My research focuses on the effects of social identity threat and stigma on the well-being, motivation and performance of members of socially devalued groups (e.g., women, ethnic minorities). How do women and ethnic minorities cope with the prejudice they encounter at work or school, and how does this affects their ambition and performance on dimensions that define status in society (e.g., academic achievement, leadership aspirations). I study which factors determine whether women and ethnic minorities aim to improve their group’s outcomes through collective action rather than strive to improve their individual outcomes with individual mobility strategies. An example of this work is my research on the Queen Bee phenomenon, e.g., women who dissociate from other women to get ahead in a masculine organization.  Recently, I've become interested in physiological and neurological reactions to stigma and social identity threat (i.e, cardiovascular reactivity, EEG & ERP, fMRI).