Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work

Alison Wood Brooks , Brad Bitterly
Harvard Business Review

1
2020
Worry at work: How organizational culture promotes anxiety

Maurice E. Schweitzer , Emma E. Levine , Alison Wood Brooks , Jeremy A. Yip
Research in Organizational Behavior 100124

15
2021
What is your status portfolio? Higher status variance across groups increases interpersonal helping but decreases intrapersonal well-being

Alison Wood Brooks , Gavin J. Kilduff , Siyu Yu , Nathan C. Pettit
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 165 56 -75

2021
Smart People Ask for My Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence

Alison Wood Brooks , Francesca Gino , Maurice E. Schweitzer
Management Science 61 ( 6) 1421 -1435

216
2015
I’m sorry about the rain! Superfluous apologies demonstrate empathic concern and increase trust.

Alison Wood Brooks , Hengchen Dai , Maurice E. Schweitzer
Social Psychological and Personality Science 5 ( 4) 467 -474

61
2014
It doesn't hurt to ask: Question-asking increases liking.

Karen Huang , Michael Yeomans , Alison Wood Brooks , Julia Minson
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113 ( 3) 430 -452

43
2017
It helps to ask: The cumulative benefits of asking follow-up questions.

Michael Yeomans , Alison Wood Brooks , Karen Huang , Julia Minson
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 117 ( 6) 1139 -1144

1
2019
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures

Alison Wood Brooks , Karen Huang , Nicole Abi-Esber , Ryan W. Buell
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148 ( 4) 667 -687

48
2019
Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking

Andrew R. Todd , Matthias Forstmann , Pascal Burgmer , Alison Wood Brooks
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144 ( 2) 374 -391

183
2015
Can Nervous Nelly negotiate? How anxiety causes negotiators to make low first offers, exit early, and earn less profit

Alison Wood Brooks , Maurice E. Schweitzer
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 115 ( 1) 43 -54

149
2011
Managing perceptions of distress at work: Reframing emotion as passion

Elizabeth Baily Wolf , Jooa Julia Lee , Sunita Sah , Alison Wood Brooks
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 1 -12

21
2016
Seeker beware: The interpersonal costs of ignoring advice

Hayley Blunden , Jennifer M. Logg , Alison Wood Brooks , Leslie K. John
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 150 83 -100

11
2019
The many minds problem: disclosure in dyadic versus group conversation.

Gus Cooney , Adam M Mastroianni , Nicole Abi-Esber , Alison Wood Brooks
Current opinion in psychology 31 22 -27

6
2020
Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-performance Anxiety as Excitement

Alison Wood Brooks
Academy of Management Proceedings 2013 ( 1) 10554 -10554

435
2013
A “Present” for the Future The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery

Ting Zhang , Tami Kim , Alison Wood Brooks , Francesca Gino
Psychological Science 25 ( 10) 1851 -1860

26
2014
The Conversational Circumplex: Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing informational and relational motives in conversation

Michael Yeomans , Maurice E Schweitzer , Alison Wood Brooks
Current Opinion in Psychology 44 293 -302

15
2022
Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

T Bradford Bitterly , Alison Wood Brooks , Maurice E Schweitzer
Academy of Management Proceedings 2015 ( 1) 14852

153
2015
The organizational apology

Maurice E Schweitzer , Alison Wood Brooks , Adam D Galinsky
Harvard Business Review 94 ( 9) 44 -52

64
2015
Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being

Hanne K Collins , Serena F Hagerty , Jordi Quoidbach , Michael I Norton
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 ( 43) e2120668119 -e2120668119

23
2022
Speedy activists: How firm response time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior

Jimin Nam , Maya Balakrishnan , Julian De Freitas , Alison Wood Brooks
Journal of Consumer Psychology 33 ( 4) 632 -644

6
2023