Mark Weber

Dr. Mark Weber is the Director of the Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation, and is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) and Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include cooperation, trust, the social facilitation of leadership, negotiations, the role of values in decision-making, and social and organizational identity processes. He recently joined UW faculty after 7 years at the University of Toronto and Rotman School of Management.

Degrees:

Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2004
MBA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1999
MA, Social Psychology, McGill University, 1997
BA, Psychology, University of Waterloo, 1994

Publications:

Chapters in Books:
Weber, J. M. and D.M. Messick. Improving Managerial Decision Making: Lessons from the Experimental Social Dilemma Literature, in Van Lange, P.A.M. (ed) Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006).

Weber, J. M., D. Malhotra and J.K. Murnighan. Normal Acts of Irrational Trust: Motivated Attributions and the Trust Development Process, in Kramer, R. and B. Staw (eds) Research in Organizational Behavior 25:75-101, 2005.

Weber, J.M., & D.M. Messick. Conflicting Interests in Social Life: Understanding Social Dilemma Dynamics, in Gelfand, M. and J. Brett (eds) The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture. (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 374- 394.

Murnighan, J.K., D. Malhotra and J.M. Weber. Paradoxes of Trust: Empirical and Theoretical Departures from a Rational Model, in Kramer, R. and K. Cook (eds) Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Emerging Perspectives, Enduring Questions. (Russell Sage Books, 2004), pp. 293-326.

Kopelman, S., J.M. Weber and D.M. Messick. Factors Influencing Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research, in Ostrom, E., T. Dietz, N. Dolsak, P.C. Stern, S. Stonick and E.U. Weber (eds) The drama of the commons (National Research Council, 2002), pp. 113-156.

Papers in refereed Journals:
Carter, N.L. and J.M. Weber. Not Pollyannas: The Adaptive Benefits of High Trust Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(3): 274-279, 2010.

Weber, J.M. and J.K. Murnighan. Suckers or Saviors? Consistent Contributors in Social Dilemmas. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95(6):1340-1353, 2008.

Dyck, B. and J.M. Weber. Conventional vs. Radical Moral Agents: An Exploratory Empirical Look at Weber’s Moral-Points-of-View and Virtues. Organization Studies 27(3):429-450, 2006.

Weber, J.M., S. Kopelman and D.M. Messick. A Conceptual Review of Decision Making in Social Dilemmas: Applying a Logic of Appropriateness. Personality and Social Psychology Review 8(3):281-307, 2004.