Taya Cohen

Dr. Taya R. Cohen is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. She is a leading scholar in moral character, honesty, conflict management, and ethical behavior in organizations. Her research integrates psychometrics, longitudinal and experimental methods, and organizational fieldwork across business, legal, and health‑care settings to develop validated tools and theories that clarify how integrity operates and how it can be reliably assessed.

Dr. Cohen publishes her work in prestigious management and psychology journals, and has been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, TIME magazine, NPR, and the Hidden Brain. She has received outstanding publication awards from the International Association for Conflict Management and from the International Society for Self and Identity. In 2020, she was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants.

Dr. Cohen is a Past-President of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and an Associate Editor at Negotiation Journal. She also serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and other journals in her field. At Carnegie Mellon, she co-directs the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab and teaches graduate courses and executive education seminars on negotiation and managing people and teams. She also leads the interdisciplinary Center for Behavioral and Decision Research (CBDR) as one of the faculty steering committee members.

Dr. Cohen earned a B.A. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Cohen spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.