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Negotiation & Conflict
Conflict is inevitable, and it is how conflict is managed that helps or hinders human groups. Our research explores the conditions under which conflict can originate and spread in cultural systems and how norms for conflict management develop. We also explore the way that individuals and groups negotiate about conflict issues, and the different processes through which successful negotiation agreements occur within and across cultures. Our work examines culture universality and specificity in the etiology of revenge and forgiveness, as well as the cultural psychology of terrorism. We also focus on empowerment in negotiation, and explore how stigmatized individuals can overcome limitations to their negotiation authority.
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Dagher, M., Kaltenthaler, K., Gelfand, M. J., Kruglanksi, A., & McCulloh, I. (2023). ISIS in Iraq: The Social and Psychological Foundations of Terror.
Lin, Y., Caluori, N., Öztürk, E. B., & Gelfand, M. J. (2022). From virility to virtue: the psychology of apology in honor cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(41), e2210324119.
Fan, X., Gao, T., Luo, S., Gelfand, M. J., & Han, S. (2022). Religious Afterlife Beliefs Decrease Behavioral Avoidance of Symbols of Mortality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(7), 1113-1129.
Dimant, E., Clemente, E.G., Pieper, D., Dreber, A., Gelfand, M.J. (2022). Politicizing Mask-wearing: predicting the success of behavioral interventions among republicans and democrats in the US. Scientific Reports.
Fan, X.; Gao, T., Luo, S., Gelfand, M.J., Han, S. (2022). Religious Afterlife Beliefs Decrease Behavioral Avoidance of Symbols of Mortality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Milyavsky, M., Kruglanski, A. W., Gelfand, M., Chernikova, M., Ellenberg, M., & Pierro, A. (2022). People who need people (and some who think they don't): On Compensatory personal and social means of goal pursuit. Psychological Inquiry
Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlović, T., ... & Jørgensen, F. J. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature communications
Li, C., Gelfand, M.J. (2022). The influence of cultural tightness-looseness on cross-border acquisition performance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Gelfand, M.J., Li, R., Stamkou, E., Pieper, D., Denison, E., Fernandez, J., Choi, V., Chatmam, J., Jackson, J., Dimant, E. (2022). Persuading Republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearking: An intervention tournament. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Pierro, A., Pica, G., Dentale, F., Gelfand, M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2020). The unique role of regulatory mode orientations in implicit and explicit self-forgiveness. Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000433
Han, X., Gelfand, M. J., Wu, B., Zhang, T., Li, W., Gao, T., Pang, C., Wu, T., Zhou, Y., Zhou, S., Wu, X., & Han, S. (2020). A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict. ELife, 9, e52014. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52014
Caluori, N., Jackson, J. C., Gray, K., & Gelfand, M. (2020). Conflict Changes How People View God. Psychological Science, 31(3), 280–292.
Jasko, K., Webber, D., Kruglanski, A. W., Gelfand, M., Taufiqurrohman, M., Hettiarachchi, M., & Gunaratna, R. (2020). Social context moderates the effects of quest for significance on violent extremism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(6), 1165–1187. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000198
Friedman, R. A., Pinkley, R. L., Bottom, W. P., Liu, W., & Gelfand, M. (2020). Implicit Theories of Negotiation: Developing a Measure of Agreement Fluidity. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 13(2), 127-150.
Gelfand, M. J. & Jackson, J. C. (2019) The Cultural Psychology of Negotiation. In D. Cohen & S. Kitayama (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology, 2, 650-677. New York, NY: Guilford.
Lemay Jr, E. P., Ryan, J. E., Fehr, R., & Gelfand, M. J. (2019). Validation of negativity: Drawbacks of interpersonal responsiveness during conflicts with outsiders. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Jackson, J. C., Choi, V. K., & Gelfand, M. J. (2019). Revenge: A multilevel review and synthesis. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 319-345.
Jackson, J. C., Gelfand, M. J., Ayub, N., & Wheeler, J. (2019). Together from Afar: Introducing a Diary Contact Technique for Improving Intergroup Relations. Behavioral Science & Policy, 5(1), 14–33. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2019.0002
Choi, V. K., Gelfand M. J., & Jackson J. C. (2018). The role of entitativity in perpetuating cycles of violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41.
Shteynberg, G., Gelfand, M., Imai, L., Mayer, D. M., & Bell, C. (2017). Prosocial thinkers and the social transmission of justice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(4), 429-442.
