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Steven J. Stroessner, Ph.D.

PERSONAL DATA

Current Rank:               Professor of Psychology
                                   
Office Address:            Department of Psychology
                                       Barnard College, Columbia University
                                       3009 Broadway
                                       New York, NY  10027-6598
                                       Phone: (212) 854-8272

E-mail:                          ss233@columbia.edu

DEGREES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Ph.D.            1992, University of California, Santa Barbara, Social/Personality Psychology
B.A.               1987, Hope College, Psychology and Psychology/Sociology, Magna Cum Laude 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Professor, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, 2007-
Chair, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, 2004-2007
Associate Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 2001-2007
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 1992-2001

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2007
Elected member of Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 1997
Recipient, Gladys Brooks Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996
Jacob K. Javits National Graduate Student Fellowship, 1987-91    
Social Sciences Dissertation Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991 
Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1987
Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research, 1987
AFS International/Intercultural Scholar to the Republic of South Africa, 1982

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Psychological Society, Fellow
International Social Cognition Network, Member of Steering Committee
Society for Experimental Social Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology 

COURSES TAUGHT

Barnard College
Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice
Social Cognition
The Social Self
Spring 2002 Statistics
Social Psychology (with Laboratory)
Science and Scientists
Senior Research Seminar

Graduate Teaching (Columbia University)
The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice
Social Psychology Proseminar

Barnard College Pre-College Program
Social Psychology: Human Thought and Behavior

PUBLICATIONS (in reverse chronological order)

Allen, T. J., Sherman, J. W., Conrey, F. R., & Stroessner, S. J. (In Press). Stereotype strength and attentional bias: Preference for confirming versus disconfirming information depends on processing capacity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Stroessner, S. J., Susser Beckerman, L., & Whittaker, A. (In Press). All the world’s a stage?  Consequences of a role-playing pedagogy on psychological factors and writing and rhetorical skill in college undergraduates. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Scholer, A. A., Stroessner, S. J., & Higgins, E. T. (2008). Responding to negativity:  How a risky tactic can serve a vigilant strategy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 767-774.

Stroessner, S. J., & Good C. (2007). Reducing Stereotype Threat. Web site: http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org.

Hauge, L. S., Stroessner, S. J., Chowdhry, S., & Wool, N. L. (2007). Evaluating resident candidates:  Does closed file review impact faculty ratings?  The American Journal of Surgery, 193, 761-765.

Stroessner, S. J., & Scholer, A. A. (2007). Making things better or worse:  Multiple motives in stereotyping and prejudice. In J. Shah and W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation Science (pp. 576-590). New York: Guilford.

Sherman, J. W., Stroessner, S. J., Conrey, F. R., & Azam, O. (2005). Prejudice and Stereotype Maintenance Processes:  Attention, Attribution, and Individuation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 607-622.
           
Stroessner, S. J., Mackie, D. M., & Michalsen, V. (2005). Positive mood and the perception of variability within and between groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 5-25.   

Plaks, J. E., Levy, S. R., Dweck, C. S., & Stroessner, S. J. (2004). In the eye of the beholder: Implicit theories and the perception of group variability, entitativity, and essence. In V. Yzerbyt, O.Corneille, & C. Judd (Eds.), The Psychology of Group Perception: Contributions to the Study of Homogeneity, Entititavity, and Essentialism (pp. 127-146). New York: Psychology Press.

Plaks, J. E., Stroessner, S. J., Dweck, C. S., & Sherman, J. W. (2001). Person theories and information-seeking:  Preferences for stereotypic vs. counterstereotypic information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 876-893.
                                                                                                                       
Stroessner, S. J., & Plaks, J. E. (2001). Illusory correlation and stereotype formation:  Tracing the arc of research over a quarter century. In G. B. Moskovitz (Ed.), Cognitive social psychology: The Princeton Symposium on the legacy and future of social cognition (pp. 247-259). Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Wyer, N. A., Sherman, J. W., & Stroessner, S. J. (2000). The roles of motivation and ability in controlling the consequences of stereotype suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 13-25.  

Stroessner, S. J., & Green, C. W. (1999). Free Will-Determinism Scale. In P. C. Hill & R. W. Hood, Jr. (Eds.), Measures of religiosity. Birmingham, AL: Religious Education Press.

Gerin, W., Christenfeld, N., Pieper, C., DeRafael, D. A., Su, O., Stroessner, S. J., Deich, J., & Pickering, T. G. (1998). The Generalizability of cardiovascular responses across settings. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 44, 209-218.

Levy, S. R., Stroessner, S. J., & Dweck C. S. (1998). Stereotype formation and endorsement: The Role of implicit theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1421-1436.

Stroessner, S. J. (1998). Varieties of inhibition in social stereotyping. In R. S. Wyer, Jr., (Ed.), Advances in social cognition, Vol. 11 (pp. 211-226). Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Wyer, N. A., Sherman, J. W., & Stroessner, S. J. (1998). The spontaneous suppression of racial stereotypes. Social Cognition, 16, 340-352.

Sherman, J. W., Stroessner, S. J., Loftus, S. T., & DeGuzman, G. (1997). Stereotype suppression and recognition memory for stereotypical and non-stereotypical information. Social Cognition, 15, 205-215.

Stroessner, S. J. (1996). Social categorization by race or sex:  Effects of perceived non-normalcy on response times. Social Cognition, 14, 247-276.

Stroessner, S. J., & Heuer, L. B. (1996). Cognitive bias in procedural justice: Formation and implications of illusory correlations in perceived intergroup fairness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 717-728.

Mackie, D. M., Queller, S., Stroessner, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (1996). Making stereotypes better or worse: Multiple roles for positive affect in group impressions. In R. M. Sorrentino and E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition, Volume 3 (pp. 371-396). New York:  Guilford Press.

Queller, S., Mackie, D.M., & Stroessner, S. J. (1996). Ameliorating some negative effects of positive mood: Encouraging happy people to perceive intragroup variability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 32, 361-386.

Hamilton, D. L., Stroessner, S. J., & Driscoll, D. M. (1994). Social cognition and the study of stereotyping. In P. G. Devine, D. L. Hamilton, & T. M. Ostrom (Eds.), Social Cognition:  Impact on Social Psychology (pp. 291-321). New York: Academic Press.

Stroessner, S. J., & Mackie, D. M. (1993). Affect and perceived group variability:  Implications for stereotyping and prejudice. In D. M. Mackie & D. L. Hamilton (Eds.), Affect, Cognition, and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes in Group Perception (pp. 63-86). New York: Academic Press.

Hamilton, D. L., Stroessner, S. J., and Mackie, D. M. (1993). The influence of affect on stereotyping: The case of illusory correlations. In D. M. Mackie & D. L. Hamilton (Eds.), Affect, Cognition, and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes in Group Perception (pp. 39-61). New York: Academic Press.

Stroessner, S. J., Hamilton, D. L., & Mackie, D. M. (1992). Affect and stereotyping: The effect of induced mood on distinctiveness-based illusory correlations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 564-576.

Stroessner, S. J., & Mackie, D. M. (1992). The impact of induced affect on the perception of variability in social groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 546-554.

Hamilton, D. L., Gibbons, P. A., Stroessner, S. J., & Sherman, J. W. (1992). Stereotypes and language use. In G. R. Semin and K. Fiedler (Eds.), Language, interaction and social cognition (pp. 102-128). Newbury Park, CA:  Sage.

Hamilton, D. L., Driscoll, D. M., & Stroessner, S. J. (1991). Stereotypes and prejudice. In R. Dulbecco (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Biology (Vol. 7, pp. 233-241). Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.

Stroessner, S. J., & Green, C. W. (1990). Effects of belief in free will or determinism on attitudes toward punishment and locus of control. Journal of Social Psychology, 130(6), 789-799. 

