Charles Chu
Assistant Professor, Management & Organizations
Charles Chu joined the Questrom School of Business at Boston University as an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations in 2022.
Professor Chu’s research examines the psychological processes that maintain systems of inequality in organizations and society. His work focuses on spotlighting the intuitive and often unnoticed strategies people use to cloak the ways in which they contribute to maintaining inequality. His research has appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Education
PhD, Stanford University, 2022
MS, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 2017
BA, Yale University, 2012
Publications
Chu, C., Lowery, B. (2023). “Self-essentialist reasoning underlies the similarity-attraction effect.”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chu, C., Lowery, B. (2023). “Perceiving a Stable Self-Concept Enables the Experience of Meaning in Life.”, Pers Soc Psychol Bull 1461672221150234-1461672221150234
Chu, C., Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2022). “Black Americans’ Perspectives on Workplace Ally Prejudice Confrontations”, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 (1)
Chu, C., Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2022). “Black Americans’ perspectives on ally confrontations of racial prejudice”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101 104337-104337
Chu, C., Martin, A. (2021). “The primacy of communality in humanization”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97 104224-104224
Pietri, E., Johnson, I., Majid, S., Chu, C. (2021). “Seeing What’s Possible: Videos are more Effective than Written Portrayals for Enhancing the Relatability of Scientists and Promoting Black Female Students’ Interest in STEM”, Sex Roles, 84 (1-2), 14-33
Chu, C., Lowery, B. (2020). “The Role of Shared Future Selves and Self-Continuity in Promoting the Presence of Meaning in Life”, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1), 21320-21320
Bunderson, S., Greer, L., Lix, K., Abi-Esber, N., Barsade, S., Chai, S., Chu, C., Mell, J., Valentine, M., Wolf, E. (2020). “New Frontiers in Teamwork: The Power and Potential of Studying Invisible Structures in Teams”, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1), 15127-15127
Greer, L., Chu, C. (2020). “Power struggles: when and why the benefits of power for individuals paradoxically harm groups”, Current Opinion in Psychology, 33 162-166
Abi-Esber, N., Greer, L., Anicich, E., Greer, L., Kakkar, H., Pettit, N., Yu, S., Abi-Esber, N., Chu, C., De Hoogh, A., Doyle, S., Hurwitz, A., Kim, H., Magee, J., Sivanathan, N. (2018). “The Dynamics of Social Hierarchy in Teams and Organizations”, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018 (1), 12141-12141