Steve Spencer, PhD
Professor, and the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair, Social Psychology, Ohio State University
Dr. Steven Spencer is a Professor and the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology at Ohio State University. His research focuses on motivation and the self, particularly on how these factors affect stereotyping and prejudice. Along with how implicit processes that are outside of people’s awareness affect people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, he studies how threats to the self-concept can lead to stereotyping and prejudice. In addition to publishing in top academic journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science, he has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, as the chair of the executive committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and won the Gordon Allport Prize for his paper with Greg Walton on Latent Ability. He is also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.