Research
Overview of Michael Morris's contributions to scientific research in psychology and behavioral sciences as well as business topics such as management and marketing.
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Honors
Major awards
IACMR Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, 2025 (anticipated)
Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Psychology, SPSP, 2023.
Best Paper in Management Education, Academy of Management, 2022.
Responsible Research in Management Award, Academy of Management Fellows, 2020.
Misumi Award, Asian Association of Social Psychology, 2005.
Robert Ferber Award, Journal of Consumer Research, 2001.
Otto Klineberg Intercultural & International Relations Award, SPSSI, 2000.
Ascendant Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 1999.
Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 1996.
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 1993.
Selected conference recognitions
Conference Theme Best Paper Award, Finalist, IACMR, 2023
Best Paper, International Human Resources, AOM, 2016, 2010
Best Paper Award, Human Capital International Conference, 2014
Best Diversity-related Symposium, SPSP, 2012
Best Paper, International Management Division, AOM, 2011
Best Paper Award, Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, AOM, 2008
Best Paper Award, Conflict Management Division, AOM, 2002
Best Paper Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, AOM, 1998
Editorships
Consulting Editor, Management and Organization Review
Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business
Associate Editor (Former), Psychological Review
Special-issue editor (Former), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Publications
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Recent publications
For a quick reference to the most recent publications, see the list below.
Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence
EJ Johnson, ER Sugerman, VG Morwitz, GV Johar, MW Morris, Nature Climate Change, 2024
Y Ding, GV Johar, MW Morris, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences nexus, 2024
The effect of configural processing on mentalization
KM Fincher, T Zhang, A Percaya, A Galinsky, MW Morris, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2024
J Cho, SA Wasti, K Savani, HH Tan, MW Morris, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2024
R Zhang, MM Chao, J Cho, M Morris, PsyArXiv, 2024
N Goyal, K Savani, MW Morris, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2023
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Contextualized Intersectionality Among Global Professionals
XL Liu, MW Morris, YB Wang, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023
Experiential learning of cultural norms: The role of implicit and explicit aptitudes.
K Savani, MW Morris, K Fincher, JG Lu, SB Kaufman, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002
JG Lu, RE Nisbett, MW Morris, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
Notable Contributions
Michael’s impact has come primarily in the field of cultural psychology, which has surged in recent decades with discoveries that some classic principles of psychology discovered in the West take take different forms in non-Western cultures. Michael has discovered divergences in processes of cognition, communication, conflict resolution, and social relationships. He pioneered dynamic models of how cultural frames activate and evolve. This “dynamic constructivist” paradigm has spawned new theories of biculturalism and multicuturalism.
Culture and attributions
In his dissertation, Morris proposed that the “Fundamental Attribution Error,” is partly a product of cultural individualism and, hence, less prounounced in Chinese societies. Working with a visiting Chinese student, Kaiping Peng, he conducted comparative studies with novel tests of the bias, such as perceiving causality in cartoons. American and Chinese perceivers had parallel perceptions of mechanical causality but diverging impressions of social causality. An individual who swims ahead of others was perceived by American participants as leading the others; it was judged by Chinese participants as chased by the others.
Subsequent research with Tanya Menon found that a reversal in the case of group actors. Chinese participants are more likely to attribute to traits of groups. Later studies with Xi Zou documented that these differing styles of social judgment are carried by differing norms about agency.
Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for social and physical events
MW Morris, K Peng, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994
Culture and the construal of agency: Attribution to individual versus group dispositions
MW Morris, K Peng T Menon, MW Morris, C Chiu, Y Hong, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,, 1999
X Zou, KP Tam, MW Morris, S Lee, IYM Lau, C Chiu, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009
Culture and conflict
Why do Americans take disputes to court whereas Chinese resolve them in negotiation or mediation? In studies with Kwok Leung and Sheena Iyengar, Morris examined conflict resolution choices. One reason is the negative person attributions Americans draw during the conflict, which discourage them from approaches requiring cooperation. A coworker conflicts conducted with Kathy Phillips and many others found that Americans favor the confrontational “competing” style (associated with individualistic values) whereas Chinese favor the harmony-preserving “avoiding” style (associated with collectivist values). Research with Zhi Liu found that standard conflict models fail to capture a common approach in collectivist cultures: avoiding confrontation but competing covertly. Consistent with this picture of harm in harmony, people feel greater worry about peers in China than in the US.
