Stephen M Garcia
Adjunct Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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Stephen Garcia is a social psychologist, and he is an expert on the psychology of competition, the psychology of inequality, and judgment and decision-making.
- Ilana Ritov, Stephen M Garcia. 2026. The ironic effect of entitlement: Giving behavior increases with entitled pursuit of information. Judgment and Decision Making 21:1-1.
- Valentino E. Chai, Benjamin A. Converse, Stephen M Garcia, Patricia Chen. 2026. Amicable rivalries and hostile rivalries: Divergent profiles of motivation and unethical conduct. Journal of Applied Psychology
- Kathrin J. Hanek, Stephen M Garcia. 2026. Countering Social Information: Low Identity Integration Leads to Nonconformity in Consumption Choices. Psychology & Marketing
- Maciejovsky, Boris, Teekathananont, Gunyawee, Chen, Patricia, Garcia, Stephen M., Maciejovsky, Boris, Teekathananont, Gunyawee, Chen, Patricia, Stephen M Garcia. 2025. Standard-Based Entitlement: How Relative Performance Disclosure Affects Pay Requests. Journal of Business Ethics :1-16.
- Ritov, Ilana, Stephen M Garcia. 2025. Deliberate ignorance in resource allocations to others: The role of entitlement. Current Opinion in Psychology 65:102089.
- Stephen M Garcia, Avishalom Tor. 2025. N-equality: Inequality increases with the number of allocation recipients. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Stephen M Garcia, Avishalom Tor. 2024. Social Comparison and Competition: A Progress Report. The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition :401-423.
- Avishalom Tor, Stephen M Garcia. 2023. Social Comparison and Competition: General Frameworks, Focused Models, and Emerging Phenomena. Oxford Handbook on the Psychology of Competition
- Stephen M Garcia, Avishalom Tor, Andrew J. Elliot. 2023. The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition.
- Stephen M Garcia, Avishalom Tor, Andrew J. Elliot. 2021. The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition.