Wu, Shuang（吳霜）

Biography

Professor Wu Shuang is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Her research focuses on leadership emergence, social hierarchy, and social class. Specifically, her research examines the barriers employees encounter and the strategies they can employ to achieve upward mobility within social hierarchies. To address her research questions, she adopts multidisciplinary methods including lab experiments, field experiments, and archival data analysis. Her research has been published in leading psychology journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She received her PhD in Management from the University of California San Diego, and BA in English Language and BS in Psychology from Tsinghua University.

Teaching Areas

Management

Research Interests

Leadership Emergence
Social Hierarchy
Social Class

• Publications & Working Papers

  Publications

  • S. Wu, R. Smallman, and P.K. Smith (2024), “Self-control signals and affords power,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 127(6), 1189–1214.
  • M. Luan*, S. Wu*, and H. Li, (2020), “The relationship between anticipated communication and creativity: The moderating role of construal level,” Acta Psychologica Sinica, 52(10), 1178-1188. (*equal contribution and authorship)