Rosa Rodriguez-Bailón is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Granada (Spain). Her research has mainly focused on the psychosocial effects of social power and its legitimacy.
More recently, she has become interested in how power, status hierarchy and economic inequality shape relations between individuals and groups.
Together with other colleagues, Rosa undertakes research into how economic and status inequality affect norms and social values, competitiveness, status anxiety, consumption behaviour and attitudes towards redistribution.
She also investigates how justice ideologies as meritocracy and economic system justification moderate the effects of economic inequality.