Emma Levine

About

Emma Levine's research focuses on the ethical and psychological aspects of lying and honesty, examining how people perceive and respond to deception in various contexts, including leadership, relationships, and organizational settings.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Epistemology
• Medicine
• Public relations
• Law

Selected publications

• Prosocial lies: Causes and consequences

  Current Opinion in Psychology · 2021 · 50 citations

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• Hiding success.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2020 · 44 citations

  Self-promotion is common in everyday life. Yet, across 8 studies (N = 1,687) examining a broad range of personal and professional successes, we find that individuals often hide their successes from others and that such hiding has relational costs. We document these effects among close relational partners, acquaintances, and within hypothetical relationships. Study 1 finds that targets feel less close to and more insulted by communicators who hide rather than share their successes. Study 2 finds…

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• Honest Behavior: Truth-Seeking, Belief-Speaking, and Fostering Understanding of the Truth in Others

  Academy of Management Annals · 2023 · 42 citations

  While people across the world value honesty, it is undeniable that it can sometimes pay to be dishonest. This tension leads people to engage in complex behaviors that stretch the boundaries of honesty. Such behaviors include strategically avoiding information, dodging questions, omitting information, and making true but misleading statements. Though not lies per se, these are nonetheless deviations from honesty that have serious interpersonal, organizational, and societal costs. Based on a syste…

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• Brokered Distances: Trust in Brokers within and Between Organizations

  Organizational Psychology Review · 2025-04-13 · 12 citations

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  Organizational brokers, such as producers, diplomats, and middle managers, connect people within and across organizations. Trust in brokers promotes their effectiveness in connecting unfamiliar counterparts and transferring information between disconnected parties. Often, however, the very conditions that create the need for brokering, such as the existence of structural holes, undermine trust in brokers. We introduce an organizing framework to explain how fundamental features of brokering proce…

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• A Call to Maximize the Social Impact of Our Research: An Effective Altruism Approach

  Academy of Management Perspectives · 2023-11-01 · 11 citations

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  Connecting management research to policy is a focal route through which management research can contribute to meaningful and sustainable social change. Yet, management researchers often fail to make this connection. The present article discusses management research’s potential to inform effective policy and social change, and provides a roadmap for how to realize that potential. Our perspective is rooted in the effective altruism philosophy, which argues that people should use evidence and caref…

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Frequent coauthors

• Taya R. Cohen

  Carnegie Mellon University

  22 shared

• Maurice E. Schweitzer

  21 shared

• Anne Wagner

  Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit

  16 shared

• Stephen Gondek

  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  16 shared

• Hanna Slutsky

  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  16 shared

• Elizabeth Slater

  16 shared

• Olatundun Ladele

  Meharry Medical College

  16 shared

• Deborah A. Small

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  15 shared

Labs

• HOPE Lab: Honesty, Opportunity, Prosociality, & EthicsPI

Awards & honors

• Distinguished Alumni Award

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