Gender at work
Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2015). Gender and social hierarchies: Introduction and overview. In Faniko, K., Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., Sarrasin, O., & Mayor, E. (Eds.), Gender and Social Hierarchies: Perspectives from Social Psychology, 1-7. Routlege.
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2007a). Social creativity strikes back: Improving motivated performance of low status group members by valuing ingroup dimensions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37 (3), 470-493. Pdf
Ellemers, N., Rink, F., Derks, B., & Ryan, M. K. (2012). Women in high places: When and why promoting women into top positions can harm them individually or as a group (and how to prevent this). Research in Organizational Behavior, 32, 163-187. Pdf
Endendijk, J.J., Derks, B., & Mesman, J. (2017). implicit gender-role stereotype change in parents: Does parenthood change implicit gender-role stereotypes? Manuscript under review.
Faniko, K., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (in press). Queen Bees and Alpha Males: Are successful women more competitive than successful men? European Journal of Social Psychology.
The Queen Bee Phenomenon
Derks, B. (in press). The Queen Bee Syndrome. In S. G. Rogelberg, Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2016). The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance themselves from junior women. The Leadership Quarterly. Pdf
Derks, B., Ellemers, N., van Laar, C., & de Groot, K. (2011). Do sexist organizational cultures create the Queen Bee? British Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (3), 519-535. Pdf
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & de Groot, K. (2011). Gender-bias primes elicit Queen-Bee responses among senior policewomen. Psychological Science, 22 (10),1243-1249. Pdf
Ellemers, N., Rink, F., Derks, B., & Ryan, M. K. (2012). Women in high places: When and why promoting women into top positions can harm them individually or as a group (and how to prevent this). Research in Organizational Behavior, 32, 163-187. Pdf
Faniko, K., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (in press). Nothing changes, really: Why women who break through the glass ceiling end up reinforcing it. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Ethnic identities and intergroup relations
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & Raghoe, G. (2015). Extending the queen bee effect: How Hindustani workers cope with disadvantage by distancing the self from the group. Journal of Social Issues, 71 (3), 476-496. Pdf
Van Laar, C., Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2013). Motivation for education and work in young Muslim women: The importance of value for ingroup domains. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35 (1), 64-74. Pdf
Van Laar, C., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Bleeker, D. (2010). Valuing social identity: Consequences for motivation and performance in low-status groups. Journal of Social Issues, 66 (3), 602-617. Pdf
Maloku, E, Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2015). Building national identity in newborn Kosovo: Challenges of interacting national identity with ethnic identity among Kosovar Albanians and Kosovar Serbs. In McKeown Jones, S., Haji, R., & Ferguson, N. (Eds.), Understanding peace and conflict through social identity theory: Contemporary and World-Wide Perspectives, 245-260. Springer. Pdf
Social Neuroscience of Social Identity
Derks, B. & Scheepers, D. (in press). Neural and cardiovascular pathways from stigma to health. In B. Major, J. F. Dovidio, & B. G. Link (Eds.), The Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination and Health. Oxford University Press.
Derks, B., Scheepers, D., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2011). The threat vs. challenge of car parking for women - How self- and group affirmation affect cardiovascular responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (1), 178-183. Pdf
Derks, B., Stedehouder, J., & Ito, T. (2015). Social identity modifies face perception: An ERP study of categorization. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (5), 672-679. Pdf
Kang, S.K., Inzlicht, M., & Derks, B. (2010). Social neuroscience and public policy on intergroup relations: a Hegelian analysis. Journal of Social Issues, 66 (3), 585-601. Pdf
Van Nunspeet, F., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2015). Moral impression management: Evaluation by an in-group member during a moral IAT affects perceptual attention and conflict and response monitoring. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6 (2),183-192. Pdf