Michael W. Morris
Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership
Management
BA, Brown, 1986; PhD, University of Michigan, 1993
Joined CBS in 2001
Office:
399
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-2296
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Michael Morris is a Chaired Professor in the Management Division at CBS and also serves as Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University.
He teaches MBA and executive-level classes on leadership, teamwork, communication, negotiation, and decision-making. In 2016, he was honored with the Dean's Award for Innovation in the Curriculum for creating two of the school's most popular elective courses: The Leader's Voice and the Patagonia Leadership Expedition.
Outside of academia, Professor Morris has consulted with and conducted executive training workshops for hundreds of clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, foundations, and governments. He has served on a National Academy of Science advisory panel on negotiating cultural differences in military missions and National Science Foundation workshop on reforming interrogation practices. He held a critcal role as a member of the "Dream Team" of social scientists who advised the Obama campaigns and is working on a book on the role of cultural backgrounds and loyalties in leadership, The Tribes Inside Us (Penguin Random House, 2018).
In his research career, Professor Morris has published over 200 articles in the leading psychology and management journals on topics such as individual decision-making, interpersonal influence, and social networks. His early research on culture and cognition played a key role in the blossoming of the field of cultural psychology. His scientific papers have received international awards from scholarly societies in the fields of social psychology, judgment and decision-making, psychology in the public interest, Asian psychology, management, human resources, marketing, and others. He is a founding editor of the journal Management and Organization Review, which advances research in non-Western settings, and an associate editor at several other journals.
Professor Morris founded CBS's Leadership Lab, which has designed evidence-based leadership development activities--curricular and extracurricular--including the executive coaching program, the peer advisor program, and action learning ventures. Before that, Morris launched the school's Behavioral Lab and Postdoctoral Fellow programs to foster behavioral science research. He has served on the university’s Institutional Review Board and co-developed its ethical policies for international research. He currently serves on the university's Committee on Global Thought and chaired the school's recent Organizational Culture Committee.
Prior to joining the Columbia in 2001, Professor Morris was a tenured Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Psychology Department. He served as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and at the University of Hong Kong in 2000 and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2008.
Teaching
Fall 2021
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations
(MBA)
Summer 2019
The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations
(MBA)
(PhD) Communicating Management Research
(PHD)
Fall 2018
Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
(MBA)
Global Immersion: Leadership Expedition to Patagonia with NOLS
(MBA)
Columbia Caseworks cases
Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Merger
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Eric Anicich
Peer Advising: How and When to Intervene
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris
The Craft of Coaching
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris
GreenGauge Project
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris
Research
Journal articles
Choosing Fusion: The Effects of Diversity Ideologies on Preference for Culturally Mixed Experiences
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Jaee Cho, Michael Morris, Michael Slepian
Interfacing with faces: Perceptual humanization and dehumanization
In Current Directions in Psychological Science
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Paul Tetlock, Michael Morris
The MBA performance gender gap: Women respond to gender norms by reducing public assertiveness but not private effort
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Beth Devine, Jackson Lu
Adaptive appraisals of anxiety moderate the association between cortisol reactivity and performance in salary negotiations
In PLOS ONE
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Modupe Akinola, Ilona Fridman, Shira Mor, Michael Morris, Alia Crum
How do the Romans feel when visitors "do as the Romans do"?
In Academy of Management Discoveries
(2016)
Coauthor(s): J. Cho, Michael Morris
Look again: The value in distinguishing three processes underlying social-perceptual effects
In Psychological Inquiry
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Paul Tetlock, Michael Morris
Multicultural identity processes
In Current Opinion in Psychology
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Ying-Yi Hong, S. Zhan, Michael Morris, Veronica Benet-Martinez
A transformative taste of home: Home culture primes foster expatriates' adjustment through bolstering relational security
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Jeanne Ho-Ying Fu, Michael Morris, Ying-Yi Hong
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Ying-Yi Hong, Chi-Yue Chiu, Zhi Liu
Polycultural psychology
In Annual Review of Psychology
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Chi-Yue Chiu, Zhi Liu
Cultural study and problem-solving gains: Effects of study abroad, openness, and choice
In Journal of Organizational Behavior
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Jaee Cho, Michael Morris
Psychological functions of subjective norms: Reference groups, moralization, adherence, and defiance
In Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Zhi Liu
Values, schemas and norms in the culture-behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework
In Journal of International Business Studies
(2014)
Coauthor(s): K. Leung, Michael Morris
Intercultural interactions and cultural transformation
In Asian Journal of Social Psychology
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Zongjian Liu, Michael Morris
Intercultural training and assessment: Implications for organizational and public policies
In Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, K. Savani, R.D. Roberts
Values as the essence of culture: Foundation or fallacy?
In Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris
When in Rome: Intercultural learning and implications for training
In Research in Organizational Behavior
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Shira Mor, J. Cho
Bicultural self-defense in consumer contexts: Self-protection motives are the basis for contrast versus assimilation to cultural cues
In Journal of Consumer Psychology
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants' second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2013)
Coauthor(s): S. Zhang, Michael Morris, Chi-Ying Cheng, Andy J. Yap
Identifying and training adaptive cross-cultural management skills: The crucial role of cultural metacognition
In Academy of Management Learning & Education
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Shira Mor, Michael Morris, J. Joh
Managerial mystique: Magical thinking in judgments of managers' vision, charisma, and magnetism
In Journal of Management
(2013)
Coauthor(s): M.J. Young, Michael Morris, V.M. Scherwin
Deference in Indians' decision making: Introjected goals or injunctive norms?
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2012)
Coauthor(s): K. Savani, Michael Morris, N.V.R. Naidu
Attentional focus and the dynamics of dual identity integration: Evidence from Asian Americans and female lawyers
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Collaborating across cultures: Cultural metacognition and affect-based trust in creative collaboration
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Shira Mor, Roy Chua
Managing two cultural identities: The malleability of bicultural identity integration as a function of induced global or local processing
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Cultural identity threat: The role of cultural identifications in moderating closure responses to foreign cultural inflow
In Journal of Social Issues
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Aurelia Mok, Shira Mor
Isolating effects of cultural schemas: Cultural priming shifts Asian-Americans' biases in social description and memory
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Aurelia Mok
Deity and Destiny: Patterns of Fatalistic Thinking in Christian and Hindu Cultures
In Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Maia Young, Michael Morris, Jeremy Burrus, Lilavati Krishnan, Murari Prasad Regmi
An upside to bicultural identity conflict: Resisting groupthink in cultural ingroups
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Asian-Americans' creative styles in Asian and American situations: Assimilative and contrastive responses as a function of bicultural identity integration
In Management and Organization Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Creativity East and West: Perspectives and Parallels
In Management and Organization Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Angela Ka-yee Leung
Culture, attribution and automaticity: A social cognitive neuroscience view
In Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Michael Morris
Negotiating gender roles: gender differences in assertive negotiating are mediated by women's fear of backlash and attenuated when negotiating on behalf of others
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Emily Amanatullah, Michael Morris
Cultural conditioning: Understanding interpersonal accommodation in India and the United States in terms of the modal characteristics of interpersonal influence situations
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, N.V.R. Naidu, Satishchandra Kumar, Neha Berlia
Culture and judgment and decision making: The constructivist turn
In Perspectives on Psychological Science
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Elke Weber, Michael Morris
Embeddedness and new idea discussion in professional networks: The mediating role of affect-based trust
In Journal of Creative Behavior
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Roy Chua, Michael Morris, Paul Ingram
Matching versus mismatching cultural norms in performance appraisal: Effects of the cultural setting and bicultural identity integration
In International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Chi-Ying Cheng, Michael Morris
Belief in stable and fleeting luck and achievement motivation
In Personality and Individual Differences
(2009)
Coauthor(s): M.J. Young, N. Chen, Michael Morris
Cultural chameleons and iconoclasts: Assimilation and reactance to cultural cues in biculturals' expressed personalities as a function of identity conflict
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Aurelia Mok, Michael Morris
Guanxi vs Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese versus American Managers
In Journal of International Business Studies
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Yong Joo Roy Chua, Michael Morris, Paul Ingram
Culture as common sense: Perceived consensus vs. personal beliefs as mechanisms of cultural influence
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Xi Zou, K. Tam, Michael Morris, L. Lee, I. Lau, Chi-Yue Chiu
Mistaken identity: Activating conservative political identities induces "conservative" financial decisions
In Psychological Science
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Erica Carranza, Craig Fox
Identity motives and cultural priming: Cultural (dis)identification in assimilative and contrastive responses
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Xi Zou, Michael Morris, Veronica Benet-Martinez
