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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 2007 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Hillary Anger Elfenbein is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and social sciences, with a considerable emphasis on sociology, political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The research topics frequently explored by Elfenbein include conflict management and negotiation, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, language, discourse, and communication strategies, emotional intelligence and performance, emotion and mood recognition, interpreting and communication in healthcare, and gender diversity and inequality.

Elfenbein has contributed to various publication venues, with several works appearing in the Academy of Management Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, PLoS ONE, and Emotion Review.

Some recent papers by Elfenbein and collaborators include:

  • Cross-Cultural Emotion Recognition and In-Group Advantage in Vocal Expression: A Meta-Analysis (2020) in Emotion Review
  • Emotion in Organizations: Theory and Research (2022) in Annual Review of Psychology
  • Effects of aging on emotion recognition from dynamic multimodal expressions and vocalizations (2021) in Scientific Reports
  • The (mostly) robust influence of initial trustworthiness beliefs on subsequent behaviors and perceptions (2021) in Human Relations
  • The Effects of Emotional Expressions in Negotiation: A Meta-Analysis and Future Directions for Research (2020) in Human Performance

Elfenbein has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Daisung Jang, Petri Laukka, William P. Bottom, Sudeep Sharma, and Ruchi Sinha.

The scientist has been recognized with distinctions such as being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2019 and receiving the Hellman Fellow award in 2007.

Best Publications

  • On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysis.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

    Joshua D. Margolis;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;James P. Walsh

  • 7 Emotion in Organizations: A Review and Theoretical Integration

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein

  • The Psychology of Rivalry: A Relationally Dependent Analysis of Competition

    Gavin J. Kilduff;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Barry M. Staw

  • What do people value when they negotiate? Mapping the domain of subjective value in negotiation.

    Jared R. Curhan;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Heng Xu

  • 7 Emotion in Organizations

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  • When familiarity breeds accuracy: cultural exposure and facial emotion recognition.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Toward a dialect theory: cultural differences in the expression and recognition of posed facial expressions.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Martin Beaupré;Manon Lévesque;Ursula Hess

  • Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition?

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Reading your Counterpart: The Benefit of Emotion Recognition Accuracy for Effectiveness in Negotiation

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Maw Der Foo;Maw Der Foo;Judith White;Hwee Hoon Tan

  • Universals and Cultural Differences in Recognizing Emotions

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High-Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness

    Boris Groysberg;Jeffrey T. Polzer;Hillary Anger Elfenbein

  • Nonverbal “Accents”: Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion

    Abigail A. Marsh;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Fitting In: The Effects of Relational Demography and Person-Culture Fit on Group Process and Performance

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Charles A. O'Reilly

  • Predicting workplace outcomes from the ability to eavesdrop on feelings.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • The many faces of emotional contagion An affective process theory of affective linkage

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein

  • EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEGOTIATION: THE TENSION BETWEEN CREATING AND CLAIMING VALUE

    Maw Der Foo;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Hwee Hoon Tan;Voon Chuan Aik

  • Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It

    Joshua D. Margolis;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;James P. Walsh

  • Emotional intelligence and the recognition of emotion from facial expressions.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Abigail A. Marsh;Nalini Ambady

  • On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis.

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  • Nonverbal Dialects and Accents in Facial Expressions of Emotion

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein

  • Mapping 24 emotions conveyed by brief human vocalization.

    Alan S. Cowen;Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Petri Laukka;Dacher Keltner

  • Cross-cultural patterns in emotion recognition: highlighting design and analytical techniques.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Manas K. Mandal;Nalini Ambady;Susumu Harizuka

Frequent Co-Authors

Petri Laukka
Petri Laukka Uppsala University
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Abigail A. Marsh
Abigail A. Marsh Georgetown University
Emery Schubert
Emery Schubert University of New South Wales
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Laurie R. Weingart
Laurie R. Weingart Carnegie Mellon University
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons Duke University

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