Salvatore Affinito

I am an incoming Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, and currently a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Business School. I received my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I study the future of work in three complementary ways.

First, I look at the role of distance on work outcomes (e.g., hybrid and remote work arrangements). Second, I examine the impact of globalization at work (e.g., multicultural experiences). Third, I unpack potential downsides of emerging policies in organizations (e.g., zero-tolerance policies for misconduct; exerting performance pressure to foster "always on" cultures). I use field, lab, and archival data - spanning quantitative and qualitative methods - to explore these ideas.

My work has been published in academic outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Academy of Management Annals. My work has also been featured or published in other outlets, such as Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC News' Business Matters radio show.

I have also won awards for my work, including the Most Innovative Student Paper Award for the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division (in 2019 and 2020), and the Academy of Management Annals' Best Paper Award (in 2022).

To contact me, please email saffinito@hbs.edu

Publications:

Affinito, S. J., Hofmann, D. A., Keeney, J. E. (In press). Out of sight, out of mind: How high-level construals can decrease the ethical framing of risk-mitigating behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology

Affinito, S. J., Antoine, G. E., Gray, K., Maddux, W. W. (2023). Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Kundro, T. G.*, Belinda, C. D.*, Affinito, S. J.,* Christian, M. S. (2023). Performance pressure amplifies the effect of evening detachment on next-morning shame: Downstream consequences for workday cheating behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology

*denotes equal authorship (listed in reverse-alphabetical order)

Kundro, T. G., Nurmohamed, S., Kakkar, H., Affinito, S. J. (2023). Time delays exacerbate the severity of third-party punishment. Psychological Science

Maddux, W. W., Lu, J. G., Affinito, S. J., Galinsky, A. D. (2021). Multicultural experiences: A systematic review and new theoretical framework. Academy of Management Annals.

Revisions Requested:

Affinito, S. J., Christian, M. S., Zheng, X., Sherf, E. N., Keeney, J. E., Yang, J., Hofmann, D. A., Yu, Y., Gray, K. [Title redacted for blind review]. 1st Round Revise and Resubmit at Organization Science

Affinito, S. J., Perlow, L. A. [Title redacted for blind review]. 1st Round Revise and Resubmit at Academy of Management Journal.