Faculty Directory

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization

Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow

Education

PhD INSEAD (2015)

BS Carnegie Mellon University (2009)

Academic Expertise

Current Research

When mindfulness can increase or reduce prosocial behavior, Stress responses to leadership behaviors, Cultural consequences of innovation, How to best induce state mindfulness and its effects on psychological resources, Relational mobility and well-being

Positions Held

At University of Washington since 2019

Assistant Professor, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, 2015-2019

Selected Publications

1. “Better to Be Optimistic, Mindful, or Both? The Interaction between Optimism, Mindfulness, and Task Engagement“

   Journal Article:Bunjak, A., Hafenbrack, A. C., Černe, M., & Arendt, J. F. W., (in press). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,
2. “Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Guilt and Prosocial Reparation“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C., LaPalme, M. L., & Solal, I., (in press). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
3. “Helping people by being in the present: Mindfulness increases prosocial behavior“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A.C., Cameron, L. D., Spreitzer, G. M., Zhang, C., Noval, L. J., & Shaffakat, S., (2020). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 21-38.
4. “Mindfulness is demotivating“

   Journal Article:Berinato, S., & Hafenbrack, A., (2019). Harvard Business Review, pp. 32-33.
5. “Mindfulness meditation impairs task motivation but not performance“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C. & Vohs, K. D, (2018). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 1-15.
6. “Mindfulness meditation as an on-the-spot workplace intervention“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C., (2017). Journal of Business Research, pp. 118-129.
7. ““Going out” of the box: Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships spark creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship“

   Journal Article:Lu, J. G., Hafenbrack, A. C., Eastwick, P. W., Wang, D. J., Maddux, W. W., & Galinsky, A. D., (2017). Journal of Applied Psychology, pp. 1091-1108.
8. “Debiasing the mind through meditation: Mindfulness and the sunk-cost bias“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C., Kinias, Z., & Barsade, S. G., (2014). Psychological Science, pp. 369-376.
9. “Standing out as a signal to selfishness: Culture and devaluation of non-normative characteristics“

   Journal Article:Kinias, Z., Kim, H. S., Hafenbrack, A. C., & Lee, J. J., (2014). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, pp. 190-203.
10. “Expanding opportunities by opening your mind: Multicultural engagement predicts job market success through longitudinal increases in integrative complexity“

    Journal Article:Maddux, W. W., Bivolaru, E., Hafenbrack, A. C., Tadmor, C. T., & Galinsky, A. D., (2014). Social Psychological and Personality Science, pp. 608-615.

PhD Student Collaborators

Anusuya Banerjee, Ussama Ahmad Khan, Yu Tse Heng

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award, Meaningfulness, Mindfulness, & Work Engagement Track, EURAM, 2020

Best Scholarly Paper Award, Management, Spirituality, and Religion Division, AOM, 2019

Best Paper Award, Meanings, Meaningfulness, & Mindfulness Track, EURAM, 2019

Organizational Behavior SIG Best Reviewer Award, EURAM, Reykjavik, 2018

World’s 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40, Poets & Quants, 2018

Católica-Lisbon Distinguished Teaching Award in the Master’s in Management program, 2018

2nd Prize, Best-Paper-Award "Innovation Management", EBS Universität, Wiesbaden, 2017

Four courses were the highest rated in respective program at Católica-Lisbon, 2016-2018

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, AOM, 2014, 2017

Wharton-INSEAD Alliance Travel, Accommodation, and Research Awards, 2012-2014

INSEAD PhD Fellowship, 2010-2015

Phi Beta Kappa, 2009

Dean’s List each semester, College and University Honors, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005-2009

Carnegie Mellon University Institutional Scholarship, 2005-2009

2nd Place in Baritone Voice category, WIAA/WMEA Washington State Solo-Ensemble Contest, 2005