Teodora K. Tomova Shakur

Education

Ph.D., New York University

M.A., New York University

B.A., University of California Berkeley

 

Research Interests

Network Favoritism

Nepotism

Cronyism

Employee Referrals

Merit; Inequality

 

Teaching Interests

Organizational Behavior

Social Networks

Motivation

Ethics

 

Selected Publications

Tomova Shakur, T. K. & Derfler-Rozin, R. (2026). The referral penalty: Decreased perceptions of merit undermine helping behavior towards referred employees. Journal of Applied Psychology, 111(7), 882–900.

Porter, C., Tomova Shakur, T. K., & Berry, P. (2026). The interplay of professional networking and gender: A social exchange perspective. In Diehl, M., Coyle-Shapiro, J. & Cropanzano, R. (Eds.), Research Handbook in Social Exchange Theory. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Tomova Shakur, T. K., North, M.S., Berson, Y., & Oreg, S. (2024). The age of leadership: Meta‐analytic findings on the relationship between leader age and perceived leadership style and the moderating role of culture and industry type. Personnel Psychology, 77, 1403-1440.

Tomova Shakur, T. K., & Phillips, L. T. (2022). What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(5), 957-982. *Best Paper; invitation for publication in the 2021 Academy of Management Proceedings

Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., & Tomova Shakur, T. K. (2020). From me to you: Self-compassion predicts acceptance of own and others’ imperfections. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(2), 228–242.

Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., Tomova Shakur, T. K., Bilgin, B., Chai, W. J., Ramis, T., … Manukyan, A. (2019). A compassionate self is a true self? Self-compassion promotes subjective authenticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(9), 1323– 1337.