I study the causes, outcomes, and boundary conditions of virtues, specifically in the workplace.
A unique focus of my research is on how humility increases the objective understanding of
people from diverse backgrounds.
In my Ph.D. (with Prof. Avi Kluger in the School of Business Administration at HUJI), I focused
on humility among team members and how the humble behavior of one team member
contributes to other team members’ psychological safety and performance. Furthermore, I
explored interventions to increase humility, using different paradigms of listening in the lab and
in the field.
In my postdoctoral research with Prof. Anat Perry, I test whether intellectually humble people
are more empathically accurate in general and even more so towards people from an outgroup or
people with disabilities.
 

Selected publications:

• Lehmann, M., Pery, S., Kluger, A. N., Hekman, D. R., Owens B. P., & Malloy T. E., (2022) Relationship-specific (dyadic) Humility: How Your Humility Predicts my Psychological Safety and Performance. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0001059
• Lehmann, M., Kluger, A. N., & Van Tongeren, D. R. (2021). Am I arrogant? Listen to Me and We Will Both Become More Humble. The Journal of Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.2006761