Conflict management style: Accounting for cross-national differences
MW Morris, KY Williams, K Leung, et al.; Journal of International Business Studies, 1998
Views from inside and outside: Integrating emic and etic insights about culture and justice judgment
MW Morris, K Leung, D Ames, B Lickel; Academy of management review, 1999
MW Morris, K Leung, SS Iyengar; Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2004
Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic cultures
SS Liu, MW Morris, T Talhelm, Q Yang; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
How does collectivism affect social interactions? A test of two competing accounts
SS Liu, G Shteynberg, MW Morris, Q Yang, AD Galinsky; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021
Triggers of cultural influence
To avoid overly rigid depictions, Morris’s lab began asking, not just how do cultural groups differ, but also when do they differ. What situational cues or inner needs bring cultural frameworks into operation? Eastern traditions valorize the middle path, but when does this affect East Asians’ decisions? With Donnel Briley, Morris observed a bias in consumer decisions toward compromise when the choice required providing a reason (and thereby brought culturally conferred norms to the fore). Later studies found that Hongkongers favored compromise when questioned in Chinese (vs. English) and their audience was Chinese (vs. American). Highly influential studies with Ying-yi Hong and Chi-yue Chiu explored the role of culture-related images as cues. Hongkongers who exposed to American imagery (football players in their helmets) generated more individualistic attributions than those exposed to Chinese imagery (kung fu students in ther robes). Inner needs also heighten reliance on cultural frames. When under time pressure, Americans respond more individualistically and Chinese respond more collectivistically. Individuals with certainty-seeking temperaments gravitate to the typical responses of their culture. These discoveries led to the dynamic constructivist model of cultural influence.
DA Briley, MW Morris, I Simonson, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2000
Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition
Y Hong, MW Morris, C Chiu, V Benet-Martinez, American Psychologist, 2000
Cultural chameleons: Biculturals, conformity motives, and decision making
DA Briley, MW Morris, I Simonson, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2005
JH Fu, MW Morris, S Lee, M Chao, C Chiu, Y Hong, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007
MW Morris, A Mok, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2011
S Zhang, MW Morris, CY Cheng, AJ Yap, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Negotiating multiple cultures
The dynamic paradigm lent itself to new models of how people manage multiple cultural identities, worldviews, and repertoires. Rather stuck in between two cultures, bicultural individuals can “frame switch” effortlessly in response to situational cues. Studies led by Verònica Benet-Martínez found that biculturals’ identity integration affects their frame-switching dynamics: those who experience their two sides as compatible tend to follow to cultural cues whereas those experience them as conflicting tend to react against cues by affirming their non-cued identity. Studies with Aurelia Mok and Zaijai Lu confirmed that this defensive reaction arises from fear of non-cued identities being left out. Other work studies how cultures are shaped by their exposure to and interaction with neighboring cultures.
V Benet-Martínez, J Leu, F Lee, MW Morris, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, 2002
A Mok, MW Morris, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2013
Bolstering biculturals: Self-affirmation reduces contrastive responses to identity primes
Z Liu, J Brockner, MW Morris, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2021
Michael W. Morris, Chi-yue Chiu, Zhi Liu, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2015
Yu Ding, Gita Venkataramani Johar, Michael W Morris, PNAS nexus, 2024
Social networks and culture
Morris has also studied cultural differences in social relationships and networks. At a global bank with standardized organizational structure and operations, employees in different nations still differed in their everday patterns of interaction with coworkers. These reflected norms of the surrounding national cultures: In the US more short-lived ties, in Hong Kong more upwardly directed, in Germany more bureaucratically constrained, and in Spain more affiliative. A series of studies with Paul Ingram and Roy Chua compared the professional networks of executives in the US and China and examined how this affected trust in working relationships. Consistent with the folk construct of guanxi, economic exchange and affective closeness were more intertwined in China than in the US, and the network embeddedness of relationships fostered trust to a greater extent.
