Geoffrey Cohen

James March Chair of Organisational Studies in Education and Business and Professor of Psychology, University of Stanford

 

 

Geoffrey Cohen, is the James March Chair of Organizational Studies in Education and Business and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Much of his research examines processes related to identity maintenance and their implications for social problems.

 

One primary aim of his research is the development of theory-driven, rigorously tested intervention strategies that further our understanding of the processes underpinning social problems and that offer solutions to alleviate them. He has studied how and when seemingly brief interventions, attuned to underlying psychological processes, produce large and long-lasting psychological and behavioural change.

 

His methods include laboratory experiments, longitudinal studies, content analyses, and randomised field experiments. One area of his research addresses the effects of group identity on educational achievement, with a focus on under-performance and racial and gender achievement gaps.