Dr. Jens Mazei

Mazei, J., Zerres, A., & Hüffmeier, J. (2021). Masculinity at the negotiation table: A theory of men’s negotiation behaviors and outcomes. Academy of Management Review, 46(1), 108–127. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2017.0570 
Many men are famous, perhaps even infamous, for their heightened assertiveness in negotiations and other kinds of social interactions. Examples include Jeff Bezos, the influential American businessperson Carl Icahn, and, who would have guessed it, President Donald J. Trump. In this article, we build on past insights from multiple scientific disciplines to propose a theoretical model that explains men’s emotional experience, behaviors, and outcomes in occupational negotiations. Following extant work, one central notion is that men aim to negotiate assertively and successfully in an attempt to show others, and maybe themselves, how “masculine” and “high-status” they are.

Mazei, J., Mertes, M., & Hüffmeier, J. (2020). Strategies aimed at reducing gender differences in negotiation are perceived by women as ineffective. Sex Roles, 83, 580–594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01130-4
A widespread notion is that women may earn less than men because they negotiate their pay less assertively. Make no mistake: The issue is not that women are simply less capable of negotiating assertively. Rather, research has clearly shown that women as compared to men are perceived more negatively if they do so, and these negative perceptions can result in serious drawbacks at work that women rightly aim to avoid. To address this problem, past research has come up with promising strategies that women could use in negotiations. Yet, in our study, we observed that these strategies have characteristics that can let them appear ineffective (although they might actually be effective). As a result, these strategies can end up not being used. Thus, our study suggests that research will need to come up with novel and fresh ideas of how to address the disadvantages that women face in negotiations, so that gender equality is ultimately achieved. 

Seit 11/2022

Wissenschaftlicher Beschäftigter
Sozial-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
TU Dortmund

10/2017 - 10/2022

Akademischer Rat auf Zeit
Sozial-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
TU Dortmund

06/2017

Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat.
Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

02 - 03/2016 & 08 - 09/2016

Gastwissenschaftler
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

09/2015 - 09/2017

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Sozial-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
TU Dortmund

04 - 07/2015

Lehrauftrag
Sozial-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
TU Dortmund

09 - 11/2013

Gastwissenschaftler
DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

09/2013 - 08/2015

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
DFG-gefördertes Forschungsprojekt „Prozessgewinne in Teamverhandlungen durch explizite Zuweisung von Teilaufgaben”
Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA), Dortmund

04/2012 - 03/2015

Teilnahme am DFG-geförderten Graduiertenkolleg „Vertrauen und Kommunikation in einer digitalisierten Welt“
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

11/2011 - 08/2013

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

11/2011 - 06/2017

Promotionsstudium
Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

10/2011

Diplom in Psychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2006 - 2011

Studium der Psychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Artikel in Zeitschriften mit Peer-Review-System

