Arik Cheshin
Graduate Student
William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000
Israel
Tel Office: (04) 829-4821 Cell: 0525-461-811
Email: acheshin@tx.technion.ac.il
EDUCATION
PhD Candidate Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. The Behavioral Science Area of the William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Advisor: Prof. Anat Rafaeli. PhD title: Encountering Other's Anger in the Workplace. Expected graduation date: May, 2011.
M.S. Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. The Behavioral Science Area of the William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Advisor: Prof. Anat Rafaeli. Thesis title: Affect in Virtual Teams: Contagion, and Performance. February, 2008.
B.A. Psychology
(with High Distinction), University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor.
August, 2003.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005 - Present Graduate Student Instructor, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anger in the Workplace, Partly Distributed Teams, Virtual Teams, Social Networks, Negotiation, Sensemaking and Cultural Differences.
PUBLICATIONS
Bos, N.D., Olson, J.S, Nan, N., & Cheshin, A. (2009). Subgroup biases in partially distributed collaboration. Journal of Information Technology Research. 2(1), 1-18.
Rafaeli, A., Ravid, S., & Cheshin, A. (2009). Sensemaking in virtual teams: The impact of emotions and support tools on team mental models and team performance. International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 24, 151-182.
PAPERS IN PREPARATION
Cheshin, A, & Rafaeli, A. (2009) Exploring the boundaries of emotion contagion in groups: The spread of anger and happiness with minimal nonverbal cues within the context of flexible and resolute behaviors.
Cheshin, A., Bos, N., Kim, S. Y., Lee, K., Ning, N., & Olson, J. (2009) Contrasting media environments within partially distributed groups.
Cheshin, A., Rafaeli, A., & Israely, R. (2009). Encountering Other's Affect and Its Effect on Self Efficacy and Performance.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
Rafaeli, A., & Cheshin, A. (2009). Anger vs. rigidity: Separating the effects of emotion and behavior. Part of the symposium: The Social Effects of Emotions in Organizations: Mechanisms and Moderators. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago.
Rafaeli, A., & Cheshin, A. (2009). One Angry Team Member: Anger in Team Performance. Part of the symposium: Connecting Research on Emotion in Groups with Research on Group-Based Emotions. Presented at the International Society for Research on Emotion - Leuven, Belgium, August 6-8.
Cheshin, A (2008). Anger in Virtual Teams. Presented at Israel Forum for Emotions Research University of Haifa, Israel, May 12. Presentation
Cheshin, A., Rafaeli, A. & Bos, N.D. (2008). Emotional contagion and group performance. Workshop paper presented as part of Shami, et al. Measuring Affect in HCI: Going Beyond the Individual. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), New York: ACM Press. PDF
Rafaeli, A., Cheshin, A., & Israely, R. (2007). One angry man is enough! The effects of one member’s anger on group performance. Part of the symposium: The Role of Emotion in Individual Decision-Making. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia. Presentation
Nan, N., Bos, N., Kim, Y., Cheshin, A. & Olson, J. S. (2005) The Impacts of Personnel Rotation on Performance of Distributed Teams: An Experimental Study. AMCIS 2005 Proceedings. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2005/13 PDF
Bos, N., Olson, J. S., Cheshin, A., Kim, Y., Nan, N., & Shami, N. S. (2005). Traveling blues: the effect of relocation on partially distributed teams. Short Paper at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI-2005 (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1917-1920. PDF
Bos, N., Shami, N. S., Olson, J. S., Cheshin, A., & Nan, N. (2004). In-group/out-group effects in distributed teams: an experimental simulation. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 429-436. PDF
Cheshin, A. (2003). Ethnicity and social gathering behavior outside the college classroom. Poster session presented at the Annual Honors Psychology Poster Session, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Sylvester, C.Y., Wager, T.D., Jonides, J., Lacey, S.C., Cheshin, A., & Nichols, T.E. (2003). Processes of interference resolution as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. 2003 Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society. PDF
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
ORT Braude - College of Engineering, faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management – title of talk "Emotion Contagion in Virtual Teams – Affect, Performance & Self Efficacy”. Invited by Hilla Peretz, to present at the faculty seminar (May 2009).
Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University – title of talk “Emotion Contagion in Virtual Teams – Affect, Performance & Self Efficacy”. Invited by Prof. Westman to present at the Organizational Behavior Area Seminar (March 2008).
RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Cheshin, A., Kalish, Y., & Agasi S. (2009). The Spread of Anger through the Network: Social Networks and Anger Meet.
Cheshin, A., Sagiv, L. (2009). Initial Common Connection Search.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor – Undergraduate
Technion – William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Organizational Behavior (2008)
Teacher Assistant – MBA
Technion – William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Organizational Behavior (2005 - present)
Negotiation (2008)
University of Michigan – Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor.
Negotiation (2004)
Teacher Assistant - Undergraduate
Technion – William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Organizational Sociology (2009 – present)
Principles of Marketing (2008 – present)
Organizational Behavior (2005 – 2008)
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Technion Graduate Fellowship (2005 – Present).
Applied Physics Lab, John Hopkins University, Subcontract– Part of the research
team that wrote the grant and worked on the research for the “Collaboration with strong emotional primes” grant under the supervision of Prof. Anat Rafaeli and Nathan Bos ($74,000 for 1 year, 2008)
The Sandor Szego Awards for Excellence in Teaching– Received a Teaching Assistant Faculty Award for teaching Organizational Behavior to undergraduate students during Spring Semester of 2007. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion (2007).
Israeli Science Foundation – Part of the research team that wrote the grant and worked on the research for the Individual Research Grants titled “Affect in Virtual Teams: Contagion and Performance” under supervision of Prof. Anat Rafaeli (2 year grant of 95,000 NIS per year 2007-2009).
The Monroe Guttmann Fellowship
– Technion (2009).
The Joseph and Gertrud Buchler Fellowship – Technion (2007).
Academy of Management Small Scholarship
Fund – First time presenter
award (2007).
The French Technion Society Graduate Fellowship – Technion (2007).
The Gabriella and Shlomo Raikb Fellowship in Honor of Ezra and Habiba Rakib and Elizabeth and Abrham Herb – Technion (2006).
Cutcheon Research
Grant - University of Michigan, LS&A honors program
(2003).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Organizational Psychologist (2007 – present)
Israeli Defense Forces Reserves – Medical Corpse
Selecting and classifying medics for positions of trainers and commanders. Duties include interviewing candidates and supervising group dynamics simulations. Recently, part of the service quality improvement program. Role includes supervising the running of service simulations to medics.
Industrial Organizational Psychology (2008)
The Research Center for Work Safety and Human Engineering - Technion
Headed a team of graduate students working under the supervision of Professor Miriam Erez and Professor Anat Rafaeli to investigate motivation factors of safety in small factories. This project included visiting factories, interviewing factory personnel and integrating research to be used practically.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Manager of Laboratory for Behavioral Research (2005 - Present)
Technion – William
Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and
Management
Currently in charge of the Laboratory for Behavioral Research (LBR) (http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Labs/Lbr/). Created policy regarding usage of lab resources. Maintained and updated lab resources. Assisted researchers with use of lab resources for their experiments.
Research Assistant (2003-2005)
University of Michigan – Ross School of Business / School of Information
Worked for Professor Judy Olson and Dr. Nathan Bos, as part of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) lab team. Actively participated in lab meetings. Took part in designing of new experiments. Ran experiments of group simulations of up to 12 participants. Hired undergraduate students as research assistants and supervised them. Helped in the process of submitting papers for publications in journals and conferences.
Behavioral Lab Manager (2004-2005)
University of Michigan – Ross School of Business
Was in charge of the behavioral lab (http://bus.umich.edu/behaviorallab) of the business school. Scheduled usage of lab for experiments. Created policy regarding usage of lab resources. Maintained and updated lab resources that included: laptops, software, website, VHS and DVD recorders, video cameras, projector and screen, a main conference room and three breakout rooms. Hired and supervised undergraduate lab assistants. Worked with researchers, helping them learn how to use lab resources for their experiments.
