K M Kniffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 8595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K M Kniffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | K M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kniffin |
| SIGNATURE | KNIFFIN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2272-7919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Partnering up (and down): Examining when and why people prefer collaborating with higher paid peers (and lower paid subordinates)
Emerging trends toward greater pay transparency and more freedom in teaming decisions intersect to highlight a potential conflict. Extant research suggests that visible pay disparities should adversely affect collaborations, particularly with higher paid partners, but we challenge this thesis and present three preregistered studies demonstrating that visible salary disparities can positively affect collaboration with higher paid peers in teaming …
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
Covid-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action.
Multilevel Selection Theory
Toward a Natural History of Team Sports
Play and play fighting are human universals (Brown 1991:140), and certain types of play appear to recur across human cultures regardless of social or technological complexity Despite this, little attention has been paid to the question of whether these behaviors are adaptations or by-products. Do these behaviors develop spontaneously, or are they learned? Do they exhibit evidence of design and function, or do they emerge from the operation of phy…
Trash-Talking and Trolling
Among the extra-physical aspects of team sports, the ways in which players talk to each other are among the more colorful but understudied dimensions of competition. To contribute an empirical basis for examining the nature of "trash talk," we present the results of a study of 291 varsity athletes who compete in the top division among US universities. Based on a preliminary review of trash-talk topics among student-athletes, we asked participants…
The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior
Music as an environmental aspect of professional workplaces has been closely studied with respect to consumer behavior while sparse attention has been given to its relevance for employee behavior. In this article, we focus on the influence of music upon cooperative behavior within decision-making groups. Based on results from two extended 20-round public goods experiments, we find that happy music significantly and positively influences cooperati…
Sports at Work: Anticipated and Persistent Correlates of Participation in High School Athletics
Do former high school athletes make better employees than nonathletes? Two studies examine how participation in competitive youth sports appears to be relevant for early-career job prospects as well as late-in-life outcomes. In the short run, Study 1 shows that people expect former student-athletes to display significantly more leadership, self-confidence, and self-respect than those who were active outside of sports—such as being in the band or …
Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals
Looks Good Enough to Eat: How Food Plating Preferences Differ Across Cultures and Continents
Food is central to cross-cultural studies of behavior, thought, and symbolism. The way it is presented to people, however, can have a dramatic influence on how palatable it is perceived and what is eaten. Because of this, issues of food plating and presentation are of applied interest to anyone who wishes to influence the perceptions and consumption of prepared food. This includes chefs, marketers, and parents. This study examines two questions: …
Organizing to Organize: The Case of a Successful Long-Haul Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights
After nearly four decades of campaigning, faculty and academic staff union members across the University of Wisconsin system won the right to bargain collectively in June 2009 when the governor signed legislation that modified state labor law. In this article, the author presents historical and interdisciplinary analyses of the organizational structures that were critical to the campaign’s success. While the case study should be interesting for a…
Utilities of gossip across organizational levels: Multilevel selection, free-riders, and teams
The effect of nonphysical traits on the perception of physical attractiveness
Multilevel selection and the social transmission of behavior
Utilities of gossip across organizational levels: Multilevel selection, free-riders, and teams
Multilevel selection and the social transmission of behavior
Trash-Talking and Trolling
Among the extra-physical aspects of team sports, the ways in which players talk to each other are among the more colorful but understudied dimensions of competition. To contribute an empirical basis for examining the nature of "trash talk," we present the results of a study of 291 varsity athletes who compete in the top division among US universities. Based on a preliminary review of trash-talk topics among student-athletes, we asked participants…
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior
Music as an environmental aspect of professional workplaces has been closely studied with respect to consumer behavior while sparse attention has been given to its relevance for employee behavior. In this article, we focus on the influence of music upon cooperative behavior within decision-making groups. Based on results from two extended 20-round public goods experiments, we find that happy music significantly and positively influences cooperati…
Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals
Looks Good Enough to Eat: How Food Plating Preferences Differ Across Cultures and Continents
