Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations
About
Erica R. Bailey is an assistant professor in Management of Organizations at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She broadly studies the construct of authenticity, asking questions like, how do we know who we are? When do we feel the most like ourselves? Why do we often fail, despite our best efforts, to share our inner world with others?
Bailey received her PhD in Management from Columbia University and her BSBA with a specialization in Economics from The Ohio State University.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Authenticity
- Self-Perception
- Personality
- Social Cognition
- Social Movements and Activism
* denotes equal authorship
- Bailey, E.R.,* Carter, J.T.,* Iyengar, S.S., & Galinsky, A.D. (2025). The Privilege to be Yourself Depends on What Others Think of You: Social Status Increases Authenticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Ponce de Leon, R.* & Bailey, E.R.* (2025). The Preeminence of Communality in the Leadership Preferences of Followers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Osborne, M.R.* & Bailey, E.R.* (2025). Me vs. The Machine? Subjective Evaluations of Self- and AI-Generated Advice. Scientific Reports.
- Horton, C.B., Bailey, E.R., & Iyengar, S.S. (2024). Pinning Down State Authenticity: Defining and Validating a State Authenticity Measure. Self and Identity.
- Park, Y., Bailey, E.R., & Kuwabara, K. (2024). Why Does It Feel So Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
- Pillemer, J.,* Rossignac-Milon, M.,* Bailey, E.R., Horton, C.B., & Iyengar, S.S. (2024). Just Be Real With Me: Perceived Partner Authenticity Promotes Relationship Initiation via Shared Reality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
- Bailey, E.R., & Iyengar, S.S. (2023). Positive—More than Unbiased—Self-Perceptions Increase Subjective Authenticity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Bailey, E.R., Wang, D., Soule, S., & Rao, H. (2023). How Tilly’s WUNC Works: Bystander Evaluations of Social Movement Signals Lead to Mobilization. American Journal of Sociology.
- Bailey, E.R., & Levy, A. (2022). Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate. Psychological Science.
- Bailey, E.R., & Iyengar, S.S. (2022). Yours Truly: On the Complex Relationship Between Honesty and Authenticity. Current Opinion in Psychology.
- Bailey, E.R., Horton, C.B., & Galinsky, A.D. (2022). Enclothed Harmony or Enclothed Dissonance? The Effect of Attire on the Authenticity, Power, and Engagement of Remote Workers. Academy of Management Discoveries.
- Bailey, E.R.,* Matz, S.C.,* Youyou, W., & Iyengar, S.S. (2020). Authentic Self-Expression on Social Media is Associated with Greater Subjective Well-Being. Nature Communications.
At Haas since 2023
- 2023 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- BCNARTS: Big brain: Free lectures where folks nerd out in a San Francisco bar, SFGate, 08/12/2025
- Research: How passion can backfire at work, Harvard Business Review, 07/24/2024
- Leading People, MBA Core Course