Professor Bohns studies social influence, compliance, consent, why it's so hard to ask for things, and why it’s so hard to say no. She is author of the book You Have More Influence Than You Think (2021, Norton). She received her PhD in social psychology from Columbia University and her AB in psychology from Brown University. Prior to joining Cornell, she taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research has been published in top academic journals in psychology, management, and law, and has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, Economist, and NPR. Her popular press and practitioner writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. She is currently an associate editor at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, has previously served as an associate editor at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social Cognition. Professor Bohns teaches Psychology of Work (ILRID 1525), Morality at Work (ILROB 4760), Writing Persuasively about the Science of Persuasion (ILROB 2240), and lectures in the EMHRM program. She has been at Cornell since 2014.