Selected Publications
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Cyr, E. N.*, Steele, J. R., Robinson, K*., Schmader, T., Wright, S. C., Spencer, S., Bergsieker, H.(accepted).
Friendship Networks Predict Girls’ STEM Fit and Interest Through Subjective Belonging. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Cyr, E. N.*, Spencer, S. J., Wright, S. C., Steele, J. R., Kathryn M. Kroeper, Patricia Colaco*,..., Schmader, T., Bergsieker, H. B.(2025).
Seeing women who ft: Girls’ forecasted ft in STEM fosters career interest Social Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-025-10056-2

Block, K., Olsson M., van Grootel, S., Meeussen, L., Van Laar, C., […], Lapytskaia Aidy, C.*, […], Steele., J. R., […], & Schmader, T. (2025).
The Gender Gap in the Care Economy is Larger in Highly Developed Countries: Socio-Cultural Explanations for Paradoxical Findings. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001512

Schindler, S., Schuster, C., Olsson, M., Froehlich, L., Hübner, A.K., Block, K., Van Laar, C., Schmader, T., Meeussen, L., van Grottel, S., Croft, A., Sun, M. S., . […], Lapytskaia Aidy, C.*, […] Steele., J. R., […], & Martiny, S. E.(2024).
Policy as normative influence? British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12806

Roy, E., […] Steele, J.R., Sebastien, J.*, Sedgwick, J.*, […] Lai, C., & Axt, J.(2024).
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000414

Saxler, F. M., Dorrough, A. R., Froehlich, L., Block, K., Croft, A., Meeuseen, L., Olsson, M. […], Lapytskaia Aidy, C., […] Steele., J. R., […], & Martiny, S. (2024).
Did descriptive and prescriptive norms about gender equality at home change during the COVID-19 pandemic? PSPB. http://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231219719

Olsson M., van Grootel, S., Block, K., Schuster, C., Meeussen, L., Van Laar, C., Schmader, T., Croft, A., Sun, M., […], Lapytskaia Aidy, C.*, […], Steele., J. R., […], & Martiny, S. (2023).
Gender gap in parental leave intentions: Evidence from 37 countries. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12880

Cyr, E., Kroeper, K. M., Bergsieker, H. B., Dennehy, T. C., Logel, C., Steele, J.R.,[...], Zanna, M., Staub-French, S., Wells, M., Schmader, T., Wright, S. C., Spencer, S. J. (2023).
Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys’ stereotyping of girls’ STEM ability. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14007

Gonzalez, A.M., Steele, J.R., Chan, E., Lim, S., & Baron, A.S. (2021).
Developmental differences in the malleability of implicit racial bias. Developmental Psychology, 57(1), 102-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001128

Lapytskaia Aidy, C., Steele, J. R., Williams, A., Lipman, C., Wong, O., & Mastragostino, E. (2021).
Examining adolescent daughters’ and their parents’ academic-gender stereotypes: Predicting academic attitudes, ability, and STEM intentions. Journal of Adolescence, 93, 90-104. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1d%7EW7Vu8lc8T%7E

Steele, J. R., George, M., Cease, M., Fabri, T.L., & Schlosser, J. (2018).
Not always Black and White: The effect of race and emotional expression on implicit attitudes. Social Cognition (Special Issue: Intersectional and Dynamic Social Categories in Social Cognition), 36(5), 534-558. https://doi:10.1521/soco.2018.36.5.534

Ng, A. H., Steele, J.R., Sasaki, J.Y., Sakamoto, Y., Williams, A. (2015).
Culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition. Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology, 6, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01620

Régner, I., Steele, J. R., Ambady, N., Thinus-Blanc, C., & Huguet, P. (2014).
Our future scientists: A review of stereotype threat in young girls from early elementary school to middle school. International Review of Social Psychology [Special Issue: Stereotype threat in children], 27, 13-51.

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.

Kawakami, K., Steele, J. R., Cifa, C., Phills, C. E., & Dovidio, J. F. (2008).
Approaching math increases Math = Me, Math = Pleasant, and perseverance at math in women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 818-825.

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.

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.

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.