• Bowles, H. R., Mazei, J., & Liu, H. H. (accepted). “When” versus “whether” gender/sex differences: Insights from psychological research on negotiation, risk taking, and leadership. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
• Bear, J. B., Pinkley, R., Barsness, Z., Mazei, J., Bhatia, N., & Sleesman, D. (2023). Gender, pay transparency, and competitiveness: Why salary information sometimes, but not always, mitigates gender gaps in salary negotiations. Group Decision and Negotiation, 32, 1143–1163. doi.org/10.1007/s10726-023-09837-x
• Lietz, M.,* Mazei, J.,* Mertes, M., & Hüffmeier, J. (2023). Are strategies for women in compensation negotiations more appealing when it is explained how they are meant to impact negotiation outcomes? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 47(1), 80–112. doi.org/10.1177/03616843221128484 (The asterisk denotes a shared first authorship.)
• Mazei, J., Backhaus, N., Wöhrmann, A. M., Brauner-Sommer, C., & Hüffmeier, J. (2023). Similar, but different: Gender differences in working time arrangements and the work–life interface. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 87546. doi.org/10.1525/collabra.87546
• Mazei, J., Bear, J. B., & Hüffmeier, J. (2023). When and why do men negotiate assertively? It depends on specific threats to their masculinity and the negotiation topic. Psychology of Men and Masculinities, 24(2), 137–148. doi.org/10.1037/men0000420
• Torka, A.-K., Mazei, J., Bosco, F., Cortina, J., Götz, M., Kepes, S., O’Boyle, E., & Hüffmeier, J. (2023). How well are open science practices implemented in industrial and organizational psychology and management? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32(4), 461–475. doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2206571
• Torka, A.-K., Mazei, J., & Hüffmeier, J. (2023). Are replications mainstream now? A comparison between support for replications expressed in the policies of social psychology journals in 2015 and 2022. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, 1–22. doi.org/10.32872/spb.9695
• Ugwu, F. O., Enwereuzor, I. K., & Mazei, J. (2023). Is working from home a blessing or a burden? Home demands as a mediator of the relationship between work engagement and work-life balance. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 18, 341–364. doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10084-6
• Ugwu, F. O., Onyishi, I. E., Ugwu, L. E., Mazei, J., Ugwu, J., Uwouku, J. M., & Ngbea, K. M. (2023). Supervisor and customer incivility as moderators of the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement: Evidence from a new context. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(2), 504–525. doi.org/10.1177/0143831X221078887
• Mazei, J., Bear, J. B., & Hüffmeier, J. (2022). Avoiding backlash or proving one’s manhood? Beliefs about gender differences in negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation, 33, 81–110. doi.org/10.1007/s10726-021-09757-8
• Mazei, J., Mertes, M., Torka, A.-K., & Hüffmeier, J. (2022). Why we sometimes need different measures. Personality Science, 3, 58–61. Part of the following collection: Open commentaries to “Ten steps toward a better personality science: How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation” (Leising et al.). Personality Science, 3, 1-61. doi.org/10.5964/ps.9227
• Mertes, M., Mazei, J., Gemmecke, C., Hüffmeier, J. (2022). Short-term effects of authority concessions to terrorist hostage-takers: Stability and generalizability of the concession effect. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 15(2), 124–147. doi.org/10.34891/20211105-533
• Nohe, C., Hüffmeier, J., Bürkner, P., Mazei, J., Sondern, D., Runte, A., Sieber, F., & Hertel, G. (2022). Unethical choice in negotiations: A meta-analysis on gender differences and their moderators. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 173, 104189. doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104189
• Mazei, J., & Hüffmeier, J. (2021). Are women less likely to ask than men partly because they work fewer hours? A commentary on Artz et al. (2018). Meta-Psychology, 5, 1–12. doi.org/10.15626/MP.2020.2535
• Mazei, J., Zerres, A., & Hüffmeier, J. (2021). Masculinity at the negotiation table: A theory of men’s negotiation behaviors and outcomes. Academy of Management Review, 46, 108–127. doi.org/10.5465/amr.2017.0570
• Torka, A.-K., Mazei, J., & Hüffmeier, J. (2021). Together, everyone achieves more—or, less? An interdisciplinary meta-analysis on effort gains and losses in teams. Psychological Bulletin, 147, 504–534. doi.org/10.1037/bul0000251
• Schäpers, P., Windscheid, L., Mazei, J., Thielsch, M., & Hertel, G. (2021). “Like will to like” or “opposites attract”? Management board diversity affects employer attractiveness. Gender in Management, 36, 569–590. doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2019-0182
• Mazei, J., Mertes, M., & Hüffmeier, J. (2020). Strategies aimed at reducing gender differences in negotiation are perceived by women as ineffective. Sex Roles, 83, 580-594. doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01130-4
• Mertes, M., Mazei, J., & Hüffmeier, J. (2020). "We do not negotiate with terrorists!" But what if we did? Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 26, 437–448. doi.org/10.1037/pac0000446
• Hüffmeier, J., & Mazei, J. (2019). Symmetrical conflicts also allow for the investigation of attack and defense. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E125. doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000724
• Hüffmeier, J., Filusch, M. A., Mazei, J., Hertel, G., Mojzisch, A., & Krumm, S. (2017). On the boundary conditions of effort losses and effort gains in action teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 1673-1685. doi.org/10.1037/apl0000245
• Windscheid, L., Bowes-Sperry, L., Mazei, J., & Morner, M. (2017). The paradox of diversity initiatives:  When organizational needs differ from employee preferences. Journal of Business Ethics, 145, 33-48. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2864-1
• Hüffmeier, J., Mazei, J., & Schultze, T. (2016). Reconceptualizing replication as a sequence of different studies: A replication typology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 81-92. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.09.009
• Mazei, J.,* Hüffmeier, J.,* Freund, P. A., Stuhlmacher, A. F., Bilke, L., & Hertel, G. (2015). A meta-analysis on gender differences in negotiation outcomes and their moderators. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 85-104. doi.org/10.1037/a0038184 (The asterisk denotes a shared first authorship.)

