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of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology,
and several other journals.
Mara Olekalns is Professor of Management (Negotiation) at the Melbourne
Business School, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses
on modeling the relationships between communication sequences and
outcomes in negotiation. Professor Olekalns’ more recent research also
examines trust, deception, and turning points in negotiation. Her research
has published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology,
Human Communication Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She is on the editorial
boards of Group Decision and Negotiation, Journal of Organizational Behavior,
and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
Julie B. Olson-Buchanan is Professor of Management and Chair of the
Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State
University, Fresno. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
where she was a National Science Foundation fellow. Her research interests
include conflict in organizations, technology-based selection, and
virtual teams. Professor Olson-Buchanan’s work has appeared in such
journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal,
Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. She is co-editor of
the book Innovations in Computerized Assessment and has authored several
SIOP Frontiers chapters. She currently holds a Craig Fellowship and was
Program Chair for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Conference (2006).
Dean G. Pruitt is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and SUNY
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the
University at Buffalo: State University of New York. He has received the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict
Management and the Harold D. Lasswell Award for Distinguished
Scientific Contribution to Political Psychology from the International
Society of Political Psychology. He is author or co-author of Social Conflict:
Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement; Negotiation in Social Conflict; and Negotiation
Behavior.
Linda L. Putnam is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor in the
Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Her research
focuses on negotiation and organizational conflict, discourse and negotiation,
and language analysis in organizations. She is the co-editor of six
books, including The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, The New
Handbook of Organizational Communication, and Communication and Negotiation.
She has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters on