Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations
About
Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson is an assistant professor in Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. 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
- 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. & Kimel, S. Y. (2017). New Racism. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, B. S. Turner (Ed.).
- Racial Equity in Social Psychological Science: A Guide for Scholars, Institutions, and the Field.
- Sexual orientation and race mute the prescriptive nature of gender stereotypes.
- 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)