Kimberly B. Rogers | Department of Sociology

Biography

Kimberly's research examines how inequalities are produced, maintained, and resisted through behavior and emotion dynamics in social interactions. Her publications evaluate the degree of consensus in identity sentiments and impression formation processes within and between cultures, examine behavioral and emotional responses to stereotyped groups and unfair reward distributions, and reveal the implications of micro-social processes for status and power hierarchies, occupational inequality, victimization, and mental health outcomes.

Education

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 2003

M.A., Wake Forest University (Psychology), 2005

M.A., Duke University (Sociology), 2008

Ph.D., Duke University (Sociology), 2013

Taught Courses

SOCY 1, Introductory Sociology

SOCY 11, Research Methods

SOCY 38, Status and Power in Social Interaction

SOCY 65, The Social Psychology of Inequality

SOCY 91, The Sociological Imagination

Publications

Scaptura, Maria N., Kaitlin M. Boyle, and Kimberly B. Rogers. 2025. "Subordination to Women, Anger, and Endorsement of Violence Against Women: A Test of General Strain Theory." Feminist Criminology 20(3): 241-62.

Sirianni, Antonio D., Jonathan H. Morgan, Nikolas Zöller, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Tobias Schröder. 2024. "Complements and Competitors: Examining Technological Co-Diffusion and Relatedness on a Collaborative Coding Platform." PNAS Nexus 3(12): pgae549.

Quinn, Joseph M., Robert E. Freeland, E. K. Maloney, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2024. "Meaning Change in U.S. Occupational Identities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Was it Temporary or Durable?" Social Psychology Quarterly 87(4): 513-24.

Freeland, Robert E., Jesse Hoey, Joseph M. Quinn, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2024. "Perceived Occupational Gender Composition: A Census and Exploration." Advances in Group Processes 41: 57-77.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Kaitlin M. Boyle, and Maria N. Scaptura. 2023. "Through the Looking Glass: Self, Inauthenticity, and (Mass) Violence." Advances in Group Processes 40: 23-47.

Boyle, Kaitlin M. and Kimberly B. Rogers (equal authorship). 2023. "Self-Sentiments and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Analysis." American Behavioral Scientist 67: 36-59.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2023. "Developing an Introductory Course Design that Promotes Sociological Literacy." Pp. 37-54 in The Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology, edited by Sergio Cabrera and Stephen Sweet. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Quinn, Joseph, Robert E. Freeland, Jesse Hoey, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2023. "How Cultural Meanings of Occupations in the U.S. Changed with the COVID-19 Pandemic." American Behavioral Scientist 67: 125-47.

Maloney, E. K., Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2022. "Status as Deference: Deference Scores and Occupational Prestige as Two Different Ways to Understand Status Rankings, Occupational Classes, and Emotional Outcomes." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(7): 70-88.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2021. "Separate and Unequal: Predicting Intergroup Behavior and Emotions with Social Identity Meanings." Advances in Group Processes 38: 23-52.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2021. "Event Likelihood Judgments Revisited." Social Psychology Quarterly 84: 177-88.

Boyle, Kaitlin M. and Kimberly B. Rogers. 2020. "Beyond the Rape "Victim"-"Survivor" Binary: How Race, Gender, and Identity Processes Interact to Shape Distress." Sociological Forum 35: 323-45.

- 2021 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2020. "The Problem of Order: Understanding How Culture Predicts Social Action." Sociology Compass 14(7): 1-11.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Adam Nemeroff, and Kelly Caputo. 2020. "Strategic Design Toward Foundational Learning Goals in Introduction to Sociology." Teaching Sociology 48: 40-53.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2019. "Identity Meanings and Categorical Inequality." Pp. 267-88 in Identities in Everyday Life, edited by Jan Stets and Richard Serpe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2019. "Sources of Consensus and Variegation in Cultural Affective Meanings." Social Currents 6: 219-38.

