Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize

The authors are very grateful to Ethan Burris, Curtis Chan, Laura Huang, David Lazer, Michael Norton, and Amy Wrzesniewski for helpful feedback on previous versions of this manuscript, as well as Lydia Mitzi Gross, Cara Mazzucco, and Max Jordan Williams for their research assistance. The authors also thank the law enforcement officers for participating in our studies, the administrative personnel at the agencies for their assistance, and the body camera footage raters for their valuable expertise. Additionally, the authors are indebted to Pam Hinds for consistently encouraging and challenging us to make this work better and to the anonymous reviewers for giving us the ideas and developmental comments to do so. Finally, the authors are grateful to participants in the following seminars in which this paper was presented: the Wharton School of Business HSC Seminar (spring 2020); the Stanford Management Science & Engineering Work, Technology, and Organizations Seminar (fall 2019); the UT Management Department WIP Seminar (fall 2019); the INGroup Conference Summer Conference (2019); the Stanford Graduate School of Business OB Seminar (2018); and the Organization Science Winter Conference (2018). The authors contributed equally to this manuscript.