Her research asks how people manage their own motivation and behavior through change, and how the teams and organizations they work in shape it. Her coaching rests on it.
Her most-cited paper first, then peer-reviewed articles, newest first. Each links to its DOI or to the published article.
Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride
E. Tory Higgins, Ronald S. Friedman, Robert E. Harlow, Lorraine Chen Idson, Ozlem N. Ayduk and Amy Taylor. 31(1), 3-23.
Published under her name at the time, Amy Taylor.
How a person’s history of success, at reaching for gains or at avoiding mistakes, shapes the way they go after goals now. The paper introduced the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire, the measure used to tell the two orientations apart.
Journal of Organizational Change Management · 2006
Self-regulation, strategic leadership and paradox in organizational change
Amy Taylor-Bianco and John Schermerhorn. 19(4), 457-470.
Leading change well means keeping some things steady while others move, and building leadership teams that mix people focused on gains with people focused on avoiding losses. That is the paradox in the title.
