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Janice M. Steil received her PhD from Columbia University. She was trained as a social psychologist working with Morton Deutsch and has particular interests in the psychology of justice and gender. She began teaching that same year at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, where she continues today. While at Adelphi, her research has focused primarily on the study of adult close relationships, particularly issues of power and intimacy in dual-earner marriages. Consistent with her interests in gender, she is a past associate editor of the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly. She is also the author of numerous publications on relationships, including her book Marital Equality: Its Relationship to the Well-Being of Husbands and Wives.
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Leigh L. Thompson joined the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1995 and is the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations. She directs the Leading High Impact Teams executive program and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center, and codirects the Negotiation Strategies for Managers program. An active scholar and researcher, she has published over one hundred research articles and chapters and has authored ten books: Creative Conspiracy; The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (5th edition); Making the Team (5th edition); Creativity in Organizations; Shared Knowledge in Organizations; Negotiation: Theory and Research; The Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior: Key Readings in Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior Today; The Truth about Negotiation; and Conflict in Organizational Teams. Thompson has worked with private and public organizations in the United States, Latin America, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Her teaching style combines experiential learning with theory-driven best practices.
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Dean Tjosvold is Henry Y. W. Fong Chair Professor of Management, academic dean of the business faculty, director of the Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, and director of the Hong Kong Cooperative Learning Center, Lingnan University, in Hong Kong. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is past president of the International Association of Conflict Management and was elected to the Academy of Management Board of Governors in 2004. He has published over two hundred articles, twenty books, thirty book chapters, and one hundred conference papers on managing conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other management issues. He is now associate editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Asian editor of the Journal of World Business, and associate editor of Group Decision and Negotiation. His books have been selected by Fortune, Business Week, Newbridge, and Executive Book Clubs and translated into Chinese and Spanish. With colleagues, he has written books on teamwork, leadership, and conflict management published in the People’s Republic of China. He is a partner in his family’s health care business, based in Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota.
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Edward C. Tomlinson is an associate professor of management at West Virginia University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business at Virginia Military Institute and an MBA from Lynchburg College. He also received master’s and PhD degrees in labor and human resources from the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. His primary research interests include interpersonal trust, behavioral integrity, and deviant workplace behavior. He has published in several top-tier management journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Education, and International Journal of Conflict Management. He is coeditor, with Ron Burke and Cary Cooper, of Crime and Corruption in Organizations: Why It Occurs and What to Do about It (2011).
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Beth Turetsky received her PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She worked in the Counseling Center at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey, and then at Princeton University’s Counseling Center as coordinator of the eating disorders program, individual and group therapist, and supervisor of clinical interns. She had a private clinical practice until 2005 and served as a consultant to the eating disorders program of Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. She has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Adelphi University. Currently she is focusing on research examining cross-cultural perspectives of intimacy and marriage.
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Maria R. Volpe is professor of sociology and director of the Dispute Resolution Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and director of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center. An internationally known scholar, she has lectured, researched, and written extensively about dispute resolution processes, particularly mediation; has been widely recognized for her distinguished career in the field of dispute resolution; mediates conflicts in educational settings; conducts dispute resolution skills training; administers grant-funded projects; facilitates for a wide range of groups; serves on several editorial boards, including Conflict Resolution Quarterly and the Negotiation Journal; and is past president of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), past president of the NYC Chapter of SPIDR, past board member of the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York, and board member of the New York Peace Institute, among others. Since 9/11 she has initiated a variety of dispute resolution public awareness initiatives in New York City. Her current research focuses on police use of mediation, conflict resolution in higher education, dispute resolution responses to disasters, informal responses to conflict used by immigrants, roots of diversity in the dispute resolution field, and barriers to minority participation in dispute resolution. She received her PhD from New York University, where she was a National Institute of Mental Health fellow.
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Mirabai Wahbe was one of the very first therapists invited to join the Gottman Institute Relationship Clinic in 1997. She is a Senior Certified Gottman Method therapist, Certified Couples Workshop Leader, and Master Teacher. She designed and coauthored with Andy Greendorfer a two-day workshop and manual, Deepening the Gottman Method, and they presented this opportunity to expand the skills and concepts of the Gottman Relationship House twice yearly for many years. She is a contributing author to The Marriage Clinic Casebook, edited by Julie Schwartz Gottman. She has presented to a variety of audiences on the Gottman method, parenting concepts, recovering from depression, and childhood abuse. She has also been in extensive training with Virginia Satir and was a member of her Avanta Network. Training with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross over many years gave her experience in the process of grief, death, and dying, and she has been a resource to many in this process of life. She has been in private practice in Bellingham, Washington, since 1979, working with couples, adults, and teens on a variety of relationship, personal, and psychological issues. She has an MA in applied behavioral science.
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Anthony Wanis-St. John is associate professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author of Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process (2011). His research has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, International Negotiation, Negotiation Journal, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Journal. His research and teaching focus on negotiations and peace building in zones of conflict. His practical experience includes more than a decade of work in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. With the US Institute of Peace, he has advised Darfur rebel military commanders on unity negotiations, conducted electoral violence prevention work in post-earthquake Haiti, conducted predeployment negotiation trainings for US military observer groups, and trained Ugandan military deploying to Mogadishu as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia. He has also worked with the World Bank and USAID on judicial modernization and rule of law in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, and El Salvador. He has mediated labor contracts and disputes within the education sector in the United States, as well as disputes within partnerships and corporations. He has lectured in grad
uate programs at the Inter-American Defense College at Ft. McNair, the Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College, the Defense Information School at Ft. Meade, University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has conducted negotiation consulting for corporations around the world. He earned his PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and was a doctoral research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.
