Associate Professor
Management of Organizations
Studying the outsized impact of subtle biases
About
Drew Jacoby-Senghor is an associate professor in Management of Organizations at UC Berkeley Haas. His research identifies how prejudice unconsciously shapes social networks, how networks shape prejudice, and the implications of these processes within professional and academic contexts. He received his BA in psychology from Stanford University and his PhD in social psychology from Princeton University. Subsequently, he was the Provost Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia Business School.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Effect of Subtle Bias on Performance
- Intergroup Interactions
- Social Networks and Prejudice
- Brown, N. D. & Jacoby-Senghor, D. S., (2026). Equality in the eye of the advantaged beholder: Group status shapes perceptions of equality as zero-sum. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Brown, N. D., Jacoby-Senghor, D. S., Mackey, A. P., & Slepian, M. L. (2026). Managing threatened identities across everyday situations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 125, 104906.
- Brown, N.D., Jacoby-Senghor, D.S., & Raymundo, I. (2022) If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups. Science Advances.
- Brown, N.D. & Jacoby-Senghor, D.S. (2021). Majority members misperceive even ‘win-win’ diversity policies as unbeneficial to them. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Slepian, M.L. & Jacoby-Senghor, D.S. (2021). Identity threats in everyday life: Distinguishing belonging from inclusion. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(3), 392-406.
- Drew S Jacoby-Senghor, Stacey Sinclair, J Nicole Shelton. A lesson in bias: The relationship between implicit racial bias and performance in pedagogical contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
2016 - Drew S Jacoby-Senghor, Stacey Sinclair, Colin Tucker Smith. When bias binds: Effect of implicit outgroup bias on ingroup affiliation.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
2015
At Haas since 2016
- 2023 – present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
- 2016 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
- 2014 – 2016, Provost Postdoctoral Scholar, Columbia Business School
- Study finds people in advantaged positions hesitant to improve equality, The Daily Californian, 05/15/2022
- Do the rich see inequality as a zero-sum game?, CalMatters, 05/13/2022
- This research explains why equality in America is so elusive, Mother Jones, 05/10/2022
- Study finds even liberals resist equality measures, The Sacramento Bee, 05/09/2022
- Negotiations and Conflict Resolution, FTMBA 252