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Thomas Bradford BITTERLY

PhD in Operations, Information and Decisions
University of Pennsylvania, 2018

Assistant Professor
Department of Management

(852) 2358 7756
bbitterly@ust.hk
Room LSK5044
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0001-9322-1571

Scopus ID

57192667356

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Negotiations and conflict management
Power and status
Trust
Business communication

Publications

All Years 49 2026 4 2025 5 2024 2 2023 0 2022 2 2021 0 2020 36

2026 4

The dosage of deception: How frequency and type influence trust evaluations

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, v. 122, article number 104823
Bitterly, T. Bradford
Article

From Stigma to Trust: A Paradigm Shift for Understanding Perceptions of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder

Paper presented at 3rd Fairy Lake Management Conference (第三届神仙湖管理学论坛), Shenzhen, China
BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; O'Donnell, Lisa; McInnis, Melvin
Conference paper

How Using AI Makes You Less Trusting of Others

Paper presented at 2026 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Chicago, United States
BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; NASON, Stephen William; Huang, Xinjie
Conference paper

The Warmth Penalty: Recipient Resistance to Superior Feedback from Human-in-the-Loop Systems

Paper presented at 40th anniversary of the Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) Conference, New York, United States
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; HAGMANN, David
Conference paper

2025 5

AI Managers May Be Efficient—But Do Workers Trust Them?

HKUST Business Review, v. 1, (1), p. 4-7
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford
Article

How AI + Human Feedback Influences Trust

Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; HAGMANN, David
Conference paper

The Joke’s on US: How Humor Can Increase Perceived Warmth and Trust in China, but Not in the USA

Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Li, Ren; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

When expectations shatter: Investigating integrity erosion in human (vs. AI) after trust violations

Paper presented at The 38th Annual Conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Burlington, United States
LI, Mingyu; Choi, Jungmin; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; CHAO, Melody Man Chi
Conference paper

When Laughter Does (or Does Not) Harm Trust

Paper presented at The 38th Annual Conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Burlington, United States
QU, Buding; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2024 2

How perceived lack of benevolence harms trust of artificial intelligence management

Journal of Applied Psychology, v. 109, (11), p. 1794-1816
LI, Mingyu; Bitterly, T. Bradford
Article

Unpredictable volatility and trust: The VISA model of person perception

Current Opinion in Psychology, v. 55, article number 101718
Bitterly, T. Bradford
Article

2022 2

Humor and power

Current Opinion in Psychology, v. 43, p. 125-128
Bitterly, T. Bradford
Article

The predictive power of exponential numeracy

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, v. 101, article number 104347
Bitterly, T. Bradford; VanEpps, Eric M.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

2020 3

Sarcasm, self-deprecation, and inside jokes: A user’s guide to humor at work

Harvard Business Review, v. 2020, (July-August), p. 4-9
Bitterly, Brad; Brooks, Alison Wood
Article

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 118, (5), p. 945-990
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at Advances in Consumer Research, p. 933-934
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2019 9

How to Deflect Difficult Questions in an Interview or Negotiation

Harvard Business Review
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, Mauric E.
Article

The impression management benefits of humorous self-disclosures: How humor influences perceptions of veracity

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, v. 151, p. 73-89
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2019)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at Winter Workshop: Workplace Humor
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, M.E.
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at The Society for Consumer Psychology Annual Conference (SCP 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosures: How Humor Influences Perceptions of Veracity

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Valence of Power

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Kagn, P.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2018 10

Who is trustworthy? Predicting trustworthy intentions and behavior

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 115, (3), p. 468-494
Levine, Emma E.; Bradford Bitterly, T.; Cohen, Taya R.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (SJDM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re getting warmer: The impression management benefits of humor

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2017 7

Risky business: When humor increases and decreases status

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 112, (3), p. 431-455
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Brooks, Alison Wood
Article

Can We Deflect Direct Questions? What Good is That?

