Elizabeth R. Tenney
- SPN Mentor
My research focuses on how people evaluate themselves and each other and exchange information in an uncertain world. I am particularly interested in the social consequences of overconfidence — possessing or conveying more confidence than reality warrants — as it relates to organizational behavior, judgment and decision making, and social cognition. I am also interested in optimism and whether optimism can affect performance as much as we think.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Organizational Behavior
- Person Perception
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
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Video Gallery
Reproducibility in Social Science
Amplification of Voice in Organizations
Journal Articles:
- Gilbert, E. A., Tenney, E. R., Holland, C. R., & Spellman, B. A. (2015). Counterfactuals, control, and causation: Why knowledgeable people get blamed more. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 643-658.
- Lun, J., Oishi, S., & Tenney, E. R. (2012). Residential mobility moderates preferences for egalitarian versus loyal helpers. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 291-297.
- Moore, D. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2012). Cheaper and better: Why scientific advancement demands the move to open access publishing. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 285-286.
- Nosek, B. A., Graham, J., Lindner, N. M., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Hahn, C., Schmidt, K., Motyl, M., Joy-Gaba, J., Frazier, R., & Tenney, E. R. (2010). Cumulative and career-stage citation impact of social-personality programs and their members. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1283-1300.
- Spellman, B. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2010). Credible testimony in and out of court. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 168-173.
- Tenney, E. R., Cleary, H. M. D., & Spellman, B. A. (2009). Unpacking the doubt in “Beyond a reasonable doubt:” Plausible alternative stories increase not guilty verdicts. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1-8.
- Tenney, E. R., Logg, J. M., & Moore, D. A. (2015). (Too) optimistic about optimism: The belief that optimism improves performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 377-399.
- Tenney, E. R., MacCoun, R. J., Spellman, B. A., & Hastie, R. (2007). Calibration trumps confidence as a basis for witness credibility. Psychological Science, 18, 46-50.
- Tenney, E. R., Small, J. E., Kondrad, R. L., Jaswal, V. K., & Spellman, B. A. (2011). Accuracy, confidence, and calibration: How young children and adults assess credibility. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1065-1077.
- Tenney, E. R., & Spellman, B. A. (2011). Complex social consequences of self-knowledge. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 343-350.
- Tenney, E. R., Spellman, B. A., & MacCoun, R. J. (2008). The benefits of knowing what you know (and what you don’t): How calibration affects credibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1368-1375.
- Tenney, E. R., Turkheimer, E., & Oltmanns, T. F. (2009). Being liked is more than having a good personality: The role of matching. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 579-585.
- Tenney, E. R., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (2013). This examined life: The upside of self-knowledge for interpersonal relationships. PLoS ONE, 8, e69605.
Other Publications:
- Moore, D. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2012). Time pressure, performance, and productivity. In M. A. Neale, & E. A. Mannix (Eds.), Looking back, moving forward: A review of group and team-based research (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, 15, pp. 305-326). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Spellman, B. A., Tenney, E. R., & Scalia, M. J. (2010). Relying on other people’s metamemory. In A. S. Benjamin (Ed.), Successful remembering and successful forgetting: A festschrift in honor of Robert A. Bjork (pp. 387-407). London: Psychology Press.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Social Psychology (Discussion Section)
- Managerial Negotiation
- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- Research Methods and Data Analysis I and II (Laboratory)
Elizabeth R. Tenney
Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building
University of Utah
1655 Campus Center Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
United States of America