Christopher Bauman

About

Christopher W. Bauman is a Professor of Organization and Management at the Paul Merage School of Business, UCI. His research addresses how people make sense of and respond to their social environment, including interactions with individuals, groups, and organizations. His work focuses on issues of ethics and fairness, group diversity, corporate social responsibility, information processing in negotiations, and their implications for individual and mutual gains. Bauman's research has been published in top journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and others. His work has also been featured in prominent media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, and the Orange County Register. He holds a PhD and MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bauman is interested in working with PhD students on topics related to ethics, morality, justice, workplace diversity, and effective negotiation tactics, with a strong commitment to inclusive excellence.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Data science
• Sociology
• Economics
• Psychology
• Econometrics
• Statistics
• Cognitive psychology
• Archaeology

Selected publications

• Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results.

  Psychological Bulletin · 2020 · 180 citations

  To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across different sets of materials designed to test the same…

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• Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 54 citations

  This initiative examined systematically the extent to which a large set of archival research findings generalizes across contexts. We repeated the key analyses for 29 original strategic management effects in the same context (direct reproduction) as well as in 52 novel time periods and geographies; 45% of the reproductions returned results matching the original reports together with 55% of tests in different spans of years and 40% of tests in novel geographies. Some original findings were associ…

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• The Cognitive and Behavioral Impact of Promotion and Prevention Contracts on Trust in Repeated Exchanges

  Academy of Management Journal · 2018-07-23 · 48 citations

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  Although contracts certainly facilitate exchange, scholars debate whether contracts and trust are complements or substitutes.Recent theoretical work suggests that contract frames influence the relationship between contracts and trust.We test and extend this theorizing by examining the effects of prevention and promotion contract frames on trust and some potential cognitive and emotional mechanisms responsible for them.We also explore how unexpected negative events affect trust developed under di…

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• Unlocking creative potential: Reappraising emotional events facilitates creativity for conventional thinkers

  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2022-11-07 · 21 citations

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• Linking anxiety to passion: Emotion regulation and entrepreneurs' pitch performance

  Journal of Business Venturing · 2024-07-17 · 11 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Linda J. Skitka

  University of Illinois Chicago

  23 shared

• Adam Hahn

  University of Bath

  10 shared

• Eric Luis Uhlmann

  INSEAD

  9 shared

• Elizabeth Mullen

  Héritage et Création dans le Texte et l'Image

  9 shared

• Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers

  University of Amsterdam

  9 shared

• Walter Sowden

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  8 shared

• Andrei Cimpian

  8 shared

• Daniel C. Molden

  8 shared

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