Steven Spencer
Dr. Steven Spencer is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University, where he is a professor and researcher. He has also been an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Hope College, and spent 19 years at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Spencer conducts research on motivation and the self, particularly on how these factors affect stereotyping and prejudice. In examining motivation and the self, he also examines how implicit processes that are outside of people's awareness affect people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In examining stereotyping and prejudice, he studies how threats to the self-concept can lead to stereotyping and prejudice, and how this stereotyping and prejudice affects subsequent feelings about the self. He also examines how being a member of a stereotyped group affects people's self-concept and academic performance.