Rachael Goodwin
Assistant Professor of Management
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Rachael Dailey Goodwin is an Assistant Professor of Management at Syracuse University in the Whitman School of Management. She pursued a PhD in Management at the University of Utah and a research fellowship with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard. Rachael was also a visiting adjunct professor in the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University prior to obtaining a PhD. She investigates obstacles working women encounter in their leadership pursuits including power to lead in majority male domains, perfectionism, and gendered construal stereotypes (e.g., linguistic differences in describing men and women at work). She also explores unethical behaviors (e.g., sexual harassment) that create obstacles for women. Rachael’s work utilizes diverse methodologies including survey-based field research, experiments, qualitative interviews, and experience sampling. Her research has been published in top management publications and she has received awards for her research and teaching.
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Utah
M.P.A., , Brigham Young University
B.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University
Organizational Behavior*, Negotiations*+, Groups and Teams+, Leadership*, Diversity, Women and Leadership, Ethics
I investigate workplace issues related to expected power, managerial social cognition (i.e., construal), morality, and gender. My research also explores attitudes towards perpetrators and victims, whistleblowing, and unethical behaviors (e.g., sexual harassment) that create obstacles for women at work.
Papers
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Power-shifting following workplace sexual harassment allegations
2020 Journal of Business Ethics, Dodson, S., Diekmann, K. -
Ambiguity and moral judgment: Leaders’ ambiguous accounts following allegations of misconduct elicit negative moral judgment and organizational boycotts
Journal of Applied Psychology , Dodson, S., Diekmann, K. -
Newman, A., Jones, L., Goodwin, R.D. Stay, Sell, Scale: Identity Work and Strategic Choice after Entrepreneurial Emancipation
Newman, A. -
Power, status, construal, and compassion
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Know Your Place! How Subordinate Informal Influence and Supervisor Gender Interact to Affect Supervisor Downward Envy and Work Behavior
Personnel Psychology, Carnevale, J., Huang, L., Yu, L. -
An experience-sampling investigation of attributions and outcomes of workplace discrimination
Organizational Behavior & Human Development Processes , Dodson, S., Cole, K. -
The invisible load carried by working parents
Dodson, S.
Publications
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Under Pressure to Be Perfect: How Dehumanizing and Rehumanizing Social Cues Lead to Maladaptive and Adaptive Perfectionism in Professional Ballet
2025 Academy of Management Journal, Garrett, L., Block, A.
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She sees the trees, he sees the forest: Descriptive gender stereotypes of concreteness and abstractness.
2025 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,129,6,1054-1082, Dodson, S., Wakslak, C., Diekmann, K., Graham, J.
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Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues
2024 Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Anderson, A., Wakslak, C.
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Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations
2023 Organization Science,34,5,1938-1964, Dodson, S., Graham, J., Diekmann, K.
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Gender, Sense of Power, and Desire to Lead: Why Women Don’t “Lean In” to Apply to Leadership Groups That Are Majority-Male
2020 Psychology of Women Quarterly,44,4,468-487, Dodson, S., Chen, J., Diekmann, K.
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Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Attitudes Toward Sexual Misconduct Claims
2020 Academy of Management Proceedings,2020,1,14553, Dodson, S., Chambers, M., Graham, J., Diekmann, K.
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Good intentions aren't good enough: Moral courage in opposing sexual harassment
2020 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,86,1,103894, Graham, J., Diekmann, K.
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He is expected to see the forest, she is expected to see the trees: evidence for a construal-level based gender stereotype
JPSP, Dodson, S., Wakslak, C., Graham, J., Diekmann, K.
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Jan 01, 2025
Received - Deans Citation Research Award
Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University -
May 01, 2024
Received - Undergraduate Student Research Grant
Syracuse University -
Jan 01, 2023
Received - Deans Citation Award
Whitman School of Management -
Jan 01, 2023
Received - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant: $15,806
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council -
Jan 01, 2021
Received - Doctoral Teaching Excellence Award
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah -
Aug 01, 2020
Received - Organizational Behavior Division Best Symposium Award
Academy of Management -
Jan 01, 2020
Received - Doctoral Teaching Excellence Award
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah -
Jan 01, 2020
Received - University of Utah Doctoral Teaching Excellence Award
Management Department -
Jan 01, 2020
Received - Family Care Grant
Society for Personality and Social Psychology -
Jan 01, 2018
Received - Women in Leadership Research Award: $16,500
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah -
Jan 01, 2017
Received - Graduate Student Travel Assistance Award
University of Utah Graduate School -
Jan 01, 2011
Marriott School of Management Scholarship
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Jan 01, 2010
Nominated & elected VP of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP); One of ten (of 300+) honors chapters named “Chapter of Excellence” by the National PKP Board
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Jan 01, 2009
Robert K. Thomas Honors Scholarship, Economic Self-Reliance Center Scholarship, and Departmental Scholarships
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Jan 01, 2009
National Truman Scholar Candidate
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Jan 01, 2007
President's Student Service Scholarship recipient for over 500 hours of service
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Received - 2025 ARC Support Package (Part I): $10,000 for Faculty of Business and Economics
Australian Research Council
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What ballet dancers teach us about perfectionism at work
July 09, 2026 Melbourne Business School News -
What ballerinas can teach leaders about perfectionism and psychological safety
November 03, 2025 Charter Works -
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult work issues
October 16, 2025 Business Talk Podcast (global audience) -
Social cues shape maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism
October 15, 2025 Syracuse University News -
Feedback triggers different types of perfectionism
September 22, 2025 Academy of Management Insights -
How social cues in ballet can affect perfectionism
August 19, 2025 Pointe Magazine (global audience) -
From Pirouettes to Pressure: Ballet's Perfectionism Problem Exposed
June 17, 2025 Bing News -
From Pirouettes to pressure: Ballet’s perfectionism problem exposed
June 17, 2025 Phys.org -
We need to rethink how we recommend women on LinkedIn, Study Says
June 11, 2025 Forbes -
Why people support perpetrators during sexual misconduct allegations
February 15, 2025 Forbes -
Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct
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The Academic Minute
July 29, 2023 WAMC Northeast Public Radio -
Managers’ moral values could give sympathy to perpetrators
April 17, 2023 PSNews Australia -
Gender, sense of power, and desire to lead: Why women don’t “Lean in” to apply to leadership groups that aremajority-male
June 01, 2021 Harvard University, Gender Action Portal -
Good intentions aren’t good enough: Moral courage in opposing sexual harassment
May 01, 2021 Harvard University, Gender Action Portal -
Opposing sexual harassment
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Why Women Don’t “Lean In
April 01, 2021 -
Reporting and confronting sexual harassment
October 23, 2020 -
Good intentions aren’t good enough to oppose sexual harassment
June 29, 2020 -
When it comes to reporting sexual harassment, what people say is often not what they do
June 19, 2020