Below are a few recent papers, organized by research stream.
Hendrick, S., Williams, M. J., & Bianchi, E. C. (in press). Gender differences in parents’ well-being reverse during unemployment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Williams, M. J., Esianor, B., Hendrick, S., Farlow, J. L., Farrell, A., Kupfer, R. A., Meyer, T. K., Vinson, K. N., Wandell, G. M., & Chen, A. Y. (2025). Everyday questioning of women’s authority and legitimacy at work yields greater burnout and less persistence in a male-dominated profession. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(20), e2415826122.
Williams, M. J., Lopiano, G., & Heller, D. (2022). When the boss steps up: Workplace power, task responsibility and engagement with unpleasant tasks. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170, 104-130.
Williams, M. J., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Guillory, L. E. (2017). Sexual aggression when power is new: The effects of acute power on chronically low-power individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(2), 201-223.
Coverage from the Boston Globe, Fortune, Pacific Standard, Wall St Journal
Williams, M. J., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2016). The subtle suspension of backlash: A meta-analysis of penalties for women's implicit and explicit dominance behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 165-197.
Williams, M. J. (2014). Serving the self from the seat of power: Goals and threats predict self-interested leader behavior. Journal of Management, 40(5), 1365-1395.
Coverage from Nautilus
Williams, M. J., & Chen, S. (2014). When "mom's the boss": Control over domestic decision making reduces women's interest in workplace power. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 17(4), 436-452.
Coverage from Association for Psychological Science, Huffington Post
Williams, M. J., Paluck, E. L., & Spencer-Rodgers, J. (2010). The masculinity of money: Nonconscious stereotypes predict gender differences in estimated salaries. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34, 107-120.
Williams, M. J., & Mendelsohn, G. A. (2008). Gender clues and cues: Online interactions as windows into lay theories about men and women. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30(3), 278-294.
Negro, G., Williams, M. J., Pontikes, E., & Lopiano, G. (2021). Destigmatization and its imbalanced effects in labor markets. Management Science, 67(12), 7669-7686.
Williams, M. J., Wade, J. B., Nwadei, T., Swaminathan, A., Harrison, K., & Bukstein, S. (2024). Looking the part: Stereotypicality in appearance among White professionals predicts leadership attainment and perceived leadership suitability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(4), 613-628.
Williams, M. J., George-Jones, J., & Hebl, M. R. (2019). The face of STEM: Racial phenotypic stereotypicality predicts STEM persistence by - and ability attributions about - students of color. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(3), 416-443.
Hebl, M. R.*, Williams, M. J.*, Sundermann, J., Kell, H., & Davies, P. G. (2012). Selectively friending: Racial stereotypicality and social rejection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1329-1335. *Authors contributed equally; order is alphabetical.
Williams, M. J., & Eberhardt, J. L. (2008). Biological conceptions of race and the motivation to cross racial boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(6), 1033-1047.
Goff, P. A., Eberhardt, J. L., Williams, M. J., & Jackson, M. C. (2008). Not yet human: Implicit knowledge, historical dehumanization, and contemporary consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(2), 292-306.
He, T., & Williams, M. J. (2021). Interdependence and reflected failure: Cultural differences in stigma by association. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104-130.
Li, Y. J., Johnson, K. A., Cohen, A. B., Williams, M. J., Knowles, E. D., & Chen, Z. (2012). Fundamental(ist) attribution error: Protestants are dispositionally focused. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(2), 281-290.
Williams, M. J., & Spencer-Rodgers, J. (2010). Culture and stereotyping processes: Integration and new directions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4(8), 591-604.
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., & Peng, K. (2010). Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(3), 296-312.
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., Hamilton, D. L., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2007). Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(4), 525-543.