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Iris Schneider is Full Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Cologne. Before moving into academia, she worked for several years in industry in the Netherlands, in assessment and recruitment consulting and in training and quality assurance at an internet provider. That background shapes how she works: her research addresses problems organisations actually face, and she translates findings into formats that practitioners can apply.

Her research asks what happens when people encounter conflicting evidence or competing values, and how that shapes the way decisions are made and leaders are judged. She holds a Research Fellowship at the USC Mind and Society Center in Los Angeles and sits on the executive board of the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (CSEB). She is a member of the Excellence Cluster ECONtribute and her work is supported by DFG funding. She teaches Global Leadership at Cologne and in CEMS, the international business school network.