Ryan Fehr is a doctoral candidate in organizational psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His primary stream of research focuses on conflict management, especially with respect to forgiveness and revenge, social accounts (e.g. apologies), and negotiation. His secondary research interests are in the areas of a) organizational creativity and innovation and b) cross-cultural behavior. Ryan's Masters Thesis, which examined the role of apology content in predicting victim forgiveness, recently won the "Best Paper" award for new directions in the study of conflict from the Academy of Management, Conflict Management Division. His Dissertation focuses on the intersection of forgiveness and creativity, and the impact of a forgiving mindset on creative insight. 

Ryan is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Graduate Fellow of the Department of Homeland Security's START center for terrorism research, and has received research support from the National Science Foundation and the Psi Chi national honors society. His research has been published or accepted for publication at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and other outlets. In addition to his academic experience, Ryan has served as a consultant for a number of organizations including Mercer Human Resources and Pascal Metrics, a healthcare consultancy based in Washington, DC.

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