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. 

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.

Ziwen Chen is a Ph.D. student in Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Using computational social science methods (e.g., NLP, online experiments, machine learning), she studies the cognitive foundation of collective construction and transmission of culture. Her current research investigates metaphors in negotiation.

Virginia is a third-year graduate student working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on the influence of social norms and culture on organizational processes. Her current 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.

Alex Landry is a graduate student 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

Jack Jun Lin is a Ph.D. 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. 

Ying is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on culture and norms at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Culture Lab, 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. 

Xinyue is a fourth-year graduate student 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.

Morgan is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on research relating to culture, norms, diversity, and stigma at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 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.

Bastian is a pre-doctoral research fellow 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.