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Meara Habashi

Meara Habashi

Director, Brock-Wilson Center for Women in Management
Organizational Behavior/Human Resources

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, Purdue University
M.S., Social Psychology, Purdue University
B.A., Psychology, Baylor University

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Dr. Habashi received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2008 from Purdue University. Since that time, she has spent a number of years teaching and researching at various institutions. Dr. Habashi joined the faculty at Krannert in 2016 after spending 5 years at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Habashi's primary research focus is in the area of motivation and emotional responding. I am particularly interested in how differences within and among individuals interact with environmental context to motivate social behavior, most specifically, workplace behaviors. To date, my research has taken a traditional social cognitive person X situation approach to examine how different types of motivations affect various domains of behavior, including leadership behaviors and perceptions, helping and citizenship behaviors, and occupational preference.

Journal Articles

  • Howard, H., Habashi, M.M., & Reed, J. (2020). The gender wage gap in research librarians. College and Research Libraries. College and Research Libraries, vol. Forthcoming
  • Hack, T., Garcia, A. L., Goodfriend, W., Habashi, M. M., & Hoover, A. E. (2020). When it’s not so funny: Prevalence of friendly sexist teasing and consequences to gender self-esteem.. Psychological Reports, vol. Forthcoming
  • Hoover, A. E., Hack, T., Garcia, A. L., Goodfriend, W., & Habashi, M. M. (2019). Powerless men and agentic women: Gender bias in hiring decisions. Sex Roles, vol. 80 667-680. | Download |
  • Clark, J.K., Thiem, K.C., Hoover, A.E., & Habashi, M.M. (2017). Gender stereotypes and intellectual performance: Stigma consciousness as a buffer against stereotype validation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 68 185-191. | Download |
  • Habashi, M.M., Graziano, W.G., & Hoover, A.E. (2016). Searching for the prosocial personality: A big five approach to linking personality and prosocial behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 42 1177-1192. | Download |
  • Woodcock, A., Graziano, W.G., Branch, S.E., Habashi, M.M., Ngambeki, I., & Evangelou, D. (2013). Person and Thing Orientations: Psychological correlates and predictive utility. Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 4 116-123. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Evangelou, D., & Ngambeki, I. (2012). Orientations & motivations: Are you a “people person,” a “thing person,’ or both?. Motivation and Emotion, vol. 36 465-447. | Download |
  • Ngambeki, I., Habashi, M.M., Evangelou, D., Graziano, W.G., Sakka, D., & Corpaci, F. (2012). Using profiles of Person-Thing Orientation to examine the underrepresentation of women in engineering in three cultural contexts. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 28 621-632. | Download |
  • Clark, J.K., Wegener, D.T., Habashi, M.M., & Evans, A.T. (2012). Source expertise and persuasion: The effects of perceived opposition or support on message scrutiny. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 38 90-100. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Woodcock, A. (2011). Exploring and measuring differences in person-thing orientations. Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 51 28-33. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2010). Motivational Processes Underlying Both Prejudice and Helping. Personality and Social Psychology Review, vol. 14 313-331. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Sheese, B.E., & Tobin, R.M. (2007). Agreeableness, empathy, and helping: A Person X Situation perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 93 583-599. | Download |

Book Chapters

  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2015). The quest for the prosocial personality.. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 231-255.
  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2009). Agreeableness and relationships. Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Habashi, M.M., & Graziano, W.G. (2007). Agreeableness. Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA. 25-27.

  • APSAC's Hadley speaker series to present Krannert’s Meara Habashi

    Meara Habashi, assistant head of the Krannert School’s Department of Management, will give a workshop-style presentation, “Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Success,” on May 7 in the annual Richard A. Hadley APSAC Professional Development Series. The event, sponsored by the Administrative and Professional Staff Advisory Committee, will be at 11:30 a.m. in Pfendler Hall’s Deans Auditorium (Room 241).

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Contact

mhabashi@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-1030
Office: KRAN 357

Area(s) of Expertise

women in management, gender differences in STEM, personality, prosocial behavior