Prof. Michele Gelfand
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Professor of Psychology (by Courtesy), Stanford University, USA
Profile
ACADEMIC HOST
Prof. Peter Bamberger
Coller School of Management
IAS Distinguished Scholar
Academic Year 2026/2027
Education
- B.A., Psychology, Colgate University, 1989
- Ph.D., Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Experience
- Professor of Organizational Behavior & John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2021–present
- Professor of Psychology by Courtesy, Stanford University, 2021–present
- Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 1996–2021
- Faculty, New York University, 1995–1996
Fellowships and memberships
- Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2021
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
- Past President, International Association for Conflict Management
- Past Division Chair, Conflict Division, Academy of Management
- Past Treasurer, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Awards
- Outstanding International Psychologist Award, American Psychological Association, 2017
- Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology, 2015
- William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, 2014
- Anneliese Maier Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011
- Distinguished University Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, 2009
- Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award, SIOP, 2002
Editorial
- Founding co-editor, Advances in Culture and Psychology
- Founding co-editor, Frontiers of Culture and Psychology series, Oxford University Press
- Co-editor, Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations
- Co-editor, The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture
- Co-editor, Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring
Research interest
- Cultural influences on conflict, revenge, and forgiveness
- Tightness–looseness and individualism–collectivism frameworks
- Multilevel consequences of culture for human groups and organizations
- Cross-cultural negotiation, management, and organizational behavior
- Field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience approaches to understanding the evolution of culture
- Cross-cultural management and organizational behavior applied to human groups and organizations
Empirical, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods
Framework of visit
IAS Distinguished ScholarsFaculty
Management
Methodology
Next YearSelected Publications
- Author, "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World" (Scribner, 2018)
- Co-editor, "Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring" (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Co-editor, "The Handbook of Conflict and Conflict Management" (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
- Co-editor, "The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture" (Stanford University Press, 2004)
