DrSarahOtner

Business School

Visiting Researcher

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 2683s.otner

Location

288aBusiness School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Sarah Otner is a Junior Research Fellow in the Strategy and Organisational Behaviour Group, Department of Management at Imperial College Business School. Dr. Otner earned a Ph.D. in Management (Organisational Behaviour) and an MSc.Res. in Organisational & Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, and an A.B. (cum laude) in Psychology from Harvard College. She is accredited through the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Sarah is an alumna and current affiliate of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Dr. Otner's broad research interest is interpersonal judgment. She examines the roles cognition and networks play in social evaluations, individual and group performance, and organizational outcomes. Her specific expertise is in social status, both the mechanisms and the consequences of status allocation.

Sarah's current work focuses on award competitions: prize scarcity, prize sharing, establishment of new prizes, and prize refusals. Please get in touch if you have relevant experience to share.

Expert Topics: Status; Reputation; Competition; Awards; Networks; Attribution Theory; Social Cognition; Economic Sociology; Elites

Keywords: Hierarchy; Social Evaluations/Social Judgment; The Matthew Effect; Productivity; Computational Social Science; Expertise; Power; Influence; Social Cognition; Big Data; Behavioral Strategy

Publications

Journals

Betancourt N, Jochem T, Otner S, 2023, Standing on the shoulders of giants: how star scientists influence their co-authors, Research Policy, Vol:52, ISSN:0048-7333, Pages:1-13

Schweinsberg M, Feldman M, Staub N, et al.Schweinsberg M, Feldman M, Staub N, van den Akker OR, van Aert RCM, van Assen MALM, Liu Y, Althoff T, Heer J, Kale A, Mohamed Z, Amireh H, Prasad VV, Bernstein A, Robinson E, Snellman K, Sommer SA, Otner SMG, Robinson D, Madan N, Silberzahn R, Goldstein P, Tierney W, Murase T, Mandl B, Viganola D, Strobl C, Schaumans CBC, Kelchtermans S, Naseeb C, Garrison SM, Yarkoni T, Chan CSR, Adie P, Alaburda P, Albers C, Alspaugh S, Alstott J, Nelson AA, de la Rubia EA, Arzi A, Bahnik S, Baik J, Balling LW, Banker S, Baranger DAA, Barr DJ, Barros-Rivera B, Bauer M, Blaise E, Boelen L, Carbonell KB, Briers RA, Burkhard O, Canela M-A, Castrillo L, Catlett T, Chen O, Clark M, Cohn B, Coppock A, Cuguero-Escofet N, Curran PG, Cyrus-Lai W, Dai D, Dalla Riva GV, Danielsson H, Russo RDFSM, de Silva N, Derungs C, Dondelinger F, de Souza CD, Dube BT, Dubova M, Dunn BM, Edelsbrunner PA, Finley S, Fox N, Gnambs T, Gong Y, Grand E, Greenawalt B, Han D, Hanel PHP, Hong AB, Hood D, Hsueh J, Huang L, Hui KN, Hultman KA, Javaid A, Jiang LJ, Jong J, Kamdar J, Kane D, Kappler G, Kaszubowski E, Kavanagh CM, Khabsa M, Kleinberg B, Kouros J, Krause H, Krypotos A-M, Lavbic D, Lee RL, Leffel T, Lim WY, Liverani S, Loh B, Lonsmann D, Low JW, Lu A, MacDonald K, Madan CR, Madsen LH, Maimone C, Mangold A, Marshall A, Matskewich HE, Mavon K, McLain KL, McNamara AA, McNeill M, Mertens U, Miller D, Moore B, Moore A, Nantz E, Nasrullah Z, Nejkovic V, Nell CS, Nelson AA, Nilsonne G, Nolan R, O'Brien CE, O'Neil P, O'Shea K, Olita T, Otterbacher J, Palsetia D, Pereira B, Pozdniakov I, Protzko J, Reyt J-N, Riddle T, Ali AARO, Ropovik I, Rosenberg JM, Rothen S, Schulte-Mecklenbeck M, Sharma N, Shotwell G, Skarzynski M, Stedden W, Stodden V, Stoffel MA, Stoltzman S, Subbaiah S, Tatman R, Thibodeau PH, Tomkins S, Valdivia A, van de Woestijne GB, Viana L, Villeseche F, Wadsworth WD, Wanders F, Watts K, Wells JD, Whelpley CE, Won A, Wu L, Yip A, Youngflesh C, Yu J-C, Zandian A, Zhang L, Zibman C, Uhlmann EL close, 2021, Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol:165, ISSN:0749-5978, Pages:228-249

Otner S, Landy J, Jia, et al.Otner S, Landy J, Jia, Ding I, Viganola D, Tierney W, Dreber A, Johanneson M, Pfeiffer T, Ebersole C, Gronau Q, Ly A, van den Bergh D, Marsman M, Derks K, Wagenmakers E-J close, 2020, Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: making transparent how design choices shape research results, Psychological Bulletin, Vol:146, ISSN:0033-2909, Pages:451-479

Otner S, 2018, Near-Winners in Status Competitions: Neglected Sources of Dynamism in the Matthew Effect, Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol:27, ISSN:1056-4926, Pages:374-377

Otner SMG, 2018, Older, but wiser? “The Matthew Effect” at 50: introduction to the Dialog, Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol:27, ISSN:1056-4926, Pages:359-361

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