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Jennifer Mueller
Assistant Professor


Education

PhD, Brandeis University, 2002

Recent Consulting

Change management consulting experience specializing in family business and innovative business contexts. Clients range from fortune 500 companies to small family owned businesses.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2005-present. Previous appointments: New York University; Yale University

Publications
Shimul Melwani, Jennifer Mueller, Jennifer Overbeck (2012), Looking down: The influence of contempt and compassion on leadership perceptions, Journal of Applied Psychology, (Provisional accept)
J. Minson, Jennifer Mueller (2011), The cost of collaboration: Why joint decision making exacerbates rejection of outside information, Psychological Science, (In press)
Jennifer Mueller, Melwani, S., Goncalo, J. (2011), The bias against creativity: Why people desire yet reject creative ideas., Psychological Science, (In press)
Jennifer Mueller (2011), Why Individuals in Larger Teams Perform Worse, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (In press)
Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, Dishan Kamdar (2011), Recognizing creative leadership: Can creative idea expression negatively relate to perceptions of leadership potential?, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 494-498
Jennifer Mueller, D. Kamdar (2011), Why seeking help from teammates is a blessing and a curse: A theory of help seeking and individual creativity in team contexts, Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 263-276

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Current Research
Jennifer Mueller, D. Kamdar, Who Seeks Help and When Seeking Help Matters: A Cross-Level Theory of Help Seeking and Individual Level Creativity in Group Contexts
Jennifer Mueller, Shimul Melwani, The Innovation Gap: A Tale of Two Creativities
Jennifer Mueller, R. David Lebel, A.S. Rosette, Why Male Leaders Do Not Ask for Directions: Help Seeking and Perceptions of Leadership Competence
Jennifer Mueller, D. Kamdar, H. Moon, The Innovation Light switch: When Social Exchange Processes Turn Off Innovation in The Face of Stress
Jennifer Mueller, Shimul Melwani, J. Goncalo, The Implicit Bias Against Creativity
M. Cronin, Jennifer Mueller, A Model of Group Level Creativity in Organizations.

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In The News
Facing the Creative Leadership Chasm, Tech Edge, 06/2011
Why Creativity Can Be A Problem for Leaders, Bigthink.com, 05/2011
Why seeking help from teammates is a blessing and a curse: A theory of help seeking and individual creativity in team contexts, British Psychological Society, 03/2011
More Reasons Creativity Sucks: Creative People Seen as Having Less Leadership Potential, Bob Sutton Blog, 03/2011
Are Creative Types Lousy Leaders?., Wall Street Journal, 02/2011
The Curious Case of Creativity in Leadership, CNBC, 02/2011

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Knowledge@Wharton
Research Roundup: Team Performance, Demystifying Market Composition and the Reality vs. Hype of Sponsored Search 01/18/2012
Life after Steve Jobs: What to Expect from the Next Generation at Apple 10/12/2011
A Bias against 'Quirky'? Why Creative People Can Lose Out on Leadership Positions 02/16/2011
Caught in the Middle: Why Developing and Retaining Middle Managers Can Be So Challenging 05/28/2008
Playing Favorites -- Romantic or Otherwise -- Is a Messy Game in the Workplace 08/08/2007
The Messy World of Personal Relationships at Work: Transparency and Trust Are Key 06/27/2007

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Mueller Jennifer

Jennifer  Mueller
 3014 SHDH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 898-6391
Fax: (215) 898-0401
jennm@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Interpersonal relationships in organizations; creativity and innovation; team dynamics; emotions at work