Michele J. Gelfand

Ying is a assistant professor in the Department of Management at HKUST working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on culture and norms. Ying obtained her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Southern California under the mentorship of Daphna Oyserman. Ying researches the often unexpected effects that culture and situations have on reasoning and judgment. 

Valentino is a PhD student studying organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He harbors an interest in intergroup cooperation and conflict, as well as competition (both intergroup and interpersonal). Additionally, he has recently started exploring research on power, status, and hierarchies. His interests outside of research include floorball, reading, and strategy games.

​Jonah is a PhD student studying organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is broadly interested in judgment and decision-making. His current work explores topics including the norm of reciprocity in group settings and incommensurability in decision-making.

Muhua Huang is an Organizational Behavior PhD student at Stanford GSB. She studies the “characters” of humans and AI (e.g., personality, values, and culture), by treating AI as both “alien participants” in social systems and as a compressed representation of collective human knowledge. Her work lies at the intersection of computational social science, psychometrics, and human-centered AI, asking how AI differs from human intelligence and what it reveals about social behavior and structure. Prior to Stanfrod, she received her M.A. in Computational Social Science from UChicago and her B.A. in Psychology and CS from UBC. 

Xinyue is an Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong who works with Dr. Michele Gelfand. Her main research focus is using agent-based modeling approach to study the impact of cultural and ecological factors on social behaviors. Her research topics include threat, ethnocentrism, cooperation, gossip, norm change, etc. She is also interested in a variety of topics on cultural psychology and social neuroscience.

Piotr is an Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, specializing in organizational culture, leadership, innovation, and evidence-based management. He holds a PhD in sociology and a double MA in psychology and sociology. He’s a co-founder at Freenovation, speaker, author, and talent management consultant. As a researcher, he’s exploring the links between cultural tightness-looseness, leadership, creativity, and innovation.

Bastian is an MA student working with Dr. Michele Gelfand at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has received his BSc in Psychology at the University of Groningen and has experience in social identity research focusing on intergroup contexts. His interests lie broadly in the domain of social cognition, specifically in cross-cultural work and the topics of identity threat and intergroup conflict.

Sherry is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations & Behavioral Decision Making at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She received her PhD in Psychology from Princeton University in 2019. Sherry’s research is concerned with: 1) group and cultural influence over long-lasting behavioral changes, and 2) decision processes under resource disparity and social inequality. Sherry does large-scale field experiments in different cultural contexts to investigate questions on group dynamics, norms, and behavioral change.

Virginia is a lab affiliate interested in the influence of social norms and culture on organizational processes. Her research examines the multilevel influences and consequences of social norms on teams and organizations, primarily with respect to stigma, innovation, and counterproductive work behaviors. More generally, she is interested in the function and establishment of norms and the factors that influence norm change through social networks and leadership cues.

Johannes is a researcher working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on research relating to culture and trust. Johannes obtained his PhD in psychology at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he explored cultural and individual differences in mindfulness. Johannes ongoing work covers cultural and evolutionary approaches to personality, values, mindfulness, non-ordinary experience and ritual practice.

Morgan is a researcher focusing on research relating to culture, norms, diversity, and stigma. Morgan obtained her PhD in social psychology at the University of Melbourne, where she explored the behaviours and psychological processes that reinforce hierarchical gender relations. More broadly, Morgan is interested in how social norms are transmitted over time, vary across cultures, and affect social inequalities.