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Matthew Feinberg  

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Matthew Feinberg is a professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Rotman, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Feinberg’s research focuses on collective action and the social and psychological forces that unite and divide individuals. He explores questions like: How can groups overcome individual-level selfishness to foster group-level cooperation? How do moral commitments come about, how do they create social and political divisions, and how can we overcome such divisions? Feinberg’s research has appeared in Psychological Science and Emotion.

Matthew Feinberg is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rotman. He earned his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the underlying psychological processes that lead individuals to join together to form cohesive groups and societies, with a particular focus on morality and political attitudes. Matthew’s research has been published in journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, and Political Psychology. His work has been covered by various media outlets including The Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, Fox News, Scientific American, Al Jazeera, CBS News, USA Today, WebMD, National Geographic, Huffington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle.

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