Emily M. Zitek

People/Faculty
Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior
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Contact

133 Statler Dr
391 Ives Hall Faculty Wing
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Tel
+1 (607) 255-1439
Overview

Emily Zitek joined the School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 2012. She received her B.A. in psychology from Rice University in 2003 and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University in 2010. Professor Zitek also has training in statistics. She received a B.A. in statistics from Rice in 2003 and an M.S. in statistics from Stanford in 2008.

Teaching Statement 

Professor Zitek teaches Sport Psychology and Social Science Research Methods to undergraduates, and Data Analysis in Practice to graduate students.

Research Statement 

Professor Zitek studies topics such as the sources and consequences of psychological entitlement, why hierarchies are a prevalent form of organizing, how people react to positive and negative events (e.g., good or bad luck, rejection, poor performance, etc.), stereotyping and discrimination in various domains, and factors that affect people’s participation and performance in sports.

Service Statement 

Professor Zitek is the director of the Expo Lab and advisor for club Ultimate Frisbee and club softball. She also enjoys providing ad hoc statistical consulting to ILR students.

Areas of Expertise

Discrimination
Diversity and Inclusion
Ethics in the Workplace
Organizations
Statistical Theory, Methods, Analysis
Theory and behavior

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , & . . Identity-Based Rivalry: A Common Identity Across Competitors Leads to Rivalry Perceptions and Better Performance. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430224128443)
  • , , & . . The Power of Words: Employee Responses to Numerical vs. Narrative Performance Feedback. Academy of Management Discoveries.
  • , & . . Algorithmic versus human surveillance leads to lower perceptions of autonomy and increased resistance. Communications Psychology, 2(Article number: 53 (2024)).
  • , , & . . Recognizing and Correcting Positive Bias: The Salient Victim Effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 109. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104522)
  • , & . . Individuals Higher in Psychological Entitlement Respond to Bad Luck with Anger. Personality & Individual Differences, 168. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110306)
  • , & . . Reducing Criminal Record Discrimination Through Banning the Box: The Importance of Timing and Explanation in the Reveal of a Drug Conviction . Psychology, Crime & Law.
  • , & . . Psychological Entitlement Predicts Noncompliance with the Health Guidelines of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Personality & Individual Differences, 171.
  • , , & . . Feeling Like a Burden: Self-Compassion Buffers Against the Negative Effects of a Poor Performance . Social Psychology, 51(4), 219-238. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000411)
  • , & . . Ease and control: The cognitive benefits of hierarchy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 131-135.
  • , & . . Psychological Entitlement Predicts Failure to Follow Instructions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(2), 172-180.
  • , & . . Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections That are Comparative Feel Worse. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(12), 1675-1685.
  • , & . . Narcissism Predicts Support for Hierarchy (At Least When Narcissists Think They Can Rise to the Top). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(7), 707-716. (DOI:10.1177/1948550616649241)
  • , & . . Deserve and Diverge: Feeling Entitled Makes People More Creative . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 242-248. (DOI:10.1016/j.jesp.2014.10.006)
  • , & . . “That’s the one I wanted”: When do competitors copy their opponents’ choices?. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(2), 293–305.
  • , & . . Marital status bias in perceptions of employees. Basic & Applied Social Psychology, 34(5), 474-481.
  • , & . . The fluency of social hierarchy: The ease with which hierarchical relationships are seen, remembered, learned, and liked. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(1), 98-115.
  • , & . . Technical fouls predict performance outcomes in the NBA . Athletic Insight, 13, 29-39.
  • , , , & . . Victim entitlement to behave selfishly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(2), 245-255.
  • , & . . The role of social norm clarity in the influenced expression of prejudice over time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(6), 867-876.

Trade Publication

Book Chapters

  • . . Give Them an Inch, and They’ll Expect a Mile: The Effects of Authority Leniency on Subordinate Entitlement. In Advances in Group Processes. (pp. 117-139). Emerald Publishing Limited.
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