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Michele Gelfand

Michele Gelfand

Michele Gelfand

Professor of Psychology

University of Maryland

InvestigatorResearch Affiliate

Phone:

301-864-0799

Email:

mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu

Biography:

Michele's research focuses on three areas: Cultural influences on negotiation, conflict, and justice; basic theoretical and methodological issues in cross-cultural psychology; and workplace diversity and discrimination.

Background

Education:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., Social/Organizational Psychology, 1996
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, M.A., Social/Organizational Psychology, 1992
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, B.A., Psychology, 1989

Lead Investigator on START Research Projects

Counter Radicalization of Scientists in CBRN-relevant Technical Fields

September 2013 to April 2015

Countering Jihadist Ideology among Detainees: The Effects and Effectiveness of De-Radicalization Programs

June 2009 to December 2011

Deradicalization of Extremists

July 2012 to December 2017

Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism

July 2012 to December 2014

Selected Publications

The Role of Entitativity in Perpetuating Cycles of Violence (Journal Article)

Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World (Book)

Deradicalizing Detained Terrorists (Journal Article)

Al-Qaeda's Propaganda Decoded: A Psycholinguistic System for Detecting Variations in Terrorism Ideology (Journal Article)

Belonging Nowhere: Marginalization & Radicalization Risk among Muslim Immigrants (Journal Article)

Significance Quest Theory as the Driver of Radicalization towards Terrorism (Book Chapter)

The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism (Journal Article)

Terrorism—A (self) love story: Redirecting the significance quest can end violence (Journal Article)

The psychological structure of aggression across cultures (Journal Article)

Explaining and Predicting Cultural Differences in Negotiation (Book Chapter)

Detainee Deradicalization: A Challenge for Psychological Science (Journal Article)

News References

The National Interest: Who Was behind Sri Lanka’s Easter Terrorist Attacks? (START in the News)

START researcher Michele Gelfand to be inducted to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (News)

The Economist: Culture as the menacing force behind today’s crazy politics (START in the News)

The Guardian: Here’s the science behind the Brexit vote and Trump’s rise (START in the News)

Scientific American: A Powerful Force That Shapes All of our Decisions (START in the News)

Quartz: Islamic terrorism and domestic mass shootings may be caused by the exact same psychological phenomenon (START in the News)

The Stanford Daily: Q&A with Sarah Lyons-Padilla (START in the News)

The Conversation UK: Another mass shooting – what the experts say (START in the News)

Marginalization, discrimination create greater risk of radicalization for immigrants (Featured Research)

START researcher Michele Gelfand and former TRA Sarah Lyons-Padilla present on Capitol Hill (News)

Singaporean delegation discusses countering extremist propaganda with START (News)

Rigid cultural values related to greater number of terrorist attacks (News)

Researcher Spotlight: Michele Gelfand (People Spotlight)

Terp Magazine: Terp Magazine distinguishes START research and researchers (START in the News)

Terrorism: A Self-Love Story (News)

The National Interest: Learning from Sri Lanka (START in the News)

Haaretz: Is it possible to 'de-radicalize' terrorists? (START in the News)

The Australian: A Radical Case For Treatment (START in the News)

Media Corp Radio: Singapore Needs to Develop More Systematic Evaluation for Terrorist Rehab (START in the News)