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Julia A. Minson
Visiting Lecturer

Julia Minson is a Lecturer in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School. Her research addresses the factors and situations that allow decision-making partners to take advantage of each other's knowledge and expertise in making collaborative judgments, and the barriers that prevent them from doing so. In exploring this question Julia has addressed the role of initial disagreement between partners for improving judgment accuracy, as well as the benefits of being compelled to reach consensus. Julia is particularly interested in the attributions partners make for their own and each other's behavior and judgment, as well as the role of particular goals and mindsets.

Julia's other research looks at ways of increasing receptiveness and open-mindedness in conflictual settings. In particular she has explored the beneficial effect of asking "elaboration questions" in the context of contentious dialogue, demonstrating that both asking and being asked to elaborate on one's viewpoint leads to more positive dialogue outcomes.

Julia holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University.

Current Research

Julia A. Minson, Varda Liberman, Lee Ross, Two to Tango: The effect of collaborative experience and disagreement on dyadic judgment. (2009).

Varda Liberman, Julia A. Minson, Lee Ross, Christopher J. Bryan, The limited “Wisdom of Dyads”: Naïve realism, false consensus, and the failure to realize the benefits of aggregated assessments. (2009).

Frances S. Chen, Julia A. Minson, Zakary L. Tormala, From open hostility to friendly disagreement: Increasing receptiveness to counter-attitudinal information. (2009).

Julia A. Minson, Benoit Monin, Do-gooder derogation: Putting down morally-motivated others to defuse implicit moral reproach. (2009).

Julia A. Minson
3730 Walnut Street
550 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA19104-6340
Phone: (215) 898-3025
Fax: (215) 898-3664
jminson@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Decision-making, partnership and collaboration, conflict and disagreement

Last Modified November 11, 2009