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
- 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.
- Wang, K., Bailey, E.R., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2022). The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passion Produces Greater Performance in Part Because of Preferential Treatment by Others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- 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.
- Jachimowicz, J.M., Wihler, A., Bailey, E.R., & Galinsky, A.D. (2018). Why Grit Requires Perseverance and Passion to Positively Predict Performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
* denotes equal authorship
- Bailey, E.R.,* Carter, J.T.,* Iyengar, S.S., & Galinsky, A.D. [Status and State Authenticity]. Revise and Resubmit, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Bailey, E.R., Krautter, K., Wu, W., Galinsky, A.D., & Jachimowicz, J.M. [Passion and Performance Beliefs]. Revise and Resubmit, Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Ponce de Leon, R.,* & Bailey, E.R.* [Agentic and Communal Leaders]. Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Bailey, E.R., & Matz, S.C. [Similarity and Perceived Authenticity].
- Bailey, E.R. [Self-Awareness and State Authenticity].
- Horton, C.B., Bailey, E.R., & Iyengar, S.S. [Measuring State Authenticity].
At Haas since 2023
- Marketplace
- Salon
- Psychology Today
- NPR
- Wall Street Journal
- Scientific American
- Leading People, MBA Core Course