Cameron Anderson

About

Cameron Anderson is a professor of organizational behavior at UC Berkeley Haas, holding the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership & Communication II. His expertise encompasses topics related to power, status, influence processes, leadership, negotiations, conflict resolution, and team dynamics. Anderson teaches courses in Power and Politics in Organizations, Negotiations, and Conflict Resolution. Prior to joining Haas in 2005, he taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he was awarded Professor of the Year. He regularly consults with leading organizations and corporations worldwide, contributing his research and insights to the understanding of social hierarchies, influence, and interpersonal perception within organizational settings.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Engineering
• Developmental psychology
• Demography

Selected publications

• Is the desire for status a fundamental human motive? A review of the empirical literature.

  Psychological Bulletin · 2015-03-16 · 1096 citations

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  The current review evaluates the status hypothesis, which states that that the desire for status is a fundamental motive. Status is defined as the respect, admiration, and voluntary deference individuals are afforded by others. It is distinct from related constructs such as power, financial success, and social belongingness. A review of diverse literatures lent support to the status hypothesis: People's subjective well-being, self-esteem, and mental and physical health appear to depend on the le…

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• The role of physical formidability in human social status allocation.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2015-12-14 · 224 citations

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  Why are physically formidable men willingly allocated higher social status by others in cooperative groups? Ancestrally, physically formidable males would have been differentially equipped to generate benefits for groups by providing leadership services of within-group enforcement (e.g., implementing punishment of free riders) and between-group representation (e.g., negotiating with other coalitions). Therefore, we hypothesize that adaptations for social status allocation are designed to interpr…

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• Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Status Disagreement Leads to Withdrawal of Contribution and Lower Group Performance

  Organization Science · 2016-03-01 · 95 citations

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  Research on status and group productivity has highlighted that status hierarchies tend to emerge quickly and encourage contributions to group efforts by rewarding contributors with enhanced status. This and other status research has tended to assume that status hierarchies are agreed-upon among group members. Here, we build on recent work on status conflict in investigating the prevalence and consequences of situations in which group members hold differing perceptions of the status ordering—that…

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• Hierarchical rank and principled dissent: How holding higher rank suppresses objection to unethical practices

  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2017-01-25 · 73 citations

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• Is overconfidence a social liability? The effect of verbal versus nonverbal expressions of confidence.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2018-10-11 · 57 citations

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  . Advance online publication. October 11, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000150), the Editor' Note acknowledging David Dunning as the action editor for this article was omitted. All versions of this article have been corrected.] What are the reputational consequences of being overconfident? We propose that the channel of confidence expression is one key moderator-that is, whether confidence is expressed verbally or nonverbally. In a series of experiments, participants assessed target indiv…

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Frequent coauthors

• Elizabeth R. Tenney

  University of Utah

  17 shared

• Nathan Meikle

  University of Kansas

  17 shared

• Dacher Keltner

  17 shared

• David Hunsaker

  17 shared

• Marius van Dijke

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  16 shared

• Gerben Langendijk

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  16 shared

• David De Cremer

  National University of Singapore

  16 shared

• Don A. Moore

  16 shared

Awards & honors

• Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award (2008)
• Professor of the Year (Stern School of Business, New York Un…
• Most Influential Paper, Academy of Management Conflict Manag…
• Schwabacher Fellowship, Haas School of Business (2008)
• Junior Faculty Research Grant (University of California) (Oc…

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