Jennifer Nelson, assistant professor Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was recently published in Social Science Research.
The article is titled Is My Manager Feeling Threatened by Me? Racial Differences in Content and Activation of Threat Metastereotypes"
Her study examines an individual’s or group’s projection of how members of outgroups think about that individual or group, and the role of that projection in workplace interactions in the context of diversity and inclusion.
The original vignette experiment explores how White and Black teachers interpret a potentially racially biased action by a school principal, and how the workplace racial composition and principal’s race moderate teachers’ perceptions of the scenario.
Read the full article here.
