Ryan Walter Smith

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. I work in formal semantics, and my research focuses more specifically on the expression of stativity and change of state cross-linguistically, abstract nouns, resultatives, and plurality (especially similative and associative plurality). My work is primarily informed by the Iranian languages, especially Persian and Sorani Kurdish, as well as by Japanese, Spanish, and English.

Research topics

• Veterinary medicine
• Animal science
• Medicine
• Toxicology
• Biology
• Horticulture

Selected publications

• The Two Faces of Envy

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2016-08-18 · 34 citations

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  As this book shows, we are starting to understand more about the nature of envy, the content of its emotional experience, and its effects in an organization. Envy is the result of an upward social comparison, one that signals to someone that he or she lacks desired abilities, traits or rewards enjoyed by another. Organizational scholars recognize that social comparison and envy should be prevalent in organizations as employees are often subject to hierarchical stratification and often compete fo…

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• Schadenfreude in sports and politics: a social identity perspective

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2014-07-24 · 21 citations

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• The Role of Leaders in Managing Envy and its Consequences for Competition in Organizations

  Monographs in leadership and management · 2016-03-03 · 18 citations

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  In this chapter, we explore the implications of benign and malicious envy in the workplace and suggest methods by which leaders can manage the situational context to minimize negative responses to envy and promote positive responses. We argue that three aspects of the organizational context are especially influential in the development of envy: perceptions of fairness, employees’ feelings of control over their situation, and organizational culture. All three impact whether felt envy will be beni…

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• When comparisons divide

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2014-03-21 · 12 citations

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  I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent "middle-class squeeze." Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell substantially during the late 1990s, skyrocketed in the early and mid-aughts; among the middle class, the debt-to-income ratio reached its highest level in 24 years. The concentration of investment-type assets gener…

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• How Envy Can Incite Anti-Semitism and Genocide

  2019-11-21 · 2 citations

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  Abstract This chapter examines the role of envy in anti-Semitism and genocide. After making the case for why Jews might be envied in the first place, it suggests reasons why envy, together with other factors, should help explain the specific ways in which Jews have been the targets of prejudice and extreme aggression. Jews, because they are envied due to their perceived competence and because they are believed to have intentions to use their competence to undercut the majority culture, are often…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03MH050044

  NIH · $107k · 1994

Frequent coauthors

• Barbara Ostfeld

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  34 shared

• Thomas Hegyi

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  33 shared

• Christopher J. Michejda

  Center for Cancer Research

  27 shared

• I Mark Hiatt

  Saginaw Valley State University

  25 shared

• Elizabeth Bond

  Hospital for Sick Children

  16 shared

• Stephen Kardos

  Saint Peter's University Hospital

  16 shared

• Claudio Ruiz

  Hospital Universitario de Torrejón

  16 shared

• Robert Novo

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  16 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics

  University of Arizona

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