Conflict and Well-Being Lab

Industrial-Organizational Psychology | Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Director: Zhixu (Rick) Yang, Ph.D.

At Conflict and Well-Being (CoWell) Lab, we use psychological and organizational science to study how people experience and navigate conflict—among their own goals, in interpersonal interactions, and across social groups—and how these experiences shape individual and organizational well-being.

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Life in the Lab

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Lab members gathered around a meeting table to welcome new members. — welcoming new lab members

Lab members gathered around an outdoor table in Madison Square Park. — lab meeting at Madison Square Park

CoWell and Conflict Collab researchers sharing lunch at a restaurant during SIOP. — joint lab lunch at SIOP with Conflict Collab

Julie presenting her research to students and faculty in a classroom. — Julie giving a presentation in IO brownbag

Jalen discussing a research article with lab members seated around a table. — Jalen presenting an article in lab meeting

Knequila and Rick standing beside her research poster at SIOP. — Knequila presenting her poster at SIOP

Rick speaking into a microphone beside projected slides at Beijing Normal University. — Rick giving an invited talk at Beijing Normal University

Lab members enjoying an outdoor meeting beneath umbrellas in Madison Square Park. — lab meeting at Madison Square Park

Our Research

Intrapersonal

How do individuals manage multiple, often competing goals at work and in life?

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Interpersonal

How do people reason about and communicate through interpersonal disagreements?

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Intergroup

How do members of minoritized groups experience mistreatment and dehumanization at work?

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Recent Publications

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The diverse psychological processes of dehumanization

Yang, Z. R.

Nature Reviews Psychology

SIOP LGBTQIA+ committee: Looking back and forging ahead

Wu, I.-H., Lucas, T., Salter, N., Yang, Z. R., & Maday, D.

The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 64(1)

Individual preferences in multiple goal pursuit: Reconsidering the conceptualization and dimensionality of polychronicity

Yang, Z. R., Kung, F. Y. H., & Schneider, D.

Applied Psychology, 74(1), e12575