People: Behavioral Lab: Stanford GSB

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Lab Personel

Manager

Nicholas Hall, MAPP

hall_nicholas "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Nicholas Hall earned his masters degree in applied positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, working under Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson. One of his research interests is employee engagement with their work, with their co-workers, and meaning-making at work. His other area of interest is conscious and implicit decision making, and the differences between the conscious and unconscious thought processing.

Selected Publications

Peterson, C., Park, N., Hall, N., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2009). Zest and Work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 161–172.

Research Assistants

Simone Tang

tang_simone "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Simone received her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Criminology from University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily interested in moral judgments and decision making. In connection with that, another area of her interests is how a slight detail change about an event can influence people to appraise characters in the event or the event itself completely differently. Some questions that she wants to investigate are: How do people predict their moral behavior? How do people infer an individual’s moral behavior from people around that individual? What does this mean when we try and keep an eye on each other’s behavior?

Lleyana Jack

jack_lleyana "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Lleyana Jack received her B.A in Psychology from Stanford University, with a specialization in Mind, Culture, & Society and a minor in Modern Languages (Spanish and French). She finds the human mind fascinating and has an affinity for all things psychology related, but is especially intrigued by the psychology of decision making: Is it possible to construct formulas that predict what decisions people will make in specific situations? What factors influence people to make one choice over the other? She thinks that this kind of research is most relevant to marketing and consumerism and therefore has future plans to enroll in a graduate program at a business school.

Sonya Bendriem

bendriem_sonya "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Sonya Bendriem received her B.A. in Psychology from American University in 2011. For her honors thesis, she investigated how emotion regulation, specifically reappraisal, impacts the affective, perceptual, and behavioral effects of being in a high or low social power role. Although she is interested in various areas of social psychology, she especially wants to study the reciprocal influence of interpersonal relationships and interactions on emotions, self-perception, and attitudes and behaviors towards others within the context of social power.