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Carly Wayne is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Michigan. She received an MA in government diplomacy and conflict studies at IDC Herzliya in Israel and a BA in political science and history from the University of Michigan, and has previously served as the senior editorial assistant for the journal Political Psychology. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of political psychology and decision making in the context of political conflict. She is interested in integrating research on political and psychological biases in decision making, examining the effects of traditional political factors on the strength and prevalence of various cognitive, emotional, and motivational biases in foreign policy decision making. Currently she is working on a book, together with Alex Mintz, which introduces the Polythink concept and analyzes the effects of disjointed, fragmented advisory groups on elite group decision making and foreign policy formation in the United States.
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Dorothy E. Weaver holds a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University, Teachers College, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate School of Business. She creates and teaches a wide range of workshops designed to improve individuals’ competence in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution, including seminars for female professionals about negotiating at work. She recently coauthored two articles: “Women and Negotiation: Tips from the Field” and “The Literature on Women and Negotiation: A Recap,” both published in Dispute Resolution, an American Bar Association magazine. An experienced executive in the nonprofit sector, she has worked with and consulted for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Columbia Business School, New York University, and the American Museum of Natural History. She currently works at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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Eben A. Weitzman, a social and organizational psychologist specializing in the resolution of conflict, is chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, and director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also director of the organizational practice at the Mediation Group, a firm providing organization development, dispute-resolution systems design, mediation, and arbitration services. His work focuses on conflict within and between groups, with emphases on organizational conflict, cross-cultural conflict, and intergroup relations. He does conflict resolution and organization development work with a wide variety of organizations in the public and private sectors. These have included organizations in education, government, law enforcement, social services, business, labor, and the courts. He is currently engaged in interfaith conflict resolution work in Nigeria and in building collaborative relationships between federal law enforcement agencies and the Muslim and Sikh communities in Massachusetts. From 1989 to 2000, he was a trainer, consultant, and research associate at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University. From 2004 to 2008, he served as grievance officer for the faculty staff union at UMass Boston. He received his PhD from Columbia University.
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Patricia Flynn Weitzman is a senior research scientist at Environment and Health Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she conducts federally funded public health research. Previously, she served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from New York University. Her research interests center on sociocultural influences on health outcomes among underserved patients, including how social beliefs and interactions affect patient health decisions.
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James D. Westaby is an associate professor in the Program in Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with honors and his PhD in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His first area of research examines behavioral reasoning theory, which explains human behavior with a validated set of psychological variables, such as intentions, attitudes, and reasons. The theory has been applied to various topics, such as the prediction of turnover, work-family balance, and participation in conflict resolution training. His second area of research examines how social networks influence human goal pursuit, performance, and emotional contagion in social, organizational, and international contexts. This has culminated in dynamic network theory and its methodologies, which have direct implications for the study of human conflict. For example, the network conflict worksheet allows researchers and practitioners to identify the direct, indirect, and peripheral players involved in specific conflicts. His research has been published in major outlets in psychology, organizational science, and public health. He teaches various courses in social and organizational psychology and has worked with numerous organizations, including the United Nations and Boeing Corporation.
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Lyle Yorks is associate professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches courses in adult learning, strategy development as an organization learning process, strategic human resource development, and research. He has over thirty years of experience working with organizations in diverse industries worldwide on projects involving action learning, strategic organizational change, and management development. He has also served as visiting faculty in various EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) and executive education programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The articles he has authored and coauthored have appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Education and Learning, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Teachers College Record, Sloan Management Review, and other scholarly and professional journals. His article, “Toward a Political Economy Model for Comparative Analysis of the Role of Strategic Human Resource Development Leadership,” in Human Resource Development Review (2004) received the Outstanding Article Award. He earned master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University and Columbia University and his doctorate from Columbia University.
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A
Aall, P
Abelson, R. P.
Abu-Nimer, M.
Ackerman, P
Adams, C.
Adams, D.
Adams, R.
Adelman, K.
Adler, A.
Adler, P.
Adolphs, R.
Adorno, T. W.
Agazarian, Y.
Agius, E.
Ajzen, I.
Alban, B. T.
Albarracín, D. E.
Alberts, J. K.
Albin, C.
Albrecht, B.
Alderfer, C. P.
Alexander, N.
Alinsky, S.
Allen, T.
Allison, G.
Allport, G. W.
Allred, K.
Alonso, R.
Alvesson, M.
Amabile, T. M.
Amanatullah, E. T.
Ambady, N.
Ambrosewicz, J.
Ames, D. R.
Amichai-Hamburger, Y.
Anastasio, P. A.
Anderson, C.
Anderson, E
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Anderson, R.
Anderson, R. H.
Anderson, T.
Ang, S.
Angelica, M. P.
Annan, K.
Anthony, D.
Antonioni, D.
Aolain, F. N.
Appiah, K. A.
Arafat, Y.
Arai, T.
Arber, S.
Arbuckle, N. L.
Archer, J.
Argote, L.
Argyris, C.
Aristotle
Arneil, B.
Arnold, J. A.
Arnold, M.
Aron, A.
Aronson, E.
Arredondo, P.
Asch, S.
Assad, B.
Astor, R. A.
Atkinson, J. W.
Atkinson, S.
Averbruch, T.
Averill, J. R.
Avnaim-Pesso, L.
Avruch, K.
Axelrod, E.
Axelrod, R.
Ayduk, O.
Azar, E. E.
Azevedo, M. M.
B
Babbitt, E. F.
Babcock, J.
Babcock, L.