WORKS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

Heuer, L. B., & Stroessner, S. J. A Multiple-motivational model of procedural justice. Full manuscript completed.

Scholer, A. A., Zou, X., Fujita, K., Stroessner, S. J., & Higgins, E. T. (invited resubmission). When risk-seeking becomes a motivational necessity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Stroessner, S. J., Haines, E. L., Sherman, J. W., & Kantrowitz, C. J. (under review). What’s in a picture?:  Behavior stereotypicality and category accessibility. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

WORKS IN PREPARATION

Cesario, J., Stroessner, S. J., Dweck, C. S., & Scholer, A. A. Aggressive punishment of minority and non-minority transgressors:  Perceptions of threat to society as a unifying motivational principle.

Hamilton, D. L., & Stroessner, S. J. Social cognition. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage. In contract.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Stroessner, S. J., Scholer, A. A., & Higgins, E. T. (2007, September). Shifting tactics under regulatory focus: Threat and response to negativity. Paper presented at the Small Group Meeting on Group Processes & Self Regulation, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Scholer, A.A., Stroessner, S.J., Higgins, E.T., Kantrowitz, C., Shiovitz, R., & Alfano, L. (2006, May). Shifting tactics in regulatory focus. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, New York. 

Stroessner, S. J. (2005, October). Behavior stereotypicality and social categorization:  Lessons learned from the ICAT. Paper presented at the Person Memory Interest Group Annual Meeting, Julian, California.

Stroessner, S. J., Mulhern, A., Kann, M., Biderman, L, & Oppenheim, L. (2002, June). Developing a measure of social category activation:  Implications for stereotype use. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Duck Conference on Social Cognition, Pine Island, North Carolina.

Stroessner, S. J., & Susser, L. (2002, January). Does it work?  An evaluation of the ReActing to the Past initiative. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, Washington, DC.

Stroessner, S. J. (2001, June). Implicit theories and stereotype change. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Duck Conference on Social Cognition, Pine Island, North Carolina.

Plaks, J. E., Stroessner, S. J., Dweck, C. S., & Sherman, J. W. (1999, October).
Implicit theories and the processing of stereotype-relevant information. Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.

Plaks, J. E., Levy, S. R., Stroessner, S. J., & Dweck, C. S. (1999, July). Viewing groups as having fixed essences vs. dynamic natures: Impact on attention and judgment. European Association of Experimental Social Psychology small group meeting: The Roles of Homogeneity and Entitativity in Intergroup Relations, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Yzerbyt, V. & Stroessner, S. J. (Chairs) (1998, October). Stereotypes and group entitativity. Symposium at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky.

Stroessner, S. J. (1998, October). Entitativity and the perceiver: Consequences of implicit theories about trait stability for stereotyping. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky.

Stroessner, S. J. (1997, October). Implicit person theories and stereotype endorsement. Paper presented at the Person Memory Interest Group Annual Meeting, King City, Ontario.

Levy, S. R., Stroessner, S. J., & Dweck, C. S. (1997, October). Stereotype formation and endorsement:  The Role of implicit theories. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

Levy, S. R., Stroessner, S. J., Dweck, C. S., Hong, Y. Y., & Chiu, C. Y. (1997, April). Implicit person theories and stereotype formation. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Stroessner, S. J. (1996, October). Facilitation and inhibition in social categorization judgments: The effect of perceived non-normalcy. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Sturbridge, MA.

Wyer, N. A., Sherman, J. W., & Stroessner, S. J. (1996, August). The spontaneity of stereotype suppression. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

Stroessner, S. J., Katz, D. E., Berger, M., & Perron, C. S. (1996, July). Good mood increases perceived intergroup similarity. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Stroessner, S. J., & Heuer, L. B. (1996, June). The Formation and implications of illusory correlations in procedural justice. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Duck Conference on Social Cognition, Pine Island, North Carolina.

