Fireside chat with Professor Brian Lowery (Stanford GSB)

Brian Lowery is The Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior. He received his doctorate in social psychology from UCLA in 2001, and has been on faculty at Stanford since 2002. At Stanford GSB, Professor Lowery is currently driving an initiative, Leadership for Society, to support the development of leaders for a diverse society. He was also recently named founding co-director of The Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies. The mission of the institute is to “produce cutting-edge research and solutions to realize racial justice.”

Lowery’s research has two major threads. The first thread examines the way people understand inequality, and how these understandings affect their attitudes and behavior. The second thread examines the consequences of the reality that others shape our selves and we shape theirs. This work explores issues ranging from the nature of racial, gender and other social identities to an understanding of how others help us generate meaning in life. This research has been published in major scholarly journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Law and Human Behavior. His book on these topics, Selfless, is available now. He also hosts a podcast, Know What You See, and a course webinar open to the public, The Leadership for Society series, all of which can be found at KnowWhatYouSee.com.