Dr. Michele Gelfand

Biography

Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. She has an extensive background in cross-cultural management and organizational behavior. Her research employs field, experimental, and computational neuroscience methods to understand cultural evolution and its multilevel consequences. Gelfand's scholarly work has appeared in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, and Nature Human Behavior. She is a founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture Psychology series published by Oxford University Press. Her 2018 book, 'Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight Loose Cultures in a Wired World', explores the interplay between cultural norms and behavior. Gelfand has been recognized with several awards including the Diener award from SPSP in 2016, the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association in 2017, and the Outstanding Cultural Psychology Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 2019. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, she served as Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution.

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