Caroline Bartel is an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her master's and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the informal and interactive processes through which individuals and groups coordinate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors at work. One stream of her current work focuses on social identity processes, including the ways in which identity and status are negotiated in social interactions and how these processes affect behavior that pro...