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Her research explores the ways in which the social world systematically influences how people understand themselves and their actions with specific focus on how social class, race, ethnicity, and gender shape people's everyday life experiences, as well as important life outcomes such as educational attainment and health.
Education/Academic qualification
Social Psychology, PhD, Stanford University
… → 2009
Social Psychology, MA, Stanford University
… → 2007
Psychology, BA, Williams College
… → 2002
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Interdependence Promotes the Strengths of Employees from Working-Class Contexts
Stephens, N. (PD/PI)
Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
5/1/17 → 9/30/19
Project: Research project
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The Strengths of People in Low-SES Positions: An Identity-Reframing Intervention Improves Low-SES Students’ Achievement Over One Semester
Bauer, C. A., Walton, G., Job, V. & Stephens, N., Jan 2025, In: Social Psychological and Personality Science. 16, 1, p. 45-55 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
Interdependent Behavior Only Benefits Employees From Working-Class Backgrounds When It Is Both Enacted and Valued
Dittmann, A. G., Stephens, N. M. & Townsend, S. S. M., 2024, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153, 3, p. 720-741 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Taking a social-class-in-context perspective on the psychology of social class
Stephens, N. M., Emery, L. F., Townsend, S. S. M. & Song, H. J., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Social Issues. 80, 4, p. 1484-1503 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
What Causes Social Class Disparities in Education? The Role of the Mismatches Between Academic Contexts and Working-Class Socialization Contexts and How the Effects of These Mismatches Are Explained
Goudeau, S., Stephens, N. M., Markus, H. R., Darnon, C., Croizet, J. C. & Cimpian, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychological Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access9 Scopus citations -
Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality
Birnbaum, H. J., Dittmann, A. G., Stephens, N. M., Reinhart, E. C., Carey, R. M. & Markus, H. R., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 104, 104400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations
Datasets
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Difference-Education Improves First-Generation Students’ Grades Throughout College and Increases Comfort With Social Group Difference
Townsend, S. S. M. (Creator), Stephens, N. M. (Creator) & Hamedani, M. G. (Contributor), SAGE Journals, 2021
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.5299447, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Difference-Education_Improves_First-Generation_Students_Grades_Throughout_College_and_Increases_Comfort_With_Social_Group_Difference/5299447
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Empowerment Through Difference: An Online Difference-Education Intervention Closes the Social Class Achievement Gap
Townsend, S. S. M. (Creator), Stephens, N. M. (Creator), Smallets, S. (Creator) & Hamedani, M. G. (Contributor), figshare, 2018
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4302059, https://figshare.com/collections/Empowerment_Through_Difference_An_Online_Difference-Education_Intervention_Closes_the_Social_Class_Achievement_Gap/4302059
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A Diversity Ideology Intervention: Multiculturalism Reduces the Racial Achievement Gap
Birnbaum, H. J. (Creator), Stephens, N. M. (Creator), Townsend, S. S. M. (Creator) & Hamedani, M. G. (Contributor), SAGE Journals, 2020
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.5072616, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/A_Diversity_Ideology_Intervention_Multiculturalism_Reduces_the_Racial_Achievement_Gap/5072616
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