Social and Cultural Identity

This line of research examines how social and cultural identities shape people’s experiences of belonging, inclusion, stigma, and intergroup relations, particularly in organizational and societal contexts.

  • I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2025). [PDF] [Article]

  • Increasing Black employees’ social identity affirmation and organizational involvement: Reducing social uncertainty through organizational and individual strategies. Organization Science (2025). [PDF] [Article]

  • Reducing turnover intentions of Black employees in the accounting profession: The roles of racial centrality, racial identity affirmation, and supervisor closeness. Accounting, Organizations and Society (2024). [PDF] [Article]

  • Social movements, collective identity, and workplace allies: The labeling of gender equity policy changes. Organization Science (2023). [PDF] [Article]

  • The cultural boundaries of perspective-taking: When and why perspective-taking reduces stereotyping. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2018). [PDF] [Article]

  • Navigating stigma and group conflict: Identification and self-labeling. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (2017). [PDF] [Article]

  • Challenge your stigma: How to reframe and revalue negative stereotypes and slurs. Current Directions in Psychological Science (2017). [PDF] [Article]

  • The reappropriation of stigmatizing labels: The reciprocal relationship between power and self-labeling. Psychological Science (2013). [PDF] [Article]

  • Social category diversity promotes pre-meeting elaboration: The role of relationship focus. Organization Science (2013). [PDF] [Article]