Gender at work
Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E., Ryan, M., & van der Lippe, T. (2019). Work-family guilt as a straightjacket. An interview and diary study on consequences of mothers' work-family guilt. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, 103336. 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. (2018). Does Parenthood Change Implicit Gender‐Role Stereotypes and Behaviors?. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(1), 61-79. Pdf
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. (2017). Nothing changes, really: Why women who break through the glass ceiling end up reinforcing it. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Pdf
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. Pdf
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
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
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
Social Neuroscience of Social Identity
Domen, I., Derks, B., Van Veelen, R., & Scheepers, D. (2020). Gender identity relevance predicts preferential neural processing of same-gendered faces. Social Neuroscience, 1-14. Pdf
Derks, B. & Scheepers, D. (2018). 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., 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
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
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
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