Taya R. Cohen
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Taya R. Cohen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. She conducts research in the areas of business ethics and conflict management, and is known in particular for her work on moral character in the workplace, and on cooperation and conflict within and between groups.
Professor Cohen teaches MBA and executive education courses on Negotiations, and on Managing People and Teams, and doctoral seminars on Negotiations and Conflict Management, and on Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Self & Identity, and serves as an ad hoc referee for a number of other journals owing to her broad research interests and expertise in organizational behavior, business ethics, and social/personality psychology.
She was elected President of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) in 2019, having previously served as a Representative-at-Large Board Member from 2014-2016. She is currently serving as President-Elect, and will begin a two-year term as President in July 2020.
Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Professor Cohen spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University, where she taught Negotiations at the Kellogg School of Management. Professor Cohen earned a B.A. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Ethics and Morality
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Self and Identity
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Video Gallery
Psychology of Person-Perception and Character in the Workplace
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59:53 Psychology of Person-Perception and Character in the Workplace
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34:36 The Honesty Project
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56:47 The Ethical Employee
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05:51 "The Character Project" Interview
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58:27 Reimagining Education: Honesty and Moral Character at Work
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49:13 Moral Character in the Workplace
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20:6 Hiring for Moral Character
Other Files
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Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP)
- Linked publication: Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., & Turan, N. (2012). Guilt proneness and moral character. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 355-359.
- Linked publication: Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2013). Agreement and similarity in self-other perceptions of moral character. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 816-830. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.009.
- Linked publication: Cohen, T. R., Wolf, S. T., Panter, A. T., & Insko, C. A. (2011). Introducing the GASP scale: A new measure of guilt and shame proneness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 947-966.
- Five-Item Guilt Proneness Scale (GP-5)
Journal Articles:
- Cohen, T. R. (2010). Moral emotions & unethical bargaining: The differential effects of empathy and perspective taking in deterring deceitful negotiation. Journal of Business Ethics, 94, 569-579.
- Cohen, T. R., Gunia, B. C., Kim-Jun, S. Y., & Murnighan, J. K. (2009). Do groups lie more than individuals? Honesty & deception as a function of strategic self-interest. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1321-1324.
- Cohen, T. R., Montoya, R. M., & Insko, C. A. (2006). Group morality and intergroup relations: Cross-cultural and experimental evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1559-1572.
- Cohen, T. R., & Morse, L. (2014). Moral character: What it is and what it does. Research in Organizational Behavior, 34, 43-61. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2014.08.003
- Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., & Turan, N. (2013). Predicting counterproductive work behavior from guilt proneness. Journal of Business Ethics, 114, 45-53.
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Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., & Turan, N. (2012). Guilt proneness and moral character. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 355-359.
- Linked file: Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP)
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Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2014). Moral character in the workplace. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 943-963. doi: 10.1037/a0037245
- Linked file: Five-Item Guilt Proneness Scale (GP-5)
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Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2013). Agreement and similarity in self-other perceptions of moral character. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 816-830. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.009.
- Linked file: Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP)
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Cohen, T. R., Wolf, S. T., Panter, A. T., & Insko, C. A. (2011). Introducing the GASP scale: A new measure of guilt and shame proneness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 947-966.
- Linked file: Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP)
- Halevy, N. Chou, E. Y., Cohen, T. R., & Livingston, R. W. (2012). Status conferral in intergroup social dilemmas: Behavioral antecedents and consequences of prestige and dominance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(2), 351-366.
- Halevy, N., Cohen, T. R., Chou, E. Y., Katz, J. J., & Panter, A. T. (2014). Mental models at work: Cognitive causes and consequences of conflict in organizations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(1), 92-110. doi: 10.1177/0146167213506468
- Hershfield, H. E., Cohen, T. R., & Thompson, L. (2012). Short horizons and tempting situations: Lack of continuity to our future selves leads to unethical decision making and behavior. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 117, 298-310.
- Insko, C. A., Wildschut, T., & Cohen, T. R. (2013). Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game: How common fate, proximity, and similarity affect intergroup competition. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120, 168-180. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.07.004.
- Levine, E. E, Bitterly, T. B., Cohen, T. R., & Schweitzer, M. E. (2018). Who is trustworthy? Predicting trustworthy intentions and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 468-494.
- Levine, E. E., & Cohen, T. R. (2018). You can handle the truth: Mispredicting the consequences of honest communication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1400-1429
- Morse, L. & Cohen, T. R. (2018). Moral character in negotiation. Academy of Management Perspectives.
- Wiltermuth, S. S., & Cohen, T. R. (2014). “I’d only let you down”: Guilt proneness and the avoidance of harmful interdependence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 925-942. doi: 10.1037/a0037523.
- Wolf, S. T., Cohen, T. R., Kirchner, J. L., Rea, A., Montoya, R. M., & Insko, C. A. (2009). Reducing intergroup conflict through the consideration of future consequences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 831-841.
- Wolf, S. T., Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., & Insko, C. A. (2010). Shame proneness and guilt proneness: Toward the further understanding of reactions to public and private transgressions, Self & Identity, 9, 337-362. [*Winner of the Best Paper of the Year Award from the International Society for Self and Identity*]
Other Publications:
Courses Taught:
- Managing People and Teams (MBA course)
- Negotiations (MBA course & Executive Education)
- Negotiations and Conflict Management (PhD seminar)
- Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences (PhD Seminar)
- Unethical Behavior (PhD Seminar)
Taya R. Cohen
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
United States of America
- Phone: (412) 268-6677
- Email: tcohen@cmu.edu