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76
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31577
World Ranking
1690
National Ranking
998

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Joel Brockner is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans various domains within the social sciences, with a primary focus on social psychology, sociology and political science, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their work primarily addresses topics such as job satisfaction and organizational behavior, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, international student and expatriate challenges, communication in education and healthcare, nonprofit sector and volunteering, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Joel Brockner has contributed to several publication venues repeatedly, including:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Tailoring the intervention to the self: Congruence between self-affirmation and self-construal mitigates the gender gap in quantitative performance" (2022, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
  • "Mistreatment from peers can reduce the effects of respectful treatment from bosses, and respectful peers can offset mistreatment from bosses" (2020, Journal of Organizational Behavior)
  • "Factors affecting supervisors' enactment of interpersonal fairness: The interactive relationship between their managers' informational fairness and supervisors' sense of power" (2020, Journal of Organizational Behavior)
  • "My boss is younger, less educated, and shorter tenured: When and why status (in)congruence influences promotion system justification." (2023, Journal of Applied Psychology)
  • "Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation" (2023, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ya-Ru Chen
  • D. Ramona Bobocel
  • Marius van Dijke
  • Richard Crisp
  • Nancy E. Adler

Joel Brockner's research production, totaling at least 14 publications in social sciences, covers nine in social psychology, seven in sociology and political science, and seven in organizational behavior and human resource management. This multidisciplinary approach reflects their engagement across intersecting fields that explore workplace dynamics, social behaviors, and cultural influences.

Among the distinctions received are being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1991 and a Dean Fellow of the Academy of Management. These recognitions align with their contributions to understanding organizational behavior and interpersonal dynamics within professional settings.

Best Publications

  • An integrative framework for explaining reactions to decisions: interactive effects of outcomes and procedures.

    Joel Brockner;Batia M. Wiesenfeld

  • The Escalation of Commitment to a Failing Course of Action: Toward Theoretical Progress

    Joel Brockner

  • Self-Esteem at Work: Research, Theory and Practice

    Joel Brockner

  • Value from hedonic experience and engagement.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Regulatory Focus Theory: Implications for the Study of Emotions at Work

    Joel Brockner;E.Tory Higgins

  • Taking a Multifoci Approach to the Study of Justice, Social Exchange, and Citizenship Behavior: The Target Similarity Model†

    James J. Lavelle;Deborah E. Rupp;Joel Brockner

  • When Trust Matters: The Moderating Effect of Outcome Favorability

    Joel Brockner;Phyllis A. Siegel;Joseph P. Daly;Tom Tyler

  • The Influence of Prior Commitment to an Institution on Reactions to Perceived Unfairness: The Higher They Are, the Harder They Fall

    Joel Brockner;Tom R. Tyler;Rochelle Cooper-Schneider

  • Culture and procedural justice: The influence of power distance on reactions to voice.

    Joel Brockner;Grant Ackerman;Jerald Greenberg;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Entrapment in Escalating Conflicts: A Social Psychological Analysis

    Joel Brockner;Jeffrey Z. Rubin

  • Layoffs, Job Insecurity, And Survivors' Work Effort: Evidence Of An Inverted-U Relationship

    Joel Brockner;Steven Grover;Thomas F. Reed;Rocki Lee Dewitt

  • Interactive Effects of Procedural Justice and Outcome Negativity on Victims and Survivors of Job Loss

    Joel Brockner;Mary Konovsky;Rochelle Cooper-Schneider;Robert Folger

  • Survivors' Reactions to Layoffs: We Get By with a Little Help for Our Friends.

    Joel Brockner;Steven Grover;Thomas Reed;Rocki DeWitt

  • Regulatory focus theory and the entrepreneurial process

    Joel Brockner;E.Tory Higgins;Murray B. Low

  • Understanding the interaction between procedural and distributive justice: The role of trust.

    Joel Brockner

  • Managing the Effects of Layoffs on Survivors

    Joel Brockner

  • When it is especially important to explain why: Factors affecting the relationship between managers' explanations of a layoff and survivors' reactions to the layoff

    Joel Brockner;Rocki Lee DeWitt;Steven Grover;Thomas Reed

  • Making Sense of Procedural Fairness: How High Procedural Fairness Can Reduce or Heighten the Influence of Outcome Favorability

    Joel Brockner

  • Layoffs, self-esteem, and survivor guilt: Motivational, affective, and attitudinal consequences

    Joel Brockner;Jeanette Davy;Carolyn Carter

  • The Impact of Layoffs on Survivors: An Organizational Justice Perspective

    Joel Brockner;Jerald Greenberg

  • Commitment, Procedural Fairness, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Multifoci Analysis

    James J. Lavelle;Joel Brockner;Mary A. Konovsky;Kenneth H. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University
Robert Folger
Robert Folger University of Central Florida
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Nico W. Van Yperen
Nico W. Van Yperen University of Groningen
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Jason A. Colquitt
Jason A. Colquitt University of Notre Dame

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