Sherman, J. W., Wyer, N. A., & Stroessner, S. J. (1996, May). Antecedents and consequences of stereotype suppression. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Heuer, L., Gross, E., Scelfo, J., & Stroessner, S. J. (1995, June). Procedural fairness evaluations:  A Test of a contextual priming model. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, New York.

Stroessner, S. J., & Heuer, L. B. (1995, June). Illusory correlations in perceived fairness:  Evidence of a compensatory bias. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, New York.

Wyer, N. A., Sherman, J. W., & Stroessner, S. J. (1995, June). Stereotype suppression leads to rebound effects in impressions of neutral targets. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, New York.

Heuer, L. B., Scelfo, J., Gross, E., Penrod, S., Stroessner, S. J., & Linz, D. (1995, June). A Test of a contextual priming model of procedural fairness. Paper presented at the International Association of Conflict Management, Lo-Slolen, Helsingor, Denmark.

Stroessner, S. J. & Heuer, L. (1994, October). Consequences of illusory correlation in judgments of justice:  Evidence for a compensatory bias. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, California.

Stroessner, S. J. (1994, April). A model of spontaneous social categorization. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Providence, Rhode Island.

Stroessner, S. J., & Heuer, L. (1993, October). Illusory correlations in perceptions of fairness. Paper presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara, California.

Stroessner, S. J. (1993, June). Spontaneous social categorization and the "white male norm@ hypothesis. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

Stroessner, S. J., Hamilton, D. L., & Lepore, L. (1990, August). Intergroup categorization and intragroup differentiation: Ingroup-outgroup differences. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.

Stroessner, S. J., Mackie, D. M., & Hamilton, D. L. (1990, April). Mood effects on illusory correlation. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, California.

Stroessner, S. J., Hamilton, D. L., Acorn, D. A., Czyzewska, M., & Sherman, S. J. (1989, August). Representational differences in impressions of groups and individuals. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Stroessner, S. J., & Green, C. W. (1987, May). Locus of control and attitudes toward punishment as functions of belief in free will or determinism. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

GRANT ACTIVITY

“Grant for Faculty Development and Assessment of General Education requirements,” Project Principle Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2008-2009

“Faculty Award for Promoting Excellence through Establishment of  Website on Stereotype Threat,” Consortium for High Achievement and Success (CHAS), 2005.

“Micro-grant to Encourage Innovation in Research on Prejudice and Its Reduction,” Third Millennium Foundation, 2004-2007

“The Influence of Implicit Theories on Stereotype Change,” National Science Foundation Grant #9911144, 2000-2003

“Target-based Determinants of Social Categorization,” National Science Foundation Grant #9709797, 1997-1999 

“Reviving a Classical Liberal Arts Education:  Empathy and Liminality in the First-Year Classroom,” Director of Assessment (PI: Dr. Mark Carnes), the Comprehensive Program of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, 1998-2006

“Exploring Diversity:  Barnard and New York,” Director of Assessment, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1995-1997 

“Testing A Model of Spontaneous Social Categorization,” Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 1994-1996

DEPARTMENT, COLLEGIATE, & UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Chair, Department of Psychology, 2004-2007
Departmental Representative for Student Affairs, Department of Psychology, 1999-2001
Member, Committee on Instruction, 1997-1999, 2004-2006
Member, Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure and Promotion, Fall 2007, Fall 2009
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Academic Support and Enrichment Program (ASEP), 2008-2009 
Member, University Advisory Committee, The School at Columbia University, 2001-present
Member, Committee on Academic Programs and Standing, 2001-2002
Co-Organizer of Columbia/Barnard Department of Psychology Colloquia, 1998-2001
Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College Chapter, Treasurer, 1996-1998
Member of President=s Faculty Advisory Council, 1998-1999
Member of Faculty Governance & Procedures Hearing Panel, 1996-1997
Member of Committee on Race, Religion, Identity, and Ethnicity, 1996-1997
Faculty member of Honor Board, 1993-1995
Member of Barnard College Computer Resources Steering Committee, 1995
Supervisor of Department of Psychology computer resources, 1992-1996

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE