Jennifer Lerner
Jennifer Lerner
Jennifer Lerner is an experimental social psychologist known for her research in emotion and decision theory. She is the first psychologist in the history of the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. At Harvard, her titles include Professor of Public Policy and Management, Professor of Psychology, Faculty Director in the Graduate Commons Program, and Co-Founder of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory. Her research interests also include: the effects of accountability on judgment and choice and a broad range of psychology...
behavior economic effect emotions exert incidental showing situation time unrelated
We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effect on economic behavior in other, ostensibly unrelated situations.
anger leads maddening otherwise people power
Having that sense of anger leads people to actually feel some power in what otherwise is a maddening situation.