Michele Gelfand

Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School, as well as a professor of psychology (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She was formerly a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences.

Her work has been published in outlets such as Science, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Nature Human Behaviour, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Academy of Management Journal, among others. Gelfand is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series (Oxford University Press).

Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World was published by Scribner in 2018. She is the past president of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and co-founder of the Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution. She received the 2016 Diener award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2017 Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association, the 2019 Outstanding Cultural Psychology Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2020 Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management, the 2021 Contributions to Society Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, and the Annaliese Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation.

Gelfand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021. Her website is www.michelegelfand.com