Belle Derks

Best Publications

• The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance themselves from junior women

  Belle Derks;Colette Van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  671
  Citations

• Do sexist organizational cultures create the Queen Bee

  Belle Derks;Naomi Ellemers;Colette van Laar;Kim de Groot

  314
  Citations

• Women in high places: When and why promoting women into top positions can harm them individually or as a group (and how to prevent this)

  Naomi Ellemers;Floor Rink;Belle Derks;Michelle K. Ryan

  284
  Citations

• Gender-Bias Primes Elicit Queen-Bee Responses Among Senior Policewomen

  Belle Derks;Colette Van Laar;Naomi Ellemers;Kim de Groot

  257
  Citations

• Working for the self or working for the group: How self- versus group affirmation affects collective behavior in low-status groups.

  Belle Derks;Colette van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  171
  Citations

• Nothing Changes, Really: Why Women Who Break Through the Glass Ceiling End Up Reinforcing It.

  Klea Faniko;Naomi Ellemers;Belle Derks;Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi

  170
  Citations

• By any means necessary: The effects of regulatory focus and moral conviction on hostile and benevolent forms of collective action

  Maarten P. Zaal;Colette Van Laar;Tomas Ståhl;Naomi Ellemers

  163
  Citations

• The Neuroscience of Stigma and Stereotype Threat

  Belle Derks;Michael Inzlicht;Sonia Kang

  143
  Citations

• Striving for Success in Outgroup Settings: Effects of Contextually Emphasizing Ingroup Dimensions on Stigmatized Group Members’ Social Identity and Performance Styles

  Belle Derks;Colette van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  135
  Citations

• The threat vs. challenge of car parking for women: How self- and group affirmation affect cardiovascular responses

  Belle Derks;Daan Scheepers;Colette Van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  128
  Citations

• The Beneficial Effects of Social Identity Protection on the Performance Motivation of Members of Devalued Groups

  Belle Derks;Colette Van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  109
  Citations

• Working memory load reduces facilitated processing of threatening faces: an ERP study.

  Lotte F. Van Dillen;Belle Derks

  105
  Citations

• Queen Bees and Alpha Males: Are successful women more competitive than successful men?

  Klea Faniko;Naomi Ellemers;Belle Derks

  103
  Citations

• Extending the queen bee effect: How Hindustani workers cope with disadvantage by distancing the self from the group

  Belle Derks;Colette van Laar;Naomi Ellemers;Gauwrie Raghoe

  102
  Citations

• The Queen Bee phenomenon in Academia 15 years after: Does it still exist, and if so, why?

  Klea Faniko;Naomi Ellemers;Belle Derks

  92
  Citations

• Distancing from a stigmatized social identity: State of the art and future research agenda on self‐group distancing

  Ruth van Veelen;Jenny Veldman;Jenny Veldman;Colette Van Laar;Belle Derks

  87
  Citations

• Double Trouble: How Being Outnumbered and Negatively Stereotyped Threatens Career Outcomes of Women in STEM.

  Ruth van Veelen;Belle Derks;Maaike Dorine Endedijk

  83
  Citations

• Work-family guilt as a straightjacket. An interview and diary study on consequences of mothers' work-family guilt

  Lianne Aarntzen;Belle Derks;Elianne van Steenbergen;Michelle Ryan

  73
  Citations

• Valuing Social Identity: Consequences for Motivation and Performance in Low-Status Groups

  Colette Van Laar;Belle Derks;Naomi Ellemers;Dennis Bleeker

  72
  Citations

• Reducing Prejudice Through Brain Stimulation

  Roberta Sellaro;Belle Derks;Michael A. Nitsche;Bernhard Hommel

  68
  Citations