Faculty Profile

Research Interests

Awards, Recognition and Honors

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Tai, K., Keem, SJ., Lee, KY., & Kim, E. Envy Influences Interpersonal Dynamics and Team Performance: Roles of Gender Congruence and Collective Team Identification (in press). Journal of Management. 

• Anyi, M., Savani, K., Liu, FZ., Tai, K., & Kay, A (in press). The Mutual Constitution of Person and Culture: The Bidirectional Relationship between Individuals’ Perceived Control and Cultural Tightness-Looseness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 

• Tai, K., Lin, K., Lam, CK., & Wu, L. Biting the Hand That Feeds: A Status-Based Model of When and Why Receiving Help Motivates Social Undermining (in press). Journal of Applied Psychology. *The first two authors contributed equally and their authorships were determined randomly.

• Tai, K.,* Lee, KY,* Kim, E.,* Johnson, T., Wang, W., Duffy, MK., & Kim, SS. Gender, Bottom-line Mentality, and Workplace Mistreatment:  The Roles of Gender Norm Violation and Team Gender Composition. (in press). Journal of Applied Psychology. *The first three authors contributed equally to this work and are listed in reverse alphabetical order.

• Tai, K., Liu, YC., Pitesa, M., Lim, S., Tong, Y. K., & Arvey, R. D. (2022). Fit to be Good: Physical Fitness is Negatively Associated with Deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 389 - 407.

• Lim, JH., Tai, K., & Kouchaki, M. (2021). Ambivalent Bosses: An Examination of Supervisor Expressed Emotional Ambivalence on Subordinate Task Engagement. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 139 - 152.

• Lim, J. H., Tai, K., Bamberger, P., & Morrison, E. W (2020). Soliciting resources from others: An integrative review. Academy of Management Annals, 14, 122-129.

• Zheng, X., Fehr, R., Tai, K., Narayanan, J., & Gelfand, M. J. (2015). The unburdening effects of forgiveness: Effects on slant perception and jumping height. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 431-438.

• Wang, C.S., Ku, G., Tai, K & Galinsky, A.D (2014). Stupid doctors and smart construction workers: Perspective-taking reduces stereotyping of both negative and positive targets. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 430-436. 

• Lim, S., & Tai, K. (2014). Family incivility and job performance: A moderated mediated model of core self-evaluations and psychological distress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 351-359.

• Wang, C.S., Tai, K., Ku, G., & Galinsky, A.D. (2014). Perspective-taking increases willingness to engage in intergroup contact. PLoS ONE, 9(1).

• Narayanan, J., Tai, K., & Kinias, Z. (2013). Power motivates interpersonal connection following social exclusion. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 122, 257-265. 

• Tai, K., Narayanan, J., & McAllister, D. (2012). Envy as pain: Rethinking the nature of envy and its implications for employees and organizations. Academy of Management Review, 37, 107-129.

• Tai, K., Zheng, X., & Narayanan, J. (2011). Touching a teddy bear mitigates the negative effects of social exclusion. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 618-626.

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