Faculty & Research Published Research Research Education Economics Social Psychology Health Policy Social Entrepreneurship Environmental Policy Ethics Racial Justice and Equity National Security Political Science Advocacy Domestic Policy & Politics International and Global Affairs Democracy Social Equity International Development Research and Commentary (-) Leadership Facet Area of Focus - Research Eileen Chou Craig Volden Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Leadership Unpacking the Black box: How inter- and intra-team forces motivate team rationality Authors: Eileen Chou, Kathy W. Phillips How can we ensure that teams can fulfill their full cognitive potential? This paper explores how team members can be motivated so that, collectively, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Learn more Published Research Leadership Introducing the LEAD Dataset Authors: Allan C. Stam, Cali Mortenson Ellis, Michael C. Horowitz The Leader Experience, Attribute, and Decision (LEAD) data set provides a rich source of new information about the personal lives and experiences of over 2,000 state leaders from 1875–2004. For the first time, we can combine insights from psychology and human development with large-n data on interstate conflict for a new theory of leadership and inter-state relations. Learn more Published Research Leadership Social Psychology Mental models at work: Cognitive causes and consequences of conflict in organizations Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Taya R. Cohen, James J. Katz, A. T. Panter This research investigated the reciprocal relationship between mental models of conflict and various forms of dysfunctional social relations in organizations, including experiences of task and relationship conflicts, interpersonal hostility, workplace ostracism, and abusive supervision. Learn more Published Research Leadership When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, Dana E. Wittmer, Colorado College Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. We argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Learn more Published Research Leadership A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America Authors: Brian Balogh While it is obvious that America’s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Learn more Published Research Leadership 'Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare:' A Prescription that Progressives Should Fill Authors: Brian Balough The state has consistently been displaced by individual initiative and market mechanisms in personal and collective memory and, more often than not, scholarly interpretations as well. Progressives, however, would do well to embrace rather than deride this pattern. Learn more Published Research Leadership Technology and Voter Intent: Evidence from the California Recall Election Authors: Thomas Dee Conventional evaluations of voting systems focus on ballots for which no vote can be recorded (that is, “residual” votes). However, recorded votes that misrepresent voter intent are another potentially important, but less easily measured, source of error. Learn more
Published Research Leadership Unpacking the Black box: How inter- and intra-team forces motivate team rationality Authors: Eileen Chou, Kathy W. Phillips How can we ensure that teams can fulfill their full cognitive potential? This paper explores how team members can be motivated so that, collectively, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Learn more
Published Research Leadership Introducing the LEAD Dataset Authors: Allan C. Stam, Cali Mortenson Ellis, Michael C. Horowitz The Leader Experience, Attribute, and Decision (LEAD) data set provides a rich source of new information about the personal lives and experiences of over 2,000 state leaders from 1875–2004. For the first time, we can combine insights from psychology and human development with large-n data on interstate conflict for a new theory of leadership and inter-state relations. Learn more
Published Research Leadership Social Psychology Mental models at work: Cognitive causes and consequences of conflict in organizations Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Taya R. Cohen, James J. Katz, A. T. Panter This research investigated the reciprocal relationship between mental models of conflict and various forms of dysfunctional social relations in organizations, including experiences of task and relationship conflicts, interpersonal hostility, workplace ostracism, and abusive supervision. Learn more
Published Research Leadership When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, Dana E. Wittmer, Colorado College Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. We argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Learn more
Published Research Leadership A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America Authors: Brian Balogh While it is obvious that America’s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Learn more
Published Research Leadership 'Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare:' A Prescription that Progressives Should Fill Authors: Brian Balough The state has consistently been displaced by individual initiative and market mechanisms in personal and collective memory and, more often than not, scholarly interpretations as well. Progressives, however, would do well to embrace rather than deride this pattern. Learn more
Published Research Leadership Technology and Voter Intent: Evidence from the California Recall Election Authors: Thomas Dee Conventional evaluations of voting systems focus on ballots for which no vote can be recorded (that is, “residual” votes). However, recorded votes that misrepresent voter intent are another potentially important, but less easily measured, source of error. Learn more