Hillary Anger Elfenbein
{{Short description|Professor of organizational behavior}}
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| name = Hillary Anger Elfenbein
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| education = Harvard University
| workplaces = Washington University in St. Louis; University of California, Berkeley; Monitor Company
| known_for = Research on recognizing emotions across cultures and emotion in the workplace
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| alma_mater = Harvard University
| thesis_title = Accuracy in communicating emotion in the workplace : a field research investigation
| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77071442
| thesis_year = 2001
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Hillary Anger Elfenbein is the John and Ellen Wallace Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at Washington University in St. Louis, known for her research on emotion in the workplace and cross-cultural differences in emotion.
Education
Elfenbein received undergraduate degrees from Harvard University in physics, and Sanskrit and Indian studies. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard.{{Cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/Faculty-Research/Faculty/Pages/FacultyDetail.aspx?username=helfenbein |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=olin.wustl.edu}}
Career
After graduating with her bachelor’s degrees, Elfenbein took a position as a management consultant at Monitor Company in Cambridge (1994–1996). Following her Ph.D. Elfenbein was a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School (2001–2003) and an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2003–2008). In 2008 she moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where she was promoted to professor in 2010 and to the John and Ellen Wallace Distinguished Professor in 2016.{{Cite news |date=September 9, 2016 |title=Five Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Professorships |work=Women in Academia Report; Bartonsville |via=Proquest}}
Research
Elfenbein is known for her research in emotion in the workplace, negotiation, and the recognition of emotion across cultures. Her early work described cultural differences in emotions,{{Cite journal |last=Elfenbein |first=Hillary Anger |date=January 2013 |title=Nonverbal Dialects and Accents in Facial Expressions of Emotion |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1754073912451332 |journal=Emotion Review |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=90–96 |doi=10.1177/1754073912451332 |s2cid=147512640 |issn=1754-0739}} and how that controls people's ability to evaluate emotions.{{Cite journal |last1=Elfenbein |first1=Hillary Anger |last2=Ambady |first2=Nalini |date=2002 |title=Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition? |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.128.2.243 |journal=Psychological Bulletin |volume=128 |issue=2 |pages=243–249 |doi=10.1037/0033-2909.128.2.243 |pmid=11931518 |issn=1939-1455}} She has reviewed emotions in the workplace,{{Cite journal |last=Elfenbein |first=Hillary Anger |date=2022-09-14 |title=Emotion in Organizations: Theory and Research |journal=Annual Review of Psychology |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=489–517 |doi=10.1146/annurev-psych-032720-035940 |pmid=36104000 |issn=0066-4308|doi-access=free }} how emotions impact negotiations,{{Cite journal |last1=Curhan |first1=Jared R. |last2=Elfenbein |first2=Hillary Anger |last3=Xu |first3=Heng |date=2006 |title=What do people value when they negotiate? Mapping the domain of subjective value in negotiation. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.493 |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=493–512 |doi=10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.493 |pmid=16938032 |issn=1939-1315|hdl=1721.1/18234 |s2cid=10166193 |hdl-access=free }} and individual's perceptions of negative feelings.{{Cite journal |last1=Elfenbein |first1=Hillary Anger |last2=Eisenkraft |first2=Noah |last3=Ding |first3=Waverly W. |date=September 2009 |title=Do We Know Who Values Us? |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02396.x |journal=Psychological Science |volume=20 |issue=9 |pages=1081–1083 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02396.x |pmid=19572970 |s2cid=26736042 |issn=0956-7976}} Her research includes investigations into people with high emotional intelligence,{{Cite journal |last1=Elfenbein |first1=Hillary Anger |last2=Ambady |first2=Nalini |date=2002 |title=Predicting workplace outcomes from the ability to eavesdrop on feelings. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.87.5.963 |journal=Journal of Applied Psychology |volume=87 |issue=5 |pages=963–971 |doi=10.1037/0021-9010.87.5.963 |pmid=12395820 |s2cid=670253 |issn=1939-1854}} and she has testified before the Congress about the value of basic research.{{Cite web |last=Issues |date=2011-10-01 |title=From the Hill - Fall 2011 |url=https://live-issues-asu.pantheonsite.io/hill-58/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Issues in Science and Technology |language=en-US}}
Personal life
Elfenbein has been performing stand-up comedy in St. Louis since 2016.{{Cite podcast |title=Episode 390: Emotional Intelligence, Hillary Anger Elfenbein |url=https://www.herewearepodcast.com/episodes/episode-390-emotional-intelligence-hillary-anger-elfenbein |date=2022-08-05|host=Shane Mauss |website=Here We Are Podcast |language=en-US}}
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