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference 2017
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Who is Trustworthy? Predicting Trustworthy Intentions and Behavior

Levine, E.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Cohen, T.R.; Schweitzer, M.E.
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at East Coast Doctoral Student Conference 2017
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2016 2

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2016)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2016)
Brooks, A.W; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2015 4

Want--Should Conflict: A Synthesis of Past Research

The Psychology of Desire / The Guilford Press, 2015, p. 244-264
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Dai, Hengchen; Milkman, Katherine L.; Mislavsky, Robert
Book chapter

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Trust the Guilty! Guilt-Prone Individuals are More Trustworthy

Paper presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2015)
Levine, E.E; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Trust the Guilty: Anticipated Guilt Increases Trustworthiness

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Cohen, T.R.; Levine, E.E.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2014 1

Risky Business: How Humor Increases Status

Paper presented at The 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2014)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Article 1

The dosage of deception: How frequency and type influence trust evaluations

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, v. 122, article number 104823
Bitterly, T. Bradford

Conference paper 3

From Stigma to Trust: A Paradigm Shift for Understanding Perceptions of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder

Paper presented at 3rd Fairy Lake Management Conference (第三届神仙湖管理学论坛), Shenzhen, China
BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; O'Donnell, Lisa; McInnis, Melvin

How Using AI Makes You Less Trusting of Others

Paper presented at 2026 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Chicago, United States
BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; NASON, Stephen William; Huang, Xinjie

The Warmth Penalty: Recipient Resistance to Superior Feedback from Human-in-the-Loop Systems

Paper presented at 40th anniversary of the Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) Conference, New York, United States
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; HAGMANN, David

Article 1

AI Managers May Be Efficient—But Do Workers Trust Them?

HKUST Business Review, v. 1, (1), p. 4-7
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford

Conference paper 4

How AI + Human Feedback Influences Trust

Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
LI, Mingyu; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; HAGMANN, David

The Joke’s on US: How Humor Can Increase Perceived Warmth and Trust in China, but Not in the USA

Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Li, Ren; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford

When expectations shatter: Investigating integrity erosion in human (vs. AI) after trust violations

Paper presented at The 38th Annual Conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Burlington, United States
LI, Mingyu; Choi, Jungmin; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford; CHAO, Melody Man Chi

When Laughter Does (or Does Not) Harm Trust

Paper presented at The 38th Annual Conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Burlington, United States
QU, Buding; BITTERLY, Thomas Bradford

Article 2

How perceived lack of benevolence harms trust of artificial intelligence management

Journal of Applied Psychology, v. 109, (11), p. 1794-1816
LI, Mingyu; Bitterly, T. Bradford

Unpredictable volatility and trust: The VISA model of person perception

Current Opinion in Psychology, v. 55, article number 101718
Bitterly, T. Bradford

Article 2

Humor and power

Current Opinion in Psychology, v. 43, p. 125-128
Bitterly, T. Bradford

The predictive power of exponential numeracy

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, v. 101, article number 104347
Bitterly, T. Bradford; VanEpps, Eric M.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

Article 2

Sarcasm, self-deprecation, and inside jokes: A user’s guide to humor at work

Harvard Business Review, v. 2020, (July-August), p. 4-9
Bitterly, Brad; Brooks, Alison Wood

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 118, (5), p. 945-990
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

Conference paper 1

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at Advances in Consumer Research, p. 933-934
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Article 2

How to Deflect Difficult Questions in an Interview or Negotiation

Harvard Business Review
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, Mauric E.

The impression management benefits of humorous self-disclosures: How humor influences perceptions of veracity

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, v. 151, p. 73-89
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

Conference paper 7

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2019)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at Winter Workshop: Workplace Humor
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, M.E.

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at The Society for Consumer Psychology Annual Conference (SCP 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosures: How Humor Influences Perceptions of Veracity

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Valence of Power

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Kagn, P.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Article 1

Who is trustworthy? Predicting trustworthy intentions and behavior

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 115, (3), p. 468-494
Levine, Emma E.; Bradford Bitterly, T.; Cohen, Taya R.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

Conference paper 9

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (SJDM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

You’re getting warmer: The impression management benefits of humor

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Article 1

Risky business: When humor increases and decreases status

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 112, (3), p. 431-455
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Brooks, Alison Wood

Conference paper 6

Can We Deflect Direct Questions? What Good is That?

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference 2017
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Who is Trustworthy? Predicting Trustworthy Intentions and Behavior

Levine, E.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Cohen, T.R.; Schweitzer, M.E.

