Loran Nordgren
Loran Nordgren

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations

Print Overview
Loran Nordgren is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations. A former Fulbright Scholar, his research considers the basic psychological processes that guide judgment and choice. Professor Nordgren’s research has been published in leading journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science and has been widely discussed in prominent forums such as the New York Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. In recognition of his work, Professor Nordgren has received the Theoretical Innovation Award in experimental psychology. An award-winning educator, Nordgren teaches courses on leadership in organizations.

Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Economics
Group Decision-Making
Intergroup Behavior
Leadership
Negotiations
Psychology
Print Vita
Education
PhD, 2007, Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam
BA, 2001, Psychology, St. Olaf College, Magna Cum Laude

Grants and Awards
Behavioral Health Economics Research Program, United States Department of Agriculture
Using Contrast Effects to Combat Obesity, $30,000
Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Awarded for A Theory of Unconscious Thought.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 95-109.
De Finnetti Prize, European Association for Decision Making
Best Graduate Paper in Judgment and Decision Making,
Awarded for Unpacking perceived control: the mediating role of anticipated regret.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 533-544.
Fulbright Scholarship, University of Amsterdam
The impact of national drug policies on implicit and explicit attitudes towards drugs

Editorial Positions
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Unconscious Thought, Social Cognition, 2011

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Judgment and decision-making, emotion, self-control, and risk perception

Articles
Nordgren, Loran and Ap Dijksterhuis. Forthcoming. The Devil is in the deliberation: thinking too much reduces preference consistency. Journal of Consumer Research. In Press
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Nordgren, Loran and Eileen Chou. 2011. The Push and Pull of Temptation: The Bidirectional Influence of Temptation on Self-Control. Psychological Science. 22: 1386-1391.
Nordgren, Loran, Kasia Banas and Geoff MacDonald. 2011. Empathy Gaps for Social Pain: Why People Underestimate the Pain of Social Suffering. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100: 120-128.
McDonnell, Mary-Hunter, Loran Nordgren and George F. Loewenstein. 2011. Torture in the Eyes of the Beholder: The Psychological Difficulty of Defining Torture in Law and Policy. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 44(1): 87-122.
Nordgren, Loran and Mary-Hunter McDonnell. 2011. The Scope-Severity Paradox: Why Doing More Harm is Judged to be Less Harmful. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2: 97-102.
Nordgren, Loran, Maarten W. Bos and A. Dijksterhuis. 2011. The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 509-511.
Nordgren, Loran and A. Dijksterhuis. 2011. Introduction: Still Thinking Different. Social Cognition: Special Issue on Unconscious Thought. 29: 625-628.
Nordgren, Loran, Mary-Hunter McDonnell and George F. Loewenstein. 2011. What Constitutes Torture? Psychological Impediments to an Objective Evaluation of Interrogation Tactics. Psychological Science. 22: 689-694.
Strick, M., A. Dijksterhuis, Maarten W. Bos, A. Sjoerdma, Rick van Baaren and Loran Nordgren. 2011. A Meta-Analysis of Unconscious Thought Effects. Social Cognition: Special Issue on Unconscious Thought. 29: 738-762.
van Harreveld, Frenk, Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Mark Rotteveel, Loran Nordgren and Joop van der Pligt. 2009. Ambivalence and Decisional conflict as a cause of Psychological Discomfort: Feeling tense before jumping off the fence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45(1): 167-173.
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Nordgren, Loran, Joop van der Pligt and Frenk van Harreveld. 2008. The instability of health cognitions: Visceral state influence self-efficacy and related health beliefs. Health Psychology. 27(6): 722-727.
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van Harreveld, Frenk, Joop van der Pligt and Loran Nordgren. 2009. The Relativity of bad decisions: Social Comparison as a means to alleviate regret. British Journal of Social Psychology. 47(1): 105-117.
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Nordgren, Loran, Frenk van Harreveld and Joop van der Pligt. 2009. The Restraint Bias: How the Illusions of Restraint Promote Impulsive Behavior. Psychological Science. 20: 1523-1528.
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Nordgren, Loran, Joop van der Pligt and Frenk van Harreveld. 2007. Unpacking Perceived control: the mediating role of anticipated regret. Journal of Behavioral Decision making. 20(5): 533-544.
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Nordgren, Loran, Joop van der Pligt and Frenk van Harreveld. 2007. Evaluating Eve: visceral states influence the evaluation of impulsive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 93(1): 75-84.
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Dijksterhuis, Ap, Maarten W. Bos, Loran Nordgren and Rick van Baaren. 2006. Making Choices Without Deliberation. Science. 312
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Dijksterhuis, Ap, Maarten W. Bos, Loran Nordgren and Rick van Baaren. 2006. Complex Choices Better Made Unconsciously?. Science. 313: 760-761.
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Nordgren, Loran, Joop van der Pligt and Frenk van Harreveld. 2006. Visceral drives in retrospect: Explanations about the inaccessible Past. Psychological Science. 17(7): 636-640.
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Dijksterhuis, Ap, Maarten W. Bos, Loran Nordgren and Rick van Baaren. 2006. On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-without-attention effect. Science. 311: 1005-1007.
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Nordgren, Loran, Frenk van Harreveld and Joop van der Pligt. 2006. Ambivalence, discomfort, and motivated information processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 42(2): 252-258.
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Dijksterhuis, Ap and Loran Nordgren. 2006. A Theory of Unconscious Thought. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 1(2): 95-109.
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Nordgren, Loran, Joop van der Pligt and Frenk van Harreveld. 2008. The instability of Health cognitions: visceral states influence self-efficacy and related health beliefs. Health Psychology. 27(6): 722-727.
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Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
Leadership in organizations
Doctoral
The Individual and the Organization (MORS-424-1)
This course focuses on individual behavior in organizational settings. Topics for analysis include social cognition, decision making, negotiation groups, social influence, norms, fairness and equity theory. Recent empirical research will be evaluated in each of these areas, and implications will be studied in terms of theoretical advancement, empirical study and practical applications.

Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Leadership in Organizations (MORS-430-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Management & Organizations.

This course provides students with the social science tools needed to solve organizational problems and influence the actions of individuals, groups and organizations. It prepares managers to understand how to best organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change. This is accomplished through knowledge of competitive decision making, reward system design, team building, strategic negotiation, political dynamics, corporate culture and strategic organizational design.