Amir Erez

Amir Erez

W.A. McGriff, III Professor
Professor

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Contact details

University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Management Department
Stuzin Hall 235

Bio

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.

Education All years

  • 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

Courses taught Last 3 years

  • Affect and Congnition (MAN6930)
  • Organization Behavior (MAN5245)
  • Organizational Behav (MAN5246)

PhD students advised Last 3 years

  • Soo Yon Ryu — 2021 — Current
  • Sujin Park — 2023 — 2024
  • Yvonne Huang — 2022 — 2024
  • 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 Last 5 years

  • 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
  • Overconfidence and hostile: Effects of overconfidence on workplace interrelationships.
    Status: Submitted
    Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology
    Authors: Amir Erez, Jake Gale, Binyamin Cooper, Christine Porath, George Rano
  • Event-sampling method with experimental design - a method for bringing the family back into the family business
    Status: Accepted
    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