Sean Fath
Sean Fath is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell's ILR School. Sean’s research interests include managerial decision making, bias reduction in social evaluations, and perceptions of social and organizational hierarchy. His research has been published in Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Behavioral Science & Policy, MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and Anxiety, Stress, & Coping.
Before coming to Cornell, Sean received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from Duke University.
Publications
Bae, S. & Fath, S. (Forthcoming). Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Data, materials, and pre-registration info: osf.io/7vx2t/
Roy, E., … many authors including Fath, S., … & Axt, J. R. (Forthcoming). A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Contributions as author: Study design; manuscript revision
Fath, S.* & Proudfoot, D.* (2024). Devaluation by omission: Limited identity options elicit anger and increase identification. Psychological Science, 35(3), 239-249.
- Data, materials, and pre-registration info: osf.io/be6y9/
Fath, S., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2023). Encouraging self-blinding in hiring. Behavioral Science and Policy 9(1), 45-57.
- Data and materials: osf.io/2vthn
Fath, S., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2022). Blinding curiosity: Exploring preferences for “blinding” one’s own judgment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170, 104135.
- Data, materials, and pre-registration info: osf.io/6d7ce/
- Selected to be published in abbreviated form in Management Insights (2022)
Fath, S.*, Ma, A.*, & Rosette, A. S. (2022). Self-views of disadvantage and success impact perceptions of privilege among White men. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 169, 104114.
- Data, materials, and pre-registration info: osf.io/v2mgq
Matusik, J. G., Mitchell, R. L., Hays, N. A., Fath, S., & Hollenbeck, J. R. (2022). The highs and lows of hierarchy in multiteam systems. Academy of Management Journal, 65(5), 1571-1592.
Proudfoot, D. & Fath, S. (2021). Signaling creative genius: How perceived social connectedness influences judgments of creative potential. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(4), 580-592.
- Data, materials, and pre-registration info: osf.io/xun26
Fath, S. & Kay, A. C. (2018). “If hierarchical, then corrupt”: Exploring people’s tendency to associate hierarchy with corruption in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 145-164.
- Data and materials: osf.io/pe4na
- Studies 1c and 6 replicated in Evans et al., (2024). Corruption and hierarchy: A replication of studies 1c and 6 of Fath & Kay 2018. The Journal of General Psychology.
Fath, S., Proudfoot, D., & Kay, A. C. (2017). Effective to a fault: Organizational structure predicts attitudes toward minority organizations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 290-297.
- Data and materials: osf.io/gdtpm
Crum, A. J., Akinola, M., Martin, A., & Fath, S. (2017). The role of stress mindset in shaping cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to challenging and threatening stress. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping 30(4), 379-395.