about
Shane Schweitzer is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Development at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at NUS Business School at National University of Singapore, in the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH). He received his PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Shane studies the psychology of technology, specifically, how people come to perceive advanced technologies like robots, algorithms, and AI as humanlike (i.e., anthropomorphism). He also studies how technology changes the way people perceive others, particularly, when it leads people to overlook others’ human qualities (i.e., dehumanization). He investigates the consequences of these processes for organizational ethics, social connection, and emotion.
Read a writeup in Harvard Business Review of some of my recent work.