Management Craft

Ellen Bratslavsky

Researcher

Social psychologist and coauthor of the 2001 review Bad Is Stronger Than Good. Her research helps explain why failures and complaints can dominate judgment.

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Bratslavsky is one of four authors of Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The paper places her with Roy Baumeister at Case Western. Its note says she had moved to Ohio State. [1]

She has a clear claim to the review’s main idea. The paper weighs the force of good and bad events. It can help managers think about praise, harm, and repair. [1]

The record here does not support a broad profile. One paper cannot prove her later roles, training, or full body of work. Trust her as a coauthor of this review. That does not make her a broad guide to management. The paper reviews psychology, not firms. [1]

Bad Is Stronger Than GoodPaper · 2001Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, and Vohs's 2001 review of whether bad events have more psychological impact than comparable good events across many domains. It finds that bad events tend to have greater effects.

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Roy F. Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer, and Kathleen D. Vohs, “Bad Is Stronger Than Good,” Review of General Psychology 5, no. 4 (2001): 323–370.
https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.5.4.323