Aneeta Rattan

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

BA (Columbia) PhD (Stanford)

Professor Aneeta Rattan’s research interests focus on mindsets and intergroup relations (stereotyping, prejudice, and inequity). In one programme of research, she studies mindsets that promote belonging, commitment, and achievement among minorities and women in the face of stereotypes and implicit bias. In another programme of research, she investigates the mindsets that help individuals, organisations, and societies foster positive interactions among diverse group members (across gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation status), even after incidents of explicit bias.

Professor Rattan’s research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. She has received multiple research grants from major funding agencies in the United States. Her research has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Huffington Post among others.

Research Awards

Overall Winner, The Case Centre Awards and Competitions for Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset (together with Herminia Ibarra), 2020
SAGE Young Scholar Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2019
Thinkers50 Radar Award Finalist, Thinkers50 Radar List, 2019
Member, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 2017
Junior Faculty Research Award, London Business School, 2017
Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2017
Core Teaching Award, 2016 (Selected by the MBA 2017 graduating class)
Dissertation Award Finalist, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2012
Psychology Summer Institute Fellow, American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program, 2012
Department of Psychology Graduate Teaching Award, Stanford University, 2008

Mindsets
Diversity
Prejudice Confrontation
Sense of Belonging
Intergroup Relations
Women
Minorities
STEM

2024

Inaugural editorial

Albarracin D; Conway P; Laurent S; Laurin K; Manzi F; Petrocelli J V; Rattan A; Salvador C E; Stern C; Todd A; Touré-Tillery M; Wakslak C; Zou X

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Vol 126:1 p 1-4

2023

A Bias Toward Kindness Goals in Performance Feedback to Women (vs. Men)

Jampol L; Rattan A; Wolf E B

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2023 Vol 49:10 p 1423-1438

A growth mindset frame increases opting in to reading information about bias

Kern M; Rattan A; Chugh D

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2023 In Press

Not Such a Complainer Anymore: Confrontation that Signals a Growth Mindset can Attenuate Backlash

Rattan A; Kroeper K; Arnett R; Brown X; Murphy M

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2023 Vol 124:2 p 344-361

Reducing gender bias in the evaluation and selection of future leaders: the role of decision makers’ mindsets about the universality of leadership potential

Rattan A; Savani K; Liu Z

Journal of Applied Psychology 2023 Vol 108:2 p 1924-1951

Support for increasing low-wage workers’ compensation: The role of fixed-growth mindsets about intelligence

Madan S; Ma A; Pandey N; Rattan A; Savani K

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2023 Vol 152:4 p 935-955

2022

Culturally Relevant Frames Increase Individuals’ Motivation to Contribute to Carbon Emissions Offsets

Hwee Lau E; Rattan A; Romero-Canyas R; Savani K

Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology 2022 Vol 53:10 p 1211-1234

Perceiving Progress toward Social Equality: A Model of Signals and Sense-Making

Georgeac O A M; Rattan A

Current Opinion in Psychology 2022 Vol 44 p 12-17

The Business Case for Diversity Backfires: Detrimental Effects of Organizations’ Instrumental Diversity Rhetoric for Underrepresented Group Members’ Sense of Belonging

Georgeac O; Rattan A

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2022 Vol 124:1 p 69-108

2021

Lay beliefs about who can bridge the Black-White racial gap during interracial exchanges

Wilton L S; Rattan A; Abrams S; Genao-Perez Y

Social Psychological and Personality Science 2021 Vol 13:2 p 533-542

2020

Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science

Murphy M C; Mejia A F; Mejia J; Yan X; Cheryan S; Dasgupta N; Destin M; Fryberg S A; Garcia J A; Haines E L; Harackiewicz J M; Ledgerwood A; Moss-Racusin C A; Park L A; Perry S P; Ratliff K A; Rattan A; Sanchez D T; Savani K; Sekaquaptewa D; et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Vol 117:39 p 24154-24164

Perceived centrality in social networks increases women’s expectations of confronting sexism

Rattan A; Brands R

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2020 Vol 46:12 p 1682-1701

Use Your Social Network as a Tool for Social Justice

Brands R; Rattan A

Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2020

2019

An exploratory investigation of Americans' expression of gender bias before and after the 2016 presidential election

Georgeac O; Rattan A; Effron D A

Social Psychological and Personality Science 2019 Vol 10:5 p 632-642

Embedding mindsets in context: Theoretical considerations and opportunities for studying fixed-growth lay theories in the workplace

Rattan A; Ozgumus E

Research in Organizational Behavior 2019 Vol 39 p 100127

Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains

Georgeac O; Rattan A

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2019 Vol 148:8 p 1435-1453

2018

Meta-lay theories of scientific potential drive underrepresented students’ sense of belonging to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

Rattan A; Savani S; Komarraju M; Morrison M; Boggs C L; Ambady N

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2018 Vol 115:1 p 54-75

Microsoft: instilling a growth mindset

Ibarra H; Rattan A

London Business School Review 2018 Vol 29:3 p 50-53

What happens after prejudice is confronted in the workplace? How mindsets affect minorities' and women's outlook on future social relations

Rattan A; Dweck C S

Journal of Applied Psychology 2018 Vol 103:6 p 676-687

When confronting a biased comment can increase your sense of belonging at work

Rattan A

Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2018 May 04, 2018

Whites' perceptions of biracial individuals' race shift when biracials speak out against bias

Wilton L; Rattan A; Sanchez D

Social Psychological and Personality Science 2018 Vol 9:8 p 953-961

2017

2015

Leveraging mindsets to promote academic achievement: Policy recommendations

Rattan A; Savani K; Chugh D; Dweck C S

Perspectives in Psychological Science 2015 Vol 10:6 p 721-726

2014

How “It gets better” : effectively communicating support to targets of prejudice

Rattan A; Ambady N

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2014 Vol 40:5 p 555-566

2013

Diversity ideologies and intergroup relations: An examination of colorblindness and multiculturalism

Rattan A; Ambady N

European Journal of Social Psychology 2013 Vol 43:1 p 12-21

2012

"It's ok - not everyone can be good at math:" Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students

Rattan A; Good C; Dweck C S

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2012 Vol 48:3 p 731-737

A choice mind-set increases the acceptance and maintenance of wealth inequality

Savani K S; Rattan A

Psychological Science 2012 Vol 23:7 p 796-804

Can everyone become highly intelligent? Cultural differences in and societal consequences of beliefs about the universal potential for intelligence

Rattan A; Savani K; Naidu N V R; Dweck C S

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2012 Vol 103:5 p 787-803

2010

The role of social meaning in inattentional blindess: When the gorillas in our midst do not go unseen

Rattan A; Eberhardt J L

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2010 Vol 46:6 p 1085-1088

Who confronts prejudice? The role of implicit theories in the motivation to confront prejudice

Rattan A; Dweck C S

Psychological Science 2010 Vol 21:7 p 952-959

2022

Marin Alsop: A study in inclusive leadership - Compact Case

Fletcher C J; Peterson R S; Rattan A

2020

Ros Atkins and the 50:50 Project at the BBC (A)

Rattan A; Georgeac O; Chilazi S

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