Lab Profile

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Principal Investigator

Lilia Cortina, PhD (Associate Professor, Psychology & Women's Studies) Lilia researches victimization and gender in organizations. One line of work addresses sexual harassment, focusing on factors that mitigate or exacerbate the impact of harassment on women's psychological and occupational health.  In another stream of research, Lilia investigates workplace incivility, i.e., everyday rude, condescending, and ostracizing acts that violate social norms of respect.  She also studies intersections of these different forms of victimization, finding that they often occur in tandem in the same organizational contexts, amplifying the harm on targeted employees. Click here for Lilia Cortina's CV

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Current Doctoral Students

	Melanie Henderson Melanie's research addresses organizational status and power; potential methods of taming the corruptive effects of power; and ways of facilitating beneficial power relations in the workplace. Her previous work focused on the detrimental and abusive aspects of office dynamics.
Dana Kabat Dana is interested in workplace hostility against members of undervalued social groups; navigation of social identities; and links among identity, culture, and the self. For this lab, she is investigating how workplace incivility functions as a covert means of gender and racial bias against women and people of color.
	Emily Leskinen Emily's interests include sexual violence against women; women's human rights; and women's experiences of trauma and resiliency. She is currently studying how sexual harassment often involves non-sexualized, gender-based hostility, which has a detrimental impact on victims but typically goes uncorrected in organizations.
Lisa Marchiondo Lisa's research revolves around workplace incivility and the occupational health of women in various types of organizations. She is also interested in leadership and power, specifically related to women and their promotion within organizations.
	Samantha Montgomery Samantha's interests include feminist psychologies, factors contributing to the endorsement of sexist and heterosexist ideologies, and queer identification and subversion. She is particularly interested in the intersections of gender and sexuality in different social contexts.
Nicky Newton Nicky studies how personalities and social environments affect - and in turn, are affected by - women's choices regarding family and career. Current projects include women's longitudinal patterns of identity and generativity, women's sexuality in midlife and beyond, and women's experiences of retirement and the "third age".
	Adena Rottenstein Adena's interests include harassment in the workplace; identities of marginalized groups (e.g., LGBTQ identity, Deaf cultural identity); and disordered eating. In a current project, she is studying mentorship as a factor that can protect women from the harms of sexual harassment in male-dominated work settings.

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Past Doctoral Students

Brianna Barker Caza (PhD 2007), Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marisela Huerta (PhD 2007), Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois - Chicago

Julie Konik (PhD 2005), Advisor and Instructor of Psychology, Wright State University

Sandy Lim (PhD 2005), Assistant Professor of Management and Organisation, National University of Singapore

Kathi Miner-Rubino (PhD 2004), Assistant Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies, Texas A&M University

Perry Silverschanz (PhD 2006), Postdoctoral Fellow at the Substance Abuse Research Center, University of Michigan

Cindy Torges (PhD 2006), Assistant Professor of Gerontology, North Dakota State University

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Research Assistants

Roman & Sydney Cortina	Bacchus

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Selected Publications

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Caza, B.B. & Cortina, L.M. (2008). From insult to injury: Explaining the impact of incivility. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 335-350.

Cortina, L.M. (2008). Unseen injustice: Incivility as modern discrimination in organizations. Academy of Management Review.  Academy of Management Review, 33, 55-75.

Cortina, L.M. & Berdahl, J.L. (2008). Sexual harassment in organizations: A decade of research in review. In C. Cooper & J. Barling (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Micro Perspectives (pp. 469-497).  Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Konik, J. & Cortina, L.M. (2008). Policing gender at work: Intersections of harassment based on sex and sexuality. Social Justice Research.

Lim, S., Cortina, L.M., & Magley, V.J. (2008). Personal and workgroup incivility: Impact on work and health outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 95-107.

Miner-Rubino, K. & Cortina, L.M. (2008). Beyond targets: Consequences of vicarious exposure to misogyny at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1254-1269.

Silverschanz, P., Konik, J., Cortina, L.M., Magley, V.J. (2008). Slurs, snubs and queer jokes: Incidence and impact of heterosexist harassment in academica. Sex Roles, 58, 179-191.

Huerta, M., Cortina, L.M., Pang, J.S., Torges, C., & Magley, V.J. (2006). Sex and power in the academy: Modeling sexual harassment in the lives of college women. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 616-628 .

Cortina, L.M. & Pimlott-Kubiak , S. (2006). Gender and PTSD: Sexual violence as an explanation for women's increased risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 753-759 .

Cortina, L.M. & Wasti, S.A. (2005). Profiles in coping: Responses to sexual harassment across persons, organizations, and cultures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 182-192.

Lim, S.G.P. & Cortina, L.M. (2005). Interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace: The interface and impact of general incivility and sexual harassment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 483-496.

Cortina, L.M. (2004). Hispanic perspectives on sexual harassment and social support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30 , 570-584.

Miner-Rubino, K. & Cortina, L.M.. (2004). Working in a context of hostility toward women: Implications for employees' wellbeing. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 9, 107-122.

Cortina, L.M. & Magley, V.J. (2003). Raising voice, risking retaliation: Events following mistreatment in the workplace. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 8, 247-265 .

Pimlott-Kubiak, S. & Cortina, L.M. (2003). Gender, victimization, and outcomes: Reconceptualizing risk. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 528-539.

Cortina, L.M., Fitzgerald, L.F. & Drasgow, F. (2002). Contextualizing Latina experiences of sexual harassment: Preliminary tests of a structural model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 295-311.

Wasti, S.A. & Cortina, L.M. (2002). Coping in context: Sociocultural determinants of responses to sexual harassment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83 , 394-405.

Cortina, L.M. (2001). Assessing sexual harassment among Latinas: Development of an instrument. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7 , 164-181.

Cortina, L.M., Magley, V.J., Williams, J.H., & Langhout, R.D. (2001). Incivility in the workplace: Incidence and impact. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 6 , 64-80. *****Workplace Incivility Scale available in this article

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