A Mok, MW Morris, V Benet-Martínez, Z. Karakitapoğlu-Aygün, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 2007
Do people mix at mixers? Structure, homophily, and the “life of the party”
P Ingram, MW Morris, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2007
MW Morris, J Podolny, BN Sullivan, Organization Science, 2008
Guanxi vs networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in the networks of Chinese vs American managers
RYJ Chua, MW Morris, P Ingram, Journal of international business, 2009
Breaking down the “bamboo ceiling”
Because Asian-Americans are held up as a model minority, their challenges of workplace inclusion have received relatively little attention. Given their high overall career and educational attainment, a problem was not obvious in most diversity data. Working with Jackson Lu and Richard Nisbett, Morris clarified the matter by analytically separating East Asians and South Asians, given their stark cultural differences with regard to assertive communication. East Asians are underrepresented, but South Asians are not and cultural divergence in assertiveness is the main reason. Compared to South Asians, East Asians are less likely to speak up, engage in constructive debates, and stand their own grounds in conflicts. The difference in culture mediated the leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South Asians in the United States. Thus, the Bamboo Ceiling is not an "Asian issue", but an issue of cultural fit with American leadership norms. Another paper found the same problem in the classroom: East Asians underperform for the same reasons in graduate MBA and JD programs, their Confucian habits ill-suited to the combative Socratic classroom.
JG Lu, RE Nisbett, MW Morris, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
JG Lu, RE Nisbett, MW Morris, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
Other areas of impact
Aside from cultural research, Michael has contributed to basic research about reasoning, judgment, and decision making and applications to problems like climate change and conflict resolution.
When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution
Michael W Morris, Richard P Larrick, Psychological Review, 1995
AL Drolet, MW Morris, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2000
Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence
EJ Johnson, ER Sugerman, VG Morwitz, GV Johar, MW Morris, Nature Climate Change, 2024
Michael made influential contributions to the study of negotiation, such as work with Aimee Drolet and Roy Chua elucidating the role of rapport or affect-based trust. With Emily Amanatullah, he conducted studies investigating the sources of gender differences in negotiation and strategies for allaying them.
Schmooze or lose: Social friction and lubrication in e-mail negotiations
M Morris, J Nadler, T Kurtzberg, L Thompson, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2002
How emotions work: The social functions of emotional expression in negotiations
MW Morris, D Keltner, Research in organizational behavior, 2000
ET Amanatullah, MW Morris, Journal of personality and social psychology, 2010
RYJ Chua, MW Morris, S Mor, Organizational behavior and human decision processes, 2012
All papers
For an exhaustive list of papers and access to PDFs, see the archive below.
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1988
Warren, W. H., Morris, M. W. & Kalish, M. (1988). Perception of translational heading from optical flow. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14,646-660.
1989
Warren, W. H., Blackwell, A. W. & Morris, M.W. (1989). Age differences in perceiving the direction of self-motion from optical flow. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 44, 147-153.
1990
Morris, M. W. & Murphy, G. L. (1990). Converging operations on a basic level in event taxonomies. Memory & Cognition, 18, 407-418.
1991
Warren, W. H., Mestre, D. R., Blackwell, A. W., & Morris, M. W. (1991). Perception of circular heading from optical flow. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 28-43.
1994
Morris, M. W. & Peng, K. (1994). Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for physical and social events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 949-971.
1995
Morris, M. W. & Larrick, R. (1995). When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution. Psychological Review, 102, 331-355.
1998
Drolet, A., Morris, M. W., & Larrick, R, (1998). Thinking of others, friend and foe: Effects of negotiator relationship and perspective taking on delay in conflict resolution. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 20(1), 23-31.
Morris, M. W., Smith, E. E., & Turner, K. (1998). Parsimony in lay explanation: Investigating the relation between discounting and conjunction effects. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 20(1), 71-85.
