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

Benefits and drawbacks of meditating in the workplace, Stress responses to different types of leadership behaviors, Relational mobility and well-being, Effects of observing another person being compassionate, How to overcome cultural conditioning that constrains people.

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., (2022). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 95(3), pp. 595-623.
2. “Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Guilt and Prosocial Reparation“

   Journal Article:Hafenbrack, A. C., LaPalme, M. L., & Solal, I., (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 123(1), pp. 28–54.
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

Honors and Awards

PhD Mentoring Award, UW Foster Management & Organization Department, 2022

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

Academic Service

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology

Editorial Board Member, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Courses Taught

MGMT500 - Leadership & Management, core course in evening MBA program

MGMT547 - Successful Negotiations, elective course in full-time MBA program

MGMT579 - Mindful Decision Making, elective course in full-time and evening MBA programs

MGMT580 - Psychological Foundations of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming)

Selected Presentations

Foster Insights - Small Amounts of Meditation Can Change Your Life