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Overview

Michelle K. Ryan is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a significant focus on gender studies, sociology and political science, social psychology, clinical psychology, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Among their frequent coauthors are:

  • Christopher T. Begeny
  • Veljko Jovanović
  • Georgios Abakoumkin
  • Edward P. Lemay
  • Maximilian Agostini

Their scholarly contributions have appeared extensively in several publication venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • British Journal of Social Psychology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michelle K. Ryan include the following:

  • The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • Gender inequalities during COVID-19 (2021, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations)
  • In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists-Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening (2020, Science Advances)
  • Contextualizing the Impostor "Syndrome" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence (2021, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • The Glass Cliff: Evidence that Women are Over‐Represented in Precarious Leadership Positions

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam

  • The Glass Cliff: Exploring the Dynamics Surrounding the Appointment of Women to Precarious Leadership Positions

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam

  • The road to the glass cliff: Differences in the perceived suitability of men and women for leadership positions in succeeding and failing organizations

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michelle K. Ryan

  • Think crisis-think female: the glass cliff and contextual variation in the think manager-think male stereotype.

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam;Mette D. Hersby;Renata Bongiorno

  • The Motivational Theory of Role Modeling: How Role Models Influence Role Aspirants’ Goals

    Thekla Morgenroth;Michelle K. Ryan;Kim Peters

  • Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Michael J. Platow

  • Getting on top of the glass cliff: Reviewing a decade of evidence, explanations, and impact

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam;Thekla Morgenroth;Floor Rink

  • Investing with Prejudice: the Relationship Between Women's Presence on Company Boards and Objective and Subjective Measures of Company Performance

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michelle K. Ryan;Clara Kulich;Grzegorz Trojanowski

  • The glass ceiling in the 21st century: understanding barriers to gender equality

    Manuela da Costa Barreto;Michelle K. Ryan;Michael T. Schmitt

  • Who gets the carrot and who gets the stick? Evidence of gender disparities in executive remuneration

    Clara Kulich;Clara Kulich;Grzegorz Trojanowski;Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Glass Cliff and Its Lessons for Organizational Policy

    Susanne Bruckmüller;Michelle K. Ryan;Floor Rink;S. Alexander Haslam

  • 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

  • Reactions to the glass cliff: Gender differences in the explanations for the precariousness of women's leadership positions

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam;Tom Postmes

  • Academic leadership: changing conceptions, identities and experiences in UK Higher Education

    Richard Bolden;Jonathan Gosling;Anne O'Brien;Kim Peters

  • Politics and the Glass Cliff: Evidence that Women are Preferentially Selected to Contest Hard-to-Win Seats:

    Michelle K. Ryan;S. Alexander Haslam;Clara Kulich

  • The Role of Personality and Group Factors in Explaining Prejudice

    Katherine J. Reynolds;John C. Turner;S.Alexander Haslam;Michelle K. Ryan

  • Why Do Men and Women Challenge Gender Discrimination in the Workplace? The Role of Group Status and In-group Identification in Predicting Pathways to Collective Action

    Aarti Iyer;Michelle K. Ryan

  • Sticking to our guns : social identity as a basis for the maintenance of commitment to faltering organizational projects

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michelle K. Ryan;Tom Postmes;Russell Spears

  • The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary:

    Thekla Morgenroth;Michelle K. Ryan;Michelle K. Ryan

  • Social Identity and the Romance of Leadership: The Importance of Being Seen To Be 'Doing It for Us'

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michael J. Platow;John C. Turner;Katherine J. Reynolds

  • WHO CARES? THE EFFECT OF GENDER AND CONTEXT ON THE SELF AND MORAL REASONING

    Michelle K. Ryan;Barbara David;Katherine J. Reynolds

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland
Katherine J. Reynolds
Katherine J. Reynolds Australian National University
Michael J. Platow
Michael J. Platow Australian National University
Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen
John C. Turner
John C. Turner Australian National University
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Winnifred R. Louis
Winnifred R. Louis University of Queensland
Bertus F. Jeronimus
Bertus F. Jeronimus University of Groningen

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