Michael Morris
Cultural psychologist and professor
Michael Morris is a cultural psychologist at Columbia University who studies how culture shapes thinking, communication and collaboration. He is the author of Tribal.
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About Michael Morris
Michael Morris is a cultural psychologist at Columbia University, with posts in the Graduate School of Business and the Psychology Department. Before Columbia he spent ten years teaching at Stanford University. His doctorate in psychology is from the University of Michigan, and as an undergraduate at Brown University he studied cognitive science and English literature. His research has looked at how culture shapes styles of thinking, communication and collaboration, and at the situations and social experiences that bring those styles out or change them. Beyond academia, he has advised corporations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and political campaigns on culture-related questions. He has also contributed to Time and the New York Times, writing on cultural change, politics and leadership. He lives in New York City. His book in our catalog is Tribal.