Dr. Alia’s research interests broadly fall within the domain of social identity and its emotional consequences. Her ongoing projects study the experience of managerial envy as an emotional consequence of an identity threatened by social comparison and its impact on risk-taking behaviours. She also studies the concept of choice or agency in identity creation: examining identities that are assigned to us (e.g., ethnic identity) versus those deliberately chosen or acquired (e.g., professional identity).

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