Associate Professor in International Negotiation at IÉSEG School of Management
Pinar Celik is a Social Psychologist interested in the interplay between organizational and worker related phenomena, such as negotiation, leadership, creativity, multiculturalism and diversity management. She explores how key factors like personality, emotional expression, emotional intelligence, and curiosity, drive divergent thinking, innovation and more generally influence decision-making processes, such as in negotiations in organizational settings. She primarily employs quantitative methods, using experiments and survey designs, and works with advanced quantitative techniques such as Item Response Modeling, Network analysis and Cross-lagged panel models.
Her findings have been published in prominent journals such as Intelligence, Public Management Review, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Group Decision and Negotiation, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and British Journal of Social Psychology. Her research has practical implications for fostering innovation, improving creativity assessments, and promoting effective diversity management and leadership in organizations.