Vivian L. Xiao, Ph.D.

Vivian L. Xiao is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in the Organization Studies Area.

Prior to her appointment at Vanderbilt, Vivian received her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in Organizational Behavior from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2022. She received her B.A. in Psychology (with Honors) and English, magna cum laude, from Rice University in 2016.​

Vivian’s work explores how race and gender interact to impact a wide range of social and organizational outcomes, including leader evaluation and selection, politics, and gender-norm formation.

In one line of work, she investigates how perceivers’ and targets’ racial group memberships impact gender perception and the formation and enforcement of gender norms. Her work finds that people largely construct and enforce gender and gender norms within racial groups. Responses to gender-norm violation and gender-norm conformity alike are most pronounced within racial groups, which may reflect a fundamental association people have between gender and racial in-group members. Her work suggests that who we see and engage with as “men” and “women” are largely racial in-group members.

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In a second line of work, she focuses on how workers with minoritized identities engage with their work and their organizations. She is interested in how workers from different racial groups may engage in different workplace behaviors that are more or less rewarded in the American organizational context and the implications these behaviors have for career outcomes, as well as how remote work may change the amount and degree of discrimination that racial minority workers perceive and how this affects wellbeing and belonging in organizations.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Xiao, V.L. & Lowery, B.S. Who is She to Me?: A Relational Approach to Examining Race-Gender Associations. Under review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Xiao, V.L., Lowery, B.S., & Stillwell, A. (in press). Gender Backlash and the Moderating Role of Shared Racial Group Membership. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221074543

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Xiao, V.L., Corrington, A.R., Hebl, M.R., & Phillips, C. Knowing Your Worth: Race and Gender Differences in Personal Entitlement. Preparing for submission.

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Xiao, V.L. (in press). Deliberate Inclusion: Considering Underrepresented Perspectives in Psychology. In King, E., Roberson, Q.M., & Hebl, M.R. (Eds.), Research on Social Issues in Management (Vol. The Future of Diversity & Inclusion). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 

Xiao, V.L. (in press). Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in the Workplace. In Gurung, R.A.R. (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Psychology in the Real World. Cambridge, UK: Routledge.

(* denotes shared first authorship, authors listed in alphabetical order)​

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Xiao, V.L. & Lowery, B.S. Is She Worthy?: The Impact of Shared Racial Group Membership on Helping Behaviors towards Women.

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Xiao, V.L. & Lowery, B.S. Setting Him Up for Success (or Failure): Motivated Evaluations of White and Black Male Leaders’ Effectiveness. 

Stillwell, A.*, Xiao, V.L.*, & Martin, A.E. A Comparative Study of Masculinity and Femininity Beliefs Across Racial Groups.

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Fa-Kaji, N.M.*, Xiao, V.L.*, Lide, C., & Flynn, F.J. The Impact of Employee Voice on Perceived Inclusion and Performance. 

Vivian L. Xiao

Vanderbilt University
Owen Graduate School of Management
401 21st Avenue S., Nashville, TN 37203