The process of gendering: Gender as a verb.
Martin, A.E. & Slepian, M.L. (forthcoming). Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Younger Family Faculty Scholar (2024-2025)
Ashley Martin is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her PhD in Management (2018) from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Her research provides insights into the primacy of gender in social cognition and has been published in top psychology and management journals, including The Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has received research awards from the American Psychological Association (Rising Star), International Social Cognition Network (Best Paper, Early Career), the Academy of Management (Best Dissertation), Poets and Quants (Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors), and Stanford’s Faculty Women Forum (Early Career Award).
Publications
Is gender primacy universal?
Martin, A.E, Guevara Beltran, D., Koster, J. & Tracy, J.L. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(35), 1-7.
A future for organizational diversity trainings: Mobilizing diversity science to improve effectiveness.
Onyeador, I., Mobasseri, S., McKinney, H. & Martin, A.E. (2024). Academy of Management Perspectives, 38(3), 392-414.
The divergent effects of diversity ideologies for race and gender relations
Martin (2023). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Gender relativism: How context shapes what is seen as male and female.
Martin (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001264
- PDF (coming soon)
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology
Martin & Mason (2023). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104402
- PDF (coming soon)
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.
Martin & Mason (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000293
- PDF (coming soon)
Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language
Lawson, Martin, Huda, Matz (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026443119
- PDF (coming soon)
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism
Martin, A.E. & North, M.S. (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
The primacy of communality in humanization
Chu, C. & Martin, A.E. (2021). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
The primacy of gender: Gendered cognition underlies the big two dimensions of social cognition
Martin, A.E. & Slepian, M.L. (2021). Perspectives in Psychological Science
Intersectional escape: Older women elude agentic prescriptions more than older men
Martin, A.E. & North, M.S. & Phillips, K.W. (2019) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(3), 342 – 359.
Understanding diversity ideologies from the target’s perspective: A review and future directions
Gundemir, S., Martin, A.E. & Homan, A. (2019). Frontiers in Psychology, 10(282), 1-14.
Dehumanizing gender: The De-biasing effects of gendering non-human entities
Martin, A.E. & Slepian, M.L. (2018). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(12), 1681 – 1696.
What ‘‘blindness” to gender differences helps women see and do: Implications for confidence, agency, and action in male-dominated environments.
Martin, A.E. & Phillips, K.W. (2017). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 142, 28 – 44.
To delegate or not to delegate: Gender differences in affective associations and behavioral responses to delegation.
Akinola, M.*, Martin, A.E.* & Phillips, K.W. (2018). Academy of Management Journal, 61(4), 1467 –1491.
*Both authors contributed equally
The role of stress mindset in shaping cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to challenging and threatening stress
Crum, A.J., Akinola, M., Martin, A.E., & Fath, S. (2017). Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 30(4), 379 – 395.
Teaching
This course introduces you to the structures and processes that affect group performance and highlights some of the common pitfalls associated with working in teams. Topics include team culture, fostering creativity and coordination, making group decisions, and dealing with a variety of personalities. You will participate in a number of group exercises to illustrate principles of teamwork and to give you practice not only diagnosing team problems but also taking action to improve total team performance.
This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical content will be customized to the specific interests of the enrolled students, but generally will be concerned with questions about behavioral phenomena in organizational contexts.