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Vanessa Bohns

Vanessa Bohns
Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in psychology from Columbia University and an AB from Brown University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Harvard Business Review, and her research has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and NPR’s Hidden Brain. 


The Unavoidable Trap of Politeness: Why Is It So Hard to Just Say “No”?

Vanessa Bohns on the Psychology Behind Our Unbearable Fear of Social Embarrassment
September 10, 2021  By Vanessa Bohns
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