CONFLICT MANAGEMENT The Psychology of conflict and conflict ...

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Karen A. Jehn is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at
Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on intragroup
conflict, group composition and performance, and lying in organizations.
Professor Jehn has authored numerous scholarly publications in these
areas, including articles in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative
Science Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, International
Journal of Conflict Management, Research in Organization Behavior, Journal of
Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Group Decision and Negotiation.
She has served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly,
The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior,
and International Journal of Conflict Management where she was an associate
editor. She was also an associate director of the Solomon Asch Center for
the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, the Research Director of the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation’s Diversity Research Network, and the Chair of the
Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Deborah M. Kolb is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and
Leadership at Simmons School of Management. From 1991 to 1994, she
was Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law
School and is currently co-director of The Negotiations in the Workplace
Project. Her current research focuses on gender issues in negotiation and
leadership. Her book The Shadow Negotiation was named a best business
book by Harvard Business Review and received the Best Book Award from
the International Association of Conflict Management in 2001. Professor
Kolb is the co-author of Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas
of Bargaining and Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating
Five Challenges to Leadership Success. Her other books include The Mediators,
Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes,
Making Talk Work, and Negotiation Eclectics.
Laurie Metcalf is Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at
Little Rock and a Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University. Her research
focuses on conflict in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal deception
in conflict, alternative views of mediation, and a framing approach to
collegiate living-wage movements.
Andreas Mojzisch is Assistant Professor in the Economic and Social
Psychology Unit at Georg-August-University Goettingen. He received
his Ph.D. at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His main research
interest is group decision making. He has focused on biased information
pooling and biased information evaluation during group discussion,
the effect of prediscussion dissent on confirmatory information
search after group discussion, and the effect of social validation on the
greater decisional impact of shared compared with unshared information.
He has published in The Academy of Management Review, Journal