Charlan Jeanne Nemeth is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Her background includes a B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Psychology from Cornell University. Her faculty appointments include the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia and the University of British Columbia with visiting appointments in Bristol (UK), Paris (France), Trento (Italy), Mannheim (Germany) and London (UK). In 2004-5, she was the Leverhulme Trust Fellow at Aston Business School in Birmingham, UK and in 2005-2008 was Visiting Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. She has given keynote addresses to the Oregon Bar Assn, to the American Bar Executives and to the American Assn of State Colleges and Universities. Her work has been featured in Wired, Ode, the New Yorker and various media outlets.
Professor Nemeth has taught executive education in the areas of persuasion, team decision making, scientific creativity, corporate cultures and innovation and given invited addresses or workshops at major companies. She served as Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
As a visiting professor at London Business School in 2006-9, she co-led consulting field trips to South Africa for Executive MBA students.
Her most recent book on decision-making pulls together decades of research on influence processes with particular attention to raising the quality of individual and team decisions. Her research underscores how influence processes change the nature of thought and underscore two themes: the perils of consensus and the value of dissent for the quality of decision making and the creativity of solutions.
Click here for a depiction of her and her work by an artist friend, Fernando Suarez of Sitges and Barcelona Spain.
EDUCATION
- 1966 - 1968
Graduate study in Social Psychology
Cornell University (Ph.D.1968) - 1965 - 1966
Graduate study in Social Psychology
Oxford University, Oxford UK. - 1963 - 1965
Graduate study in Social Psychology
University of Wisconsin (M.A.) - 1959 - 1963
Undergraduate study in Mathematics and Social Psychology
Washington University St. Louis (B.A.)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2015 - Present
Professor of Graduate School and Professor of Psychology Emerita
University of California, Berkeley - 1977 - 2015
Professor of Psychology
University of California Berkeley - 2005 - 2008
Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior
London Business School. - 2004 - 2005
Leverhulme Fellow
Aston Business School, Birmingham UK - 1995 – 2000
Chair, Board of Advisors Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. - 1995 – 2000
Fellow, Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Summer 1990
Visiting Professor
SFB 24 University of Mannheim, Germany - 1975 - 1995 (Periodic Appointments)
Director d’Etudes
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - 1975 - 1977
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada - 1974 - 1975
Fellow
Battelle Seattle Research Center, Seattle WA. - 1973 - 1977
Member of Advisory Panel, Social Sciences Review Branch
National Institutes of Mental Health - 1973 - 1975
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - Spring 1970
Visiting Professor
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France - Fall 1969
Visiting Professor
University of Bristol, UK. - 1968 - 1973
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Chicago - Fellow of the American Psychological Association
- Fellow of Division 8 of the American Psychological Association
- Fellow of the American Psychological Society
- Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow
- Phi Beta Kappa