Oriane A. M. Georgeac
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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Professor Georgeac is interested in how people respond to organizations’ messages about diversity. In one program of research, she investigates the effects of organizations’ justifications for why they value diversity on underrepresented group members and team managers. In another stream of her research, she examines how people respond to information reflecting organizations’ achievements in increasing women’s representation in top leadership. Her research across these two streams offers novel insights into how organizations’ efforts to support diversity may paradoxically prevent them from advancing toward their diversity goals.
Oriane Georgeac’s work has been published in top journals in social psychology, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Current Opinion in Psychology, and has been featured in the Harvard Business Review.
Professor Georgeac currently teaches the “Managing Groups and Teams” and “Global Virtual Teams” courses in the MBA program at Yale School of Management.
Education
- PhD, London Business School, 2020
- MS, Université Paris Descartes, 2014
- MS, HEC Paris, 2013
Selected Works
Articles
Perceiving Progress Toward Social Equality: A Model of Signals and Sense-Making
O. A. M. Georgeac and A. Rattan
Current Opinion in Psychology
2021 In Press
No Guts, No Glory? How Risk-Taking Shapes Dominance, Prestige, and Leadership Endorsement
G. A. van Kleef, M. W. Heerdink, A. Cheshin, E. Stamkou, F. Wanders, L. F. Koning, X. Fang, and O. A. M. Georgeac
Journal of Applied Psychology
2021
Progress in Women’s Representation in Top Leadership Weakens People’s Disturbance with Gender Inequality in Other Domains
O. Georgeac and A. Rattan
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 148, Issue 8, pp 1435–1453
2019
An Exploratory Investigation of Americans’ Expression of Gender Bias Before and After the 2016 Presidential Election
O. Georgeac, A. Rattan, and D. A. Effron
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2018
Understanding Intergroup Relations Through the Lens of Implicit Theories (Mindsets) of Malleability
A. Rattan and O. Georgeac
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 4, Issue 11
2017
Selected Media Coverage
The Power and Pitfalls Behind the Way We Talk About Women’s Achievements
Forbes
March 8, 2021
Tackling Underrepresentation of Women in the Media
Harvard Business Review
June 6, 2019
When People See More Women at the Top, They’re Less Concerned About Gender Inequality Elsewhere
Harvard Business Review
March 7, 2019
Achievements
Best Paper Based on a Dissertation Award, Academy of Management, GDO Division, 2021
Annual Dissertation Award, Runner-up, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2021
Best Dissertation Award, Runner-up, Society for Business Ethics, 2021
Outstanding Research Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2020
Responsible Research in Management Award, Finalist, RRBM-IACMR, 2020