Research Interests

Isaac Sabat’s program of research broadly focuses on understanding and improving the working lives of stigmatized employees. He is particularly interested in examining strategies in which these employees can engage, such as disclosing or acknowledging their identities, to effectively remediate the workplace obstacles that they face. He has conducted various interrelated projects that examine how the effectiveness of expressing one’s identity is impacted by the extent to which stigmas are previously known, visible, or discovered by others over time. This is a novel area, given that disclosures have previously been conceptualized as a dichotomous, all-or-nothing phenomenon. This work has been published in Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Harvard Business Review.

Recent Publications

Winslow, C. J., Sabat, I. E., Anderson, A. J., Kaplan, S. A., & Miller, S. J. (2019). Development of a measure of informal workplace social interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2043.

 Lindsey, A., King, E. B., Gilmer, D., Sabat, I. E., & Ahmad, A. (2019). The benefits of identity integration across life domains. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-9.

 Liu, S.-N. C., Brown, S. E., & Sabat, I., E., (2019). Patching the “Leaking pipeline”: Interventions for women of color faculty in STEM Academia. Archives of Scientific Psychology.

 Ahmad, A. S., Sabat, I. E., Trump-Steele, R., & King, E. B. (2019). Evidence-based strategies for improving diversity and inclusion in undergraduate research labs. Frontiers in Psychology.

Sabat, I.E., Lindsey, A. P., King, E. B., Winslow, C., Jones, K. P., Membere, A., & Smith, N. A. (2019). Stigma expression outcomes and boundary conditions: A meta-analysis. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-16.

Sabat, I. E., Lindsey, A. P., King, E. B., Ahmad, A. S., Membere, A., & Arena, D. F. (2017). How prior knowledge of LGB identities alters the effects of workplace disclosure. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103, 56-70.

Martinez, L. R., Hebl, M. R., Smith, N. A., & Sabat, I. E. (2017). Standing up and speaking out against prejudice toward gay men in the workplace. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103, 71-85.

Jones, K. P., Sabat, I. E., Ahmad, A. S., King, E. B., McCausland, T., Chen, T., & Chen, L. A. (2017). Isms and schisms: Meta-analytic exploration of the prejudice-workplace discrimination relationship across racism, sexism, and ageism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1076-1110.

Affiliated Research Cluster

Diversity Science. Reducing unfair discriminatory treatment of stigmatized employees; remediation of workplace obstacles.