Sim, D. & Morris, M. W. (1998). Representativeness and counterfactual thought: The principle that outcome and antecedents correspond in magnitude. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24(6),595-609.
Morris, M. W., Sim, D. L. H., & Girotto, V. (1998). Distinguishing sources of cooperation in the one-round Prisoner’s Dilemma: Evidence for cooperative decisions based on the illusion of control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 494-512.
Morris, M. W., Williams, K., Leung, K, Larrick, R. Mendoza, M.T., Bhatnagar, D., Li, J., Kondo, M., Luo, J-L., and Hu, J-C (1998). Conflict management style: Accounting for cross-national differences. Journal of International Business, 29(4),729-748.
Morris, M.W., Moore, P.C., Tamuz, M. & Tarrel, R. (1998). Responses of aviation pilots to dangerous incidents: The role of counterfactual thinking in learning from experience. Academy of Management Proceedings.
1999
Moore, D., Kurtzberg, T., Thompson, L., & Morris, M.W. (1999). Long and short routes to success in electronically mediated negotiations: group affiliations and good vibrations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 77(1), 22-43.
Morris, M. W. & Su, S. (1999). Social psychological obstacles in environmental conflict resolution. American Behavioral Scientist, 42(8), 1322-1349.
Morris, M. W., Larrick, R. & Su, S. (1999). Misperceiving negotiation counterparts: When situationally determined bargaining behaviors are attributed to personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,77 (1), 52-67.
Roese, N. & Morris, M. W. (1999). Impression valence constrains social explanation: The case of discounting versus conjunction effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(3), 437-448.
Drolet, A. & Morris, M. W. (1999). Rapport in conflict resolution: Accounting for how face-to-face contact fosters mutual cooperation in mixed-motive conflicts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 26-50.
Menon, T., Morris, M.W., Chiu, C-y, & Hong, Y-y (1999). Culture and the construal of agency: Attribution to individual versus group dispositions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,76(5), 701-717.
Morris, M.W., Moore, P. C, Sim, D. (1999). Choosing remedies after accidents: Counterfactual thoughts and focus on fixing 'human error.' Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(4), 579-585.
Morris, M.W., Leung, K., Ames, D., & Lickel, B. (1999). Views from inside and outside: Integrating emic and etic insights about culture and justice judgment. Academy of Management Review, 24(4),781-796.
Morris, M. W. & Leung, K. (1999). Justice for all? Progress in research on cultural variation in the psychology of distributive and procedural justice. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49, 100-132.
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2000
Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000). Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of need for closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2),247-259.
Hong, Y., Morris, M.W., Chiu, C., & Benet, V. (2000). Multicultural minds A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. American Psychologist, 55(7), 709-720.
Briley, D., Morris, M.W., & Simonson, I. (2000). Reasons as carriers of culture: Dynamic vs. dispositional models of cultural influence on decision making. Journal of Consumer Research, 27, 157-178.
Morris, M.W., & Keltner, D. (2000). How emotions work in interpersonal conflicts: An analysis of the social functions of emotional expression in negotiations. Research on Organizational Behavior, 22, 1-50.
Morris, M.W., & Moore, P.C. (2000). The lessons we (don’t) learn: Counterfactual thinking and organizational accountability after a close call.Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(4), 737-765.
2001
Morris, M.W., Menon, T., & Ames, D. (2001). Culturally conferred conceptions of agency: A key to social perception of persons, groups, and other actors. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5, 169-182.
Morris, M.W. & Fu, H-y. (2001). How does culture influence conflict resolution? A dynamic constructivist analysis. Social Cognition, 19(3),324-349.
Knowles, E., Morris, M.W., Hong, Y. Chiu, C-y. (2001). Culture and the process of person perception: Evidence for automaticity among East Asians in correcting for situational influences on behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(10), 1344-1356.
Hong, Y-y., Ip, G., Chiu, C-y., Morris, M.W., & Menon, T. (2001). Cultural identity and dynamic construction of the self: Collective duties and individual rights in Chinese and American cultures. Social Cognition, 19, 251-268.
