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Andy Greendorfer, received an MSW from the University of Washington and a BA in psychology from Sonoma State University and is a licensed social worker. He has been treating couples, individuals, and families in his Seattle office since 1985. As one of the twelve founding members of the Gottman Institute, he has provided training to clinicians working toward certification as a Gottman method therapist. In 2004, he authored a chapter in The Marriage Clinic, a clinical manual by Julie Gottman. Greendorfer and fellow Gottman Institute therapist Mirabai Wahbe designed and colead a two-day workshop, “Deepening the Gottman Method,” for couples who have completed the Gottman workshop. Together they coauthored a corresponding manual for the workshop. Through his thirty years of clinical practice, Greendorfer has assisted hundreds of couples in developing the skills necessary for healthy relationships.
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James J. Gross is professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. He earned his BA in philosophy from Yale University and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. He is a leading figure in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation and received early-career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He also has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and the director of the Stanford Psychology One Teaching Program. Gross has an extensive program of investigator-initiated research, with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences. He has over 250 publications and is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
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Howard E. Gruber was professor emeritus of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He obtained his PhD from Cornell University in 1950. He was professor of genetic psychology in Geneva, a chair previously held by Jean Piaget. At Rutgers University, he was codirector with Solomon Asch of the Institute for Cognitive Studies. His major field of work was studying the creative process, with special emphasis on intensive case studies of highly creative people. He authored some two hundred articles and such books as the much-honored Darwin on Man. He had been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and was awarded Guggenheim, Ford, and National Institute for Mental Health fellowships. He also received the Rudolph Anheim Award for his contribution to psychology and the arts. Gruber died on January 25, 2005, after a prolonged illness.
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Alexis Halkovic is a doctoral student in the critical social/personality psychology program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has a strong interest in understanding structural injustice and the ways people resist. Her recent research investigates the factors that facilitate successful transitions from prison to college for college students with criminal justice histories and has recently coauthored a policy paper, “The Gifts They Bring: Welcoming Students into College after Prison.” She received the SPSSI Applied Social Issues Internship Award for research on the prison-to-college pipeline. She is also curious about the circumstances and individual characteristics that lead people to engage in activism and sustain that engagement. She is committed to the use of participatory research methods, including the experiences of affected community members in the design and implementation of research and the development of research products that resist oppression.
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Eran Halperin is a senior lecturer at the new school of psychology at the IDC, Herzliya, Israel. He received his PhD from the University of Haifa in 2007 (summa cum laude) and completed postdoctoral training (through a Fulbright Scholarship) at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, in 2008. He serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Political Psychology and in 2012 was awarded the Erikson Award for early-career achievements in the field. His main line of research focuses on the role of emotions and emotion regulation in determining public opinion toward peace and equality, on the one hand, and war and discrimination, on the other. In addition, he is interested in the psychological roots of some of the most destructive political ramifications of intergroup conflicts (e.g., intolerance, exclusion, and intergroup violence). The unique case of Israeli society in general, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, motivates his work and inspires his thinking. His recent work on these issues has been published in Science. In addition, in recent years, he has published articles in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, and Journal of Peace Research.
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Elizabeth Hernandez is a project coordinator at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her BA in psychology and Spanish from the University of Arizona. She then completed her MA in social-organizational psychology and received the Certificate in Cooperation and Conflict Resolution from the ICCCR. While studying at Teachers College, she interned at the United Nations as well as Amnesty International. She was awarded the Davis Projects for Peace grant and the Institute of Latin American Studies grant to develop and facilitate a series of conflict resolution workshops for teachers in Phoenix, Arizona, and Bogotá, Colombia, respectively. Her current research interests include social justice, multiculturalism, identity, and intercultural communication.
