Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches to Collective Threat

Monday, Nov. 27, 2023 (3:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Michele Gelfand

Stanford University

Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. 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. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations.