• Facilitator, Center for Leadership and Global Impact

PhD, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
MSc, London School of Economics, England
MSc, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
BSc, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Organizational Behavior
• Leading High Performance Teams

• Inequality perceptions and meritocracy beliefs
• Social class and racial biases in the workplace
• Moral and political decision-making
  

Goya-Tocchetto, D., Lawson, M. A., & Davidai, S. (2026). Exposure to successful women and racial minorities who defy stereotypes about their groups leads to inflated perceptions of diversity in organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 111(3), 281–298.

• Selected as the “Editor’s Choice Article” among all articles published in that issue.

Phillips, L. T., Tepper, S. J., Goya-Tocchetto, D., […], & Hauser, O. P. (2026) inequality in people’s minds: An integrative psychological framework of perceptions of economic inequality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 30(2), 124-148.

Goya-Tocchetto, D., Paek, J. J. W., & Wade-Benzoni, K. A. (2026). From telling a life story to creating one: Finding meaning and supporting prosocial action through legacy motive activation. Academy of Management Perspectives, 40(1), 179-194.

Goya-Tocchetto, D., Lawson, M. A., Davidai, S., Larrick, R., & Payne, B. K. (2025). Income inequality depresses support for higher minimum wages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(8), 2138–2157.

• Select media coverage: Greater Good Magazine, American Psychological Association

Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., […], Goya-Tocchetto, D., […], & Willer, R. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science, 386(6719).

• Select media coverage: New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic.

Goya-Tocchetto, D., Kay, A. C., & Payne, B. K. (2024). Can selecting the most qualified candidate be unfair? Learning about socioeconomic advantages and disadvantages reduces the perceived fairness of meritocracy and increases support for socioeconomic diversity initiatives in organizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(12), 2962–2976.

• Select media coverage: Greater Good Magazine

Davidai, S., Goya-Tocchetto, D., & Lawson, M. A. (2024). Economic segregation is associated with reduced concerns about economic inequality. Nature Communications, 15(5655).

• NTR-IACM Early Career Scholars Program ($2,000; 2022-24)
• Best accepted papers in the 2022 Academy of Management Meeting

• Management Faculty of Color Association
• Academy of Management
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• International Association for Conflict Management

• An experienced behavioral science consultant for CLOO Behavioral Insights Unit, Goya-Tocchetto has worked with companies based in Portugal and Brazil.

Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
Assistant Professor
Organization and Human Resources
School of Management
University at Buffalo
270 Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, NY 14260-4000

Tel: 716-645-3896
dgoyatoc@buffalo.edu