Erica R. Bailey

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Management of Organizations Group at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. I am currently a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, awarded to honor faculty at Haas with a record of accomplishment and a bright future.

Research topics

• Social psychology
• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Aesthetics
• Visual arts
• World Wide Web
• Art

Selected publications

• Positive—More than unbiased—Self-perceptions increase subjective authenticity.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2023-10-19 · 19 citations

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  = 1,795) with two operationalizations of self-rated authenticity: attributed and state authenticity. We find that authenticity emerges from positive self-beliefs (Study 1), positive personality assessments (Study 2), and positive self-expressions (Study 3a and b). Further, we find that these effects are not driven only by positivity, but positive selves (Study 4), and mediated by the identity centrality (Study 5). Finally, Study 6 finds that this positivity bias does not extend to other-rated au…

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• Just be real with me: Perceived partner authenticity promotes relationship initiation via shared reality

  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2024-01-01 · 16 citations

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• A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence

  Social Psychological and Personality Science · 2024-05-21 · 8 citations

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  Having passion is almost universally lauded. People strive to follow their passion at work, and organizations increasingly seek out passionate employees. Supporting the benefits of passion, prior research finds a robust relationship between passion and higher levels of job performance. At the same time, this research also reveals significant variability in the size of the effect. To explain this heterogeneity, we propose that passion is associated with performance overconfidence—inflated views a…

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• Does thinking about God increase acceptance of artificial intelligence in decision-making?

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024-07-23 · 7 citations

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  We report our attempts to replicate results by Karata and Cutright (2023), in which thoughts of God increased people's receptivity to advice from artificially intelligent advisors.We attempt faithful replications of the five online studies from the paper all with larger sample sizes than the originals.We fail to find evidence consistent with the claims of Karata and Cutright.Our results suggest that if the original effect exists, it is too small to have been detected by the original studies.

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• The preeminence of communality in the leadership preferences of followers.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2025-02-03 · 5 citations

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  = 3,682) support our theorizing. In Study 1, we find that people describe their ideal leader as more communal than the typical leader, representing a divide between preferred versus prototypical leaders. We then examine the preference for communality in leaders at the trait level (Studies 2 and 3) and in evaluations of candidates for leadership positions (Studies 4a-5). Further, we find that followers' preference for communal leaders is explained, in part, by the anticipation that a communal lea…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sheena S. Iyengar

  12 shared

• Jon Jachimowicz

  7 shared

• Adam D. Galinsky

  4 shared

• adam galinsky

  3 shared

• Andreas Wihler

  3 shared

• Kai Krautter

  3 shared

• Michael White

  Columbia University

  3 shared

• C. Blaine Horton

  3 shared

Education

• PhD, Columbia Business School

  Columbia University

  2023

Awards & honors

• Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow

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