About Me
Hey! I am Amanda!
I am on the 2026-27 academic job market
I am especially interested in discovering effective ways of asking for and giving advice, with a particular focus on how interpersonal consequences shape the way people seek and offer it. Framing a request for advice shapes the impression it leaves on the advisor, while advisors often shade their recommendations toward what people want to hear rather than what would help most. I study this advice-giving process through multi-stage experiments, engaging real advice seekers and givers in authentic interactions. I also study judgment and decision making, including how people arrive at their decisions, decision biases such as escalation of commitment, and how people judge effort.
Working Papers
Ask about the journey, not just the destination: Seeking advice focused on the process, not just the outcome, leads to positive impressions and boosts advice quality
Amanda Zaidan Chen, Martha Jeong, and Ting Zhang
Under Review at OBHDP
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Flattering Advice
Amanda Zaidan Chen and David Hagmann
Sticky Intuition: Following Your Intuition Can Make You Less Likely to Change Your Mind Than Following a Structured Process
Martha Jeong and Amanda Zaidan Chen
Revise & Resubmit at JESP
Labeling Deepfake Videos Reduces Exposure But Not Persuasiveness
Amanda Zaidan Chen, David Hagmann, Christie Pang, and George Loewenstein
Revise & Resubmit at PNAS Nexus
Recent Research
Learning in a noisy world: How lucky successes and unlucky failures shape learning consequences
Amanda Zaidan Chen, Martha Jeong, and Michele Rigolizzo
PLoS One (Registered Report)
Affective drivers of risky decisions: Universal patterns and cultural variations
Amanda Zaidan Chen, Carmen K. Ng, Kin Fai Ellick Wong, and Jessica Y. Y. Kwong
In M. Yik (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion and Culture. Oxford University Press (in press)
Education
PhD Student in Management
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Visiting Scholar
University of Pennsylvania
M.S. in System Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
B.E. in Vehicle Engineering
Double major in Business Administration
Tsinghua University