Leung, K., Su, S., & Morris, M.W. (2001). When criticism is not constructive: A cross-cultural investigation of responses to supervisory feedback as function of interactional justice. Human Relations, 54(9), 1155-1187.
Menon, T., & Morris, M.W. (2001). Social structure in North American and Chinese cultures: Reciprocal influence between objective and subjective structures. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 2, 27-50.
2002
Morris, M. W, Nadler, J., Kurtzberg, T. & Thompson. L. (2002). Schmooze or lose: Social friction and lubrication in e-mail negotiation. Group Dynamics, 6, 89-100.
Benet-Martinez, V., Leu, J., Lee, F., & Morris, M. W. (2002). Negotiating biculturalism: Cultural frame-switching in biculturals with ‘oppositional’ vs. ‘compatible’ cultural identities. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 492-516.
Fu, H., Morris, M.W., Lee, S., & Chiu, C. (2002). Why do individuals follow cultural scripts? A dynamic constructivist account of American-Chinese differences in choice of mediators to resolve conflicts. Academy of Management Proceedings, D1-6.
2003
Benet-Martinez, V., Hong, Y., Chiu, C., Lee, S., & Morris, M. W. (2003). Boundaries of cultural influence: Construct activation as a mechanism for cultural differences in social perception. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 453-464.
2004
Morris, M.W., Leung, K., & Iyengar, S. (2004). Person perception in the heat of conflict: Attributions about opponents and dispute resolution preferences. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 7(2), 127-147.
2005
Loewenstein, J., Morris, M.W., Chakravarti, A., Thompson, L. & S. Kopelman (2005). At a loss for words: Dominating the conversation and the outcome in negotiation as a function of intricate arguments and communication media. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98(1), 28-38.
Briley, D., Morris, M.W., & Simonson, I. (2005). Cultural chameleons: Biculturals, conformity motives, and decision making. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 15(4), 351-362.
2006
Zemba, Y., Young, M.J., & Morris, M.W. (2006). Blaming leaders for organizational accidents: Proxy logic in collective- versus individual-agency cultures. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101, 36-51.
2007
Fu, J.H., Chiu, C., Morris, M.W., & Young, M.J. (2007). Spontaneous inferences from cultural cues: Varying responses of cultural insiders and outsiders. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(1), 58-75.
Morris, M.W., Sheldon, O., Ames, D., & Young, M.J. (2007). Metaphor and markets: Agent and object schemas in stock market interpretations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102(2), 174-192.
Fu, H-y., Morris, M. W. Lee, S-l ., Chao, M., Chiu, C-y., Hong, Y-y. (2007). Epistemic motives and cultural conformity: Need for closure, culture, and context as determinants of conflict judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(2), 191-207.
Morris, M. W. (2007). On blaming for Columbine. Current Anthropology, 48(6), 824-5.
Mok, A., Morris, M. W., Benet-Martinez, V. & Karakitapoglu-Aygün, Z. (2007). Embracing American culture: Structures of social identity and social networks among first-generation biculturals. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 38, 629 - 635.
Ingram, P. & Morris, M. W. (2007). Do people mix at mixers? Structure, homophily and the pattern of encounter at a business networking party. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52, 558-585.
2008
Morris, M. W., Podolny, J., & Sullivan, B. (2008). Culture and co-worker relations: Patterns of interpersonal interaction in American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank. Organization Science, 19(4), 517-532.
Chua, R., Ingram, P. & Morris, M .W. (2008). From the head and the heart: Locating cognition- and affect-based trust in managers’ professional networks. Academy of Management Journal, 51, 436-452.
Zou, X., Morris, M. W., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2008). Identity motives and cultural priming: Cultural (dis)identification in assimilative and contrastive responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(4), 1151-1159.
Amanatullah, E., Morris, M.W. & Curhan, J. (2008). Negotiators who give too much: Unmitigated communion, relational anxieties, and economic costs in distributive and integrative bargaining. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,95(3), 723-738.
