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Papers by Karen Cook

Contemporary Sociology, Jul 1, 2002

Administrative Science Quarterly, 1992

Page 1. Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations&amp... more Page 1. Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations&amp;amp;amp;#x27; James N. Baron Stanford University Karen S. Cook University of Washington Gaining a better understanding of reward systems in ...

Trust and distrust in organizations: Dilemmas and approaches, 2004

Social Psychology Quarterly, Jan 31, 2017

Thanks to the Internet and the related availability of “Big Data,” social interactions and their ... more Thanks to the Internet and the related availability of “Big Data,” social interactions and their environmental context can now be studied experimentally. In this article, we discuss a methodology that we term the online field experiment to differentiate it from more traditional lab-based experimental designs. We explain how this experimental method can be used to capture theoretically relevant environmental conditions while also maximizing the researcher’s control over the treatment(s) of interest. We argue that this methodology is particularly well suited for social psychology because of its focus on social interactions and the factors that influence the nature and structure of these interactions. We provide one detailed example of an online field experiment used to investigate the impact of the sharing economy on trust behavior. We argue that we are fundamentally living in a new social world in which the Internet mediates a growing number of our social interactions. These highly prevalent forms of social interaction create opportunities for the development of new research designs that allow us to advance our theories of social interaction and social structure with new data sources.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Aug 28, 2017

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2006

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asq-10.1177_0001839220970936 for An Interaction Ritual Theory of ... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asq-10.1177_0001839220970936 for An Interaction Ritual Theory of Social Resource Exchange: Evidence from a Silicon Valley Accelerator by Rekha Krishnan, Karen S. Cook, Rajiv Krishnan Kozhikode and Oliver Schilke in Administrative Science Quarterly

Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, 2012

CHAPTER 18 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRUST KENNETH NEWTON THE idea that trust is essential for social,... more CHAPTER 18 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRUST KENNETH NEWTON THE idea that trust is essential for social, economic, and political life is a very old one going back at least to Confucius who suggested that trust, weapons, and food are the ...

Political Psychology, 1993

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2013

Academy of Management Review, 1985

Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986

Contemporary Sociology, 2002

suggestions. I also wish to thank the seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford Univer... more suggestions. I also wish to thank the seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University for their helpful critiques. For all remaining errors, I alone am responsible. Direct

Ratings are critical to the function and success of services in the emerging sharing economy. The... more Ratings are critical to the function and success of services in the emerging sharing economy. They are a means through which users develop trust in one another and in the services themselves. Ratings are designed to give users a proxy for the expected quality and risk of potential online transactions. We expect online ratings to reflect an objective measure of quality, but such evaluations in fact may be systematically distorted by many, complex social-psychological processes. Decoupling these subjective factors from rating systems to correct for biases and to provide neutral assessments of risk and quality has proved extremely challenging. We focus on one of the most prevalent factors in virtually every form of social exchange. Differences in resource ownership affect the balance of power in interpersonal interactions, likely impacting online ratings. We demonstrate how power imbalance affects mutual ratings using a massive dataset from CouchSurng.org, an international online hospi...

Frontiers in Sociology of Education

ABSTRACT In a recently published commentary on the state of funding for education in California, ... more ABSTRACT In a recently published commentary on the state of funding for education in California, Wendy Brown (2010:3) argues that “California’s disinvestment in education not only entrenches and deepens inequalities, not only breaks the promise of opportunity for every able student, not only chokes the engine of invention and achievement that built California’s twentieth century glory, it destroys the fundament of democracy itself—an educated citizenry capable of thoughtful analysis and informed judgment.” She is not the only person worried about the consequences of the general disinvestment in education currently occurring across the nation as states and local communities struggle to balance tight budgets in the aftermath of the worst economic recession in US history in terms of its magnitude and its persistent, lingering effects on the economy. Faced with tough choices, citizens and their representatives seem to be backing away from the challenges confronting educational institutions at all levels, especially those in the public sector that rely heavily on public financing. Given the depth of the recession, it does not appear likely that private funding will be able to close the gap. Brown captures succinctly the reasons we should all be losing sleep over the state of education in the nation. And, those affected exist not only in the K–12 schools, but on either ends of the spectrum—in preschools and in our institutions of higher education, as funding for all of these programs is cut.

Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, Jan 20, 2018

This study examines caregiver quality of life (CQOL) 3-26 years after autologous hematopoietic ce... more This study examines caregiver quality of life (CQOL) 3-26 years after autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for patients with lymphoma. Using a framework that views the patient-caregiver dyad as a system of mutual influence, we argue that CQOL is associated with survivor functional health status and sense of personal control. Ninety-nine autologous HCT survivor-caregiver dyads participated. CQOL was measured using the Caregiver Quality of Life Scale-Cancer. Survivor functional health status was assessed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General. Sense of control was examined using an instrument from the MIDUS II study. Clinical measures were collected from medical records. After controlling for sociodemographic and clinical covariates, caregivers with higher sense of control had higher CQOL. Poorer survivor functional health was associated with lower CQOL but only when the survivor reported low personal control. When the survivor reported high personal ...