Shilaan Alzahawi
Ph.D. Student in Business Administration, admitted Summer 2018
Other Tech - Graduate, Other Academic Support
All Publications
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A legend in one's own mind: The link between ambition and leadership evaluations.
PNAS nexus
2024; 3 (8): pgae295
Abstract
Individuals who have more ambition-a persistent striving for success, attainment, and accomplishment-are more likely to become leaders. But are these ambitious individuals also more effective in leadership roles? We hypothesize that leader ambition is related to positive self-views of leader effectiveness that remain uncorroborated by relevant third-party actors. In a multiwave, preregistered study, we find evidence for this hypothesis using a sample of executives (N = 3,830 ratings of 472 leaders) who were rated by peers, subordinates, managers, and themselves on ten leadership competencies, including their ability to motivate others, manage collaborative work, coach and develop people, and present and communicate ideas. We consider the implications of our findings for both scholars and practitioners interested in leadership selection and development.
View details for DOI 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae295
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On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
2023; 179
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280
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The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes.
Communications psychology
2023; 1 (1): 3
Abstract
The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called 'replication crisis'. In this Perspective, we reframe this 'crisis' through the lens of a credibility revolution, focusing on positive structural, procedural and community-driven changes. Second, we outline a path to expand ongoing advances and improvements. The credibility revolution has been an impetus to several substantive changes which will have a positive, long-term impact on our research environment.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s44271-023-00003-2
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Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes.
Royal Society open science
2023; 10 (5): 221255
Abstract
In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approach can be embedded into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. Specifically, a critical overview of the literature which investigates how integrating open and reproducible science may influence student outcomes is needed. In this paper, we provide the first critical review of literature surrounding the integration of open and reproducible scholarship into teaching and learning and its associated outcomes in students. Our review highlighted how embedding open and reproducible scholarship appears to be associated with (i) students' scientific literacies (i.e. students' understanding of open research, consumption of science and the development of transferable skills); (ii) student engagement (i.e. motivation and engagement with learning, collaboration and engagement in open research) and (iii) students' attitudes towards science (i.e. trust in science and confidence in research findings). However, our review also identified a need for more robust and rigorous methods within pedagogical research, including more interventional and experimental evaluations of teaching practice. We discuss implications for teaching and learning scholarship.
View details for DOI 10.1098/rsos.221255
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A Roadmap to Large-Scale Multi-Country Replications in Psychology
COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY
2022; 8 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1525/collabra.57538
View details for Web of Science ID 000908668200001
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Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2022; 119 (30): e2120377119
Abstract
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 associated with multiple new tests. Reproducibility was the best predictor of generalizability-for the findings that proved directly reproducible, 84% emerged in other available time periods and 57% emerged in other geographies. Overall, only limited empirical evidence emerged for context sensitivity. In a forecasting survey, independent scientists were able to anticipate which effects would find support in tests in new samples.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2120377119
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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
RELIGION BRAIN & BEHAVIOR
2022
View details for DOI 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
View details for Web of Science ID 000821405300001
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Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
2022: 1461672221099710
Abstract
How does the self-relevance of a social movement shape individuals' engagement with it? We examined the decision-making processes that underlie support for Black Lives Matter (BLM) among Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White Americans. We find significant between-group differences in levels of support for BLM, both in terms of past behavior (Study 1) and in terms of future intentions to support the movement (Study 2). These differences notwithstanding, thinking about how one's decisions impact others - which we label impact mindset - explains support for BLM across racial groups, cross-sectionally as well as longitudinally (over 8 months later). Our findings underscore the equivalence of the impact mindset construct across racial groups and its predictive power in the context of BLM. We conclude that, although the struggle for racial justice has different meanings for different racial groups, the same mindset underlies both in-group advocacy and allyship in the context of BLM.
View details for DOI 10.1177/01461672221099710
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There is no psychology without inferential statistics.
The Behavioral and brain sciences
2022; 45: e2
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Quantification has been constitutive of psychology since its inception and is core to its scientific status. The adoption of qualitative methods eschewing inferential statistics is therefore unlikely to obtain. Rather than discarding useful tools because of improper use, we recommend highlighting how inferential statistics can be more thoughtfully applied.
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0140525X2100056X
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