Amanatullah, E., Morris, M.W. (2008). Negotiating gender stereotypes: Other-advocacy reduces social constraints on women in negotiations. Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Meeting
Morris M. W., Carranza E. & Fox C. R. (2008). Mistaken identity: activating conservative political identities induces "conservative" financial decisions. Psychological Science, 19(11), 1154-1160.
2009
Zou, X., Tam, K., Morris, W. M., Lee, L. Lau, I. & Chiu, C.Y., (2009). Culture as common sense: Perceived consensus vs. personal beliefs as mechanisms of cultural influence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 579-597.
Young, M. J., Chen, N., & Morris, M. W. (2009). Belief in stable and fleeting luck and achievement motivation. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 150-154.
Mok, A., Cheng, C.-Y., & Morris, M. W. (2009). Matching or mismatching cultural norms in performance appraisal: Effects of the cultural setting and bicultural identity integration. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 10, 17-35.
Mok, A., & Morris, M. W. (2009). Cultural chameleons and iconoclasts: Personality shifts in response to cultural priming as a function of bicultural identity integration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 884-889.
Morris, M. W. & Mason, M. F. (2009). Intentionality in intuitive versus analytic processing: Insights from social cognitive neuroscience. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 58-65.
Chua, Roy Y. J., Morris, M. W., & Ingram, P. (2009). Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(3), 480-508.
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2010
Chua, Roy Y.J., M.W. Morris, and P. Ingram. (2010). Embeddedness and new idea discussion in professional networks: The mediating role of affect-based trust. Journal of Creative Behavior, 44, 85-104.
Amanatullah, E. & Morris, M.W. (2010). Negotiating gender stereotypes: gender differences in assertive negotiating are mediated by women's fear of backlash and attenuated when negotiating on behalf of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 256-67.
Morris, M. W., & Leung, K. 2010. Creativity east and west: Perspectives and parallels. Management and Organization Review, 6(3): 313–327.
Mok, A., & Morris, M. W. (2010). Asian-Americans' creative styles in Asian and American situations: Assimilative and contrastive responses as a function of bicultural identity integration. Management and Organization Review, 6(3), 371–390.
Weber E. U & Morris, M. W. (2010). Culture and judgment and decision making: The constructivist turn. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(4), 410-419.
Mason, M. F. & Morris, M. W. (2010). Culture, attribution and automaticity: A social cognitive neuroscience view. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 5(2-3), 292-306
Mok, A., & Morris, M. W. (2010). An upside to bicultural identity conflict: Resisting groupthink in cultural ingroups, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,46, 1114-1117.
2011
Morris, M. W. (2011). Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(1), 127-132.
Savani K., Morris M.W., Naidu N.V.R., Kumar S., & Berlia N. (2011). Cultural conditioning: Understanding interpersonal accommodation in India and the U.S. in terms of the modal characteristics of interpersonal influence situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 84-102.
Morris, M. W. & Mok, A. (2011). Isolating effects of cultural conceptions: Shifts in Asian-Americans’ person-description and memory biases in response to cultural priming. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(1), 117-126.
Young, M. J., Morris, M. W., Burrus, J., Krishnan, L., & Regmi, M. P. (2011). Deity and destiny: Patterns of fatalistic thinking in Christian and Hindu cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(6), 1030-1053.
Mok, A. & Morris, M. W. (2011). Forecasting good or bad behaviour: A non‐transparent test of contrastive responses to cultural cues. Asian Journal of Social Psychology,14 (4), 294-301.
Morris, M. W., Mok, A. and Mor, S. (2011). Cultural identity threat: The role of cultural identifications in moderating closure responses to foreign cultural inflow. Journal of Social Issues, 67, 760–773.
2012
Savani, K., Morris, M. W., Naidu, N. V. R. (2012). Deference in Indians’ decision making: Introjected goals or injunctive norms?Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0026415
Mok, A. & Morris, M. W. (2012). Attentional focus and the dynamics of dual identity integration: Evidence from Asian Americans and female lawyers. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550611432769.
Mok, A. & Morris, M. W. (2012). Managing two cultural identities: The malleability of bicultural identity integration as a function of induced global or local processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(2), 233-246.
