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Ashley Martin
Ashley Martin
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
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AshleyMartin
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Shanahan Family Faculty Scholar for 2020–2021
Academic Area: 
Organizational Behavior

Research Statement

Professor Martin's research focuses on the ways in which we construe and discuss gender to promote gender equality and inclusion. Her research compares and contrasts diversity strategies to understand the unique effects of being “aware of” or “blind to” intergroup differences on women and racial minorities’ workplace outcomes. By comparing gender to other social categories, such as race and age, she theoretically outlines and empirically tests how the uniqueness and universality of gender affects bias towards underrepresented groups.

Research Interests

  • Gender
  • Diversity
  • Bias
  • Empowerment

Bio

Ashley Martin received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Management from Columbia Business School and her M.Sc. and B.Comm. from the Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, Canada.

Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her research has received grants, fellowships, and awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the W. Edwards Deming Center, and the Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, Management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 2018
  • M.Phil., Management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 2015
  • M.Sc., Organizational Behavior, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University
  • B.Comm, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Stanford GSB, 2018–present

Awards and Honors

  • Shanahan Family Faculty Scholar, 2019–2020
  • Faculty Research Fellowship, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
  • PON Negotiation Fellowship, Harvard Law School
  • Roger F. Murray Award, Columbia Business School
  • Deming Doctoral Fellowship, W. Edwards Deming Center, Columbia Business School
  • Best Reviewer Award, OB Division of the Academy of Management
  • Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Queen’s Graduate Award, Queen’s School of Business
  • Queen’s School of Business Award, Queen’s School of Business
  • D.I. McLeod Dean’s List Scholarship, Queen’s University
  • Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship, Queen’s University

Publications

Journal Articles

The Primacy of Gender: Gendered Cognition Underlies the Big Two Dimensions of Social Cognition
Ashley Martin, Michael L. Slepian. Perspectives on Psychological Science. June 2020.
Intersectional Escape: Older Women Elude Agentic Prescriptions More Than Older Men
Ashley Martin, Michael S. North, Katherine W. Phillips. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. March 1, 2019, Vol. 45, Issue 3, Pages 342-359.
Understanding Diversity Ideologies From the Target’s Perspective: A Review and Future Directions
Seval Gündemir, Ashley Martin, Astrid C. Homan. Frontiers in Psychology. February 2019, Vol. 10.
Blind to Bias: The Benefits of Gender-Blindness for STEM Stereotyping
Ashley Martin, Katherine W. Phillips. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (in press). January 23, 2019.
To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation
Modupe Akinola, Ashley Martin, Katherine Y. Phillips. Academy of Management Journal. August 16, 2018, Vol. 61, Issue 4.
Dehumanizing Gender: The Debiasing Effects of Gendering Human-Abstracted Entities
Ashley Martin, Michael L. Slepian. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. May 28, 2018, Vol. 44, Issue 12, Pages 1681-1696.
What “Blindness” to Gender Differences Helps Women See and Do: Implications for Confidence, Agency, and Action in Male-Dominated Environments
Ashley Martin, Katherine W. Phillips. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. September 2017, Vol. 142, Pages 28-44.
The Role of Stress Mindset in Shaping Cognitive, Emotional, and Physiological Responses to Challenging and Threatening Stress
Alia J. Crum, Modupe Akinola, Ashley Martin, Sean Fath. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, An International Journal. January 25, 2017, Vol. 30, Issue 4, Pages 379-395.

Teaching

Degree Courses

2020-21

OB 205: Managing Groups and Teams

This virtual course introduces you to the science of teams. Particularly, the learning in the course focuses on structures and processes that affect team performance and highlights some of the common pitfalls associated with working in teams....

OB 678: The Design and Process of Experimental Research

This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical...

2019-20

OB 205: Managing Groups and Teams

This course introduces you to the structures and processes that affect group performance and highlights some of the common pitfalls associated with working in teams. Topics include team culture, fostering creativity and coordination, making group...

OB 678: The Design and Process of Experimental Research

This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical...

Stanford University Affiliations

Greater Stanford University

  • Faculty Research Fellow, Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Service to the Profession

Reviewer

  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting

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School News

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