Research Overview
My research examines how people make judgments about the value of labor, the boundaries between social groups, and what outcomes are fair. I ask questions such as:
Why do people assign different value to different people, work, or contributions?
Selected papers:
Feminized perceptions of care work create unique opposition to labor organizing (Flores-Robles & Gantman, under review)
Notions of care labor are antithetical to profitable labor (Flores-Robles & Gantman, 2024)
How do people understand social categories, and what happens when people don't fit neatly within them?
Selected papers:
The self’s conception of gender: Converging traits, distinct identities (Flores-Robles et al., 2026; in preparation)
Gender shapes interracial interactions: Understanding Black and Latine men and women’s experiences in anticipated cross-gender interracial interactions (Green, Flores-Robles, & Wout, 2026)
Gender and sexual minority PhD students experience epistemic exclusion in STEM (Flores-Robles et al., 2025)
When do people see differences in outcomes or behavior as legitimate, justified, or deserving?
Selected Papers:
Change the people or change the rules? Preferences for punishment following unfairness (Flores-Robles & Gantman, under review)
Corporate personification: A mind/body metaphor guides blame for organizational wrongdoing (Sharma, Flores-Robles, & Gantman, 2025)
Presentations and Research Dissemination
Society for Social and Personality Psychology 2024
