Robert B. Lount
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
69
Citations
2,222
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
27
Publishing since 2000
Robert B. Lount studies how status, competition, and hierarchy shape behavior in workplaces and negotiations, including topics like abusive supervision, underdog/favorite dynamics, cheating in competitive settings, and cooperation between teams. His work often uses experiments to examine how social comparisons, group standing, and mindset affect performance, helping, and conflict. Much of this research is aimed at understanding organizational behavior, negotiation outcomes, and team dynamics.
Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between about 1 and 4 papers per year without a clear upward or downward trend.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Performance Resets Reduce Social Comparisons and Cheating in Competitive Environments
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2026
- The Hidden Toll of Getting Ahead
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2025
- “Abuser” or “Tough Love” Boss?: The moderating role of leader performance in shaping the labels employees use in response to abusive supervision
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2024
- Underdogs and favorites: Past, present, and future
Social and Personality Psychology Compass · 2024
- The Impact of the Good Cop/Bad Cop Role Strategy on Value Creation in Team-on-Team Negotiations
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024
- The impact of growth mindset training on entrepreneurial action among necessity entrepreneurs: Evidence from a randomized control trial
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal · 2023
- Give Peace a Chance? How Regulatory Foci Influence Organizational Conflict Events in Intractable Conflict Environments
Journal of Management · 2023
- Shared first authorship should be declared on academic CVs
Nature Human Behaviour · 2023
- Rising Above vs. Falling Below: When and Why Status Change Affects Interpersonal Helping in Workgroups
Organization Science · 2022
- Hierarchical Team Structures Limit Joint Gain in Interteam Negotiations: The Role of Information Elaboration and Value-Claiming Behavior
Academy of Management Journal · 2022
- Examining when Targets of Downward Hostility See Their Leader as an “Abuser”
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2022
- Setting the stage for negotiations: How superordinate goal dialogues promote trust and joint gain in negotiations between teams
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2021
- Surging Underdogs and Slumping Favorites: How Recent Streaks and Future Expectations Drive Competitive Transgressions
Academy of Management Journal · 2021
- Does CWB repair negative affective states, or generate them? Examining the moderating role of trait empathy.
Journal of Applied Psychology · 2020
- Intra-Team Hierarchy Triggers Inter-Team Competition: The Impact of Hierarchy on Team Negotiations
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2020
- Academy of Management Proceedings×10
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes×4
- Journal of Applied Psychology×2
- Organization Science×2
- Academy of Management Journal×2
- Marilynn B. Brewer
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Tanya Menon
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Christopher Jones
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Duane T. Wegener
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Eliot R. Smith
Social Sciences · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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