Negotiating gender stereotypes: Other-advocacy reduces social constraints on women in negotiations
In Academy of Management Proceedings
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Emily Amanatullah, Michael Morris
Culture and coworker relations: Interpersonal patterns in American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank
In Organization Science
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Joel Podolny, B. Sullivan
From the head and the heart: Locating cognition- and affect-based trust in mangers' professional networks
In Academy of Management Journal
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Yong Joo Roy Chua, Paul Ingram, Michael Morris
Epistemic motives and cultural conformity: Need for closure, culture, and context as determinants of conflict judgments
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Jeanne Ho-Ying Fu, Michael Morris, S. Lee, Melody Chao, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi Hong
Do People Mix at Mixers? Structure, Homophily, and the "Life of the Party"
In Adminstrative Science Quarterly
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Paul Ingram, Michael Morris
Metaphors and the Market: Consequences and Preconditions of Agent and Object Metaphors in Stock Market Commentary
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Oliver Sheldon, Daniel Ames, Maia Young
Spontaneous inferences from cultural cues: Varying responses of cultural insiders and outsiders
In Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Jeanne Ho-Ying Fu, Chi-Yue Chiu, Michael Morris, M.J. Young
Blaming leaders for organizational accidents: Proxy logic in collective- versus individual-agency cultures
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2006)
Coauthor(s): Yuriko Zemba, M.J. Young, Michael Morris
At a Loss for Words: Dominating the Conversation and the Outcome in Negotiation as a Function of Intricate Arguments and Communication Media
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Jeffrey Lowenstein, Michael Morris, Agnish Chakravarti, Leigh Thompson, Shirli Kopelman
Cultural chameleons: Biculturals, conformity motives, and decision making
In Journal of Consumer Psychology
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Donnel Briley, Michael Morris, Itamar Simonson
Person Perception in the Heat of Conflict: Negative Trait Attributions Affect Procedural Preferences and Account for Situational and Cultural Differences
In Asian Journal of Social Psychology
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Angela Ka-yee Leung, Sheena Iyengar
Schmooze or Lose: Social Friction and Lubrication in E-mail Negotiations
In Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice
(2002)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Janice Nadler, Terri Kurtzberg, Leigh Thompson
Negotiating biculturalism: Cultural frame-switching in biculturals with oppositional vs. compatible cultural identities
In Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
(2002)
Coauthor(s): Veronica Benet-Martinez, J. Leu, F. Lee, Michael Morris
Culturally conferred conceptions of agency: A key to social perception of persons, groups, and other actors
In Personality and Social Psychology Review
(2001)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Tanya Menon, Daniel Ames
When is criticism not constructive? The roles of fairness perceptions and dispositional attributions in employee acceptance of critical supervisory feedback
In Human Relations
(2001)
Coauthor(s): K. Leung, S. Su, Michael Morris
Justice for all? Progress in research on cultural variation in the psychology of distributive and procedural justice
In Applied Psychology: An International Review
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, K. Leung
How emotions work: The social functions of emotional expression in negotiations
In Research in Organizational Behavior
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, D. Keltner
Multicultural Minds: A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture and Cognition
In American Psychologist
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Ying-Yi Hong, Michael Morris, Chi-Yue Chiu, Veronica Benet-Martinez
Reasons as Carriers of Culture: Dynamic Versus Dispositional Models of Cultural Influence on Decision Making
In Journal of Consumer Research
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Donnel Briley, Michael Morris, Itamar Simonson
The lessons we (don't) learn: Counterfactual thinking and organizational accountability after a close call
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, P. Moore
Choosing remedies after accidents: Counterfactual thoughts and the focus on fixing "human error"
In Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
(1999)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, P. Moore, D. Sim
Misperceiving negotiation counterparts: When situationally determined bargaining behaviors are attributed to personality traits
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(1999)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Richard Larrick, S. Su
Long and short routes to success in electronically mediated negotiations: Group affiliations and good vibrations
In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
(1999)
Coauthor(s): D. Moore, T. Kurtzberg, L. Thompson, Michael Morris
Culture and the construal of agency: Attribution to individual versus group dispositions
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(1999)
Coauthor(s): Tanya Menon, Michael Morris, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi Hong