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Christopher Honeyman, a managing partner of Convenor Conflict Management in Washington, DC, has served as a consultant to numerous academic and practical conflict resolution programs in the United States and abroad. He is codirector of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, a major project designed to revamp the teaching content and methods of negotiation worldwide. Previously he was director of an extensive succession of research-and-development programs of national or international scale, including Broad Field (2002–2005), Theory to Practice (1997–2002), and the Test Design Project (1990–1995). He is coeditor of all four volumes published by the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching project (2009, 2010, 2012), and, most recently, Educating Negotiators for a Connected World (2013) and The Negotiator’s Fieldbook (2006), and he is author or coauthor of more than seventy published articles, book chapters, and monographs on dispute resolution concepts, infrastructure, quality control, and ethics. He has served as a mediator, arbitrator, and in other neutral capacities in more than two thousand disputes since the 1970s.
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David W. Johnson is an emeritus professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is codirector of the Cooperative Learning Center. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University. He has authored over five hundred research articles and book chapters and over fifty books. He is a past editor of the American Educational Research Journal. He held the Emma M. Birkmaier Professorship in Educational Leadership at the University of Minnesota from 1994 to 1997 and the Libra Endowed Chair for Visiting Professor at the University of Maine in 1996–1997. He has received numerous professional awards from the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Association of Conflict Management, and other professional organizations. His email is: [email protected]
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Roger T. Johnson is a professor of education at the University of Minnesota and is codirector of the Cooperative Learning Center. He holds his doctoral degree from the University of California in Berkeley. In 1965 he received an award for outstanding teaching from the Jefferson County Schools and has since been honored with several national awards. He taught in the Harvar
d-Newton Intern Program as a master teacher. He was a curriculum developer with the Elementary Science Study in the Educational Development Center at Harvard University. For three summers, he taught classes in the British primary schools at the University of Sussex near Brighton, England. He has consulted with schools throughout the world and is the author of numerous research articles, book chapters, and books. His e-mail address is [email protected].
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Robert M. Krauss is emeritus professor of psychology at Columbia University. He received his PhD in psychology from New York University in 1964. His research has focused on human communication—verbal and nonverbal. His publications include Theories in Social Psychology (with Morton Deutsch, 1967), the chapter “Language and Social Behavior” (with C.Y. Chiu), which appeared in the fourth edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology (1997), and “Inferring Speakers’ Physical Attributes from Their Voices” (with Robin Freyberg and Ezequiel Morsella), which appeared in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2002).
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Kenneth Kressel is professor of psychology at Rutgers University, Newark, and former director of its graduate program in psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He received his BA from Queens College, CUNY, and his PhD from Columbia University in psychology. He is the author of The Process of Divorce: How Professionals and Couples Negotiate Settlement (1985) and coeditor of Mediation Research: The Process and Effectiveness of Third-Party Intervention (with Dean Pruitt, 1989). He coedited an issue of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research on mediator style (with James Wall, 2012) and an issue of the Journal of Social Issues on the mediation of social conflict (with D. Pruitt, 1985). He has served as an associate editor of the International Journal of Conflict Management and is on the editorial boards of Negotiation Journal and Conflict Resolution Quarterly. He has been a consultant and trainer in the areas of dispute mediation and conflict management for the Office of the Ombudsman at the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the New Jersey Cancer Institute, the New Jersey Court system, and Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton universities. His current research focuses on the tacit knowledge that underlies mediator intervention decision making.
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Ethan Kross is a graduate student in the department of psychology at Columbia University. His current research concerns the psychological, physiological, and brain mechanisms that underlie adaptive self- and emotion regulation.
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Katharina G. Kugler is a faculty member of the Department of Psychology (Economic and Organizational Psychology) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany, where she also earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in psychology. During her graduate and doctorate studies, she spent several years at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, holding a Fulbright scholarship and a fellowship in complexity and conflict. Her research concentrates on interpersonal conflicts in organizational settings. In this area, she focuses on complexity and adaptivity using the dynamical systems approach.
