Toni Schmader, Ph. D.

Toni Schmader is an internationally recognized scholar of social stigma, prejudice, and intergroup relations. Professor Schmader is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999 and has held a visiting position at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Psychological Review. She was the 2000 Dissertation Award winner from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and a 2007 Magellan Circle Teaching Award winner from the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research has received funding from both the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. She has served as an Associate Editor at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, sits on the editorial board of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and is an elected member of the executive committee for the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

Chad Forbes

I received my B.A. in Psychology with minors in Biology and Chemistry from California State University, Long Beach. For the past two years I have been working on my M.A. in research psychology at San Francisco State University. I have done all kinds of research ranging from molecular biology research to research on hate crimes and automatic cognitive processes. My current interests are in the area of social cognition and social cognitive neuroscience. Specifically I am conducting research in the realm of stereotype threat where I am looking at brain wave potential differences in intellectually threatening environments and the role that automatic stereotype activation and/or stereotype accessibility may play in intellectually threatening environments.

Jessica Whitehead

I received my B.A. in psychology from Lawrence University in Wisconsin. My current research interests include the areas of prejudice reduction and stereotype threat. Specifically, I investigate 1) what strategies stigmatized targets would want to employ in an interaction with a highly biased perceiver and 2) what strategies targets can use to effectively reduce a biased perceiver’s prejudice and stereotypes. In addition, I am interested in the mechanisms that underlie stereotype threat and how the negative effects of stereotype threat can be alleviated.

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