Sonia K. Kang

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Sonia K. Kang is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia K. Kang has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Sonia K. Kang's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (10 papers). Sonia K. Kang is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (10 papers). Sonia K. Kang collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Netherlands. Sonia K. Kang's co-authors include Galen V. Bodenhausen, Jacob B. Hirsh, Michael Inzlicht, Alison L. Chasteen, Sora Jun, Katherine A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik, Sarah Kaplan, Belle Derks and Soo Min Toh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Sonia K. Kang

29 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Personalized Persuasion

2012 318 citations Jacob B. Hirsh, Sonia K. Kang et al. profile →
Whitened Résumés

2016 283 citations Sonia K. Kang, Katherine A. DeCelles et al. Administrative Science Quarterly profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sonia K. Kang	1.0k	577	462	256	219	32	1.9k
Danielle Gaucher	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.9×	375 0.8×	254 1.0×	325 1.5×	25	2.5k
Stefano Pagliaro	1.1k 1.1×	788 1.4×	343 0.7×	99 0.4×	206 0.9×	98	2.1k
Dagmar Stahlberg	595 0.6×	465 0.8×	462 1.0×	221 0.9×	207 0.9×	77	1.7k
Belle Derks	1.3k 1.3×	616 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	185 0.7×	113 0.5×	60	2.3k
Tracy McLaughlin‐Volpe	1.9k 1.8×	1.2k 2.0×	421 0.9×	126 0.5×	224 1.0×	7	2.6k
Andreas Kastenmüller	874 0.8×	643 1.1×	173 0.4×	230 0.9×	286 1.3×	42	1.8k
Diane Kobrynowicz	1.2k 1.1×	569 1.0×	788 1.7×	125 0.5×	146 0.7×	18	1.9k
Eric D. Knowles	2.0k 1.9×	1.0k 1.8×	482 1.0×	168 0.7×	197 0.9×	59	2.7k
Joris Lammers	1.7k 1.7×	1.3k 2.2×	375 0.8×	260 1.0×	234 1.1×	74	2.8k
Stefan Stürmer	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	200 0.4×	152 0.6×	132 0.6×	57	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia K. Kang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2025). Bridging individual-level and system-level approaches to advance psychology-based diversity initiatives. Nature Reviews Psychology. 4(11). 702–717.

Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2025). Debiasing job ads by replacing masculine language increases gender diversity of applicant pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2409854122–e2409854122. 2 indexed citations

Yim, Odilia & Sonia K. Kang. (2024). One Label Doesn’t Fit All: Self-Labeling Practices Within the Chinese Immigrant Community in Canada. American Behavioral Scientist. 70(4). 382–410.

Fang, David D., Sonia K. Kang, & Sarah Kaplan. (2022). We need to make sure telecommuting does not exacerbate gender disparity. The Lancet. 400(10355). 795–797. 10 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2022). Identities between the lines: Re-aligning gender and professional identities in job advertisements. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2022(1). 2 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2020). Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications. Academy of Management Journal. 64(4). 1097–1126. 41 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K. & Sarah Kaplan. (2019). Working toward gender diversity and inclusion in medicine: myths and solutions. The Lancet. 393(10171). 579–586. 123 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2019). Stereotypes at work: Occupational stereotypes predict race and gender segregation in the workforce. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 115. 103318–103318. 64 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K., Katherine A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik, & Sora Jun. (2016). Whitened Résumés. Administrative Science Quarterly. 61(3). 469–502. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kang, Sonia K., Jason E. Plaks, & Jessica D. Remedios. (2015). Folk beliefs about genetic variation predict avoidance of biracial individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 357–357. 17 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K., Adam D. Galinsky, Laura J. Kray, & Aiwa Shirako. (2015). Power Affects Performance When the Pressure Is On. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 41(5). 726–735. 24 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K., et al.. (2014). Comparing young and older adults’ perceptions of conflicting stereotypes and multiply-categorizable individuals.. Psychology and Aging. 29(3). 469–481. 12 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K. & Michael Inzlicht. (2014). Stereotype Threat Spillover: Why Stereotype Threat Is More Useful for Organizations Than It Seems. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 7(3). 452–456. 8 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K. & Michael Inzlicht. (2011). Stigma Building Blocks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 38(3). 357–369. 18 indexed citations

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Chasteen, Alison L., Sonia K. Kang, & Jessica D. Remedios. (2011). Aging and Stereotype ThreatDevelopment, Process, and Interventions. Oxford University Press eBooks. 203–216. 12 indexed citations

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Inzlicht, Michael & Sonia K. Kang. (2010). Stereotype threat spillover: How coping with threats to social identity affects aggression, eating, decision making, and attention.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99(3). 467–481. 225 indexed citations

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Packer, Dominic J., Alison L. Chasteen, & Sonia K. Kang. (2010). Facing social identity change: Interactive effects of current and projected collective identification on expectations regarding future self‐esteem and psychological well‐being. British Journal of Social Psychology. 50(3). 414–430. 5 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K. & Alison L. Chasteen. (2009). The Development and Validation of the Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire. The Gerontologist. 49(3). 303–316. 33 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K., Jacob B. Hirsh, & Alison L. Chasteen. (2009). Your mistakes are mine: Self-other overlap predicts neural response to observed errors. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46(1). 229–232. 88 indexed citations

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Kang, Sonia K. & Alison L. Chasteen. (2009). Beyond the double-jeopardy hypothesis: Assessing emotion on the faces of multiply-categorizable targets of prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45(6). 1281–1285. 79 indexed citations

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