Benoît Monin

Professor, Organizational Behavior

Benoît Monin

The Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Ethics, Psychology, and Leadership

Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences
Hank McKinnell-Pfizer Inc. Faculty Fellow for 2023–2024
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Research Statement

Using the methods of experimental social psychology, Professor Monin's research investigates the interplay between self-image and morality. He seeks to understand for instance when individuals behave unethically, and how they live with it; the consequences of high or low moral self-confidence; the meaning and role of morality in everyday life; and what empirical psychology can contribute to ethics.

Bio

Benoît Monin received his undergraduate degree from ESSEC Business School near Paris, his MSc in social psychology from the the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and his PhD in psychology from Princeton University. He has taught at Stanford since 2001, and has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan as well as at the University of Paris. Monin’s work has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD in Psychology, Princeton University, 2002
  • MSc in Social Psychology, London School of Economics, 1995
  • ESSEC Diploma, Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), Cergy, France, 1994

Academic Appointments

  • The Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Ethics, Psychology, and Leadership, Stanford GSB, 2016-Present
  • Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford GSB, 2012-Present
  • Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2012-Present
  • Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford GSB, 2008–12
  • Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2008–12
  • Visiting Professor, Psychology Department, Université de Paris X (Nanterre), May 2008
  • Visiting Scholar, Psychology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005–06
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2001–08

Awards and Honors

  • Business School Trust Faculty Fellow for 2021–22
  • Philip F. Maritz Faculty Fellow, Stanford GSB, 2012–13
  • Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Stanford GSB, 2009–10
  • Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Scholar, Stanford University, 2006–09
  • Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2005
  • Finalist, Honorific Dissertation Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate School, 2000
  • Dissertation Fellowship, Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton, 1998-2000
  • Médaille de Bronze de la Défense Nationale, 1996 (French military medal)

Publications

Journal Articles

Shilaan Alzahawi, Benoît Monin
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
February 10, 2022 Vol. 45
Takuya Sawaoka, Benoît Monin
Social Psychological and Personality Science
October 23, 2019
Neil Malhotra, Benoît Monin, Michael Tomz
American Political Science Review
February 2019 Vol. 113 Issue 1 Pages 19–37
Takuya Sawaoka, Benoît Monin
Psychological Science
October 2018 Vol. 29 Issue 10 Pages 1665-1678
Lauren C. Howe, Benoît Monin
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
May 2017 Vol. 112 Issue 5 Pages 718-735
Benoît Monin, Kieran O'Connor
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (GPIR)
September 2016 Vol. 19 Issue 5 Pages 676-693
Takuya Sawaoka, Benoît Monin
Social Psychological and Personality Science
April 2015 Vol. 6 Issue 3 Pages 334-342
Sapna Cheryan, Jessica Schwartz Cameron, Zach Katagiri, Benoît Monin
Social Psychology
January 2015
D.A. Effron , Dale T. Miller, Benoît Monin
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2012 Vol. 103 Issue 6 Pages 916-922
Alex Jordan, Benoît Monin
Psychology Science
August 2008 Vol. 19 Issue 8 Pages 809-15

Book Chapters

Dale T. Miller, Benoît Monin
The Social Psychology of Morality
2016 Pages 40–55

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In the Media

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November 19, 2012
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May 01, 2010
Research examines the relationship between self-image and morality.