Jennifer Steele
My program of research is driven primarily by my interest in the situational and long-term effects that stereotypes can have on people's thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. For example, how might an awareness of a negative stereotype about women in mathematics impact women's performance in this domain? I have been particularly interested in the effects on the targets of stereotypes and prejudice, including women and various minority group members.
In my laboratory, we have also been developing child-friendly measures of implicit stereotyping and racial bias and are interested in examining the early emergence and consequences of these attitudes and beliefs. Through my continuing laboratory and field research, I aim to answer the questions: (a) How do children make use of stereotypical information when developing beliefs about the self and others? (b) Under what conditions does stereotype activation affect self-perception and can these effects be overcome? and (c) What are the immediate cognitive, affective, and behavioral consequences of interracial contexts and exposure to prejudice?
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Gender Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
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Journal Articles:
- Ambady, N., Paik, S. K., Steele, J., Owen-Smith, A., & Mitchell, J. P. (2004). Deflecting negative self-relevant stereotype activation: The effects of individuation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(3), 401-408.
- Bair, A. N., & Steele, J. R. (2010). Examining the consequences of exposure to racism for the executive functioning of Black students. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 127-132.
- Kawakami, K., Phills, C., Steele, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (2007). (Close) distance makes the heart grow fonder: Improving implicit racial attitudes and interracial interactions through approach behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 957-971.
- Kawakami, K., Steele, J. R., Cifa, C., Phills, C. E., & Dovidio, J. F. (2008). Approaching math increases math = me and math = pleasant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 818-825.
- Peach, J. M., Yoshida, E., Spencer, S. J., Zanna, M. P., & Steele, J. R. (2011). Recognizing discrimination explicitly while denying it implicitly: Implicit social identity protection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(2), 283-292.
- Steele, J. (2003). Children's gender stereotypes about math: The role of stereotype stratification. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33(12), 2587-2606.
- Steele, J., James, J., & Barnett, R. (2002). Learning in a man's world: Examining the perceptions of undergraduate women in male-dominated academic areas. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26(1), 46-50.
- Steele, J. R., & Ambady, N. (2006). "Math is hard!": The effect of gender priming on women's attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42(4), 428-436.
Other Publications:
- Steele, J., Choi, Y. S., & Ambady, N. (2004). Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination: The effect of group-based expectations on moral functioning. In T. A. Thorkildsen, J. Manning, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Nurturing morality (pp. 77-97). New York: Kluwer Academic.
- Steele, J. R., Reisz, L., Williams, A., & Kawakami, K. (2007). Women in mathematics: Examining the hidden barriers that gender stereotypes can impose. In R. Burke & M. Mattis (Eds.), Women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Upping the numbers (pp.159-183). London: Edward Elgar.
Courses Taught:
- Gender, Race, and Identity
- Intergroup Relations
- Issues in Social Development
- Multivariate Analysis in Psychology
- Seminar in Social Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Jennifer Steele
Department of Psychology, York University
Behavioural Science Building, Room 331
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
- Phone: (416) 736-2100, ext. 22156
- Fax: (416) 736-5814