Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations
About
Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson is an assistant professor in Management of Organizations at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is interested in two broad research questions: What are the psychological and biological roots of power hierarchies, and how do these hierarchies intersect to influence experiences and perceptions? She received her BA in psychology and biology from Williams College and her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. Before coming to Haas, she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Yale University.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Power
- Hierarchy
- Intersectionality
- Emotions
- Hudson, S. T. J., Myer, A., & Berney, E. C. (2024). Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), e12939.
- Hudson, S. T. J. & Ghani, A. (2023). Sexual Orientation and Race Intersectionally Reduce the Perceived Gendered Nature of Normative Stereotypes in the United States. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Advance Online first publication.
- Hudson, S. T. J. & Uenal, F. (2023) The connections between personality, ideology and (counter-)empathic emotions depend on the target. Journal of Personality, 00, 1–24.
- Torrez, B. and Hudson, S. T. J., & Dupree, C. H. (2023). Racial equity in social psychological science: A guide for scholars, institutions, and the field. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(1), e12720.
- Ghani, A., Hudson, S. T. J., Rumaney, H., & Sidanius, J. (2023). Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance Online publication.
- Ledgerwood, A., Hudson, S. T. J., Lewis Jr., N. A., Maddox, K. B., Pickett, C. L., Remedios, J. D., Cheryan, S. Diekman, A. B., Goh, J. X., Goodwin, S. A., Munakata, Y., Navarro, D. J., Onyeador, I. N., Srivastava, S., and Wilkins, C. L. (2022) The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive. Forthcoming at Perspectives on Psychological Science.
- Rice, D., Hudson, S. T. J., & Noll, N. (2021). Gay = STIs? Exploring gay and lesbian sexual health stereotypes and their implications for prejudice and discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- Kraus, M. W., Hudson, S. T. J., & Richeson, J. A. (2021). Framing, Context, and the Misperception of Black–White Wealth Inequality. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Onyeador, I. N., Hudson, S. T. J., & Lewis Jr, N. A. (2021). Moving beyond implicit bias training: Policy insights for increasing organizational diversity. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(1), 19-26.
- Bergh, R., Davis, G. K., Hudson, S. T. J., & Sidanius, J. (2020). Social Dominance Theory and Power Comparison. In Social Comparison, Judgment, and Behavior (pp. 575–597). Oxford University Press.
- Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (2019). Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103871.
- Charlesworth, T. E. S., Hudson, S. T. J., Cogsdill, E. J., Spelke, E. S., & Banaji, M. R. (2019). Children use targets’ facial appearance to guide and predict social behavior. Developmental Psychology, 55(7), 1400-1413.
- Sidanius, J., Hudson, S. T. J., Davis, G., & Bergh, R. (2018). The Theory of Gendered Prejudice: A Social Dominance and Intersectionalist Perspective. In (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science: Oxford University Press.
- Hudson, S. T. J., Noland, E., Ghani, A., & Allen, A. M. (submitted). To be gay is to be low status: sexual orientation, not gender inversion, predicts perceived competencies of gay and straight men and women.
- Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (submitted). Preference for hierarchy is related to the motivation to feel less empathy and more schadenfreude towards low status people.
- Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (submitted). Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude.
At Haas since 2022
- 2022-present, Assistant Professor, Management of Organizations
- 2021-2022, National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
- 2020-2021, Departmental Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (MBA)