Cheng, C. Y., Chua, R. Y. J., Morris, M. W. & Lee, L. (2012). Finding the right mix: How the composition of self‐managing multicultural teams' cultural value orientation influences performance over time. Journal of Organizational Behavior. DOI: 10.1002/job.1777
Chua, R.J., Morris, M.W., & Mor, S. (2012). Collaborating across cultures: Cultural metacognition and affect-based trust in creative collaboration. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 118, 116-131.
2013
Mok, A. & Morris, M.W. (2013). Bicultural self-defense in consumer contexts: Self-protection motives are the basis for contrast versus assimilation to cultural cues. Journal of Consumer Psychology. DOI: 10.1016
Young, M.J., Morris, M.W., & Scherwin, V.M. (2013). Managerial Mystique Magical Thinking in Judgments of Managers’ Vision, Charisma, and Magnetism. Journal of Management 39 (4), 1044-1061.
Mor, S., Morris, M., & Joh, J. (2013). Identifying and Training Adaptive Cross-Cultural Management Skills: The Crucial Role of Cultural Metacognition. Academy of Management Learning & Education.
Zhang, S., Morris, M.W., Cheng, C.Y., & Yap, AJ. (2013). Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(47).
Morris, M.W. & Zhang, S. (2013). Reply to Yang and Yang: Culturally primed first-language intrusion into second-language processing is associative spillover, not strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073
2014
Morris, M.W. (2014) Values as the essence of culture: Foundation or fallacy?Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 45 (1), 14-24
Liu, Z. & Morris, M.W. (2014). Intercultural interactions and cultural transformation. Asian Journal of Social Psychology 17(2), 100-103.
Morris, M.W., Savani, K., & Roberts, R.D. (2014) Intercultural training and assessment implications for organizational and public policies. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1(1), 63-71
Morris, M.W., Savani, K., Mor, S., & Cho, J. (2014). When in Rome: Intercultural learning and implications for training. Research in Organizational Behavior 34, 189-215.
2015
Leung, K. & Morris, M.W., (2015). Values, schemas and norms in the culture-behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework. Journal of International Business Studies 46 (9), 1028-1050.
Morris, M.W., Chiu, C., & Liu, Zi. (2015). Polycultural psychology. Annual Review of Psychology 66(1), 631.
Morris, M. W., Hong, Y. Y., Chiu, C. Y., & Liu, Z. (2015). Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 129, 1–13.
Fu, JHY, Morris, MW & Hong, YY (2015) A transformative taste of home: Home culture primes foster expatriates' adjustment through bolstering relational security. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 59, 24-31.
Cho, J & Morris, MW (2015) Cultural study and problem‐solving gains: Effects of study abroad, openness, and choice. Journal of Organizational Behavior 36 (7), 944-966
Morris, MW & Liu, Z (2015) Psychological Functions of Subjective Norms Reference Groups, Moralization, Adherence, and Defiance. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology46 (10), 1279-1287
Chiu, C. Y., Gelfand, M. J., Harrington, J. R., Leung, A. K. Y., Liu, Z., Morris, M. W., ... & Zou, X. (2015). A conclusion, yet an opening to enriching the normative approach of culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46(10), 1361-1371.
2016
Bond, M. H., Vijver, F. J., Morris, M. W., & Gelfand, M. J. (2016). Working with Kwok Leung: Reflections from Four Grateful Collaborators. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 9(1), 81-97.
Hong, Y. Y., Zhan, S., Morris, M. W., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2016). Multicultural identity processes. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 49-53.
Fincher, K. & Morris, M. W (2016). Look Again: The Value in Distinguishing Three Processes Underlying Social-Perceptual Effects. Psychological Inquiry. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2016.1215660
Akinola M, Fridman I, Mor S, Morris MW, Crum AJ (2016) Adaptive Appraisals of Anxiety Moderate the Association between Cortisol Reactivity and Performance in Salary Negotiations. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167977. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167977
2017
Cho, J., Morris, M. W., Slepian, M. L., & Tadmor, C. T. (2017). Choosing fusion: The effects of diversity ideologies on preference for culturally mixed experiences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 163-171.
