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Is privilege real? How is advantage maintained? Who has privilege?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I study social hierarchies \u2013 how they are built, maintained, experienced, and changed. I am especially interested in the psychology of advantage or privilege. How does elite or privileged position in a social hierarchy influence beliefs, motivations, and behavior? I examine people\u2019s motivations and beliefs about inequality, race, and diversity, and how these beliefs influence intergroup behavior and social inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brown, R.M., Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, & Craig, M.A. (2025). Lay beliefs of privilege: Consequences of the invisible knapsack. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foster-Gimbel, O.A., Pillemer, J., &\u00a0Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>\u00a0(2025). Authentic allyship: Feeling authentic increases allyship behavior via greater psychological standing.\u00a0Journal of Experimental Psychology: General<\/em>. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Tepper, S.J., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Davidai, S., Ordabayeva, N., Mirza, M.U., Szaszi, B., Day, M.V., Hauser, O.P., & Jachimowicz, J.M. (2025). Inequality in people’s minds: An integrative psychological framework of perceptions of economic inequality.\u00a0Personality and Social Psychological Review.\u00a0<\/em>Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foster-Gimbel, O.A. & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2025). Evidence for a curvilinear effect of psychological discomfort on dominant group members\u2019 engagement in allyship, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, <\/em>1-19. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips, L.T., <\/strong>Kreps, T.A., & Chugh, D. (2024). Different ally motivations lead to different outcomes: How self-transcendence and self-enhancement values predict effectiveness of self-identified allies. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.<\/em> Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jun, S., Phillips, L.T.,<\/strong> & Foster-Gimbel, O.A. (2023). The missing middle: Asian employees’ experience of workplace discrimination and pro-Black allyship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105<\/em>, 225-248. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig, M.A. & Phillips, L.T. <\/strong>(2023). Group-based hierarchies of power and status. In L. Huddy, D. O. Sears, J. S. Levy, & J. Jerit (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology <\/em>(3rd Edition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Jun, S., & Shakeri, A. (2022). Barriers and boosts: Using inequity frames theory to expand understanding of race and gender inequity. Academy of Management Annals, 16<\/em>, 547-587. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomova Shakur, T.K. & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2022). What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> & Jun, S. (2022). Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122<\/em>, 825-852. Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alt, N. & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2022). Person perception, meet people perception: Exploring the social vision of groups. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17<\/em>, 768-787. (shared first-authorship). Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jachimowicz, J.M., Davidai, S., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Szaszi, B., Day, M.V., Tepper, S.J., Phillips, L.T., <\/strong>Usman Mizra, U., Ordabayeva, N., & Hauser, O.P. (2022). <\/em>Inequality in researcher\u2019s minds: Four guiding questions for studying subjective perceptions of economic inequality. Journal of Economic Surveys.<\/em> Download<\/a>

Anicich, E. M., Jachimowicz, J. M., Osborne, M. R., & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2021). Structuring local environments to avoid racial diversity: Anxiety drives Whites’ geographical and institutional self-segregation preferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95<\/em>, 104-117. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> & Lowery, B.S. (2020). I ain\u2019t no fortunate one: On the motivated denial of class privilege. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119<\/em>, 1403-1422. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Martin, S. R., & Belmi, P. (2020). Social class transitions: Three guiding questions for moving the study of class to a dynamic perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14<\/em>, e12560. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Stephens, N.M, Townsend, S.S.M., & Goudeau, S. (2020). Access is not enough: Cultural mismatch persists to limit first-generation students\u2019 opportunities for achievement throughout college. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119<\/em>, 1112-1131. Download<\/a>

Zitek, E. M. & Phillips, L. T.<\/strong> (2020). Ease and control: The cognitive benefits of hierarchy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33<\/em>, 131-135. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> & Lowery, B.S. (2018). Herd invisibility: The psychology of racial privilege. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27<\/em>, 156-162. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Slepian, M.L, Hughes, B.L. (2018). Perceiving groups: The people perception of diversity and hierarchy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114<\/em>, 766-785. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> & Lowery, B.S. (2015). The hard-knock life? Whites claim hardships in response to race inequity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 61<\/em>, 12-18. Download<\/a>

Halevy, N. & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2015). Conflict templates in negotiations, disputes, joint decisions, and tournaments. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6<\/em>, 13-22. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2014). People perception: Social vision of groups and consequences for organizing and interacting. Research in Organizational Behavior, 34<\/em>, 101-127. Download<\/a>

Stephens, N.M., Markus, H.R., & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2014). Social class culture cycles: How three gateway contexts shape selves and fuel inequality. Annual Review of Psychology, 65<\/em>, 611-634. Download<\/a>

Phillips, L.T.<\/strong>, Conner, A.L., Cohen, G., Eberhardt, J.L., & Maitreyi, A. (2014). Identity activation to improve donor recruitment, retention, and conversion. SPARQ Solutions Catalog<\/em>, Case Analysis.

Stephens, N.M., Townsend, S.S.M., Markus, H.R., & Phillips, L.T.<\/strong> (2012). A cultural mismatch: Independent cultural norms produce greater increases in cortisol and more negative emotions among first-generation college students. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48<\/em>, 1389-1393. Download<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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