Michele Gelfand
Michele Gelfand is John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Michele is a cross-cultural psychologist renowned for her work on social norms, negotiation, conflict, revenge, forgiveness and diversity. She uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscientific methods to study the evolution of cultural differences, most notably, the strength of social norms, and their consequences for nations, states, organizations, and individuals. Her early work focused on the distinction of vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism. Her work has been cited over 20,000 times and has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Fox News, NBC News, ABC News, The Economist, De Standaard, among other outlets. Previously, Michele was a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland.
Michele Gelfand Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management
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Distinguished University Professor
Academic History
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Ph.D., Social/Organizational Psychology
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M.A., Social/Organizational Psychology
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B.A., Psychology
Her research also focuses on the role of culture in negotiation and conflict and the psychology of revenge and forgiveness and diversity in organizations.
Her pioneering research into cultural norms has been cited thousands of times in the press.
She has received over 13 million dollars in research funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and the FBI.
AFFILIATIONS
Co-founder, Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution
Past President, International Association for Conflict Management
Past Division Chair, Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management
RECENT HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
2021 Contributions to Society Award, Academy of Management
2020 Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award, International Association of Conflict Management
2020 Katzell Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2019 Outstanding Cultural Psychology Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2019 Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2017 Outstanding International Psychologist Award, American Psychological Association
2017 Most Influential Paper Award, Conflict Management
Division, Academy of Management
2016 Edward Diener, Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Her research has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Business and on NPR.
She has also been featured in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, PLOS 1, Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, American Psychologist, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, among others.