Angus Hildreth

Angus Hildreth is an associate professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research focuses on the effects of loyalty, power, and status on leadership, top-team performance, group functioning, and ethical decision making. Hildreth's work explores how power undermines collaborative performance in top teams, how loyalty can prompt ethicality and foster corruption, and how status affects individual well-being. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Bulletin, and Social Justice Research. He received his PhD in business administration (organizational behavior) from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

John Angus D. Hildreth is a social psychologist and management scholar at Cornell University, focusing on the intersection of social psychology and organizational behavior. His research explores how human motives such as status, loyalty, and fairness influence individual and group behavior in organizational settings. Hildreth's work examines the psychological mechanisms underlying status-seeking, the role of loyalty in ethical decision-making, and the impact of power dynamics on collaboration and performance. His studies also address cultural variations in workplace perceptions and the effects of status on well-being. Through empirical investigations, Hildreth contributes to understanding how social and organizational factors shape human behavior and decision-making.