Erica Bailey

And a very simple intervention in this paper is just to say, well, I have different cultural identities. And this is a part of me. And now welcome to my backstage, where I'm going to tell you more about who I am that's going to help you make sense of this. And most people understand what it's like to have multiple identities.

And it could even be a creativity exercise for another person to connect with you to realize, oh, yeah, I actually, I guess I do sometimes talk about football with this one person. And then I talk about mathematics with someone else.

And it could even be a creativity exercise for another person to connect with you to realize, oh, yeah, I actually, I guess I do sometimes talk about football with this one person. And then I talk about mathematics with someone else.

And it could even be a creativity exercise for another person to connect with you to realize, oh, yeah, I actually, I guess I do sometimes talk about football with this one person. And then I talk about mathematics with someone else.

Absolutely. And I think you're getting a sense for why authenticity is such a fun topic to study and so complicated because these questions, you know, it sounds really good to just be your true self or bring your true self to work or, yeah, be you.

Absolutely. And I think you're getting a sense for why authenticity is such a fun topic to study and so complicated because these questions, you know, it sounds really good to just be your true self or bring your true self to work or, yeah, be you.

Absolutely. And I think you're getting a sense for why authenticity is such a fun topic to study and so complicated because these questions, you know, it sounds really good to just be your true self or bring your true self to work or, yeah, be you.

And then the second you start to realize, oh, that you is really complicated sometimes or maybe the you doesn't fit in this environment in quite the right way. which I think most people don't feel like there's that perfect fit. It starts to get much more complex of a question.

And then the second you start to realize, oh, that you is really complicated sometimes or maybe the you doesn't fit in this environment in quite the right way. which I think most people don't feel like there's that perfect fit. It starts to get much more complex of a question.

And then the second you start to realize, oh, that you is really complicated sometimes or maybe the you doesn't fit in this environment in quite the right way. which I think most people don't feel like there's that perfect fit. It starts to get much more complex of a question.

Again, I would sort of go back to this idea, and I have some empirical data that shows this, that people's perceptions of whether someone is authentic

Again, I would sort of go back to this idea, and I have some empirical data that shows this, that people's perceptions of whether someone is authentic

Again, I would sort of go back to this idea, and I have some empirical data that shows this, that people's perceptions of whether someone is authentic

are all over the place the judgments that i make about one person's authenticity are almost completely different than the judgments that someone else makes of the same person even if we sort of know that person together in the same social group and in that same research i looked at outcomes of well-being and what i found is like other people's ratings of your authenticity really don't relate to your well-being it's really the sense of authenticity that you have is really important for your own well-being

are all over the place the judgments that i make about one person's authenticity are almost completely different than the judgments that someone else makes of the same person even if we sort of know that person together in the same social group and in that same research i looked at outcomes of well-being and what i found is like other people's ratings of your authenticity really don't relate to your well-being it's really the sense of authenticity that you have is really important for your own well-being

are all over the place the judgments that i make about one person's authenticity are almost completely different than the judgments that someone else makes of the same person even if we sort of know that person together in the same social group and in that same research i looked at outcomes of well-being and what i found is like other people's ratings of your authenticity really don't relate to your well-being it's really the sense of authenticity that you have is really important for your own well-being

So going around and trying to convince other people that you're being authentic, maybe it would work for one person at a time, but trying to convince everybody in your workplace that you're authentic. No, I'm really authentic. No, I really mean this. So this is how I am.

So going around and trying to convince other people that you're being authentic, maybe it would work for one person at a time, but trying to convince everybody in your workplace that you're authentic. No, I'm really authentic. No, I really mean this. So this is how I am.

So going around and trying to convince other people that you're being authentic, maybe it would work for one person at a time, but trying to convince everybody in your workplace that you're authentic. No, I'm really authentic. No, I really mean this. So this is how I am.

That to some extent can be a way to connect with other people, but it's really difficult to convince people that you're being authentic, especially if they have it in their heads that they're not gonna try to understand you or they're not gonna take your perspective or they're gonna view you through a stereotypical lens.