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Cynthia S Wang

Northwestern University
Verified email at kellogg.northwestern.edu
Cited by 4219

The promise and perversity of perspective-taking in organizations

G Ku, CS Wang, AD Galinsky - Research in Organizational Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Successful managers and leaders need to effectively navigate their organizational worlds,
from motivating customers and employees to managing diversity to preventing and resolving …

The COVID‐19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media and conspiracy theories

BJ Dow, AL Johnson, CS Wang… - Social and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study outlines a model for how the COVID‐19 pandemic has uniquely exacerbated the
propagation of conspiracy beliefs and subsequent harmful behaviors. The pandemic has led …

Political sectarianism in America

EJ Finkel, CA Bail, M Cikara, PH Ditto, S Iyengar, S Klar… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Political polarization, a concern in many countries, is especially acrimonious in the United
States (see the first box). For decades, scholars have studied polarization as an ideological …

Perspective-taking and self-other overlap: Fostering social bonds and facilitating social coordination

AD Galinsky, G Ku, CS Wang - Group processes & …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The present article offers a conceptual model for how the cognitive processes associated
with perspective-taking facilitate social coordination and foster social bonds. We suggest …

Perspective-takers behave more stereotypically.

AD Galinsky, CS Wang, G Ku - Journal of personality and social …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 95 (4) of Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2008-12903-010). Due to a production error …

The reappropriation of stigmatizing labels: The reciprocal relationship between power and self-labeling

AD Galinsky, CS Wang, JA Whitson… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a theoretical model of reappropriation—taking possession of a slur previously
used exclusively by dominant groups to reinforce another group's lesser status. Ten …

Social category diversity promotes premeeting elaboration: The role of relationship focus

DL Loyd, CS Wang, KW Phillips… - Organization …, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
A purported downside of social category diversity is decreased relationship focus (ie, one's
focus on establishing a positive social bond with a coworker). However, we argue that this …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective-taking increases willingness to engage in intergroup contact

CS Wang, T Kenneth, G Ku, AD Galinsky - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The current research explored whether perspective-taking increases willingness to engage
in contact with stereotyped outgroup members. Across three studies, we find that perspective …

Sense of control and conspiracy perceptions: Generative directions on a well-worn path

BJ Dow, T Menon, CS Wang, JA Whitson - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
We review recent research on the well-established relationship between sense of control
and conspiracy perceptions, identifying challenges and promising new directions. First, we …

Perception through a perspective-taking lens: Differential effects on judgment and behavior

G Ku, CS Wang, AD Galinsky - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
In contrast to the view that social perception has symmetric effects on judgments and
behavior, the current research explored whether perspective-taking leads stereotypes to …