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Faculty Profile

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Michael SCHAERER

Professor of Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources; Sustainable Business Research Peak Co-lead

LKCSBFull-time Faculty
Email
schaerer@smu.edu.sg
Phone
68289657
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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  • Lee Kong Chian School of Business
    • Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
      • Ethics, Trust, Fairness
      • Leadership
      • Judgement and Decision-making, Negotiation
      • Positive Organisation (Mindfulness, Humility, Proactivity)
      • Power and Status
      • Well-being and Stress
    • Social Inclusion
    • Sustainable Business
  • School of Social Sciences
    • Human Development, Well-being & Ageing
    • Psychology
      • Social & Personality Psychology
      • Psychology of Emotions & Wellbeing
      • Industrial & Organisational Psychology
    • Society, Environment & Sustainability

Strategic Priorities

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  • Sustainable Living

Education

2012 - 2017Ph.D. in Management (Organizational Behavior)
INSEAD
2009 - 2010M.Sc. in International Management
London School of Economics
2006 - 2009B.A. in Business Administration
University of St. Gallen

Current Appointment(s)

2026 - NowProfessor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2022 - 2025Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017 - 2021Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Research Interests

  • Social hierarchies (power, status, gender)
  • Negotiation
  • Groups and teams
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Feedback and advice giving

Selected Awards

  • Winner Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award, Singapore Management University, 2025
  • Winner Best Paper with Practical Implications Award, Academy of Management, 2025
  • Dean's Teaching Honor List, SMU, 2018 - 2025
  • Winner Outstanding Conference Paper Award, International Association for Conflict Management, 2023
  • Winner Best Paper Award, Singapore Rising Scholars Conference, 2023
  • Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, Singapore Management University, 2020-21; 2022-23
  • Winner Best Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022
  • MIM Excellent Teaching Award, Singapore Management University, 2020
  • Winner Early Career Award, International Association for Conflict Management, 2020
  • Winner Best Empirical Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2020
  • Nominated for Most Promising Teaching Award, SMU, 2019; 2020
  • Winner Outstanding Article Award, International Association for Conflict Management, 2017
  • INSEAD MBA Alumni PhD Award for outstanding achievements during the PhD program, 2017
  • Winner Best Student Paper Award, International Association for Conflict Management, 2016
  • Winner Best Student Poster Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2016
  • Runner-up Best Student Poster Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2016
  • Winner Best Student Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2015
  • Swiss National Science Foundation Doc Mobility Scholarship, 2015-2016

 

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Petrowsky, H. M., Boecker, L., Escher, Y. A., Frech, M.-L., Friese, M., Galinsky, A. D., Gunia, B., Lee, A. J., Schaerer, M., Schweinsberg, M., Soliman, M., Swaab, R. I., Troll, E. S., Weber, M., & Loschelder, D. D. (2025). The power and peril of first offers in negotiations: A conceptual, meta-analytic, and experimental synthesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  • Foulk, T. A., Tu, M.-H., & Schaerer, M. (2025). Can’t get work off my mind: The effect of non-work goal reflection on after-work rumination and well-being. Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • Kim, H.-L., Foulk, T. A., Schaerer, M., Gale, J., & Anicich, E. A. (2025). Riding the waves of power: Power fluctuation, productive energy, and goal pursuit. Personnel Psychology.
  • He, T.†, Schaerer, M.†, Foulk, T. A., Wolf, E. B., & Jiang, W. (2025). From low power to action: Reappraising powerlessness as an opportunity restores agency. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 187, 104404.
    [†shared first authorship]
  • Hussain, I., Pitesa, M., Thau, S., & Schaerer, M. (2024). Pay suppression in social impact contexts: How framing work around the greater good inhibits job candidate compensation demands. Organization Science, 35(2), 525-549.
  • Schaerer, M.†, du Plessis, C.†, Nguyen, M., van Aert, R., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., Clemente, E. G., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Clark, C. J. Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E. L. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179, 104280.
    [†shared first authorship]
  • du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., Foulk, T., & Schaerer, M. (2023). Relative power and interpersonal trust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(3), 567-592. 
  • Cyrus-Lai, W., Tierney, W., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., Schaerer, M., Clemente, E., Uhlmann, E. L. (2022). Avoiding bias in the search for implicit bias. Psychological Inquiry, 33(3), 203-212. 
  • Tey, K., Schaerer, M., Madan, N., & Swaab, R.I. (2021). The impact of concession patterns on negotiations: When and why decreasing concessions lead to a distributive disadvantage. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 153-166.
  • Schaerer, M., Foulk, T. A., du Plessis, C., Tu, M.-H., & Krishnan, S. (2021). Just because you're powerless doesn't mean they aren't out to get you: Low power, paranoia, and aggressive behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 1-20.
  • Anicich, E. M., Schaerer, M., Gale, J. P., & Foulk, T. A. (2021). A fluctuating sense of power is associated with reduced well-being. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104057.
  • Schaerer, M., Schweinsberg, M., Thornley, N., & Swaab, R. I. (2020). Win-win in distributive negotiations: The affective and economic benefits of strategic offer framing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103943. 
  • Anicich, E. M., Foulk, T., Osborne, M., Gale, J. P., & Schaerer, M. (2020). Getting back to the “new normal”: Autonomy restoration during a global pandemic. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(9), 931-943.
  • Foulk, T., De Pater, I., Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Lee., R., & Erez, A. (2020). It’s lonely at the bottom (too): The effects of experienced powerlessness on social closeness and disengagement. Personnel Psychology, 73(2), 363-394.
  • Schaerer, M., Teo, L., Madan, N., & Swaab, R. I. (2020). Power and negotiation: Review of current evidence and future directions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 47-51.
  • Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Yap, A.J., & Thau, S. (2018). Low power individuals in social power research: A quantitative review, theoretical framework, and empirical test. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 73-96.
  • Schaerer, M., Schweinsberg, M., & Swaab, R.I. (2018). Imaginary alternatives: The impact of mental simulation on powerless negotiators. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(1), 96-117.
  • Schaerer, M.†, Tost, L.P.†, Huang, L., Gino, F., & Larrick, R.P. (2018). Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(5), 746-761. [†shared first authorship]
  • Schaerer, M., Kern, M., Berger, G., Medvec, V.H., & Swaab, R.I. (2018). The illusion of transparency in performance appraisals: When and why accuracy motivation explains unintentional feedback inflation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 171-186.
  • Schaerer, M., Loschelder, D, & Swaab, R.I. (2016). Bargaining zone distortion in negotiations: The elusive power of multiple alternatives. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 137, 156-171.
  • Loschelder, D., Friese, M., Schaerer, M., & Galinsky, A.D. (2016). The too-much precision effect: When and why precise anchors backfire with experts. Psychological Science, 27(12), 1573-1587.
  • Schweinsberg, M., et al. (2016). The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory’s research pipeline. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 55-67.
  • Swaab, R.I., Phillips, K.W., & Schaerer, M. (2016). Secret conversation opportunities facilitate minority influence in virtual groups: The influence on majority power, information processing, and decision quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 133, 17-31.
  • Schaerer, M., Swaab, R.I., & Galinsky, A.D. (2015). Anchors weigh more than power: Why absolute powerlessness liberates negotiators to achieve better outcomes. Psychological Science, 26(2), 170-181.
  • Swaab, R.I., Schaerer, M., Anicich, E.M., Ronay, R., & Galinsky, A.D. (2014). The too-much-talent effect: Team interdependence determines when more talent is too much or not enough. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1581-1591.

 

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