Faculty & Staff Directory

Teodora Tomova Shakur

Assistant Professor
Management and Leadership Department

Education

  • PhD, New York University
  • MPhil, New York University
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • Network Favoritism
  • Nepotism
  • Cronyism
  • Employee Referrals
  • Meritocracy
  • Diversity

Selected Publications

  • Tomova Shakur, T. K., & Phillips, L. T. (2022). What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000383
  • Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., & Tomova Shakur, T. K. (2020). From me to you: Self-compassion predicts acceptance of own and others’ imperfections. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(2), 228-242.;
  • Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., Tomova Shakur, T. K., Bilgin, B., Chai, W. J., Ramis, T., ... & Manukyan, A. (2019). A compassionate self is a true self? Self-compassion promotes subjective authenticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(9), 1323-1337.