Laura Kray

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Laura Jean Kray
Alma mater University of Michigan
University of Washington
Scientific career
Institutions Northwestern University
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Weighting of attributes hypothesis : how perspective relates to preference shifts  (1997)
Website Laura Kray

Laura Kray is an American psychologist, professor and the Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Faculty Director of the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership. Her research looks to debunk myths surrounding the gender paygap.

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Early life and education

Kray has three sisters. [1] She was an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan. [2] She moved to the University of Washington for her doctoral research, where she studied psychological science. Her doctorate explored how perspective relates to shifts in preference. [3] Kray was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management. Here she worked in the dispute resolution research centre. [2]

Research and career

In 1999 Kray joined the University of Arizona as an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management. She moved to the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley in 2002, where she was made the Warren E. & Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership in 2010. In 2008 she founded the Women's Executive Leadership programme at Berkeley. [4] She has extensively investigated myths surrounding the gender paygap. [5] Her early work explored men and women's behaviour in negotiations, and found that both men and women were more deceptive when negotiating with women than they were when negotiating with men. [1] [6] [7]

Kray investigated the commonly held misconception that women were likely to engage in social sexual behaviour in an attempt to get promotions at work. [8] Her research showed that it was subordinate men who were most likely to flirt and use sexual behaviour – and that this behaviour often crossed into harassment. [8] She has shown that women were less likely to ask questions at conferences because they were anxious and feared backlash. [9]

She studied the structural and systemic reasons women often had lower salaries than men, and the psychological motives that strengthen pay inequality. Her work has shown that team size contributes to the gender pay gap; men who were put in charge of larger teams were paid more than equally qualified women who were not given the same opportunity. [10]

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