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Lab Director
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor in Cross Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she holds a courtesy appointment at the department of Psychology at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Social/ Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
Lab Coordinator
Paniz Radjaee
Paniz Radjaee is Dr. Michele Gelfand's lab coordinator at the Graduate School of Business. She received his BSc in Cognitive Systems at the University of British Columbia, and her main research interests are individual and cultural differences in attitudes regarding contradictions, black and white thinking, idea polarization, ambiguity and information verification.
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Jing Lin
Jing is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on cross-cultural research on cooperation and trust at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Beijing Normal University and held a postdoctoral position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research investigates how cultural contexts shape trust and cooperative behavior, using methods such as cross-country diary studies, longitudinal designs, and large-scale surveys.
Graduate Student
Alex Landry
Alex Landry is a PhD studying organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is currently researching the causes and consequences of dehumanization, and its troubling presence in American political life. Alex can be reached at alandry@stanford.edu
Graduate Student
Jack Jun Lin
Jack Jun Lin is a PhD student in the Micro Organizational Behavior Group at Stanford GSB. His research interests include diversity, morality, and justice. He is also actively exploring topics on organizational culture and cross-cultural management in general, such as cross-cultural leadership. He takes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates both behavioral science and computer science.
Graduate Student
Carla Colina
Carla Colina is a PhD student studying Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is interested in how social norms shape labour market decisions and the relationship between diversity strategies and workplace discrimination. She earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees in economics from the University of British Columbia. Previously, she was a research professional in the Behavioral Science Department at Chicago Booth.
Research Assistant
Cynthia Carnero
Cynthia Carnero is a Research Software Engineer working with Dr. Michele Gelfand at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this role, she designs and maintains data pipelines, and builds NLP tools that support the lab's research initiatives. She also serves as the lab's data curator, ensuring research data quality and accessibility. Cynthia received her MS in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco. She is interested in human-centered AI applications where AI serves as a tool to support human judgment, and in ensuring such systems are built safely and responsibly.
Research Assistant
Lynn Collardin
Lynn Collardin is a senior at Stanford studying Psychology and Design, with a focus on culture, emotion, and aesthetics. She conducts research in cultural psychology on cross-cultural differences in emotional preferences and how these patterns appear in media and emerging technologies. Lynn has also worked on projects examining organizational narratives, consumer perception, and the psychological dynamics of branding. More broadly, she is interested in how culture shapes taste, identity, and behavior, and how psychological research can be translated into real-world products, interventions, and media.
Research Assistant
Ally Hatakeyama
Ally Hatakeyama is an undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Michele Gelfand and Jing Lin. She is pursuing a double major in Economics and Psychology, with a particular interest in organizational and cultural psychology in industry settings. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience and cultural research, where she explores how individual behavior is shaped by both cognitive and social influences.
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