Research For Leadership Development
Across more than two decades of research, I have explored a central question: How do power and personal values interact to shape behavior and outcomes in organizations?
I have approached this question through multiple methods—lab experiments, surveys, interviews, and collaborations with exceptional scholars around the world—to understand both the psychological foundations and real-world implications of leadership behavior.
Below you will find a selection of my publications with links to the articles. If you are interested in any pieces that are not publicly accessible, please feel free to contact me; I am happy to share the full papers.
My current research focuses on four main areas:
Digital Leadership
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What It Takes to Lead Through Digital Disruption
Harvard Business Review
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Create a Company Culture That Takes Cybersecurity Seriously
Harvard Business Review
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Finding the Right Balance — and Flexibility — in Your Leadership Style
Harvard Business Review
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Your Employees Are Your Best Defense Against Cyberattacks
Harvard Business Review
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Lessons in Agility from a Dancer Turned Professor
Harvard Business Review
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Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions
Harvard Business Review
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As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change
Harvard Business Review
Diversity & Inclusion
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The Five Inclusive Behaviors Board Chairs Overlook
MIT Sloan Management Review
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Contextualizing the Impostor “Syndrome”
Frontiers in Psychology
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Effective Networking for Women in Leadership
Management & Business Review
Ethical Leadership
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The Dark Side of Relational Leadership
Frontiers in Psychology
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Constraining temptation: How specific and general rules mitigate the effect of personal gain on unethical behavior
Journal of Economic Psychology
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The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in Social Decision Making
European Journal of Social Psychology
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Reaching the top and avoiding the bottom: How ranking motivates unethical intentions and behavior
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative examining ten moral judgement effects
Scientific Data
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The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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The Moral Self-Image Scale: Measuring and Understanding the Malleability of the Moral Self
Frontiers in Psychology
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Forgive them for I have sinned: The relationship between guilt and forgiveness of others' transgressions
European Journal of Social Psychology
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Green Consumerism: Moral Motivations to a Sustainable Future
Current Opinion in Psychology
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The Effect of Specific and General Rules on Ethical Behavior
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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Someone to Look Up To: Executive-Follower Ethical Reasoning and Perceptions of Ethical Leadership
Journal of Management
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The strategic Samaritan: How effectiveness and proximity affect corporate responses to external crises
Business Ethics Quarterly
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Striving for the Moral Self: The Effects of Recalling Past Moral Actions on Future Moral Behavior
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Salary and decision-making: Supporting the relationship between pay, self-sufficiency, and prosociality beyond the laboratory context
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
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A Social Cognition Framework for Examining Moral Awareness in Managers and Academics
Journal of Business Ethics
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Taking the First Step Toward a Moral Action
Journal of Genetic Psychology
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A Handbook of Wisdom. Psychological Perspectives.
New York: Cambridge University Press
General Leadership
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What Companies Get Wrong About Decision Rights
Harvard Business Review
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The Restorative Power of Small Habits
Harvard Business Review
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How Shadow Boards Bridge Generational Divides
Harvard Business Review
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Regulatory focus theory: Disentangling goals and strategies
Applied Psychology
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Intense Self-Regulatory Effort Increases Need for Conservation and Reduces Attractiveness of Energy-Requiring Rewards
Social Psychology
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When the motivational consequences of ego depletion collide: Conservation dominates over reward-seeking
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Positive Affectivity and Lifestyle in Adulthood: Do You Do What You Feel?
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Using Emojis to Connect with Your Team
Harvard Business Review
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Why Reverse Mentoring Works and How to Do It Right
Harvard Business Review
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Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees
Harvard Business Review
Power & Power Sharing
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Antecedents of leaders' power sharing: The roles of power instability and distrust.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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The Interactive Relationship of Power, Stability, and Social Dominance Orientation with Work Stress
Applied Psychology: An International Review
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Something to lose and nothing to gain: The role of stress in the interactive effect of power and stability on risk taking
Administrative Science Quarterly
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Power Increases Infidelity Among Men and Women
Psychological Science