Publications
Media Articles
Brodsky, A. (2025). Why You Shouldn’t Let AI Write Your Emails. TIME Magazine.
Brodsky, A. (2025). How To Reduce Email Overload. Chief Executive Magazine.
Brodsky, A. (2025). Making Virtual Communication Better. Communicate Magazine.
Brodsky, A. (2024). Your Company Is Watching You. And Probably Doing It All Wrong. The Wall Street Journal.
Brodsky, A. (2024). The Rules for Making a Good Impression on Zoom and Emails. The Wall Street Journal.
Brodsky, A. & Tolliver, M. (2022). No, remote employees aren’t becoming less engaged. Harvard Business Review (Digital Article).
Brodsky, A. (2022). Communicating authentically in a virtual world. Harvard Business Review (Digital Article).
Bernstein, E., Blunden, H., Brodsky, A., Sohn, W., & Waber, B. (2020). The implications of working without an office. Harvard Business Review, Big Idea Feature.
Brodsky, A. (2015). The dos and don’ts of work email, from emojis to typos. Harvard Business Review (Digital Article).
Books and Chapters
Brodsky, A. (2025). PING: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication. New York: Simon & Schuster/Simon Acumen (North America). Penguin (International).
Brodsky, A. (2024). Communicating authentically in a virtual world. In, Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing.
Brodsky, A. (2017). Writing Resonant Emails. In, HBR Guide to Emotional Intelligence. Boston: Harvard Business Review.
Journal Articles
Blunden, H. & Brodsky, A. (2024) “A review of virtual impression management behaviors and outcomes.” 50(6), 2197-2236. Journal of Management.
Brodsky, A.*, Lee, M.J.*, & Leonard, B. (2022). “Discovering new frontiers for dyadic and team interaction studies: Current challenges and an open-source solution—Survconf—for increasing the quantity and richness of interactional data.” 8(3), 337-240. Academy of Managment Discoveries.
*Equal author contribution, alphabetical order.
Brodsky, A. (2021). “Virtual surface acting in workplace interactions: Choosing the best technology to fit the task.” Journal of Applied Psychology. 106(5), 714–733. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000805
Blunden, H.* & Brodsky, A.* (2021). “Beyond the emoticon: Are there unintentional cues of emotion in email?” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 47(4), 565-579. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167220936054
*Equal author contribution, alphabetical order.
Brodsky, A., & Amabile, T. M. (2018). The downside of downtime: The prevalence and work pacing consequences of idle time at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(5), 496-512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000294
Parke, M. R., Weinhardt, J. M., Brodsky, A., Tangirala, S., & DeVoe, S. E. (2018). When daily planning improves employee performance: The importance of planning type, engagement, and interruptions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(3), 300-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000278