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Michele J. Gelfand

Michele J. Gelfand

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Psychology

D-Index
89
Citations
51096
World Ranking
976
National Ranking
613

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Michele J. Gelfand is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The research topics covered in their work include Cultural Differences and Values, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Gelfand's recent papers illustrate their engagement with contemporary global issues. Some notable publications include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action, 2020, American Psychologist
  • The relationship between cultural tightness-looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Gelfand include Joshua Conrad Jackson, Arie W. Kruglanski, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Eugen Dimant, and Valerio Capraro. These collaborations have contributed to a broad interdisciplinary impact within their research areas.

The scientist's work has been published in several notable venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, Academy of Management Proceedings, Nature Communications, and Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.

In recognition of their scholarly contributions, Michele J. Gelfand was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Converging measurement of horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism

    Harry C. Triandis;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study

    Michele J . Gelfand;Jana L. Raver;Lisa Nishii;Lisa Art. Leslie

  • Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Individualism and Collectivism: A Theoretical and Measurement Refinement

    Theodore M. Singelis;Harry C. Triandis;Dharm P. S. Bhawuk;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior

    Michele J. Gelfand;Miriam Erez;Zeynep Aycan

  • COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action.

    Kevin M. Kniffin;Jayanth Narayanan;Frederik Anseel;John Antonakis

  • On the nature and importance of cultural tightness-looseness.

    Michele J. Gelfand;Lisa Hisae Nishii;Jana L. Raver

  • At What Level (and in Whom) We Trust Trust Across Multiple Organizational Levels

    C. Ashley Fulmer;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Measuring Sexual Harassment: Theoretical and Psychometric Advances

    Louise F. Fitzgerald;Michele J. Gelfand;Fritz Drasgow

  • Culture, gender, and self: A perspective from individualism-collectivism research.

    Yoshihisa Kashima;Susumu Yamaguchi;Uichol Kim;Sang-Chin Choi

  • The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Michele J. Gelfand;Jocelyn J. Bélanger;Anna Sheveland

  • The road to forgiveness: A meta-analytic synthesis of its situational and dispositional correlates.

    Ryan Fehr;Michele J. Gelfand;Monisha Nag

  • Culture and procedural justice: The influence of power distance on reactions to voice.

    Joel Brockner;Grant Ackerman;Jerald Greenberg;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Antecedents and consequences of sexual harassment in organizations: A test of an integrated model.

    Louise F. Fitzgerald;Fritz Drasgow;Charles L. Hulin;Michele J. Gelfand;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Tightness-looseness across the 50 united states.

    Jesse R. Harrington;Michele J. Gelfand

  • The culturally intelligent negotiator: The impact of cultural intelligence (CQ) on negotiation sequences and outcomes

    Lynn Imai;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Who goes to the bargaining table? The influence of gender and framing on the initiation of negotiation.

    Deborah A. Small;Michele Gelfand;Linda Babcock;Hilary Gettman

  • The relationship between cultural tightness-looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis.

    Michele J. Gelfand;Joshua Conrad Jackson;Xinyue Pan;Dana Nau

  • Intersubjective Culture: The Role of Intersubjective Perceptions in Cross-Cultural Research

    Chi-Yue Chiu;Michele J. Gelfand;Toshio Yamagishi;Garriy Shteynberg

  • Will they stay or will they go? The role of job embeddedness in predicting turnover in individualistic and collectivistic cultures.

    Anuradha Ramesh;Michele J. Gelfand

  • On “Feeling Right” in Cultural Contexts: How Person-Culture Match Affects Self-Esteem and Subjective Well-Being

    C. Ashley Fulmer;Michele J. Gelfand;Arie W. Kruglanski;Chu Kim-Prieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Chi-Yue Chiu
Chi-Yue Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeanne M. Brett
Jeanne M. Brett Northwestern University
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen
Harry C. Triandis
Harry C. Triandis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yoshihisa Kashima
Yoshihisa Kashima University of Melbourne
Jocelyn J. Bélanger
Jocelyn J. Bélanger New York University
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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