Garriy Shteynberg
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Garriy Shteynberg
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Through my research, I seek to understand the emergence of novel cultural norms and their role in regulating human behavior. For instance, I am fascinated by how shared experiences with our social groups influence what we remember, the goals we pursue, and the things we value. I investigate both the nature of shared experiences—what makes an experience shared—as well as how shared experiences can lead to the emergence of novel cultural norms.
In another line of research, I compare the power of cultural norms and personal values as drivers of human behavior. I am interested in understanding the psychological and contextual conditions that render cultural norms or personal values more powerful.
Finally, I am intrigued by the psychological consequences of cultural norm conflict—that is, how people negotiate their way out of normative conflict, and what the consequences of such conflict are for one’s personal identity, values and beliefs.
Honors
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security START Dissertation Fellowship
- UTK Chancellor’s Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement
- UTK College of Arts & Sciences Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship & Research
- Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Grants
National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Grant, 2018-2023
Publications
Shteynberg, G., & Apfelbaum, E. (2013). The Power of Shared Experience: Simultaneous Observation with Similar Others Facilitates Social Learning. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J. B., Galinsky, A. D., & Knight, A. P. (2013). Shared attention increases mood infusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Shteynberg, G. (2012). Intersubjectivity, agency and idiosyncratic identity. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 4, 1-21.
Gelfand, M. J., Shteynberg, G., Lee, T., Lun, J., Lyons, S., Bell, C., et al. (2012). The cultural transmission of intergroup conflict. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Theme Issue on Biology of Cultural Conflict, 367, 692-703.
Cojuharenco, I., Shteynberg, G., Gelfand, M., & Schminke, M. (2012). Self-construal and unethical behavior. Journal of Business Ethics. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1139-8.
Shteynberg, G., & Galinsky, A. D. (2011). Implicit coordination: Sharing goals with similar others intensifies goal pursuit. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1291-1294.
Shteynberg, G., Leslie, M. L., Knight, P. K., & Mayer, D. M. (2011). But affirmative action hurts us! Race-related beliefs shape perceptions of white disadvantage and policy unfairness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115, 1-12.
Gelfand, M. J., Lun, J., Lyons, S., & Shteynberg, G. (2011). Descriptive norms as carriers of culture in negotiation. Journal of International Negotiation, 16, 361-381.
Shteynberg, G. (2010). A silent emergence of culture: The social tuning effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 683-689.
Chiu, C-y., Gelfand, M. J., T. Yamagishi, Shteynberg, G., & Wan, C. (2010). Intersubjective Culture: The Role of Intersubjective Perceptions in Cross-Cultural Research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 482-493.
Shteynberg, G., Gelfand, M. J., & Kim, K. (2009). Peering into the ‘Magnum Mysterium’ of culture: The explanatory power of descriptive norms. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 46-69.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J. B., Wolf, W., Bargh, J., Boothby, E., Colman, A. M., Echterhoff, G., Rossignac-Milon, M. (2023). Theory of collective mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
McGarry, P., Shteynberg, G., Hulsey, T., Heim, A. (2023). The great divide: Neither fairness nor kindness eliminates moral derogation of people with opposing political beliefs. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J., Garthoff, J., Bentley, R. A. (2022). Agency and identity in the collective self. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 26, 35-56.
Shteynberg, G., Kwon, T. A., Yoo, S-J., Smith, H., Apostle, J., Mistry, D., Houser, K. (2021). Many minds make money: People are slower to destroy novel currency known to more ingroup members. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, 307-313.
Liu, S. S., Shteynberg, G., Morris, M. W., Yang, Q., & Galinsky, A. D. (2021). How does collectivism affect social interactions? A test of two competing accounts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 362-376.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J. B., Bentley, R. A., Garthoff, J. (2020). Shared worlds and shared minds: A theory of collective learning and a psychology of common knowledge. Psychological Review, 5, 918-931.
Hirsh, J. B., Shteynberg, G., & Gelfand, M. J. (2020). Conflicting obligations in human social life. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e72. Commentary on Tomasello, M. (2019). The Moral Psychology of Obligation.
Shteynberg, G. (2018). A collective perspective: Shared attention and the mind. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 93-97.
Haj-Mohamadi, P., Fles, E. H., & Shteynberg, G. (2018). When can sharing attention increase affiliation? On the bonding effects of co-experienced belief affirmation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75. 103-106.
Shteynberg, G., Gelfand, M. J., Lynn, I., Mayer, D. M., & Bell, C. (2017). Prosocial thinkers and the social transmission of justice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 4, 429-442.
Shteynberg, G., Bramlett, J. M., Fles, E. H., & Cameron, J. (2016). The broadcast of shared attention and its impact on political persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 665-673.
Shteynberg, G. (2015). Shared attention. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 579-590.
Shteynberg, G. (2015). Shared Attention at the Origin: On the Psychological Power of Descriptive Norms. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
*Chiu, C-y., Gelfand, M. J., Leung, A. K.-y., Liu, Z., Morris, M. W., Mu, Y., Shteynberg, G., Tam, K., Wan, C., Zou, X. (2015). A conclusion, yet an opening to enriching the normative approach of culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 10, 1361-1371. *Authorship is in alphabetical order due to the equality of author contributions.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J. B., Apfelbaum, E. P., Larsen, J. T., Galinsky, A. D., & Roese, N. J. (2014). Feeling more together: Group attention intensifies emotion. Emotion, 14, 1102-1114.
Shteynberg, G. (2014). A social host in the machine? The case of group attention. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3, 307-311.
Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J. B., Galinsky, A. D., & Knight, A. P. (2014). Shared attention increases mood infusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 123-130.