Affiliated Faculty

Michele J. Gelfand

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Phone: (301) 405-6972
E-mail: mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu
Personal Web Site

Education

• Ph.D., Social/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• M.A., Social/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• B.A., Psychology, Colgate University

Interests

Cross-cultural industrial and organizational psychology; Theory and method in assessing aspects of culture (individualism-collectivism; cultural tightness); Cross-cultural influences on negotiation, justice, and conflict resolution; sexual harassment; gender and workplace diversity.

Professional Activities

• Editorial board member, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 2000 to present
• Editorial board member, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Invited Summer 2001
• Reviewer, Journal of Applied Psychology, 1997 to present Reviewer, Academy of Management Review, 1996 to present
• Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal, 1996 to present
• Reviewer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997 to present
• Reviewer, European Journal of Social Psychology, 1998 to present
• Reviewer, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1999 to present
• Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2000

Awards

• Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, April 2002, Toronto, Canada
• Best Article of the Year Award, given by the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), June 2001, for article by Gelfand & Realo (1999) published in the Journal of Applied Psychology
• Teaching and Mentorship Award, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland at College Park, 2000. Award given for excellence in teaching and mentoring ($1000)
• Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award, Honorable Mention 2001, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for article by Gelfand, Nishii, Holcombe and colleagues (in press) in the Journal of Applied Psychology
• Best Empirical Paper Award, 11th Annual Conference of the International Association of Conflict Management, June 1998 for paper by Gelfand, Nishii, Holcombe and colleagues

Selected Publications

Gelfand, M. J., Fitzgerald, L. F., & Drasgow, F. (1995). Theory and measurement of sexualharassment: A confirmatory analysis across cultures and settings. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 47, 2, 164-177.

Kashima, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kim, U., Choi, S., Gelfand, M. J., & Yuki, M. (1995). Culture, gender, and self: A perspective from individualism-collectivism research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 5, 925-937.

Singelis, T. M, Triandis, H. C., Bhawuk, D. S., & Gelfand, M. J. (1995). Horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism and collectivism: A theoretical and measurement refinement. Cross-Cultural Research, 29, 2, 240-275.

Gelfand, M. J., Triandis, H. C. & Chan, K. S. (1996). Individualism versus collectivism or versus authoritarianism? European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 397-410

Chan, D. K. S., Gelfand, M. J., Triandis, H. C., & Tzeng, O. (1996). Tightness-looseness revisited: A systematic examination in Japan and the U.S. International Journal of Psychology, 31.

Fitzgerald, L. F., Gelfand, M. J., & Drasgow, F. (1996). Advances in the theory and measurement of sexual harassment. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 17, 4, 425-445.

Fitzgerald, L. F., Hulin, C., Drasgow, F., Gelfand, M. J., & Magley, V. (1997). The antecedents and consequences of sexual harassment in organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Triandis, H. C., Gelfand, M. J. (1998). Converging measurements of horizontal and verticalindividualism and collectivism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74, 1, 118-128.

Gelfand, M. J. & Christakopolou, S. (1999). Culture and negotiator cognition: Judgment accuracy and negotiation processes in individualistic and collectivistic cultures Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 79, 248-269.

Gelfand, M. J. & Realo, A. (1999). Individualism-collectivism and accountability in intergroup negotiations. Journal of Applied Psychology. 84, 721-736,

Gelfand, M. J., & Dyer, N. (2000). A cultural perspective on negotiation: Progress, pitfalls, and prospects. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 41, 1, 62-99.

Gelfand, M.J. (2000). Cross-cultural industrial and organizational psychology. Applied Psychology: An International Review. 41, 1, 28-31.

Gelfand, M. J., Spurlock, D., Sniezek, J., & Shao, L. (2000). Culture and social prediction: The role of information in reducing uncertainty in social interactions: Similarities and differences in China and the U.S. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Triandis, H.C., Carnevale, P., Gelfand, M. J., et al. (2001). Culture and deception in negotiation: A multilevel analysis. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management 1, 73-90.

Gelfand, M. J., Nishii, L. H., Holcombe, K., Dyer, N., Ohbuchi, K., & Fukumo, M. (in press). Cultural influences on cognitive representations of conflict: Interpretations of conflict episodes in the U.S. and Japan. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Brockner, J., Ackerman, G., Greenberg, J., Gelfand, M. J., Francesco, A. M., Chen, Z. X., Leung, K., Bierbrauer, G., Gomez, C., Kirkman, B. L., & Shapiro, D. (in press). Culture and procedural justice: The influence of power distance on reactions to voice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Gelfand, M. J., Raver, J., Lim, B. C. (forthcoming). Culture and accountability in organizations: Variations in forms of social control across cultures. Human Resource Management Review.

Radhakrishnan, P., Kuhn, K. M., & Gelfand, M. J. (in press). The role of allocentrism in perceptions and reactions to congruity. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

Kim, S. S., & Gelfand, M. J. The role of ethnic identity in recruiting a diverse workforce. Manuscript provisionally accepted at the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Gelfand, M. J., Higgins, M., Nishii, L., Raver, J., Dominguez, A., Yamaguchi, S., Murakami, F. & Toyama, M. (in press). Culture and egocentric biases of fairness in conflict and negotiation. Journal of Applied Psychology