Area Chair for the Joint Program in Women's Studies and Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Area: Personality & Social Contexts
Contact Information
Email: lilia@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 3270 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-647-3956
Research and Teaching Interests
My research centers around the victimization of individuals (especially women) in the social context of work. I focus in particular on the process by which sexual harassment unfolds, investigating women’s experiences of gender disparagement, unwanted sexual overtures, and sexual coercion in organizations. I also study non-sexual abuses in the workplace, particularly incivility – i.e., low-level injustices that can accumulate over time to have a significant negative impact on victims.
Representative Publications
Cortina, L.M. (2008). Unseen injustice: Incivility as modern discrimination in organizations. 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.
Cortina, L.M. & Magley, V.J.. (2009). Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in organizations. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Glomb, T.M. & Cortina, L.M. (2006). The experience of victims: Using theories of traumatic and chronic stress to understand individual outcomes of workplace abuse. In E.K. Kelloway, J. Barling & J. Hurrell (Eds.), Handbook of Workplace Violence (pp. 517-534). 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.
Lonsway, K.A., Cortina, L.M. & Magley, V.J. (2008). Sexual harassment mythology: Definition, conceptualization, and measurement. Sex Roles, 58, 599-615.