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Michelle LeBaron is a tenured professor on the University of British Columbia (UBC) law faculty and was director of the UBC Program on Dispute Resolution until 2012. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2003 after ten years teaching at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the Women’s Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. From 1990 to 1993, she directed the Multiculturalism and Dispute Resolution Project at the University of Victoria. She has lectured and consulted around the world on cross-cultural conflict resolution and has practiced as a family law and commercial mediator. Her current research focuses on using expressive arts practices—particularly movement and dance—to train mediators and inform intervention design. She holds a JD from UBC, an MA in counseling psychology from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and a BA from Chapman University in California. She was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1982. Michelle is the author of several books, including Bridging Troubled Waters, Bridging Cultural Conflict, and Conflict across Cultures. Her new book, The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience, was published in 2013 by the American Bar Association.
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Alison Ledgerwood is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in social psychology from New York University in 2003. Much of her research focuses on understanding when and why people’s attitudes change in response to social influence. In another line of work, she studies the role of group symbols in shaping group identity and conflict.
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Kwok Leung is a chaired professor of management at City University of Hong Kong. His research areas include justice and conflict, creativity, cross-cultural research methods, international business, and social axioms. He is the deputy editor in chief of Management and Organization Review and on the editorial board of several journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is the past president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and a fellow of Academy of International Business, Academy of Intercultural Research, and Association for Psychological Science. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Roy J. Lewicki is the Irving Abramowitz Professor of Business Ethics and professor of management and human resources emeritus at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. He has a BA degree from Dartmouth College and a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University. He maintains research and teaching interests in the fields of negotiation, conflict management and dispute resolution, trust development, managerial leadership, organizational justice, and ethical decision making and has published many research articles and book chapters on these topics. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He is the author or editor of thirty-six books, including Negotiation (2014) and Essentials of Negotiation (2011), both with Saunders and Barry)—the leading academic textbooks on negotiation—and Mastering Business Negotiations (with Roy Lewicki and Alexander Hiam, 2007), a book for managers. He has extensive management consulting and training experience worldwide.
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Micaela Linder is a student at Columbia University’s master’s program in negotiation and conflict resolution and is a participatory action research project coresearcher with the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia. She completed her undergraduate education at Hampshire College, where she wrote her senior thesis about a PAR (participatory action research) project she completed with imprisoned women in central California. The project focused on incarcerated women’s peer-care strategies and resistance to the prison system. She hopes to conduct further research on how participatory research methods can foster social change and create alternatives to injustice.
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Evelin G. Lindner is a research fellow at the University of Oslo, affiliated with Columbia University in New York City since 2001 (with the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, AC4), and with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. She lives and teaches globally. Her work focuses on human dignity and humiliation. She is the founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. She is also a cofounder of the World Dignity University initiative, which includes Dignity Press and World Dignity University Press. She has a dual education as a medical doctor and a psychologist, with two PhDs (in medicine and psychology). Her first book, Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict, was honored
as Outstanding Academic Title by the journal Choice for 2007 in the United States. She published her second book, Emotion and Conflict in 2009; her third book, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, appeared in 2010 and was highly recommended by Choice. Her fourth book, published in 2012, is A Dignity Economy. She has received several awards, among them the Prisoner’s Testament Peace Award in 2009.
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Wen Liu is a doctoral student in the critical social/personality psychology program at City University of New York, Graduate Center. Her research interests are broadly on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and labor through the lenses of Marxist-feminism, queer theory, and critical psychology. She is preparing an ethnographic account of the lives of Filipina migrant domestic workers under the context of neoliberal restructuring. She recently received the Globalization, Health, and Social Justice Fellowship from the City University of New York, Graduate Center, to conduct a multisite study for critically examining the meanings of human rights in the transnational LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and China. She has published an entry on activism in The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology edited by Thomas Teo.
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Brian J. Lucas is a doctoral student at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research interests include morality and ethics, motivation, and ideological conflict. His research has been published or is in press at academic journals including Psychological Science and Learning and Memory. He has presented his research at academic conferences including the Academy of Management, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, and Behavioral Decision Research in Management.
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