Dr. Mindy Bergman

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001)

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 240 Psychology Building
email: mbergman@psych.tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-9707
Fax: (979) 845-4727

• Harassment and discrimination
• Organizational commitment
• Contingent workers and work arrangements
• Situational judgment tests

My research interests fall into two major categories: (1) harassment and prejudice and (2) organizational commitment.

My efforts in harassment and prejudice research have recently expanded beyond sexual harassment to include other types of harassment. Of particular interest is race and ethnicity. I have been working on a manuscript that explores the way that people of different race-sex combinations perceive and evaluate ethnic and sexual insults and slurs. Also underway is a manuscript that investigates the experiences of bilingual workers. Special emphasis was placed on understanding the prejudice that bilingual workers are subjected to, as well as the mechanisms that exacerbate and attenuate the occurrence of this prejudice. Additionally, I have been working on theoretical and empirical pieces regarding stigmas that are removable (e.g., obesity, membership in a poorly regarded club or occupation) and how the stigmatizing characteristic can continue to mark the person as stigmatized and thus susceptible to prejudice and discrimination even after the characteristic is removed.

My research on organizational commitment incorporates my interests in contingent (i.e., temporary) and non-contingent workers. A study of the stereotypes that people hold about contingent and non-contingent workers is under analysis. Also underway is a series of studies from a recently completed year-long collection of multi-source data that includes working students, the persons they identified as the closest to them, and coworkers. This multi-source data set allows for the study of organizational commitment, its antecedents, and its criterion behaviors that is free of common method bias and ratings effects that plague other organizational commitment studies. Future research in this area includes longitudinal explorations of organizational commitment and theoretical papers on the nature of commitment.

Bergman, M.E., & Perez, M. (2007-2008). Biological correlates of sexual harassment. Research Collaboration Seed Grant, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University. $1000.

Bergman, M.E. (2007). Bilingualism in the workplace: Proof of concept. Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A&M University. $7,000. PI.

Gaulke, K.M., Burch, W.E., & Bergman, M.E. (2003). Female performers in the live entertainment industry. University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston. $9500. PI.

Bergman, M.E. (2002). Bilingualism in the workplace and its relationship to ethnic harassment. Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A&M University. $2500. PI.

Bergman, M.E. (2000). Contingency of work as a psychological construct. Dissertation Research Grant awarded by the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. $676. PI.

1. Bergman, M.E., & Drasgow, F. (2003). Race as a moderator in a model of sexual harassment: An empirical test. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 8, 131-145.



2. Bergman, M.E., Langhout, R.D., Palmieri, P.A., Cortina, L.M., & Fitzgerald, L.F. (2002). The (un)reasonableness of reporting: Antecedents and consequences of reporting sexual harassment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 230-242.



3. Glomb, T.M, Munson, L.J., Hulin, C.L., Bergman, M.E., & Drasgow, F. (1999). Structural equation models of sexual harassment: Longitudinal explorations and cross sectional generalizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 14-28.



4. Langhout, R.D., Bergman, M.E., Cortina, L.M., Fitzgerald, L.F., Drasgow, F., & Williams, J.H. (In Press). Sexual harassment severity: Assessing situational and personal determinants and outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology



5. Mazzeo, S.E., Bergman, M.E., Buchanan, N.T., Drasgow, F., & Fitzgerald, L.F. (2001). Situation specific assessment of sexual harassment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 59, 120-131.



6. Wasti, S.A., Bergman, M.E., Glomb, T.M., & Drasgow, F. (2000). Generalizability of an integrated sexual harassment model: A cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 766-778.

Bergman, M.E., Payne, S.C., Rodriguez, J.M., Beus, J.M., & Henning, J.B. (2008, April). Leading and lagging: The safety climate-unsafe events relationship. In S. C. Payne & J. M. Rodriguez (Co-Chairs), Safety in organizations: Moderators and mediators of safety climate. Symposium presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Bergman, M.E., & Stufft, C.J. (2008, April). Reporting of racial harassment. In A.M. Ryan (Chair), New directions in harassment research. Symposium to be presented at the 23rd annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Payne, S. C., Bergman, M. E., Henning, J. B., & Rodriguez, J. M. (2007, October). Safety Climate: Leading or Lagging Indicator of Safety Outcomes? Paper presented at the 10th annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center International Symposium, College Station, TX.

Rasmussen, J.L., & Bergman, M.E. (2007, August). Motivation to perpetrate sexual harassment. Paper presented at the International Coalition of Sexual Harassment, New York, NY.

Benzer, J.K., & Bergman, M. E. (2007, April). You must be creative! Performance feedback, intrinsic motivation, and creativity. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Henning, J.B. & Bergman, M. E. (2007, April). Onset- and offset-controllability and the stigmatization of dirty work. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Rasmussen, J.L. ,& Bergman, M.E. (Chairs). (2007, April). Situational judgment tests: Future directions. Symposium presented at the 22nd annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, New York, NY.

Rasmussen, J.L., Bergman, M.E., & Weekley, J.A. (2007, April). Test taker responding to situational judgment tests. In J.L. Rasmussen & M.E. Bergman (Chairs), Situational judgment tests: Future directions. Symposium presented at the 22nd annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, New York, NY.

Stufft, C. J., Henning, J.B., Payne, S. C., Bergman, M. E., Keren, N., & Mannan, M. S. (2007, April). The influence of individual differences on organizational safety attitudes. Poster presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Payne, S. C., Bergman, M. E., Henning, J. B., & Stufft, C. J. (2007, April). Safety climate from the safety experts: In their own words. In M. S. Mannan & L. J. H. Schulze (Co-chairs), Safety culture: Key to process safety performance symposium. Paper in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Process Plant Safety Symposium Proceedings, Houston, TX.

Undergraduate
PSYC 107 - Introductory Psychology
PSYC 352 - Organizational Psychology

Graduate
PSYC 610 - Organizational Psychology
PSYC 680 - Micro-organizational Behavior Seminar

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