My research examines how leadership and social hierarchy shape behaviour, judgment and well-being in organizations. I am interested in a core tension of organizational life: influence is necessary for coordination, but the ways people gain and exercise influence can also produce unintended costs for employees, teams and broader systems. I study how influential actors secure deference, how observers infer motives, morality and trustworthiness from those influence cues, and how these judgments shape ethical conduct, career mobility, work–family spillover, cooperation, support for diversity initiatives, and perceptions of inequality.
Brands, R., Brady, G. L., & Mehra, A. (2026). A paradox of brokerage: Alter distrust, network self-promotion, and the willingness to accept referrals from brokers. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, in press.
Cohen-Chen, S., Brady, G. L., Van Kleef, G. A., & Halperin, E. (2026). Not-so-great expectations: Outgroup indifference facilitates conflict resolution in negatively interdependent contexts. Political Psychology, 47(5), e70189.
Heller, D., Brady, G. L., Inesi, M. E., & Mussweiler, T. (2026). Just like my CEO: When perceived similarity makes pay inequality acceptable. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, in press.
†Brady, G. L., †Kakkar, H., & Sivanathan, N. (2024). Perilous and unaccountable: The positive relationship between dominance and moral hazard behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 127(2), 363–383.
Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (2024). More than meets the eye: The unintended consequence of leader dominance orientation on subordinate ethicality. Organization Science, 35(4), 1322–1341.
Cohen, S., Brady, G. L., Massaro, S., & van Kleef, G. A. (2022). Meh, whatever: The effects of indifference expressions on cooperation in social conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(6), 1336–1361.
Brady, G. L., Inesi, M. E., & Mussweiler, T. (2021). The power of lost alternatives in negotiations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 59–80.
Monroe, A. E., Brady, G. L., & Malle, B. F. (2017). This isn't the free will worth looking for: General free will beliefs do not influence moral judgments, agent-specific choice ascriptions do. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(2), 191–199.
Brady, G. L., Ku, G., & Wang, C. (2nd-round revise and resubmit — Journal of Applied Psychology). Title withheld for the review process.
†*Ryan, M., & †Brady, G. L. (Revise and resubmit — Organization Science). Title withheld for the review process.
†Kakkar, H., †Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (In prep, four studies — target Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). Leader dominance as a product of a high social class upbringing.
Brady, G. L., & Kakkar, H. (In prep, three studies — target Academy of Management Journal). Stigma by association: The impact of leader hierarchical orientation on subordinate career progress.
Panico, C., Barbi, G., Brady, G. L., & Di Stefano, G. (In prep, three studies — target Science). Value creation, value appropriation, and the cooperation dilemma.
Lavie, D., Brady, G. L., Gutierrez, C., Stettner, U., & Ilies, R. (In prep, one field experiment). The cooperative economy.
Brady, G. L., & *Haamann, P. AI-assisted leadership feedback: How artificial intelligence shapes managerial diagnosis and developmental guidance.
Brady, G. L., & *Laumann, B. AI-supported leadership development: Field experiments on artificial intelligence and managerial influence.
†*Ryan, M., & †Brady, G. L. (2026). Leadership and work–family spillover. Academy of Management, Philadelphia, United States.
†*Ryan, M., & †Brady, G. L. (2026). Leadership and work–family spillover. International Association for Conflict Management, Vienna, Austria.
†*Ryan, M., & †Brady, G. L. (2026). Leadership and work–family spillover. Power, Status and Influence Conference (PSI), Melbourne, Australia.
Brady, G. L., Parke, M., & Sivanathan, N. (2022). Are you challenging my authority? The role of leader dominance-orientation in predicting voice endorsement. Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, United States.
Brady, G. L., & Ku, G. (2022). Not all perspectives are worth taking: The impact of perspective-taking of anti-egalitarian views on support for diversity initiatives. Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, United States.
Brady, G. L., Parke, M., & Sivanathan, N. (2020). A dominance and prestige account of voice endorsement. Academy of Management, online (accepted; symposium withdrawn when the platform moved online).
Brady, G. L., Kakkar, H., & Sivanathan, N. (2020). How leaders' status strategies influence accountability and moral hazard. International Association for Conflict Management, online.
Brady, G. L., Inesi, M. E., & Mussweiler, T. (2020). The power of lost alternatives in negotiations. International Association for Conflict Management, online.
Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (2020). The power of lost alternatives in negotiations. Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London, UK (concluded early due to COVID-19).
Brady, G. L., Inesi, M. E., & Mussweiler, T. (2019). The power of lost alternatives in negotiations. Academy of Management, Boston, MA.
Brady, G. L., Inesi, M. E., & Mussweiler, T. (2019). The power of lost alternatives in negotiations. International Association for Conflict Management, Dublin. Poster.
Brady, G. L., Kakkar, H., & Sivanathan, N. (2019). How leaders' status strategies influence accountability and moral hazard. Academy of Management, Boston, MA.
Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (2019). Hierarchical motivation and ethicality: The divergent impact of dominance and prestige leaders on subordinate ethical behavior. Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London, UK.
Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (2019). Hierarchical motivation and ethicality: The divergent impact of dominance and prestige leaders on subordinate ethical behavior. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR. Poster.
Brady, G. L., & Sivanathan, N. (2018). Hierarchical motivation and ethicality: The divergent impact of dominance and prestige leaders on subordinate ethical behavior. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
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