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Michael Morris

Disciplines:
management/organizational behavior
social psychology
culture
anthropology/cross-cultural psychology

Summary

American social psychologist at Columbia Business School whose Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together examines how tribal psychology shapes behavior and how understanding cultural instincts can build cross-group cooperation.

Core Contribution

Provides the most evidence-based and constructive account of tribal psychology — arguing that understanding the peer, ancestor, and hero instincts that drive tribal behavior can be used to build bridges rather than deepen divisions — offering a psychology of culture that is both explanatory and practically applicable.

Notable Works & Achievements

Tribal

Historical Influences

Richard Nisbett Henri Tajfel

Intellectual Lineage

Social Psychology Cross-Cultural Psychology Columbia Business School

Contemporaries & Peers

Jonathan Haidt Richard Nisbett Michele Gelfand

Minds Influenced

Cross-cultural psychology Organizational behavior MW cultural psychology content

Intellectual Posterity

Tribal Peer/ancestor/hero cultural instincts

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