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Yochi Cohen-Charash

Yochi Cohen-Charash, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an executive coach and consultant. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on industrial and organizational, social, and personality psychology. 
 
Before entering academia, she worked in the airline industry, was a member in a diplomatic corps, and gained extensive cross-cultural experience as an expatriate. Her work is shaped by these multicultural and multi-industry perspectives. 
 
An award-winning researcher, she studies the role of emotions, fairness, and unconscious processes in employee and organizational outcomes. She has been teaching Executive MBA and executive master's students for over a decade. 
 
Through her work with executives from the Wharton School and Columbia Business School, as well as individuals and organizations who seek her coaching, consulting, and speaking services, Professor Cohen-Charash has worked with C-suite and senior leaders across industries such as investment banking, consulting, technology, business intelligence, engineering, and medical. Her coaching topics include emotional intelligence, leadership, and career transitions, among others.

Research

• Gonzalez, M. F., & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2026). Loaded language: Terminology influences everyday beliefs about emotions and people expressing them. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-026-00367-8 Both authors contributed equally
• Gonzalez, M. F., Walle, E. A., Cohen-Charash, Y., & Shields, S. A. (2020). Editorial: Everyday beliefs about emotion: Their role in subjective experience, emotion as an interpersonal process, and emotion theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(2819). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.597412  
• Watts, L. L., McIntosh, T. J., Gibson, C., Mulhearn, T. J., Medeiros, K. E., Mecca, J. T., & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2020). Mild affective shifts and creativity: Effects on idea generation, evaluation, and implementation planning. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 54(4), 985-1001.
• Crusius, J., Gonzalez, M. F., Lange, J., & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2020). Envy: An adversarial review and comparison of two competing views. Emotion Review, 12(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919873131 All authors contributed equally
• Minei, E., Ethough, E., & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2018). Discursive leadership: Managing illegitimate work tasks through explanation and acknowledgement provision. Management Communication Quarterly, 32(3), 374-397.
• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Larson, E. C. (2017). An emotion divided: Studying envy is better than studying 鈥渂enign鈥� and 鈥渕alicious鈥� envy.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(2), 174鈥�183.
• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Larson, E. C. (2017). What is the nature of envy? In R. H. Smith, U. Merlone & M. K. Duffy (Eds.), Envy at work and in organizations (pp. 1-37): Oxford University Press.
• Cohen-Charash, Y., Scherbaum, C. A., Kammeyer-Mueller, J. D., & Staw, B. M. (2013). Mood and the market: Can press reports of investors' mood predict stock prices?  PLoS ONE, 8(8), e72031. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072031.
• Cohen-Charash, Y. (2009). Episodic envy. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(9), 2128鈥�2173. https://doi.org/
• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Byrne, Z. S. (2008). Affect and justice: current knowledge and future directions. In N. M. Ashkanasy, & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Research Companion to Emotion in Organizations (pp. 360-391). Edward Elgar Publishers.
• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Mueller, J. S. (2007). Does perceived unfairness exacerbate or mitigate interpersonal counterproductive work behaviors related to envy? Journal of Applied Psychology. 92(3), 666-680. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.3.666
• Scherbaum, C. A., Cohen-Charash, Y., & Kern, M. J. (2006). Measuring general self-efficacy: A comparison of three measures using item response theory. Educational & Psychological Measurement, 66(6), 1047-1063.
• Staw, B. M. & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2005). The dispositional approach to job satisfaction: 
  More than a mirage, but not yet an oasis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(1), 59-78. DOI: 10.1002/job.299
• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Spector, P. E. (2001). The role of justice in organizations: A meta-analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86(2), 278-321. doi:10.1006/obhd.2001.2958
• Lazarus, R. S., & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2001). Discrete emotions in organizational life. In R. L. Payne & G. L. Cooper (Eds.), Emotions at work: Theory, research and applications for management (pp. 45-81). Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons.