrality ideologues.

We discuss implications for politically polarized attitudes, persuasion, intellectual humility, and our ability to address pressing issues

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 28

New work led by Thomas Vaughn-Johnston: 'The Preference for Neutrality.' Extremity is often seen as problematic, but some issues—like climate change—suffer from excessive neutrality. We created a scale to identify people dogmatically committed to neutrality, like others pursue extremity.

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Jan 6

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geoff durso @geoffdurso.bsky.social · Nov 22

also have to relearn how to use social media. here's me connecting marketing principles with folks' sociopolitical ambivalence, and the social expectations versus reality about expressing that to others

Expressing Ambivalence Hurts Likeability? Surprising Findings from Marketing Professor Geoff Durso

YouTube video by DePaul Driehaus College of Business

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Oct 4

Me!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

Awesome - thanks! I applied :-)

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

In addition to research, I am passionate about mentoring and especially supporting mentees and colleagues from historically excluded groups. I’ve gotten to mentor some fabulous researchers through undergrad theses, and the SROP and Leadership Alliance summer programs.

Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

Other work examines how we can get people to engage in difficult conversations and when, specifically, growth mindsets are beneficial.

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

How do perceptions of bias affect trust and persuasion? For example, my work finds that perceived bias can undermine trust and persuasion. However, perceived bias doesn’t always undermine persuasion – if biased sources switch positions, they can actually get a boost! psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-...

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

How do the ways that we talk about and understand history affect societal disadvantage and institutional trust? As one example, I explore how organizational history celebrations can undermine trust and belonging among Black Americans. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

Here’s some more about the research questions I tackle. A thread:

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 18

Excited to share that I am officially on the academic job market! I’m currently a postdoc at UChicago Booth and did my graduate training in social psychology at Ohio State.
If you know of any opportunities or have advice, I’d love to connect!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Sep 13

Amazing! I’d love to be added as well!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reminds me of some of Russ Fazio’s first work on how personal experience creates strong attitudes!

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Apr 9

Shout out to co-first author @stephlreeves.bsky.social. Although we collaborated on this from the beginning, this started out as her dissertation work and she did a lot of the early heavy lifting on this project.

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Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · Apr 9

This work suggests that organizations may want to be careful about the ways that they talk about their histories; looking forward to future work on how organizations might be able to talk about their histories without these negative consequences, perhaps by acknowledging & making amends for racism.