Stephen M Garcia
Adjunct Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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As a social psychologist, Stephen is interested in decision-making and social comparison. Current projects examine social comparison factors that shape competition and willingness to enter profitable joint ventures.
- 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.
- 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.
- Garcia, Stephen M, Georgellis, Y , Gregoriou, A , Ozbilgin, M . 2019. Pay Referents and Satisfaction with Pay: Does Occupational Proximity Matter?. British Journal of Management
- Garcia, Stephen M, Reese, Zachary A, Tor, Avishalom . 2019. Social Comparison Before, During, and After the Competition. Social Comparison, Judgment and Behavior
- Garcia, Stephen M, Weaver, Kimberlee . 2019. The adding-and-averaging effect in bundles of information: Preference reversals across joint and separate evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 24(3):296-305.
- Garcia, Stephen M, Weaver, Kimberlee , Chen, Patricia . 2019. The Status Signals Paradox. Social Psychological and Personality Science 10(5):690-696.
- Garcia, Stephen M, Wu, Kaidi , Kopelman, Shirli . 2018. Frogs, Ponds, and Culture: Variations in Entry Decisions. Social Psychological and Personality Science 9(1):99-106.