Moaddel, M., & Gelfand, M. J. (Eds.). (2017). Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press.
Nowak, A., Gelfand, M. J., Borkowski, W., Cohen, D., & Hernandez, I. (2016). The evolutionary basis of honor cultures. Psychological Science, 27(1), 12-24.
Salmon, E. D., Gelfand, M. J., Ting, H., Kraus, S., Gal, Y. A., & Fulmer, C. A. (2016). When time is not money: Why Americans may lose out at the negotiation table. Academy of Management Discoveries, 2(4), 349-367.
Zheng, X., Fehr, R., Tai, K., Narayanan, J., & Gelfand, M. J. (2015). The unburdening effects of forgiveness: Effects on slant perception and jumping height. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(4), 431-438.
Gelfand, M. J., Severance, L., Lee, T., Bruss, C. B., Lun, J., Abdel Latif, A. H., ... & Moustafa Ahmed, S. (2015). Culture and getting to yes: The linguistic signature of creative agreements in the United States and Egypt. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36(7), 967-989.
Fulmer, C. A., & Gelfand, M. J. (2015). Trust after violations: Are collectivists more or less forgiving?. Journal of Trust Research, 5(2), 109-131.
Lyons-Padilla, S., Gelfand, M. J., Mirahmadi, H., Farooq, M., & Van Egmond, M. (2015). Belonging nowhere: Marginalization & radicalization risk among Muslim immigrants. Behavioral Science & Policy, 1(2), 1-12.
Gelfand, M. J., Harrington, J. R., & Leslie, L. M. (2014). Conflict cultures: A new frontier for conflict management research and practice. Handbook of conflict management research, 109-134.
Roos, P., Gelfand, M., Nau, D., & Carr, R. (2014). High strength-of-ties and low mobility enable the evolution of third-party punishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1776), 20132661.
Inman, M., Kishi, R., Wilkenfeld, J., Gelfand, M., & Salmon, E. (2014). Cultural influences on mediation in international crises. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 58(4), 685-712.
Lee, T. L., Gelfand, M. J., & Kashima, Y. (2014). The serial reproduction of conflict: Third parties escalate conflict through communication biases. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 68-72.
Kruglanski, A. W., Gelfand, M. J., Bélanger, J. J., Sheveland, A., Hetiarachchi, M., & Gunaratna, R. (2014). The psychology of radicalization and deradicalization: How significance quest impacts violent extremism. Political Psychology, 35, 69-93.
Gal, Y., Rosenfeld, A., Kraus, S., Gelfand, M., An, B., & Lin, J. (2014). A New Paradigm for the Study of Corruption in Different Cultures. In W. G. Kennedy, N. Agarwal, & S. J. Yang (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (pp. 261–268). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05579-4_32
Gelfand, M. J., LaFree, G., Fahey, S., & Feinberg, E. (2013). Culture and extremism. Journal of Social Issues, 69(3), 495-517.
Lee, T. L., Gelfand, M. J., Shteynberg, G., Yuki, M., & Brewer, M. (2013). Culture and the contagion of conflict. In M. Yuki & M. Brewer (Eds.), Culture and Group Processes (pp. 241–260). Oxford University Press.
Kruglanski, A. W., Bélanger, J. J., Gelfand, M., Gunaratna, R., Hettiarachchi, M., Reinares, F., ... & Sharvit, K. (2013). Terrorism—A (self) love story: Redirecting the significance quest can end violence. American Psychologist, 68(7), 559.
Severance, L., Bui‐Wrzosinska, L., Gelfand, M. J., Lyons, S., Nowak, A., Borkowski, W., ... & Lin, C. C. (2013). The psychological structure of aggression across cultures. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(6), 835-865.
Fulmer, C. A., & Gelfand, M. J. (2013). How do I trust thee? Dynamic trust profiles and their individual and social contextual determinants. In K. Sycara, M. J. Gelfand, & A. Abbe (Eds.) Models for intercultural collaboration and negotiation. New York: Springer.
Salmon, E. D., Gelfand, M. J., Çelik, A. B., Kraus, S., Wilkenfeld, J., & Inman, M. (2013). Cultural contingencies of mediation: Effectiveness of mediator styles in intercultural disputes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(6), 887-909.
Bui-Wrzosinska , L., Gelfand, M.J., Nowak, A., & Severance, L. (2013). Studying trajectories of conflict escalation. In K. Sycara, M. J. Gelfand, & A. Abbe (Eds.) Models for intercultural collaboration and negotiation. New York: Springer.