Kristin Donnelly
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Stevens Junior Faculty Fellow
Biography
Kristin Donnelly studies a range of topics related to how people make everyday decisions. Among other things, her research asks how people think about time, form preferences, and make inferences based on limited information. Donnelly's research has appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured in Forbes, The Atlantic, Time, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal and other outlets. Donnelly holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arizona.
Working Papers
Once and Again: Repeated viewing affects judgments of spontaneity and preparation
Date Posted:Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:30:27 -0500
Reality is fleeting; any moment can only be experienced once. Re-watching a video, on the other hand, allows people to repeatedly observe the exact same moment. We propose that people apply their understanding of repetition in the real world to the replay context, failing to fully distinguish behavior that they merely observe again (through video replay) from that behavior being performed again in the exact same way. Nine experiments (N = 7,419) support this idea across a broad assortment of stimuli including auditions, commercials, public speeches, and evidence in a murder trial. We find re-watching makes videotaped behavior appear more rehearsed and less spontaneous, as if the actor in the replayed video were precisely repeating the same actions, which inadvertently shapes judgments in contexts ranging from mundane to consequential. Understanding how a video will influence its viewer requires considering not only its content, but how often it is viewed.
Do People Know How Others View Them? Two Approaches for Identifying the Accuracy of Metaperceptions
Date Posted:Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:34:48 -0500
Self-knowledge includes not only beliefs about one?s own traits and abilities, but beliefs about how others view the self. Are such metaperceptions accurate? This article identifies two distinct standards used to determine meta-accuracy. The correlational approach tests whether metaperceptions correlate with an accuracy criterion (i.e., social perceptions). The mean-level approach instead asks whether metaperceptions tend to err in a systematic direction. This article reviews complementary lessons gleaned from research taking one approach or the other: whether metaperceptions merely reflect self-perceptions, whose metaperceptions are more or less accurate, and what psychological processes impede meta-accuracy, among others. Ultimately, neither approach is endorsed as unconditionally superior. Instead, which approach offers the proper accuracy standard should depend on the decisions those metaperceptions will guide.