Registered Reports, Stage 1 Peer-Reviewed (see www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports)

• Mazei, J., Bear, J. B., Schaumberg, R., & Hüffmeier, J. Explaining gender differences in negotiation: A close replication of Amanatullah and Morris (2010). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Buchkapitel, Onlinepublikationen, Forecasting Collaborations

• Kugler, K. G., Reif, J. A. M., & Mazei, J. (in press). Gender differences in negotiations. In O. Acar, A. Tuncdogan, H. Volberda, & K. de Ruyter (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Publications.
• Torka, A.-K., Mazei, J., & Hüffmeier, J. (2022). Why some teams boost motivation while others totally sap it. Psyche. Can be retrieved from psyche.co/ideas/why-some-teams-boost-motivation-while-others-totally-sap-it
• Mazei, J. (2019). Technology enables and reduces sex differences in society. In T. L. Pittinsky (Ed.), Science, Technology, and Society (pp. 234-252). Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781316691489.010 
• Mazei, J., Reif, J. A. M., Kugler, K. G., & Hüffmeier, J. (2019). Warum sich Frauen und Männer in Verhandlungen unterscheiden. In-Mind Magazin. Can be retrieved from de.in-mind.org/article/warum-sich-frauen-und-maenner-in-verhandlungen-unterscheiden
• Mazei, J., & Hertel, G. (2016). Trust in electronically mediated negotiations. In B. Blöbaum (Ed.), Trust and Communication in a Digitized World. Models and Concepts of Trust Research (pp. 191-204). Springer International Publishing.
• Tierney et al. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104060. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060 [Member of forecasting collaboration]
• Tierney et al. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002  [Member of forecasting collaboration]

2024

DFG
“Asking tactically for an ‛other-promotion’ (ATOP): Exploring the effectiveness and applicability of a novel strategy for women in negotiation“ (gemeinsam mit Joachim Hüffmeier [Co-PI]; MA 9683/3-2); Umfang: 302.384 €

2023

Outstanding Reviewer Award
Academy of Management Discoveries

2022

DFG
“Explaining gender differences in negotiation: A close replication and extension of Amanatullah and Morris (2010)“ (MA 9683/2-1; gemeinsam mit Joachim Hüffmeier); Umfang: 35.647 €

2022

Best Article Finalist
Academy of Management Review, 2022 Publication Awards

2022

NTR (Negotiation and Team Resources) research grant
Research project entitled “A new potential strategy to solve women’s dilemma in compensation negotiations”; co-principal investigator (principal investigator is Melanie Lietz; Joachim Hüffmeier is a co-principal investigator as well); Umfang: 10.000 USD

2019

Besondere Würdigung der Dissertation durch das Fach Psychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2013

Best Student Paper Award, 26. Kongress der International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)
Titel des Beitrags: Mazei, J., Hüffmeier, J., Freund, P. A., Stuhlmacher, A. F., Bilke, L. & Hertel, G. (2013). Gender differences in negotiation outcomes: A meta-analysis on main and moderator effects.

2012-2013, 2013 & 2014

Drei Lehrpreise für das beste Seminar im Fachbereich Psychologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2015

Research Residency Program des Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC), Kellog School of Management an der Northwestern University
Förderung eines akademischen Austausches, gemeinsam mit Dr. Julia Bear (Stony Brook University); Umfang: 19.000 USD

2012, 2015 & 2018

Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst
Förderung von drei Kongressreisen

2009

Förderstelle "Safir", Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Unterstützung eines Forschungsprojekts, gemeinsam mit Anneke Dubbel und Timo Skodzik, unter der Anleitung von Prof. Dr. Joachim Hüffmeier; Umfang: 1.200 €