Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Emotions in Organizations Lab

The emotions in organizations lab examines the role of emotions in motivating behavior in work organizations. Sample projects we are currently working on are envy in organizations and being happy for the other’s success (firgun) as motivating work behavior. A separate line of research we are currently involved in deals with the relationship between emotions and decision-making, especially stock-market decisions. We are also interested in additional discrete emotions, such as jealousy, guilt, and fear, as affecting and being affected by various organizational behaviors and practices (such as work performance and leadership, respectively). We also conduct research examining issues of fairness in organizations, especially the relationship between fairness and emotions. We utilize a wide variety of research methods, such as laboratory experiments, correlational studies, survey research, longitudinal studies, archival studies, and qualitative studies.

Research Projects Currently Conducted at the Lab and their Leading Investigators

  • Can traders’ collective mood influence the stock-market? –Yochi Cohen-Charash, Charles A. Scherbaum, John D. Kammeyer-Mueller, & Barry Staw
  • Emotions and trading behavior – Yochi Cohen-Charash, Richard Holowczak, & Shula Gross
  • Firgun in organizations – Yochi Cohen-Charash, Charles A. Scherbaum, & Miriam Erez
  • Constructive and destructive reactions to workplace envy – Yochi Cohen-Charash & Elliott Larson
  • Coping with envy:
  • Individual-level mechanisms - Yochi Cohen-Charash & Alex Lowey
  • Organizational-level mechanisms – Yochi Cohen-Charash & Roza Jankovic
  • Predictors of envy – Yochi Cohen-Charash
  • Identifying envy in self and others – Yochi Cohen-Charash & Agneta Fischer
  • Jealousy – not only romantic – Yochi Cohen-Charash & Gerben van Kleef 

Lab People

Yochi Cohen-Charash, PhD - Director

PhD student and lab manager:

Elliott Larson

MS students:

Boris Genzer

Roza Jankovic

Alex Lowy

Yuzhu Yang

Lab Volunteers/research practicum students:

Yuliya Berger

Tanzeem Khan

Janice Lee

Jane Page

Contact us at:

Emotions in Organizations Lab VC 8-137

C/O Yochi Cohen-Charash, PhD

Department of Psychology, Baruch College

One Bernard Baruch Way, Box B-8215

New York, NY 10010

Email: 

Yochi.cohen-charash@baruch.cuny.edu

Yochi’s personal web-page: click here.

Last updated on November 7, 2010

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