Research
How do people understand their position within power and status hierarchies? I study power- and status-related phenomena by looking at how people’s identities impact their social policy attitudes, leadership styles, non verbal behavior, behavior in teams, and linguistic choices.
Articles
From exception to exceptional: How gender and tenure impact sponsor effectiveness.
Campbell, E., Aven, B. & Chow, R. M. (in press). Academy of Management Discoveries.
Your Cost or My Benefit? Effects of Concession Frames in Distributive Negotiations.
Bhatia, N., Chow, R. M., Weingart, L., Diabes, M. (in press). Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
The effect of gender composition and team hierarchy on teams’ collective intelligence.
Woolley, A. W., Chow, R. M., Mayo, A. T., Riedl, C. & Chang, J. (2022). Organization Science.
2014 Winner of Best Poster Award at the annual meeting of INGRoup
Chronic Frames of Social Inequality: How Mainstream Media Frame Race, Gender, and Wealth Inequality.
Jun, S., Chow, R. M., Van der Veen, M. A., & Bleich, E. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), e2110712119.
Participation and influence: The countervailing forces of expertise use in diverse groups.
Mayo, A. T., Woolley, A. W. & Chow, R. M. (2020). Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(2), 300-319.
Compensate a little, but punish a lot: Asymmetric routes to restoring justice.
Galak, J. & Chow, R. M. (2019). PLOS One.
Effects of inter-group status on the pursuit of intra-group status.
Chang, J. W., Chow, R. M., & Woolley, A. W. (2017). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 139, 1-17.
2013 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings under the title, “High-status but low-performing: Effects of group status on information exchange and group outcomes.”
Taking race off the table: Agenda setting and support for color-blind public policy.
Chow, R. M, & Knowles, E. D. (2016). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 25-39.
The desire for extremity: The influence of leader normativeness and inter-group competition on group member support.
Chang, J. W., Turan, N., & Chow, R. M. (2015). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 36-49.
2013 - Finalist for Best Conference Paper, INGRoup annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Deny, distance, or dismantle? How White Americans manage a privileged identity.
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., & Unzueta, M. M. (2014). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 594-609.
Appeasement: Whites’ strategic support for affirmative action.
Chow, R. M., Lowery, B. S., & Hogan, C. M. (2013). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 333-346.
The effect of inequality frames on redistributive income policy support.
Chow, R. M. & Galak, J. (2012). Psychological Science, 23, 467-469.
Paying for positive group-esteem: How inequity frames affect Whites' responses to redistributive policies.
Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., Knowles, E. D, & Unzueta, M. M. (2012). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 323-336.
The orthogonality of praise and condemnation in moral judgment.
Wiltermuth, S., Monin, B., & Chow, R. M. (2010). Social and Personality Psychology Science, 1, 302-310.
Thanks, but no thanks: The role of personal responsibility in the experience of gratitude.
Chow, R. M. & Lowery, B. S. (2010). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 487-493.
Taking from those that have more and giving to those that have less: How inequity frames affect corrections for inequity.
Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., & Randall-Crosby, J. (2009). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 375-378.
On the malleability of ideology: Motivated construals of color-blindness.
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Hogan, C. M., & Chow, R. M. (2009). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 857-869.
The two faces of dominance: The differential effect of ingroup superiority and outgroup inferiority on group identification and group-esteem.
Chow, R. M., Lowery, B. S., & Knowles, E. D. (2008). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1073-1081.
Excluded emotions: The role of anger in responses to social ostracism.
Chow, R. M., Tiedens, L. Z., & Govan, C. (2008). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 896-903.