Wallen, A. S., Morris, M. W., Devine, B. A., & Lu, J. G. (2017). Understanding the MBA Gender Gap: Women Respond to Gender Norms by Reducing Public Assertiveness but Not Private Effort. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(8), 1150-1170.
Morris, M. W., Chen, Z. X. G., Doucet, L., & Gong, Y. (2017). A Giant of Cultural Research: Seeing Further from the Shoulders of Kwok Leung. Management and Organization Review, 13(4), 703-711.
Fincher, K. M., Tetlock, P. E., & Morris, M. W. (2017). Interfacing with Faces: Perceptual Humanization and Dehumanization. Current Directions in PsychologicalScience, 26(3), 288-293.
2018
Cho, J., Morris, M. W., & Dow, B. (2018). How do the Romans Feel When Visitors “Do as the Romans Do”? Diversity Ideologies and Trust in Evaluations of Cultural Accommodation. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4(1), 11-31.
Lu, L., Li, F., Leung, K., Savani, K., & Morris, M. W. (2018). When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 39 (4), 402-415
Cho, J., Tadmor, C. T., & Morris, M. W. (2018). Are All Diversity Ideologies Creatively Equal? The Diverging Consequences of Colorblindness, Multiculturalism, and Polyculturalism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(9), 1376–1401.
2019
Morris, M. W., Savani, K., & Fincher, K. (2019). Metacognition Fosters Cultural Learning: Evidence from Individual Differences and Situational Prompts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(1), 46-68.
Liu, S. S., Morris, M. W., Talhelm, T., & Yang, Q. (2019). Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201817588.
Liu, S. S., Morris, M. W. (2019). The Hidden Side of Collectivism: Greater Vigilance towards Ingroup Members? Management Insights, (04) 17-22.
2020
Lu, J. G., Nisbett, R. E., & Morris, M. W. (2020). Deconstructing the Bamboo Ceiling: A Nuanced Perspective on Leadership Attainment for East Asians versus South Asians. Management Insights, (04) 17-22. (An HBR style summary in Chinese).
Lu, J. G., Nisbett, R. E., & Morris, M. W. (2020). Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918896117
2021
Liu, Z., Brockner, J., & Morris, M. W. (2021). Bolstering biculturals: Self-affirmation reduces contrastive responses to identity primes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104150.
Liu, S. S., Shteynberg, G., Morris, M. W., Yang, Q., & Galinsky, A. D. (2021). How Does Collectivism Affect Social Interactions? A Test of Two Competing Accounts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(3), 362-376.
2022
Lu, J. G., Nisbett, R. E., & Morris, M. W. (2022). The surprising underperformance of East Asians in US law and business schools: The liability of low assertiveness and the ameliorative potential of online classrooms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(13), e2118244119.
Savani, K., Morris, M. W., Fincher, K., Lu, J. G., & Kaufman, S. B. (2022). Experiential learning of cultural norms: The role of implicit and explicit aptitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(2), 272-291.
2023
Goyal, N., Savani, K., & Morris, M. W. (2023). Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104458.
Liu, X., Morris, M. W., & Wang, Y. B. (2023). Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Contextualized Intersectionality Among Global Professionals. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023, (1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.234bp
2024
Johnson, E.J., Sugerman, E.R., Morwitz, V.G., et al. (2024). Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence. Nature Climate Change, 14, 707-714. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02032-z
Cho, J., Wasti, S. A., Savani, K., Tan, H. H., & Morris, M. W. (2024). Formal versus informal supervisor socio‐emotional support behaviours and employee trust: The role of cultural power distance. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 27(2), 203-218.
Ding, Y., Johar, G. V., & Morris, M. W. (2024). When the one true faith trumps all: Low religious diversity, religious intolerance, and science denial. PNAS nexus, 3(4), p. 144.
Fincher et al., (2024) Perceptual Humanization: Configural Face Processing Engenders Perspective-Taking, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000361