Rapport in conflict resolution: Accounting for how face-to-face contact fosters mutual cooperation in mixed-motive conflicts
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(1999)
Coauthor(s): A. Drolet, Michael Morris
Social psychological obstacles in environmental conflict resolution
In American Behavioral Scientist
(1999)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, S. Su
Views from inside and outside: Integrating emic and etic insights about culture and justice judgment
In Academy of Management Review
(1999)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, K. Leung, Daniel Ames, Brian Lickel
Distinguishing sources of cooperation in the one-round Prisoner's Dilemma: Evidence for cooperative decisions based on the illusion of control
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(1998)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, D. Sim, V. Girotto
Conflict management style: Accounting for cross-national differences
In Journal of International Business Studies
(1998)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Angela Ka-yee Leung, Richard Larrick, M. Mendoza, D. Bhatnagar, Jianfeng Li, Mari Kondo, Jin-Lian Luo, Jun-Chen Hu
Representativeness and counterfactual thinking: The principle that antecedent and outcome correspond in magnitude
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(1998)
Coauthor(s): D. Sim, Michael Morris
Responses of aviation pilots to dangerous incidents: The role of counterfactual thinking in learning from experience
In Academy of Management Proceedings
(1998)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, P. Moore, M. Tamuz, R. Tarrel
Thinking of others: How perspective taking changes negotiators' aspirations and fairness perceptions as a function of negotiator relationships
In Basic and Applied Social Psychology
(1998)
Coauthor(s): A. Drolet, Michael Morris, Richard Larrick
When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution
In Psychological Review
(1995)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Richard Larrick
Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for social and physical events
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(1994)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, K. Peng
Perception of circular heading from optical flow
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
(1991)
Coauthor(s): W. Warren, D. Mestre, A. Blackwell, Michael Morris
Converging operations on a basic level in event taxonomies
In Memory & Cognition
(1990)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, G. Murphy
Age differences in perceiving the direction of self-motion from optical flow
In Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
(1989)
Coauthor(s): W. Warren, A. Blackwell, Michael Morris
Perception of translational heading from optical flow
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
(1988)
Coauthor(s): W. Warren, Michael Morris, M. Kalish
Chapters
Culture and judgment and decision making
In Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision-Making
(2015)
Coauthor(s): K. Savani, J. Cho, S. Baik, Michael Morris
Culture and creativity: A social psychological analysis
In Social Psychology and Organizations
(2012)
Coauthor(s): K. Leung, Michael Morris
Missing Relations: Incorporating Relational Constructs into Models of Culture
In Innovations in International and Cross Cultural Management
(2000)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Joel Podolny, Sheira Ariel
Self organization and social organization: American and Chinese constructions
In The psychology of the social self
(1999)
Coauthor(s): S. Su, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi Hong, K. Leung, Michael Morris
Time of decision, ethical obligation, and causal illusion: Temporal cues and social heuristics in the prisoners' dilemma
In Negotiation as a Social Process
(1995)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, D. Sim, V. Girotto
Book reviews
Review of Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Michael Morris
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
Race on Campus
Indian v Chinese Bosses in America Inc
Why Are More U.S. CEOs from South Asia than East Asia?
Identity Politics and Travel
Execs Becoming More Active on Social Issues
Press Releases
Magazine articles
Chinese Mixing Personal and Capability Based Trust
In International Association for Chinese Management Research
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Yong Joo Roy Chua, Michael Morris, Paul Ingram
Awards And Honors
Finalist for International Human Resource Management Scholarly Research Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management for the paper Leung, K., & Morris, M. W. (2014). Values, schemas, and norms in the culture-behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework. Journal of International Business Studies, 46(9), 1028-1050.
For development of The Leader's Voice course.
2012 Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2011 International Management Division, Academy of Management
2010 Human Resources Division, Academy of Management
2008 Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of Management Meetings
2005
2002 Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management Meetings
2001 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
1999 Western Academy of Management
1998 Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management Meetings (Morris & Moore, 1998)
1996 Society for Judgment and Decision Making
1993
1991 University of Michigan