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at East Coast Doctoral Student Conference 2017
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Conference paper 2

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2016)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2016)
Brooks, A.W; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Book chapter 1

Want--Should Conflict: A Synthesis of Past Research

The Psychology of Desire / The Guilford Press, 2015, p. 244-264
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Dai, Hengchen; Milkman, Katherine L.; Mislavsky, Robert

Conference paper 3

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Trust the Guilty! Guilt-Prone Individuals are More Trustworthy

Paper presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2015)
Levine, E.E; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Trust the Guilty: Anticipated Guilt Increases Trustworthiness

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Cohen, T.R.; Levine, E.E.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

Conference paper 1

Risky Business: How Humor Increases Status

Paper presented at The 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2014)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford

2020 3

Sarcasm, self-deprecation, and inside jokes: A user’s guide to humor at work

Harvard Business Review, v. 2020, (July-August), p. 4-9
Bitterly, Brad; Brooks, Alison Wood
Article

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 118, (5), p. 945-990
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at Advances in Consumer Research, p. 933-934
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2019 9

How to Deflect Difficult Questions in an Interview or Negotiation

Harvard Business Review
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, Mauric E.
Article

The impression management benefits of humorous self-disclosures: How humor influences perceptions of veracity

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, v. 151, p. 73-89
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

How Power Influences the Use of Humor

Paper presented at 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2019)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at Winter Workshop: Workplace Humor
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Schweitzer, M.E.
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at The Society for Consumer Psychology Annual Conference (SCP 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosures: How Humor Influences Perceptions of Veracity

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Valence of Power

Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2019)
Kagn, P.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2018 10

Who is trustworthy? Predicting trustworthy intentions and behavior

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 115, (3), p. 468-494
Levine, Emma E.; Bradford Bitterly, T.; Cohen, Taya R.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Article

Humor and Hierarchy

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Shock and Ha! The Relationship between Power and Humor

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at 31st Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions

Paper presented at The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (SJDM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re getting warmer: The impression management benefits of humor

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2017 7

Risky business: When humor increases and decreases status

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 112, (3), p. 431-455
Bitterly, T. Bradford; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Brooks, Alison Wood
Article

Can We Deflect Direct Questions? What Good is That?

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference 2017
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Who is Trustworthy? Predicting Trustworthy Intentions and Behavior

Levine, E.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Cohen, T.R.; Schweitzer, M.E.
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at East Coast Doctoral Student Conference 2017
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humor

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

You’re Getting Warmer: The Impression Management Benefits of Humorous Self-Disclosure

Paper presented at 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2017)
Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2016 2

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2016)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2016)
Brooks, A.W; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2015 4

Want--Should Conflict: A Synthesis of Past Research

The Psychology of Desire / The Guilford Press, 2015, p. 244-264
Bitterly, Thomas Bradford; Dai, Hengchen; Milkman, Katherine L.; Mislavsky, Robert
Book chapter

Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Trust the Guilty! Guilt-Prone Individuals are More Trustworthy

Paper presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2015)
Levine, E.E; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

Trust the Guilty: Anticipated Guilt Increases Trustworthiness

Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Cohen, T.R.; Levine, E.E.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

2014 1

Risky Business: How Humor Increases Status

Paper presented at The 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM 2014)
Brooks, A.W.; Schweitzer, M.E.; Bitterly, Thomas Bradford
Conference paper

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Teaching Assignment

2026-27 Fall 1 2025-26 Summer 2 2025-26 Spring 4 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 2 2024-25 Summer 1

MGMT5550

Effective Negotiations

UROP1000	Undergraduate Research Opportunities
UROP2100S	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2

MGMT3140	Negotiation
MGMT5550	Effective Negotiations
UROP1100R	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1
UROP3200	Undergraduate Research Opportunities with Mini-conference Experience

MGMT5550	Effective Negotiations
UROP1100Q	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

UROP1000

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 05 September 2026)

All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LI, Mingyu
Management

Graduated RPGs

Master of Philosophy

LI, Mingyu
Management( Completed in 2023 )

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 1

No Projects.
How Unpredictable Volatility Shapes Trust

不可預測波動性如何塑造信任 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
BITTERLY Thomas Bradford (Lead)
2024 -

Research Interest

Publications

2026 4

2025 5

2024 2

2022 2

2020 3

2019 9

2018 10

2017 7

2016 2

2015 4

2014 1

Article 1

Conference paper 3

Article 1

Conference paper 4

Article 2

Article 2

Article 2

Conference paper 1

Article 2

Conference paper 7

Article 1

Conference paper 9

Article 1

Conference paper 6

Conference paper 2

Book chapter 1

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 1

2020 3

2019 9

2018 10

2017 7

2016 2

2015 4

2014 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 05 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Graduated RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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