Nicole Abi-Esber is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Her research looks at how leaders can create climates of safety and inclusion, where everybody feel safe to speak their mind. Her work uses group laboratory experiments and conversation analysis methods including natural language processing. Nicole's research has been published in The Journal of Personality and Social Pscyhology, and has been covered by The New York Times.
Nicole received a B.A. from Tufts University in 2012 and an A.M. from Harvard University in 2014. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Nicole worked as a product manager for a tech startup in Dubai (Fetchr, named Forbes Magazine's #1 Startup in the Middle East in 2017 and 2018). Nicole also worked as a full-time researcher with the Government of Dubai, and as a research associate at the Behavioral Lab at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
- Journal Articles
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- Abi-Esber, N., J. E. Abel, J. Schroeder, and F. Gino. "'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming). View Details
- Cooney, Gus, Adam M. Mastroianni, Nicole Abi-Esber, and Alison Wood Brooks. "The Many Minds Problem: Disclosure in Dyadic vs. Group Conversation." Special Issue on Privacy and Disclosure, Online and in Social Interactions edited by L. John, D. Tamir, M. Slepian. Current Opinion in Psychology 31 (February 2020): 22–27. View Details
- Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall. "Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 4 (April 2019): 667–687. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Abi-Esber, Nicole, Alison Wood Brooks, and Ethan Burris. "Feeling Seen: Leader Eye Gaze Promotes Psychological Safety, Participation, and Voice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-048, January 2022. View Details
- Abi-Esber, Nicole, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder, and Francesca Gino. "'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-009, August 2021. View Details
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