Amir Erez

Amir Erez

  • W.A. McGriff, III Professor
  • Full Professor

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Management Department
  • Human Resource Research Center
  • Stuzin Hall 235
CVScholarly Works

Dr. Erez earned his Ph.D. and M. S. at the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he earned his B. A. in Business Administration and Philosophy and an M. A. in Philosophy. His research focuses on how positive moods and positive personality, influence individuals thought processes, motivation, and work behaviors. Dr. Erez also investigates how negative work behaviors such as rudeness and disrespect affect individuals performance and cognition. He has published this research in scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Human Performance, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Expertise and interest areas

  • Dispositions and Emotions in Organizational Behavior
  • Motivation in Organizations
  • Research Methods in Organizational Studies

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Courses taught

  • Advanced DBA Research (MAN7978)
  • Advanced Research (MAN7979)
  • Affect, Cognition, and Organizational Decision Making (MAN7058)
  • DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (MAN7985)
  • Individual Work in Management (MAN6905)
  • Organizational Behavior (MAN5245)
  • Organizational Behavior (MAN5246)
  • Special Topics (MAN6930)

Education

  • PhD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1997
  • MS, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1993
  • MA, Hebrew University, 1991
  • BA, Hebrew University, 1988

PhD students advised

  • Soo Yon Ryu — 2021 — Current
  • Sujin Park — 2023 — 2025
  • Yvonne Huang — 2022 — 2025
  • Felipe Marinelli Affonso — 2019 — 2023
  • Jake Philip Gale — 2020 — 2023
  • Jason Olmanson — 2022 — 2023
  • Xiang Wang — 2022 — 2023
  • Xianglan Nan — 2019 — 2023
  • George Rano — 2021 — 2022
  • Minzhe Xu — 2019 — 2022

Journal article publications

  • From Road to rage: How commute stress causes rudeness at work
    • Status: 2nd Revise and Resubmit
    • Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    • Authors: Jake Gale, Trevor Foulk, Amir Erez, Satish Krishnan, Rose Kim, Binyamin Cooper
  • Overconfidence and interpersonally maladjusted: Effects of overconfidence on negative coworker evaluations and task conflict
    • Status: Revision under 2nd Review
    • Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    • Authors: Amir Erez, Jake Gale, Jesse Render, Binyamin Cooper, Christine Porath, George Rano, Lucas Klein, Yair Berson
  • Rudeness and team performance:Adverse effects via members social value orientation and coordinative processes
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Jake Gale, Amir Erez, Peter Bamberger, Trevor Foulk, Binyamin Cooper, Arieh Riskin, Pauline Schilpzand, Dana Vashdi
  • A review of the short-term implications of discrete, episodic incivility.
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Social and Personality Psychology Compass
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Andrew Woolum, Trevor Foulk, Amir Erez
  • Event-sampling method with experimental design – a method for bringing the family back into the family business
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Journal of Family Business Strategy
    • Accepted Year: 2022
    • Authors: Giorgia D' Allura, Amir Erez, Trevor Foulk
  • Trapped by a first hypothesis: How rudeness leads to anchoring
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    • Published Year: 2022
    • Authors: Binyamin Cooper, Christopher Giordano, Amir Erez, Trevor Foulk, Heather Reed, Kent Berg
  • How witnessing rudeness can disrupt psycho-motor performance of dental students.
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Journal of Dental Education
    • Published Year: 2021
    • Authors: Amir Erez, Echeto Luisa, Binyamin Cooper, Jake Gale, Andrew Woolum, Joseph Katz, Marcio Guelmann, Roy Jerrell, Panagiotis Zoidis
  • It's lonely at the bottom (too): The effects of psychological powerlessness on social closeness and withdrawal behaviors
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Personnel Psychology
    • Published Year: 2021
    • Authors: Trevor Foulk, Irene De Pater, Michael Schaerer, Christilene du Plessis, Randy Lee, Amir Erez
  • Discrete incivility events and team performance: A cognitive perspective on a pervasive human resource (HR) issue.
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management
    • Accepted Year: 2021
    • Authors: Arieh Riskin, Peter Bamberger, Amir Erez, Aya Zeiger
  • The effects of rudeness, experience, and perspective-taking on challenging premature closure after pediatric ICU physicians receive hand-off with the wrong diagnosis: a randomized controlled simulation trial.
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Diagnosis
    • Published Year: 2020
    • Authors: Michael Avesar, Amir Erez, Jenna Essakow, Caulette Young, Binyamin Cooper, Denizhan Akan, Margaret Klein, Todd Chang, Alyssa Rake
  • exploring the puzzle of civility: Whether and when team civil communication influences team members' role performance
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Human Relations
    • Published Year: 2020
    • Authors: Yihao Liu, Dana Vashdi, Tom Cross, Peter Bamberger, Amir Erez