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Nicole Mead

 

 
Positions Held: Assistant Professor
Telephone: +351 217 214 270
Email: nicole.mead@ucp.pt 

Background:

 

Nicole Mead's research focuses on self-control, money, power, and interpersonal forms of consumption. Her research has been published in A-level international journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Prior to joining CATÓLICA-LISBON, she was a TIBER post-doctoral research fellow at Tilburg University.

 

 
Working Papers: "In Praise of Putting it Off: Postponing Pleasures Facilitates Self-Control", (with Vanessa M. Patrick), under review. Please contact Nicole Mead for additional information and a public copy of the manuscript.
   
   
Selected
Publications:

"On Keeping Your Enemies Close: Power Causes People to Seek Proximity to Ingroup Power-Threats", (with Jon K. Maner), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (in press)

"Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-Control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior", (with Gino, F., Schweitzer, M. & Ariely, D.), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115(2): 191-203 (2011)
"Social Exclusion Causes People to Spend and Consume in the Service of Affiliation", (with Baumeister, R.F., Stillman,T., Rawn,C. & Vohs, K.D.), Journal of Consumer Research, 37: 902-19 (2011)
"How Leaders Self-Regulate their Task Performance: Evidence that Power Promotes Diligence, Depletion, and Disdain", (with Dewall, C. N., Baumeister, R.F. & Vohs, K.D.), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100 : 47-65 (2011)
"The Essential Tension Between Leadership and Power: When Leaders Sacrifice Group Goals for the Sake of Self-Interest", (Maner, J.), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99: 482-97 (2010)
"Political Partisanship Influences Perception of Biracial Candidates' Skin Tone," (with Caruso, Eugene M. & Balcetis, E.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106: 20168-20173 (2009)
 "Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty", (with Baumeister, R.F., Gino, F., Schweitzer, M. & Ariely, D.), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45: 594-597 (2009)
"The Psychological Consequences of Money," (with Vohs, K. D. & Goode, M.), Science, 314:1154-1156 (2006)