Consider a recent study led by Adam Galinsky, a psychologist at Northwestern University.

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Rucker (Northwestern University) and Adam Galinsky (Columbia University) tested just that idea: as part of a session of individual mock interviews, we assigned business school applicants to one of three conditions.

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Research I've conducted with my colleagues Jennifer Jordan, of the University of Groningen, and Adam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, suggests general principles about how to respond to major catastrophes.

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Psychologists Nir Halevy, Yair Berson, and Adam Galinsky set out to find the answer in a series of new studies, pitting one style of leadership against the other to see which style is generally preferred, and why.

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