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Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin

My research program focuses broadly on stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Within this domain, I study a range of issues. For example, one area of my research focuses on social power and impression formation, particularly the role power may play in stereotyping subordinates. This work has turned toward examining whether social power undermines perceptions of social norms, with implications for perceptions of inappropriate (e.g., sexually harassing) and socially biased (e.g., jokes and comments) behaviors. In addition to this work, I am interested in implicit social cognition, particularly implicit stereotyping and prejudice. My work in this area has focused on the origins of implicit biases and their relationship to social behavior. More recently, I have become interested in factors that facilitate versus inhibit prejudice confrontation. My collaborators (Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, IUPUI, and Kate Morris, Butler University) and I have developed a model for studying confrontation that is predicated on the idea that prejudice is often experienced as a social emergency. As such, many of the same factors that qualify responding to physical emergencies may qualify responding to prejudice. Our NSF-funded research examines factors that influence perceptions prejudice warrants a response, as well as other phenomena.

Primary Interests:

  • Gender Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Person Perception
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

  • Goodwin, S. A., Fiske, S. T., Rosen, L. D., & Rosenthal, A. M. (2002). The eye of the beholder: Romantic goals and impression biases. Journal of Experimental Social Psycholog, 38, 232-241.
  • Goodwin, S. A., Gubin, A., Fiske, S. T., & Yzerbyt, V.Y. (2000). Power implicitly biases impression formation: Stereotyping subordinates by default and by design. Group Processes and Interpersonal Relationships, 3, 227-256.
  • Goodwin, S. A., Operario, D., & Fiske, S. T. (1998). Situational control and interpersonal dominance: Factors that facilitate bias and inequality. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 677-698.

Other Publications:

  • Goodwin, S. A. (in press). Power and leadership: A social cognitive perspective. To appear in D. van Knippenberg & M. Hogg (Eds.), Identity, Leadership, and Power.
  • Goodwin, S. A. & Fiske, S. T. (2001). Power and gender: The double-edged sword of ambivalence. In R. Unger (Ed.), Handbook of the psychology of women and gender (pp. 358-366). New York: Wiley.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Topics in Social Cognition
  • Intergroup Bias
  • Psychology of Women
  • Psychosocial Theories of Gender Difference
  • Social Research Methods
  • Stereotypes & Prejudice

Stephanie Goodwin
Department of Psychology
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001
United States of America

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