Michele J. Gelfand is an American cultural psychologist.

She is both a professor of organizational behavior and the John H. Scully professor of cross-cultural management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and – by courtesy – a professor of psychology at the School of Humanities and Sciences of Stanford University.

[2] She is an editor of Advances in Culture and Psychology, which she co-founded; Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations; and The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture.

[2][5] Gelfand has published work on the influences of culture on conflict and resolution and on revenge and forgiveness.

She has worked on theoretical frameworks such as individualism–collectivism and tightness–looseness theory;[2][3] her book on this topic, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World, was published in 2018.