Shane D. Soboroff

I am a 2002 graduate (B.A.) of the University of Iowa, and began graduate work in Fall 2004. My M.A. project studied expectation states and the rewards received from having a high status reference when seeking a job. My current interests are the relationship between status and social identity processes, the impact of status hierarchies on biological stress, the effects of copresence on status and power relationships, and the analysis of acknowledgement networks in research journals. I am also interested in how collective action is related to group size.

Other professional activities have included serving as Student Director for the Center for the Study of Group Processes, Director of Operations for the Center for the Study of Group Processes, and treasurer of the board of directors for the Terra-Hawk Leadership Program. Forthcoming articles and edited chapters include acting as a collaborator on efforts to understand humor and leadership, occupational prestige, the effects of gender identity, and self-handicapping behavior. Research being prepared for submission includes collaborative theoretical work on copresence as an implicit social psychological building block (with Celeste Campos, and Professor Steve Hitlin), and findings from a national study of perceptions of women leaders and the age-gender interaction effect as an explanation for the glass ceiling (Michael Lovaglia P.I., Christopher P. Kelley, and Christabel Rogalin).

I live in Washington, Iowa with my spouse, Holly, my daughter, Charlotte, and my cat, Lola.