Erica Bailey
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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difficult psychological experience for that person and what I usually tell people is that's the job of the manager to think about maybe how to create an environment that's more welcoming or open or accepting of different identities different individuals who are coming into a space where they might look the same as everyone else but they're carrying something internal that that we can't all see.
This research followed what I think is a real intuitive idea, which is we all have a personal and professional self. Most of us don't behave in the workplace identically to the way we behave at home. So you can think about these two circles of two selves. And the researchers thought about the way that we think of those disparate circles as integrated or segmented.
So they're either overlapping, they're coherent, they make sense together, or they're really far apart.
And what happens when those two identities are really far apart, when your work self is very different and segmented from your home self, is that you can pick and choose that, you know, at work I can be unethical, immoral, I can lie, which is what the experimenters looked at, because it's not diagnostic of my real self, my core self, the person I am at home.
And that separation allows people who see themselves as otherwise moral to engage in immoral behavior.
Exactly.
Or on the other hand, some people become so invested and so their identity becomes such a part of their work identity that the only thing that matters to them are these work successes or achieving something at work or climbing the corporate ladder and sort of what happens, how they treat their friends, their family members, people outside of the workplace are irrelevant to sort of where that source of self-esteem comes from.
Ellen DeGeneres, like many social figures, looms sort of large in people's minds. We all felt or most people who watched her show felt like we knew her or felt like we understand this person. She presented sort of this image of someone that's kind, someone that's very easygoing, lighthearted. and very authentic.
Well, from these reports, what we've heard is that she could be very different to the people that were working with her directly and create an environment where they did not feel that she was really accepting and open the way she was presenting herself to the world.
Authenticity is linked to greater subjective well-being. So this is feeling like you're satisfied with your life and also feeling positive affect or happiness and good feelings. So authenticity is really predictive of having that view of your life that things are going well. It's also related to feeling like you have meaning in your life and having better satisfaction with your relationships.
And in some of my work, we've also tried to extend that into the workplace to find how authenticity relates to the way you engage with your work tasks.
So feeling authentic at work or feeling like you can be your authentic self at work also helps you focus on the tasks at hand because you're not taking up so much mental space or engaging in that emotional labor about how you're coming across or how is everyone thinking of me in this meeting? You can really just be present and engaged with your work tasks as they come.
Yeah, we'd be happy to. So this was co-first authored work with Sandra Motz at Columbia Business School. And we were interested not just in whether social media is good or bad for well-being. We were really interested in for whom is social media good or bad in terms of their well-being?
And are there decisions that people are making with how they engage with these tools that differentially impact well-being? how that tool use relates to themselves or their view of themselves. So what we looked at is over 10,000 Facebook users. We compared their self-rated personality, so what we call their self-view, with the way they express themselves on Facebook.
And what we found is sort of that distance between the way you see yourself and the way you were expressing yourself on social media was correlated with subjective well-being, such that if you're closer in terms of your self-view and your online persona, you had higher well-being.
Exactly. You know, there's this there's this phenomenon where people will gaze upon their own social media page and sort of like look at this version of their life they've created. And that can be a really dissonant experience if that's really different than your day to day or your emotional experience.
What you're describing is this experience of state authenticity or those moments where you feel really aligned and connected with your core self. One moment that is really small from my own life, but that I go back to often was a time in high school where we were driving around with my friends in the car. It was a sunny day. The windows were down.
Music was playing and we were all singing at the top of our lungs. And that moment felt so authentic because, you know, I was so happy. You know, being a kid, you feel free for the first time when you're in a car. There's no adults around you. And I was experiencing that connection with my friends over this music and song and really feeling like this is where I belong in this moment.
Moments like this can help clue us into how authenticity is so fun and also sort of complicated. Right. So I ask a lot of people to tell me about these moments in their lives. And people will mention things like the birth of a child. And it's a moment where you feel really authentic, really connected. But of course, your identity has just changed dramatically.
You know, you've now got a new identity, you know, being a father, being a mother, being a parent. Right. And yet you still feel very authentic, like this is now what my life is. This was how it was supposed to be. And that helps clue us into how this true self, this inner self can constantly evolve and change.
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