Vanessa Bohns
@profbohns
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Prof @Cornell studying social influence, compliance & consent. Book author. Migrating to https://t.co/V7xP241aRa
Cornell University ILR School
Joined June 2011
I open my book with how it feels to be in front of the classroom, staring out at blank faces, unsure your words are having any impact at all. Then one day you get an email from a student revealing the impact you had on their life. I wanted this book to be that email for others.
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Want to hear an alternative ending of "The Giving Tree"? Or maybe you want to hear me tell @AdamMGrant how mean he is to his face? If so, you should really tune in to this truly fantastic episode of Adam's Work Life Podcast, "How to Say No"! https://t.co/NFsrnlkMTR
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Worklife with Adam Grant · 04/29/2025 · 36m
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Our little Upstate NY science center just had $500k of federal funding revoked. Just constant awfulness from this administration.
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Clear & powerful piece by Princeton President Eisgruber. "the government is using grants that apply to Columbia science departments as a cudgel to force changes to a completely unrelated department that the government apparently regards as objectionable." https://t.co/XSTbwYX1BI
theatlantic.com
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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I had to confirm off social media that he actually posted this video of "Trump Gaza" with a golden statue of himself and he and Netanyahu sipping cocktails at a pool built on a decimated war zone--it's too absurd and vile to believe at first. But he did.
cnn.com
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social account, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like...
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Making these kinds of basic mistakes with this kind of access is genuinely terrifying.
wired.com
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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I feel like if someone could just sneak “Hidden Figures” onto Trump’s bathroom TV we could put an end to this DEI-causes plane-crashes bullshit.
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There is a difference between your employee providing legal consent, and them feeling they have consented.
hbr.org
New research finds that employers overestimate how informed employees feel when they agree to policies, contracts, and even extra tasks at work. This miscalculation can have direct costs for organi...
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In our latest @HarvardBiz , @RachelSchlund & I argue that obtaining true informed consent requires more than locking in a signature or verbal agreement & that organizations willing to prioritize transparency and clarity over mere compliance reap benefits. https://t.co/faFg1h0E85
hbr.org
New research finds that employers overestimate how informed employees feel when they agree to policies, contracts, and even extra tasks at work. This miscalculation can have direct costs for organi...
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A “real” yes? Even when an agreement meets the legal criteria for consent, individuals may not feel they’ve truly given consent, which can have serious consequences in the workplace, according to new @cornellilr research. @profbohns @sciencedirect
news.cornell.edu
Even when an agreement meets the legal criteria for consent, individuals may not feel as though they have truly given consent, which can have serious consequences for the employees’ relationship with...
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Here is a nice summary of the paper written by @CornellILR_News's Julie Greco for @CornellNews. "Feeling ‘hoodwinked’ erodes trust in employee relations": https://t.co/cuGTXhRqGm
news.cornell.edu
Even when an agreement meets the legal criteria for consent, individuals may not feel as though they have truly given consent, which can have serious consequences for the employees’ relationship with...
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New paper on informed consent! I’m so proud of this work led by @RachelSchlund. We show that regardless of how clueless WE feel about the terms we agree to when signing a contract or clicking accept, others assume we knew what we were getting into.
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Just made an account and would love to connect with you all over at https://t.co/4W9X8aBQYc!
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Europeans: “I am holidaying. Your emails will be forwarded nowhere to be read by no one. Good day” Americans:
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I have learned so much more today from the responses to the posts that have *asked* people why they voted for Trump/didn't vote for Harris than the posts electionsplaining why people voted for Trump instead of Harris.
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I don’t like that they start with that states that don’t agree with me
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“And when will we hold these elections?” “On a Tuesday. During work.”
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One of us just voted for the first time as an American citizen!
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