Corinne Bendersky is an assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her research is on how characteristics of organizations affect individuals’ interpretations of, behaviors in, and evaluations of conflict. Bendersky also studies social psychological mechanisms underlying negotiator behaviors— in particular, the reduction of cognitive dissonance for offers a person proposes during negotiations. Bendersky received her Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and her B.A. with honors from Oberlin College. She teaches in the UCLA Anderson School’s full-time and fully employed MBA programs, and in many of its executive education programs. Prior to graduate school, Bendersky was a negotiation and mediation trainer and consultant in Boston, Massachusetts.