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Empathy, Schadenfreude, and Intergroup Social Hierarchy: How Emotions Enforce and Attenuate Inequality

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Have you ever laughed when someone tripped, felt joy when someone faced the consequences of their actions, or celebrated when a rival sports team or political party lost? When people think about the role of emotions in intergroup relations, they tend to think of empathy, commonly defined as the sensitivity...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

How Identity Shapes the Formation, Maintenance, and Intersections of Social Hierarchy: Disability and Race

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Social psychology researchers have long theorized how social identity influences perception, treatment, and experience, but until recently, researchers have almost exclusively studied social identity in isolation. Recognizing these gaps, social psychologists have increasingly adopted intersectionality as an analytical tool to inform theory, hypotheses, and methodology. At the Haas Intersectionality, Group...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

How Identity Shapes the Formation, Maintenance, and Intersections of Social Hierarchy: Gender and Sexual Orientation

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

From recent bans on queer and feminist literature in public school systems, to restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare, to reduced access to reproductive healthcare, gender identity and sexuality is increasingly at the center of political and ideological discourse in the U.S. As a research laboratory studying social identity and hierarchy...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

Moral Psychology and Organizations

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This work considers how individual differences can affect the way people perceive organizational diversity and inclusion efforts. We will primarily consider what factors influence the moral judgements of organizations. For example, one line of work examines workplace gossip. Workplace gossip is largely perceived as an anti-social and immoral act...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

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