Maria Teresa Cardador

Maria Teresa Cardador is an Associate Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, with an affiliate appointment in the Center for Social & Behavioral Science. Her research focuses on occupational careers, gender dynamics in STEM fields, workplace behavior, and organizational psychology. She collaborates internationally on studies analyzing career pathways for women engineering students and workplace incivility.

Her work explores themes like identity conflict resolution, psychological safety in diverse teams, and prosocial motivation. Recent studies include analyzing factors influencing engineering students' specialization choices and investigating gender differences in perceptions of workplace incivility.

• Recent collaborations span 15 countries/regions
• 41 total publications with 5 highlighted 2024 articles
• Research emphasizes qualitative methodologies and theoretical framework development

Her work has been picked up by news outlets and widely shared on academic platforms like Mendeley. Key contributions include developing appraisal theory frameworks for identity conflicts and demonstrating how group-based activities improve psychological safety in diverse workplaces.