Food is central to cross-cultural studies of behavior, thought, and symbolism. The way it is presented to people, however, can have a dramatic influence on how palatable it is perceived and what is eaten. Because of this, issues of food plating and presentation are of applied interest to anyone who wishes to influence the perceptions and consumption of prepared food. This includes chefs, marketers, and parents. This study examines two questions: …
Sports at Work: Anticipated and Persistent Correlates of Participation in High School Athletics
Do former high school athletes make better employees than nonathletes? Two studies examine how participation in competitive youth sports appears to be relevant for early-career job prospects as well as late-in-life outcomes. In the short run, Study 1 shows that people expect former student-athletes to display significantly more leadership, self-confidence, and self-respect than those who were active outside of sports—such as being in the band or …
Organizing to Organize: The Case of a Successful Long-Haul Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights
After nearly four decades of campaigning, faculty and academic staff union members across the University of Wisconsin system won the right to bargain collectively in June 2009 when the governor signed legislation that modified state labor law. In this article, the author presents historical and interdisciplinary analyses of the organizational structures that were critical to the campaign’s success. While the case study should be interesting for a…
Multilevel selection and the social transmission of behavior
The effect of nonphysical traits on the perception of physical attractiveness
Utilities of gossip across organizational levels: Multilevel selection, free-riders, and teams
Organizing to Organize: The Case of a Successful Long-Haul Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights
After nearly four decades of campaigning, faculty and academic staff union members across the University of Wisconsin system won the right to bargain collectively in June 2009 when the governor signed legislation that modified state labor law. In this article, the author presents historical and interdisciplinary analyses of the organizational structures that were critical to the campaign’s success. While the case study should be interesting for a…
Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals
Looks Good Enough to Eat: How Food Plating Preferences Differ Across Cultures and Continents
Food is central to cross-cultural studies of behavior, thought, and symbolism. The way it is presented to people, however, can have a dramatic influence on how palatable it is perceived and what is eaten. Because of this, issues of food plating and presentation are of applied interest to anyone who wishes to influence the perceptions and consumption of prepared food. This includes chefs, marketers, and parents. This study examines two questions: …
Sports at Work: Anticipated and Persistent Correlates of Participation in High School Athletics
Do former high school athletes make better employees than nonathletes? Two studies examine how participation in competitive youth sports appears to be relevant for early-career job prospects as well as late-in-life outcomes. In the short run, Study 1 shows that people expect former student-athletes to display significantly more leadership, self-confidence, and self-respect than those who were active outside of sports—such as being in the band or …
The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior
Music as an environmental aspect of professional workplaces has been closely studied with respect to consumer behavior while sparse attention has been given to its relevance for employee behavior. In this article, we focus on the influence of music upon cooperative behavior within decision-making groups. Based on results from two extended 20-round public goods experiments, we find that happy music significantly and positively influences cooperati…
Toward a Natural History of Team Sports
Play and play fighting are human universals (Brown 1991:140), and certain types of play appear to recur across human cultures regardless of social or technological complexity Despite this, little attention has been paid to the question of whether these behaviors are adaptations or by-products. Do these behaviors develop spontaneously, or are they learned? Do they exhibit evidence of design and function, or do they emerge from the operation of phy…
Trash-Talking and Trolling
Among the extra-physical aspects of team sports, the ways in which players talk to each other are among the more colorful but understudied dimensions of competition. To contribute an empirical basis for examining the nature of "trash talk," we present the results of a study of 291 varsity athletes who compete in the top division among US universities. Based on a preliminary review of trash-talk topics among student-athletes, we asked participants…
Multilevel Selection Theory
Covid-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action.
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
Partnering up (and down): Examining when and why people prefer collaborating with higher paid peers (and lower paid subordinates)
Emerging trends toward greater pay transparency and more freedom in teaming decisions intersect to highlight a potential conflict. Extant research suggests that visible pay disparities should adversely affect collaborations, particularly with higher paid partners, but we challenge this thesis and present three preregistered studies demonstrating that visible salary disparities can positively affect collaboration with higher paid peers in teaming …
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)