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Aug 1, 2024 | 
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu | Maryam Kouchaki
Summary Across several studies, Kellogg’s Maryam Kouchaki and her colleagues find that people in positions of structural power report less inequity in their organizations than other employees, in part because they identify more with their workplace. This has consequences for managers’ support for diversity programs. However, their support for such programs increases after they are asked to recall an instance of workplace bias.
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May 1, 2024 | 
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu | Maryam Kouchaki
Summary Across several studies, Maryam Kouchki and her coauthors find that high levels of economic inequality at both a national and local level makes people feel less in control of their lives, which in turn causes them to perceive immoral behavior as being more acceptable. The relationship between inequality and loss of control appears to be related to perceived levels of social mobility.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu | Maryam Kouchaki
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTLaura PAVIN: When it comes to American workplace culture, we expect business leaders to present themselves as polished—basically, flawless. And I think that’s because there’s this idea that, in order to trust a person’s guidance, we need to believe that they’ve figured something out that the rest of us haven’t. It’s a pretty crippling expectation. And I think it pushes some leaders to a point where they’re so afraid to admit that they got something wrong that they just don’t.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
hbr.org | Christopher To |Elad N. Sherf |Maryam Kouchaki
The success of diversity initiatives — which are designed to address social inequities and ensure that all employees are treated equally — depends on the support of those in positions of structural power: which is to say, managers. But even those managers who generally support diversity initiatives often deny the existence of problems at their own organizations and therefore resist such initiatives.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
drumup.io | Christopher To |Elad N. Sherf |Maryam Kouchaki
The success of diversity initiatives — which are designed to address social inequities and ensure that all employees are treated equally — depends on the support of those in positions of structural power: which is to say, managers. But even those managers who generally support diversity initiatives often deny the existence of problems at their own organizations and therefore resist such initiatives.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu | Maryam Kouchaki
Next, they completed ten simple word-search games. For participants in the two giving-by-proxy groups, each completed word search earned a five-cent charitable bonus; in the control group, no bonuses were awarded. Then, the researchers asked participants if they would like to be notified about future studies. Those who said yes were asked whether they preferred studies where they could earn bonuses for charity or ones where they could earn bonuses for themselves.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
fastcompany.com | Maryam Kouchaki
By Maryam Kouchaki and Rima Touré-Tillery5 minute ReadHow good is your memory? Your answer to that relates to something that might surprise you: your likelihood to behave “virtuously,” whether forgoing that second serving of potato chips or donating to charity. Consider an example: Imagine you’ve just loaded your groceries into the car and you realize you forgot to buy something critical, like milk. So you run back into the store to get it.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
theartofhealing.com.au | Maryam Kouchaki
Decades of research point to moral fallibility, that humans are not perfect and are likely to fail in being moral. Everyday people end up violating their own moral values, sometimes unknowingly, and they find numerous ways to rationalise or ignore this behaviour. By doing so, they keep their image of themselves as good, honest individuals – so good that the average person thinks they’re more likely to go to heaven than Mother Teresa. Is there anything to be done about this?
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
theartofhealing.com.au | Maryam Kouchaki
Decades of research point to moral fallibility, that humans are not perfect and are likely to fail in being moral. Everyday people end up violating their own moral values, sometimes unknowingly, and they find numerous ways to rationalise or ignore this behaviour. By doing so, they keep their image of themselves as good, honest individuals – so good that the average person thinks they’re more likely to go to heaven than Mother Teresa. Is there anything to be done about this?
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Mar 13, 2023 | 
greatergood.berkeley.edu | Maryam Kouchaki
Let’s imagine that you come to our lab at Northwestern University to do a task. You have sets of numbers in front of you, and you are asked to find the two numbers that add up to exactly 10 for each set. For each correct response, you earn 50 cents. Now, imagine that we tell you that you can score yourself, and then recycle the paper with your responses, which doesn’t have your name on it. All you have to do is turn in a payment slip with your score, and we pay you. Would you cheat?
