Research

Mallory Decker is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, where her research where her research focuses on identity and leadership. Her dissertation, Identity-Based Connection: How Women's Shared Workplace Experiences Shape Their Identity and Relationship with Change, draws on her prior career as a U.S. Naval helicopter pilot, where she spent over a decade leading teams in high-pressure, male-dominated environments.

Mallory's research has been published in Human Resource Management, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes, and presented at the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Association for Conflict Management. She holds a B.S. in English from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.Sc. in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh (Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar).

Publications

Decker, M. & Hekman, D. R. (2026) Help or handicap? How Gender Moderates Pay Outcomes in Same-Gender Work Groups. Human Resource Management. Ja.

Decker, M., & Grandey, A. (2025, November 3). New research on how women in leadership navigated menopause. Harvard Business Review. Article Link.

Mitchell, R., Decker, M., & Kong, D. (2025). Agentic virtue signaling in self-promotion: The causes and consequences of blended signals of dominance, prestige, and virtue. In Sonia Tanaja (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.

Gladstone, J. J., Lehman, M., & Decker, M. (2025). Childhood poverty and its impact on financial decision making under threat: A preregistered replication of Griskevicius et al.(2011b). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 31(2): 139-151.

Bennett, A. A., Lo, K. D., Pervez, A., Nelson, T. A., Mullane, K., Farrell, M., Wilson, S., Decker, M., & Tarr, E. K. (2021). Exploring business doctoral students’ attitudes, training, and use of classroom experiential learning activities. International Journal of Management Education, 19(2), 100493.

Popular Press

March 23, 2026 - Featured in Forbes, “Fresh insights into the gender pay gap from three new studies,” by Kim Elsesser. Article Link.

April 15, 2026 - Featured in The Conversation, “Why women in groups face a ‘collaboration penalty’ that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escape,” by Dave Hekman and Mallory Decker. Article Link.

November 2023 - Featured by C. Ott Holland for The I/O Psychologist (TIP) in her column titled Pop Psychology Book Club, Episode Four: Mainstream media in the classroom with Prof. Sabrina Volpone

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