Gus Cooney.

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Gus Cooney is a social psychologist who studies conversation and social interaction. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University and currently teaches Negotiations at the Wharton School.

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Fascinated by the dynamics of conversation and social interaction.

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A science of conversation

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2023 (Under Review)

Dissimilarity pessimism: People underestimate the extent to which dissimilar others are interested in talking to them

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2023 (Forthcoming)

Chapter on conversation

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2023

The CANDOR corpus: Insights from a large multimodal dataset of naturalistic conversation

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2023

Embracing Complexity: A Review of Negotiation Research

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2022

Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection

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2021

The thought gap after conversation: Underestimating the frequency of others’ thoughts about us.

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2021

Do conversations end when people want them to?

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2021

The liking gap in groups and teams

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2020

The many minds problem: disclosure in dyadic versus group conversation

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2018

The liking gap in conversations: do people like us more than we think?

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2017

The novelty penalty: Why do people like talking about new experiences but hearing about old ones

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2016

When fairness matters less than we expect

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2014

The unforeseen costs of extraordinary experience

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Employment

2019 - Present

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • Senior Instructor
  • Operations, Information and Decision Department

2017 - 2019

Harvard University

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Department of Psychology

Education

2017

Harvard University

  • Ph.D. Psychology

2007

Boston University

  • B.A. Philosopohy

Interests

Research interests

  • Conversation / social interaction
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Interpersonal perception 

Teaching interests

  • Negotiations
  • Persuasion and Influence
  • Communication

Research Consulting

2018 - Present

research consultant, betterup, san francisco, cA

2014 - 2017

Director of research, broad Green Pictures, Los angeles, cA

Selected Honors & Awards

2019 - Present

The Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, University of Pennsylvania

2018

Fellow of the Society, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

2018

Dissertation Award, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

2018

Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University

2011 - 2013

Graduate research fellowship, harvard university

2011

Graduate research fellowship, harvard university

2003 - 2007

Cardinal Medeiros Scholar (Full Tuition Scholarship), Boston University.

Cooney.

Research overview

Publications

Candor Dataset

Teaching & Consulting

Media

About Me

Interests & hobbies

Embarking on adventures through skiing, immersing myself in diverse cultures through rugs and textiles, and finding serenity in the art of surfing – these are the passion that shape my life.

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