Hoey, Jesse, Tobias Schröder, Jonathan Morgan, Kimberly B. Rogers, Deepak Rishi, and Mei Nagappan. 2018. "Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation: Studying Group Dynamics on a Massive Scale." Small Groups Research 49: 647-83.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2018. "Do You See What I See? Testing for Individual Differences in Impressions of Events." Social Psychology Quarterly 81: 149-72.

Kriegel, Darys J., Jesse K. Clark, Robert Freeland, David R. Heise, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Dawn T. Robinson, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2017. "A Multi-Level Investigation of Arabic-Language Impression Change." International Journal of Sociology 47: 278-95.

Morgan, Jonathan H., Kimberly B. Rogers, and Mao Hu. 2016. "Distinguishing Normative Processes from Noise: A Comparison of Four Approaches to Modeling Impressions of Social Events." Social Psychology Quarterly 79: 311-32.

Schröder, Tobias, Jesse Hoey, and Kimberly B. Rogers. 2016. "Modeling Dynamic Identities and Uncertainty in Social Interactions: Bayesian Affect Control Theory." American Sociological Review 81: 828-55.

- 2017 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association

- 2017 Outstanding Article Publication Award, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

Clay-Warner, Jody, Dawn T. Robinson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Katie R. James. 2016. "Justice Standard Determines Emotional Responses to Over-Reward ." Social Psychology Quarterly 79: 44-67.

Rogers, Kimberly B. 2015. "Expectation States, Social Influence, and Affect Control: Opinion and Sentiment Change through Social Interaction." Advances in Group Processes 32: 65-98.

Foy, Steven, Robert E. Freeland, Andrew Miles, Kimberly B. Rogers, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2014. "Emotions and Affect as Source, Outcome, and Resistance to Inequality." In Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality, edited by J. D. McLeod, E. J. Lawler and M. L. Schwalbe. New York, NY: Springer.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Tobias Schröder, and Christian von Scheve. 2014. "Dissecting the Sociality of Emotion: A Multi-Level Approach." Emotion Review 6: 124-33.

Rogers, Kimberly B. and Dawn T. Robinson. 2014. "Measuring Emotions." In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, Volume II, edited by J. E. Stets and J. H. Turner. New York, NY: Springer.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Tobias Schröder, and Wolfgang Scholl. 2013. "The Affective Structure of Stereotype Content: Behavior and Emotion in Intergroup Context." Social Psychology Quarterly 76: 125-50.

Schröder, Tobias, Kimberly B. Rogers, Julija Mell, Shuuichiro Ike, and Wolfgang Scholl. 2013. "Affective Meanings of Stereotyped Social Groups in Cross-Cultural Comparison." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 16: 717-33.

Works in Progress

Rogers, Kimberly B. "From Awareness to Action: The Group Processes Course as Design Laboratory." Under review.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Nina Bouche, Jaein Chung, Ellison Huang, and Alexa Kalish. "Identity Investment as a Pathway for Modifying Self-Sentiments and Well-Being." Under review.

Rogers, Kimberly B. and Kaitlin M. Boyle. "Unfair Treatment by Police, Inauthenticity, and Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health among Black Americans." Revise and resubmit.

Rogers, Kimberly B., Kaitlin M. Boyle, and Sophia Shaiman. "Inauthenticity from Transgressive Events: Situational Emotions and Generalized Distress." Revise and resubmit.

Doan, Long and Kimberly B. Rogers. ""It's Easier to Ignore Privileges than Disadvantages": How Situational Factors Shape Identity Activation." In preparation.

Rogers, Kimberly B. and Jonathan H. Morgan. "Investigating the Cultural Stability of Impression Formation Processes in the United States: 1978 vs. 2010." In preparation.

Selected Works & Activities

Conference organizer, "ACT for Change: Harnessing Affect Control Theory to Solve Social Problems." July 24-27, 2025 at Lake Fairlee Resort. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, and Office of the Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College.

"THEMIS.COG: Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups." Trans-Atlantic Platform, Digging into Data Challenge. Grant project funded by the NSF, NSERC, SSHRC, and DFG, in collaboration with Jesse Hoey, Mei Nagappan, and Tobias Schroeder.

Announcements and Press

Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. January 5, 2022. "Courses to Integrate Human-Centered Design."