Robin Abrahams Email Address

Independent Writer, Researcher, Speaker, Consultant

Improbable Research is produced by the people who founded and organize the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. (We are also the very same people who from 1955-1994 founded and edited the Journal of Irreproducible Results. In 1994, when the Journal's publisher decided to abandon the magazine, we decided to abandon that publisher. Unable to get use of the old name, we started a brand new publication - the Annals of Improbable Research.

I write the popular "Miss Conduct" social advice column in the Boston Globe Sunday magazine. My book "Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners" was published by Holt in 2009. I also write and blog in the Globe and elsewhere about social behavior, psychology, and the performing arts. I also work as a researcher at Harvard Business School in the Organizational Behavior unit. Our research focuses on strategic human management of top performers--and how top performers can best manage their own careers. (Hint: they're not as good at it as they think they are. We can help.) I give talks on a variety of topics including social behavior and etiquette, Jewish values, and career management. Specialties: Psychology, research methodology, social behavior, etiquette, writing, teaching at the college level, comedy, theater, communication strategies, strategic human resources management, project management.