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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Social Influence; Power, Status, & Leadership; Trust; Overconfidence; Interpersonal Perception
PUBLICATIONS
Audia, P., Rousseau, H., Brion, S. CEO power and nonconforming reference group selection. Conditionally Accepted at Organization Science
Cheng, J. T., Anderson, C., Tenney, E. R., Brion, S., Moore, D. A., & Logg, J. M. (in press). The social transmission of overconfidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Brion, S., Mo, R., Lount, R. B. (2019). Dynamic influences of power on trust: Changes in power affect trust in others. Journal of Trust Research, 9(1), 6-27. pdf
Lount, R. B., Doyle, S., Brion, S., Pettit, N. C. (2019). Only When Others Are Watching: The Contingent Efforts of High Status Group Members. Management Science, 65(7), 3382-3397. pdf
Audia, P. G., Brion, S., & Greve, H. R. (2015). Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance. Cognition and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 32) (pp. 89-118): Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pdf
Anderson, C. & Brion, S. (2014). Perspectives on Power in Organizations. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 67-97. pdf
Brion, S. & Anderson, C. (2013). The Loss of Power: How Illusions of Alliance Contribute to Powerholders’ Downfall. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 121, 129-139. pdf
Kaganer, E., Giordano, G., Brion, S., Tortoriello, M. (2013). Media Tablets for Mobile Learning: Friend or Foe?. Communications of the ACM, 56 (11), 68-75. pdf
Anderson, C., Brion, S., Moore, D., Kennedy, K. (2012). A status-enhancement account of overconfidence. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 103, 718-735. pdf
Maddox, K. B., Rapp, D. N., & Brion, S., Taylor, H. A. (2008). Social influences on spatial memory. Memory & Cognition,36(3), 479-494. pdf
Audia, P., & Brion, S. (2007). Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 255-269. pdf
Overbeck, J. R., Tiedens, L. Z., & Brion, S. (2006). The powerful want to, the powerless have to: Perceived constraint moderates causal attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 479-496. pdf
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Cheng, J.T., Anderson, C., Tenney, E., Brion, S., Moore, D.A., The contagion of overconfidence. R&R at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Audia, P., Rousseau, H., Brion, S. CEO power and nonconforming reference group selection. R&R at Organization Science
PRESENTATIONS
Audia, P.G., Rousseau, H.E., Brion, S. (2017). CEO power and nonconforming reference group selection. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Brion, S., Lount, R. B., Jr. (2014) “Trust development within teams: On the benefits of knowing who trusts you (and who doesn’t). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pa.
Brion, S., Anderson, C. (2013) Power and Illusions of Alliance: Overestimating the Strength of Alliances. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Brion, S. Anderson, C. (2010) How Power is Lost: Illusions of Alliance Among the powerful. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada. (Part of a co-chaired symposium titled, Hierarchy and Relationships: Perception and behavior in hierarchical relationships)
Anderson, C., Brion, S. (2009). Big Wigs, Big Egos: Understanding the Link between Social Status and Overconfidence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Il.
Brion, S. (2008). Website development for small groups research: Integration of PhP and MySQL for online data collection. Informal presentation to Stanford, Berkeley, and USC Ph.D. students at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, Ca.
Brion, S., Kray, L. J. (2007). Interplay between power and gender in negotiations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, Ca.
Brion, S., (2007). Ignorance is bliss: Circumscription of choice under ambiguity. Paper presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Organizational Behavior Conference, Stanford, CA.Brion, S. filling in for Overbeck, J. (2006). Dyadic data analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Brion, S. & Audia, P. (2006). Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
Brion, S. (2006). The myopia of legitimacy: Institutional forces in organizational learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Selected Media Mentions
The Wall Street Journal (2019). “When a promotion means losing a friend at work”. pdf
Le Monde (2019). “Promouvoir un salarié peut miner toute une équipe”. pdf
The Sunday Times (2014). “Where Machiavelli went wrong”. pdf
The Economist (2013). “Deluded Bosses: Who’s Behind me?”. pdf
Die Welt (2013). “Der Chef ist immer der größte Witzbold”. pdf
Le Monde (2013). “La cour et ses mirages”. pdf
Editorials
Forbes (2014). “How Helping Others Can Get You To The Top”. pdf
TEACHING
Organizational Behavior & Leadership (core MBA class)
Power and Influence (MBA elective)
Self-Management (core MBA class)
Organizational Behavior (core Ph.D. class)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Service
Associate Editor, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Social Influence Section (2018-Current)
Ad-hoc Reviewing
Academic Journals: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Business Ethics.
Scholarly grants & Competitions: Israel Science Foundation
Professional Affiliations
Academy of Management
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Service to the Academy of Management
Conflict Management Division, Representative-at-large