President's Dream Colloquium On Women in Technology

Attracting, Retaining and Promoting Diverse Talent

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October 12, 2017

Dr. Steven Spencer is a preeminent scholar of stereotypes and prejudice and their effects on people’s self-concept and academic performance. He published the pioneering study of stereotype threat on women’s math performance in a 1999 article that has been cited over 2,500 times. Dr. Spencer has more than a decade of experience at the University of Waterloo researching how implicit biases affect women in math and engineering. Dr. Spencer’s more recent experience is in conducting and assessing the overall effectiveness of longitudinal interventions in educational contexts. 

• Stereotype Threat
  Co-authored by Logel, C. and Davies, P. G. | Article | 2016 | Annual Review of Psychology
  
• Two Brief Interventions to Mitigate a "Chilly Climate" Transform Women's Experience, Relationships, and Achievement in Engineering
  Co-authored by Walton, G. M., Logel, C., Peach, J. M. et al | Article | May 2015 | Journal of Educational Psychology
  
• Affirmative Meritocracy
  Co-authored by Walton, F. M. and Erman, S. | Article | 2013 | Social Issues and Policy Review 
• Responsive Low Self-Esteem: Low Explicit Self-Esteem, Implicit Self-Esteem, and Reactions to Performance Outcomes
  Co-authored by Jordan, C. H., Logel, C., Zanna, M. P. et al | Article | 2013 | Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
• Mere Belonging: The Power of Social Connections
  Co-authored by Walton, G. M., Cohen, G. L., and Cwir, D. | Article | 2012 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Interacting With Sexist Men Triggers Social Identity Threat Among Female Engineers
  Co-authored by Logel, C., Walton, G. M., Iserman, E. C. et al | Article | June 2009 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Stereotype Threat and Women's Math Performance
  Co-authored by Steele, C. M. and Quinn, D. M. | Article | January 1999 | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology