Elizabeth Mullen’s research interests include social justice, morality, and political psychology. Her current work focuses on how people’s emotions and moral convictions influence their fairness reasoning and judgments. She also investigates ideological differences in liberals’ and conservatives’ support for public policies.

Elizabeth Mullen is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Her research on social justice investigates: (a) how and why people form a judgment that something is fair or unfair, (b) how people’s affective reactions and moral identities influence their perceptions of fairness, and (c) how people work out the complexities of distributing both the benefits and burdens of cooperative living. Her research on political psychology has focused on understanding the cognitive and motivational underpinnings of ideological disagreements. For example, she has investigated ideological differences in liberals’ and conservatives’ attributions for the causes of social problems and their support for public programs. Her research has appeared in academic journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and she has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Elizabeth Mullen received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.