Education
A.B. Princeton, 1986
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1991
Research Interests
Processes of interpersonal perception and social cognition: suspicion; attribution; stereotypes and prejudice; self-affirmation theory; self-image maintenance processes in judgments and behaviors; social psychological influences on perceptions of political debates; effects of media images on attitudes and behaviors; cross-cultural differences; social psychology and sports.
Courses Taught
PSYC 201 : Experimentation and Statistics
PSYC 242: Social Psychology
PSYC 341: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
PSYC 344: Advanced Research in Social Psychology
Selected Publications
- Ben-Zeev, T., Fein, S., & Inzlicht, M. (2005). Arousal and stereotype threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 174-181
- Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S. M., & Fein, S. (2005). Social psychology (6th edition). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
- Fein, S., & Kassin, S. M. (2005). Readings in social psychology: The art and science of research (3rd edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Spencer, S. J., Fein, S., Strahan, E. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2005). The role of motivation in the unconscious: How our motives control the activation of our thoughts and shape our actions. In J. P. Forgas, K. D. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Social motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes (pp. 113-129). NY: Psychology Press.
- Ben-Zeev, T, Carrasquillo, C. M, Ching, A. M. L., Kliengklom, T. J., McDonald, K. L., Newhall, D.C., Patton, G. E., Stewart, T. D., Stoddard, T., Inzlicht, M., & Fein, S. (2005). “Math is hard!” (Barbieä, 1994): Responses of threat vs. challenge mediated arousal to stereotypes alleging intellectual inferiority. In A. Gallagher and J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Gender differences in mathematics. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
- Fein, S., Hoshino-Browne, E., Davies, P. G., & Spencer, S. J. (2003). Self-image maintenance goals and sociocultural norms in motivated social perception. In S. J. Spencer, S. Fein, M. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), Motivated social perception: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 9), pp. 21-44. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Spencer, S. J., Fein, S., Zanna, M., & Olson, J. M. (Eds.) (2003). Motivated social perception: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 9). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Fein, S., Lomore, C., & Spencer, S. J. (2001). Maintaining one's self-image vis-à-vis others: The role of self-affirmation in the social evaluation of the self. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 41-68.
- Spencer, S. J., Fein, S., Wolfe, C. T., Fong, C., & Dunn, M. A. (1998). Automatic activation of stereotypes: The role of self-image threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1139-1152.
- Fein, S., McCloskey, A. L., & Tomlinson, T. M. (1997). Can the jury disregard that information? The use of suspicion to reduce the prejudicial effects of pretrial publicity and inadmissible testimony. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1215-1226.
- Fein, S., Morgan, S. J., Norton, M. I., & Sommers, S. R. (1997). Hype and suspicion: Effects of pretrial publicity, race, and suspicion on jurors' verdicts. Journal of Social Issues, 53, p. 487-502.
- Fein, S., & Spencer, S. J. (1997). Prejudice as self-image maintenance: Affirming the self through derogating others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 31-44.
- Fein, S. (1996). Effects of suspicion on attributional thinking and the correspondence bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1164-1184.