Administrator of Paid Subject Pool (2003-2005)
University of Michigan - Ross School of Business / School of Information
Helped with design and development of the paid subject pool – Michigan Paid Experiments (http://michiganpaidexperiments.org). Recruited participants and researchers for the site. Maintained everyday usage of website. Taught new users how to use the site which included over 2000 participants and over 25 different studies.
Research Assistant (2003-2005)
University of Michigan – Ross School of Business (Organizational Behavior)
Worked for Visiting Professor, Shirli Kopelman, investigating cultural differences in negotiations related to the commons dilemma. Helped design a coding scheme for recorded group negotiations, literature search and review, and coding data. Was in charge of undergraduate student research assistants.
Research Assistant (2003)
University of Michigan – Psychology Department (Social Psychology)
Worked for the chair of the psychology department, Professor Richard Gonzalez on project investigating strategy formation. Set up and ran experiments for up to 17 participants at a time. Actively participated in weekly lab meetings sharing ideas and research directions.
Research Assistant (2003)
University of Michigan – Psychology Department (Social Psychology)
Worked for Wendy Treynor, PhD, investigating morals, ethics and cynicism. Helped design experiments, run experiments, and code data.
Research Assistant (2001 – 2002)
University of
Michigan – Psychology Department
(Cognitive/Neuropsychology)
Worked for Professor John Jonides, part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Recruited, screened and scheduled subjects for fMRI neuropsychological testing. Searched and summarized past studies. Took part in lab meetings. Arranged results of experiments in data basses.
MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
Academy of Management – Student member and an active reviewer for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, part of the Organizational Behavior division (2004 – present)
Delta Epsilon Iota National Honor Society - University of Michigan. Part of the volleyball championship team of the intramural sports league (2002-present)
Golden Key
International Honor Society - University of Michigan
(2002-present)
Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology) - University of Michigan. Awarded a community service cord for volunteering in various community projects. (2002-present)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Graduate Student Representative (2008-present)
Elected representative for the Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management in both Graduate Student Organization (GSO) and Teaching Staff Organization (TSO).
Student Mentor (2007 - 2008)
The Perach Tutorial Project – Shabtay Levi Shelter
Mentored a group of children ages 3-6 on a weekly basis. Provided social support and lead activities for the children who were separated from their families and live in the shelter.
Student Mentor (2006 - 2007)
The Perach Tutorial Project
Mentored a 1st grade child. Participated in bi-weekly meetings on a regular basis providing social support and assistance with homework.
Club and Board Member (2002-2005)
Do-Random Acts of Kindness
A member of University of Michigan’s Do-RAK student club. Was a team leader: planned and supervised weekly random acts of kindness. Board member for two years as head of the Public Relations, and Newsletter committees.
Coordinator (2003-2005)
Israeli Community of Ann Arbor
Coordinated and planned events for over 300 Israelis in Ann Arbor, which included Independence Day celebration, Israel Memorial Day ceremony, holiday celebrations, Israeli movie nights, sing-along’s and more. Represented Israel at the University of Michigan Campus among other things by forming a branch to the organization - the Israeli Student Organization (ISO). Assisted in uniting local Israeli community and strengthening ties with local community.
Student Mentor (2003)
University of Michigan Mentorship Program
Part of an undergraduate class, mentored children with developmental problems and learning disabilities at Community High in Ann Arbor MI. Bi-weekly meetings at school with the children providing social support and assistance with class work.
Group Leader and Student Participant (2002-2003)
University of Michigan Project Outreach
Part of an undergraduate class, was both a group leader and a student participant in two different sections of Project Outreach – preschool children and juvenile delinquents. These included weekly meetings with children in Headstart and COPE schools. Provided assistance to teachers and provided social support and school work support.
Other Experiences
Student Coordinator of Orchard Radio – the Internet radio station of Washtenaw Community College, MI. Co-hosted a show on Israeli music (2001-2003).
Israeli Defense Forces –Paratrooper unit of the IDF (1995 -1998).