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Tracie Stewart

Tracie Stewart

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In my research and consulting work, I focus on the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and intergroup relations. In particular, I specialize in the study and application of strategies to reduce unconscious biases. A paradigm that I created to reduce unconscious stereotyping -- Situational Attribution Training -- has been shown to have sustained positive effects (Stewart et al., Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010; Stewart et al., under review, 2015). Through this paradigm, participants receive training to consider potential situational causes of people’s actions when observing behaviors that might otherwise automatically be labeled as reflecting stereotypic traits. I also study the role that emotions such as guilt and anger play in perpetuating and reducing intergroup biases (Stewart et al, Journal of Social Issues, 2012; Stewart et al., Psychological Science, 2010; Stewart & Branscombe, book chapter in "I Don't See Color: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege," 2015) and the way that employers' conscious and unconscious stereotypes interact to impact employees' performance in job interviews (Latu, Stewart, et al., 2011; 2015).

My consulting firm, Tracie Stewart Consulting LLC, has had the opportunity to create unconscious bias training programs for a variety of agencies and organizations, including a recent training program for an agency of 65,000 employees. I bring both research-based approaches and an accessible presentation style to my consulting work. In 2010, I received an award from the American Psychological Association's Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring on Social Issues.

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Gender Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Social Cognition

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Journal Articles:

  • Combs, B. H., Stewart, T. L., & Sonnett, J. (in press). "People like us:" Dominance-oriented self-segregation on a southern U.S. Campus. Sociological Spectrum.
  • Stewart, T. L., Latu, I. M., Branscombe, N. R., & Denney, H. T. (2010). Yes we can! Prejudice reduction through seeing (inequality) and believing (in social change). Psychological Science, 21, 1557-1562.
  • Stewart, T. L., Latu, I. M., Branscombe, N. R., Phillips, N. R., & Denney, H. T. (2012). White privilege awareness and efficacy to reduce racial inequality improve White Americans’ attitudes toward African Americans. Journal of Social Issues, 68, 11-27.
  • Dovidio, J. F., ten Vergert, M., Stewart, T. L., Gaertner, S. L., Johnson, J. D., Esses, V. M., Riek, B. M., & Pearson, A. R. (2004). Perspective and prejudice: Antecedents and mediating mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1537-1549.
  • Latu, I. M., Schmid Mast, M., & Stewart, T. L. (2015). Gender stereotypes in (inter)action: The role of interviewers’ and applicants’ implicit and explicit stereotypes in predicting job interview outcomes. Psychology of Women Quarterly.
  • Parfene, C., Stewart, T. L., & King, T. Z. (2009). Epilepsy stigma and stigma by association in the workplace. Epilepsy and Behavior, 15, 461-466.
  • Stewart, T. L., Doan, K. A., Gingrich, B. E., & Smith, E. R. (1998). The actor as context for social judgments: Effects of prior impressions and stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1132-1154.
  • Stewart, T. L., La Duke, J. R., Bracht, C., Sweet, B. A. M., & Gamarel, K. E. (2003). Do the "eyes" have it? A program evaluation of Jane Elliott's "blue eyes/brown eyes" diversity training exercise. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1898-1921.
  • Stewart, T. L., Latu, I. M., Kawakami, K., & Myers, A. C. (2010). Consider the situation: Reducing automatic stereotyping through attribution training. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 221-225.
  • Stewart, T. L., Vassar, P. M., Sanchez, D. T., & David, S. E. (2000). Attitude toward women’s societal roles moderates the effect of gender cues on target individuation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 143-157.
  • Stewart, T. L., Weeks, M., & Lupfer, M. B. (2003). Spontaneous stereotyping: A matter of prejudice? Social Cognition, 21, 263-298.
  • Stewart, T. L., van Knippenberg, A., Joly, J., Lippmann, M., Hermsen, B. J., & Harris, K. R. (2004). The influence of attitudes toward women on the relative individuation of women and men in the Netherlands. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28, 240-245.
  • Takiff, H. A., Sanchez, D. T., & Stewart, T. L. (2001). What’s in a name? The status implications of students’ terms of address for male and female professors. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25, 134-144.

Other Publications:

  • Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Stewart, T. L., Esses, V. M., ten Vergert, M., & Hodson, G. (2004). From intervention to outcome: Processes in the reduction of bias. In W. G. Stephan & W. P. Vogt (Eds.), Education programs for improving intergroup relations: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 243-265). New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Stewart, T. L., & Branscombe, N. R. (2015). The costs of privilege and dividends of privilege awareness: Social psychological perspectives on confronting inequality. In B. Bergo & T. Nicholls (Eds.),” I Don’t See Color:” Personal and critical perspectives on white privilege (pp. 135-145). State College, PA: Penn State University Press.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Social Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Psychology of Women
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology

Tracie Stewart
Department of Psychology
Kennesaw State University
402 Bartow Avenue
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
United States of America

  • Phone: 470-578-6244

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