Featured Scholar: Peggy Stockdale, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology, IU Indianapolis School of Science
Research Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR96kOcFOXg
Gender Issues in the Workplace: When “good people” harass. Why they do it and why we let them.
Dr. Peggy Stockdale is the director of the Women in Work (WoW) Laboratory at IU Indianapolis. Dr. Stockdale along with her team of researchers conduct and disseminate research on gender issues in the workplace. The main goal is to address and eliminate sexism in how women and men are treated in the workplace, schools, and other places. People have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. One of the research projects in the WoW Lab seeks to explain why “good people” are prone to sexual harassment, and why society tends to let these offenders off the hook.
-Why do we morally license ourselves and others to sexually harass?
Using research to make a positive impact in the world, Dr. Stockdale has helped numerous organizations develop or improve their policies on sexual harassment, eliminate the conditions that allow harassment to occur, and create effective procedures to address sexual harassment investigations.
Dr. Stockdale’s translation of research into understanding the causes of sexual harassment and other forms of sexism/discrimination in order to build effective tools and processes to address and eliminate the issues is another excellent example of how IU Indianapolis’s faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Peggy Stockdale has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Grabowski, M., Dinh, T. K., Wu, W., & Stockdale, M. S. (2022). The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions. Sex Roles, 1-19. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/29232
Dinh, T., Mikalouski, L., & Stockdale, M. (2021). When Good People Sexually Harass: The Role of Power and Moral Licensing on Sexual Harassment Perceptions and Intentions. Psychology of Women Quarterly. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/29231
Smith, E. F., Gilmer, D. O., & Stockdale, M. S (2019). Culture and support for workplace flexibility matter: An ecological framework for understanding flexibility support structures. Business Horizons. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/18989
Stockdale, M. S., & Eagly, A. H. (2018). Beyond Representation of Women in I-O to Producing Gender-Inclusive Knowledge. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 11(3), 448–455. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/19470
Ziebarth, D, Stockdale, P, Redhead, M, Petrovic, M. (2014, April 11). Employment and Marriage Market Tradeoffs in an LGB Sample. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/5136
Stockdale, M. S., & Nadler, J. T. (2012). Situating sexual harassment in the broader context of interpersonal violence: Research, theory, and policy implications. Social Issues and Policy Review, 6(1), 148-176. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25347
Davis, J. M., Stockdale, M. S., & Cropper, M. (2010). Evaluation of a comprehensive tobacco cessation curriculum for dental hygiene programs. Journal of dental education, 74(5), 472-479. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25348
Stockdale, M. S. (2008). Patchwork protections: Progress and problems in battling sexual orientation discrimination in employment. Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45(3), 9-15. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25349
Davis, J. M., Stockdale, M. S., & Cropper, M. (2005). The need for tobacco education: studies of collegiate dental hygiene patients and faculty. Journal of Dental Education, 69(12), 1340-1352. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25346
Motoike, J., & Stockdale, M. (2001). Japanese International Students' Attitudes toward Acquaintance Rape. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25350