Malia F. Mason
Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business
Management
BA, Rice University, 2000; MA and PhD, Dartmouth College, 2005
Joined CBS in 2007
Office:
347
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-1070
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Malia Mason studies negotiations and social judgment and decision making in one line of work. In a second, she studies how people regulate their attention and the implications for work performance. She has published her research findings in the top journals in general science (Science), psychology (Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General), and management outlets (OBHDP, Harvard Business Review). She has received several prestigious career awards for notable contributions as a scholar, including the American Psychological Society’s “Rising Star” Early Career Award (2011), the Rotman School of Management’s Dean’s Award for Emerging Leaders (2014), and Poet and Quant's World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors (2015). Numerous media outlets have featured her research, including: WSJ, CNN, CBS, Forbes, Reddit, NPR, AAAS Science, and the Atlantic. In 2015, she was awarded the Dean's Prize for Teaching Excellence in an MBA elective course.
Teaching
Spring 2022
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
Spring 2021
MS Intensive Applied Research
(PHD)
Fall 2021
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
MS Intensive Applied Research
(PHD)
Fall 2020
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
MS Intensive Applied Research
(PHD)
Summer 2019
Fall 2019
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
Spring 2018
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
Summer 2018
Fall 2018
Managerial Negotiations
(MBA)
Managerial Negotiations
(EMBA)
Columbia Caseworks cases
BrainSnap Acquisition
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Crystal Reeck, Elizabeth Wiley
Message in a Bottle:The Negotiation of an Advertising Campaign
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Dana Carney, Daniel Ames
The Office: A Question of Fairness
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Joel Brockner
Seven Continents Petroleum
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Ko Kuwabara, Malia Mason
A Primer on Personal Development
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason, Dana Carney
Research
Journal articles
Incorporating physiology into creativity research and practice: The effects of bodily stress responses on creativity in organizations
In Academy of Management Perspectives
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Modupe Akinola, C. Kapadia, G.J. Lu, Malia Mason
From belief to deceit: How expectancies about others' ethics shape deception in negotiations
In Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Elizabeth A. Wiley, Daniel Ames
"Switching on" creativity: Task switching can increase creativity by reducing cognitive fixation
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Jackson Lu, Modupe Akinola, Malia Mason
Gender stereotypes and the coordination of mnemonic work within heterosexual couples: Romantic partners manage their daily to-dos
In Sex Roles
(2017)
Coauthor(s): J.N. Ahn, E.L. Haines, Malia Mason
The experience of secrecy
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, J.S. Chun, Malia Mason
Avenues down which a self-reminding mind can wander
In Motivation Science
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Nicholas Reinholtz
Tandem Anchoring: Informational and Politeness Effects of Range Offers in Social Exchange
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason
Neural substrates of social status inference: Role of medial prefrontal cortex and superior temporal sulcus
In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, J. Magee, S. Fiske
Your Brain at Work
In Harvard Business Review
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Adam Waytz
The powerful size others down: The link between power and estimates of others' size
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Andy Yap, Malia Mason, Daniel Ames
Driver of discontent or escape vehicle: The affective consequences of mindwandering
In Frontiers in Perception Science
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, K. Brown, R. A. Mar, J. Smallwood
An fMRI Investigation of Racial Paralysis
In Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Norton, Malia Mason, Joseph Vandello, Andrew Biga, Rebecca Dyer
How daydreaming relates to life satisfaction, loneliness, and social support: The importance of gender and daydream content
In Consciousness and Cognition
(2012)
Coauthor(s): R. A. Mar, Malia Mason, A. Litvack
The effect of mental progression on mood
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Moshe Bar
Specialization in Relational Reasoning: The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Non-Social Inferences
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Joe Magee, Louise Nind
Decision making and Testosterone: When the Ends Justify the Means
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason
Moral Decisions and Testosterone: When the Ends Justify the Means
In Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason
Culture, Attribution and Automaticity: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience View
In Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Michael Morris
Male susceptibility to attentional capture by power cues
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Shu Zhang, Rebecca Dyer
When Arnold is "The Terminator," we no longer see him as a man: The temporal determinants of person perception
In Experimental Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, Neil Macrae
Familiarity and person construal: Individuating knowledge moderates the automaticity of category activation
In European Journal of Social Psychology
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae
Intentionality in intuitive versus analytic processing: Insights from social cognitive neuroscience
In Psychological Inquiry
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Malia Mason
Neural Mechanisms of Social Influence
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Rebecca Dyer, Michael I. Norton
Perspective-taking from a social neuroscience standpoint
In Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae
Response to comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought"
In Science
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason
The Units of Thought
In Hippocampus
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Moshe Bar, Elissa Aminoff, Malia Mason, Mark Fenske
On construing others: Category and stereotype activation from facial cues
In Social Cognition
(2006)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, J. Cloutier, C. Neil Macrae
The Look of Love: Gaze Shifts and Person Perception
In Psychological Science
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, E. P. Tatkow, C. Neil Macrae
The perceptual determinants of person construal: reopening the social-cognitive toolbox
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2005)
Coauthor(s): J. Cloutier, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae
Thinking about actions: The neural substrates of person knowledge
In Cerebral Cortex
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, J. Banfield, C. Neil Macrae
Categorizing and individuating others: The neural substrates of person perception
In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae
Look into my eyes: Gaze direction and person memory
In Memory
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Bruce Hood, C. Neil Macrae
The owl and the pussycat: Gaze cues and visuospatial orienting
In Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
(2004)
Coauthor(s): S. Quadflieg, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae
Understanding others: The face and person construal
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2004)
Coauthor(s): C. Neil Macrae, Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, S. Quadflieg
Weighing the care: patients' perceptions of physician care as a function of gender and weight
In International Journal of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders
(2003)
Coauthor(s): Mikki Hebl, J. Xu, Malia Mason
Are you looking at me? Eye gaze and person perception
In Psychological Science
(2002)
Coauthor(s): C. Neil Macrae, Bruce Hood, A. B. Milne, A. C. Rowe, Malia Mason
Chapters
Psychologists in a business school: Where theory meets practice
In Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Adam Galinsky, Malia Mason, Joel Brockner
Mind Reading
In The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason
Mind Perception
In The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason
Strategic Intuition
In Handbook of Intuition Research
(2011)
Coauthor(s): William Duggan, Malia Mason
Exploring the Past and Impending Future in the Here and Now: Mind-Wandering in the Default State
In Cognitive Science Compendium, vol. 2
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Moshe Bar, C. Neil Macrae
Working papers
Doing What's Best Instead of What's Best for You: Resisting Ethical Temptations
(2014)
Coauthor(s): D. Ariely, R. Ludwig, Malia Mason
A Lay Theory of Homophily: Relational Information in First Impressions
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Xi Zou, Malia Mason
Case studies
Columbia shuttle disaster: A cycle of silence
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason
Message in a Bottle: The Negotiation of an Advertising Campaign
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Daniel Ames
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
15 Top Tips for Salary Negotiations
Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Members Ask for Salary Changes for Minorities
The Dos and Don'ts of Getting a Pay Rise
Secrets May Be Harmful to Your Health
How to Ask for the Salary you Want with Zero Risk of Sounding Obnoxious
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
2017 Provost Fellow, Columbia University
2016 Best Paper Award, Academy of Management
Columbia Business School 2015
2015
2014 Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
2011 Association for Psychological Science
2007 Faculty of 1000 Biology
2004 University of California Davis
2004 Dartmouth College
2003 Dartmouth College
2002 Massachusetts General Hospital
2002 University of California Santa Barbara