A5046289254- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Team Dynamics and Performance
University of Southern California
2024
Cornell University
2020-2023
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
2021-2023
Shorter College
2015
Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive empirical evidence. A potential source ambivalent results on the same hypothesis is design heterogeneity-variation true effect sizes across various reasonable research protocols. To provide further evidence whether affects behavior to examine generalizability single study...
Despite mixed evidence for the relationship between demographic diversity and creativity, we propose that observers hold a lay belief increases creativity apply this in judgments about teams their creative work. Across eight preregistered studies (n = 5,530), find judge diverse terms of race gender to be more than homogeneous gender, including incentive-compatible predictions made real competing challenge. We also products attributed demographically are evaluated as compared with identical...
Loyalty has long been associated with being moral and upstanding, but recent research begun documenting how loyalty can lead people to do unethical things. Here we offer an integrative perspective on its outcomes. We suggest that a variety of bottom-up top-down psychological processes individuals be loyal organizations they have obligations to, these operate in ways reduce the cognitive dissonance experienced when loyalties conflict each other or principles. In this article, articulate what...
The amount of effort required to bring about a prosocial outcome can vary from low—handing stranger the wallet she just dropped—to high—spending days tracking down owner lost wallet. goal current research is characterize relationship between and moral character judgments. Does more always lead rosier judgments? Across four studies ( N = 1,658), we find that judgments increase with point then plateau. We evidence this pattern produced, in part, by descriptive prescriptive norms: exceeding...
Loyalty to friends is an important moral value, but does that mean snitching on considered immoral? Across six preregistered studies, we examine how loyalty obligations impact people's evaluations of (i.e., turning in others who commit transgressions). In vignette and incentivized partner choice paradigms, find witnesses snitch (vs. do not snitch) are seen as more better leaders (Studies 1-6), regardless whether they a friend or acquaintance 1-3). We willingness turn one's increases...
How are some criminals able to get away with wrongdoing for months or even years? Here, we consider the role of loyalty in facilitating networks support wrongdoers, examining whether obligations direct ties (here, brokers) transfer through individuals’ social their indirect ties, prompting them those moral dilemmas. Integrating research on brokering, loyalty, relational identity, and norms, propose that a broker will prompt an individual tie accused because activates one’s identity broker,...
Making it onto the shortlist is often a crucial early step toward professional advancement. For underrepresented candidates, one barrier to making prevalence of informal recruitment practices (e.g., colleague recommendations). The current research investigates shortlists generated in male-dominant domains technology executives) and tests theory-driven intervention increase consideration female candidates. Across ten studies (N = 5,741) we asked individuals generate an candidates for role...
Loyalty has long been associated with being moral and upstanding, but recent research begun documenting how loyalty can lead us to do unethical things. Here we offer an integrative perspective that explains when why leads both ethical outcomes. We suggest a variety of bottom-up top-down psychological processes be loyal people organizations have obligations to, these operate in ways reduce the cognitive dissonance experience situations which our loyalties conflict other principles. In this...
Engaging in wrongdoing at work is extremely costly to organizations and employees. Past suggests that must be condemned order mitigate the costs deter future transgressors. However, much of this past has ignored relational context, stripping away established relationships between people involved transgression (e.g., witness transgressor), specific attributes those demographics). This presents a problem for our understanding morality, as occurs within contexts embedded organizations. The...
Loyalty is highly valued in organizations and business relations, recent research has shown how loyalty can benefit both individuals. But there a “dark side” to that begun receiving attention, demonstrating lead unethical behavior. The present symposium seeks understand people navigate dilemmas, so doing moves beyond the typical two-character model of organizations: organization loyal or disloyal individual. We will consider network ties organizational affiliations shape an actor’s decision...
The innovation process in organizations usually involves collaborations and decisions about resource allocation on new ideas. Therefore, creative talents ideas need to be first recognized receive the support resources needed generate actual value for organizations. Creativity evaluation thus serves as pivotal link between idea generation implementation. Despite its nascence, research interest has burgeoned creativity evaluations due this topic’s theoretical practical significance. This...
Pursuing passion for work is highly valuable to both employees and their organizations. However, many struggle pursue maintain over time, a challenge which may be exacerbated by underlying inequalities. The papers in this symposium demonstrate the pitfalls inequalities complicate pursuit of passion. Across four presentations, we show that (1) experience fundamentally self-limiting, (2) do not give up on job with poor working conditions because passion, (3) gender household place an...
The amount of effort required to bring about a prosocial outcome can vary from low—handing stranger the wallet she just dropped—to high—spending days tracking down owner lost wallet. goal current research is characterize relationship between and moral character judgments. Does more always lead rosier judgments? Across four studies (N = 1,658), we find that judgments increase with point then plateau. We evidence this pattern produced, in part, by descriptive prescriptive norms: exceeding...
Loyalty to friends is an important moral value, but does that mean snitching on immoral? Across four pre-registered studies, we examine how loyalty obligations impact people’s evaluations of (i.e., turning in others who commit transgressions relevant authorities). In vignette and incentivized partner choice find witnesses snitch (vs. do not snitch) are seen as more better leaders (Studies 1–4), regardless whether they a friend or acquaintance 1–2). Our experiments also demonstrate snitches...