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4875
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7294
National Ranking
520

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Mara Olekalns is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, psychology, and business management. Their research spans a variety of interconnected domains, particularly focusing on conflict management and negotiation, gender diversity and inequality, family business performance and succession, attachment and relationship dynamics, emotions and moral behavior, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, as well as language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Their work has been published in several notable academic journals, including:

  • Negotiation Journal
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Organizational Psychology Review
  • International Journal of Conflict Management
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent publications authored by Mara Olekalns include:

  • Resetting relationship trajectories: A reconceptualization of the relationship repair process (2024), Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Nine Lessons from Love: Couples Therapy for Negotiators (2022), Negotiation Journal
  • Cognitive processing and affect predict negotiators' post-adversity subjective and economic outcomes (2021), International Journal of Conflict Management

Some of the work associated with their frequent coauthors includes collaboration with Liu-Qin Yang, Brianna Barker Caza, Philip L. Smith, Catherine S. Daus, and Ray Friedman. These collaborations suggest a network of scholarly interaction clustered around negotiation, organizational behavior, and psychological dimensions of social science research.

Mara Olekalns has also contributed to academic knowledge through book chapters, notably in Cambridge University Press publications. One recorded book title is The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect (2020), which has received citations in its field.

Their research integrates multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, gender studies, and language and linguistics. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the diversity of topics their work addresses.

Best Publications

  • Affectivity, Organizational Stressors, and Absenteeism: A Causal Model of Burnout and Its Consequences

    Roderick D. Iverson;Mara Olekalns;Peter J. Erwin

  • The positive and negative effects of anger on dispute resolution: evidence from electronically mediated disputes.

    Ray Friedman;Cameron Anderson;Jeanne Brett;Mara Olekalns

  • Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim

    Steven Lattimore McShane;Mara Olekalns;Tony Travaglione

  • Sticks And Stones: Language, Face, And Online Dispute Resolution

    Jeanne M. Brett;Mara Olekalns;Ray Friedman;Nathan Goates

  • The process of negotiating: Strategy and timing as predictors of outcomes.

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith;Therese Walsh

  • Conflicting social motives in negotiating groups.

    Laurie R. Weingart;Jeanne M. Brett;Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Mutually Dependent: Power, Trust, Affect And The Use Of Deception In Negotiation

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Understanding Optimal Outcomes: The Role of Strategy Sequences in Competitive Negotiations.

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Quantitative Coding of Negotiation Behavior

    Laurie Weingart;Philip Smith;Mara Olekalns

  • PHASES, TRANSITIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS: MODELING PROCESSES IN MULTI‐PARTY NEGOTIATIONS

    Mara Olekalns;Jeanne M. Brett;Laurie R. Weingart

  • Testing the relationships among negotiators’ motivational orientations, strategy choices, and outcomes

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L Smith

  • Emotions in Negotiation

    Daniel Druckman;Daniel Druckman;Mara Olekalns

  • Social Value Orientations and Strategy Choices in Competitive Negotiations

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Negotiating the Gender Divide: Lessons From the Negotiation and Organizational Behavior Literatures

    Carol T. Kulik;Mara Olekalns

  • Moments in Time: Metacognition, Trust, and Outcomes in Dyadic Negotiations

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Loose with the Truth: Predicting Deception in Negotiation

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • Interpretive filters: social cognition and the impact of turning points in negotiation

    Daniel Druckman;Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • SOCIAL MOTIVES IN NEGOTIATION: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DYAD COMPOSITION, NEGOTIATION PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES

    Mara Olekalns;Philip L. Smith

  • With Feeling: How Emotions Shape Negotiation: Emotion in Negotiation

    Mara Olekalns;Daniel Druckman

  • With Feeling: How Emotions Shape Negotiation

    Mara Olekalns;Daniel Druckman;Daniel Druckman

  • The Positive and Negative Effects of Anger on Dispute Resolution: Evidence from Electronically Mediated Disputes

    Ray Friedman;Jeanne M. Brett;Cameron Anderson;Mara Olekalns

  • Handbook of Research on Negotiation

    Mara Olekalns;Wendi L. Adair

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie R. Weingart
Laurie R. Weingart Carnegie Mellon University
Ray Friedman
Ray Friedman Vanderbilt University
Jeanne M. Brett
Jeanne M. Brett Northwestern University
Carol T. Kulik
Carol T. Kulik University of South Australia
Cameron Anderson
Cameron Anderson University of California, Berkeley
Linda L. Putnam
Linda L. Putnam University of California, Santa Barbara
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen
Debra L. Shapiro
Debra L. Shapiro University of Maryland, College Park
Donald E. Conlon
Donald E. Conlon Michigan State University
Lea Waters
Lea Waters University of Melbourne

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