Stephanie A Shields

Biographic Data

ID5378231
NAMEStephanie A Shields
GIVEN NAMESStephanie A
FAMILY NAMEShields
SIGNATURESHIELDS S A
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS884
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12

  • Reliability generalization meta-analysis of the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the Body Awareness Questionnaire

    Open AccessWaqar Husain, Ahmed Husain Ebrahim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025References: 50

    The Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) measures attentiveness to normal body processes and is widely used with both healthy and patient samples. Meta-analysis of 10 articles involving 15 studies (4078 participants) examined BAQ reliability. Random-effects models pooled Cronbach's alpha and test-retest coefficients. Heterogeneity was assessed via I 2 statistic; publication bias via funnel plots, Egger's and Begg's tests, and trim-and-fill method. …

  • What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants

    Open AccessKaitlin McCormick‐Huhn, Leah R Warner et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2019Cited by: 25References: 39

    Using intersectionality to change how psychologists think about the demographic profile of their participants is one readily available change that psychologists across the discipline can implement to improve psychological science. In this article, we aim to provide a guide for psychologists who are not already engaged with feminist practices and/or are unsure of how an intersectional approach to participants applies to their research. We argue th…

  • Perceived morality determines the acceptability of stereotypic feminine emotional displays in men

    Open AccessJonathan Gallegos, Theresa K Vescio et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2018

  • Testing an Intervention for Recognizing and Reporting Subtle Gender Bias in Promotion and Tenure Decisions

    Jessica L Cundiff, Cinnamon L Danube et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education2018Cited by: 7References: 56

    Women make up the majority of doctoral degree earners yet remain underrepresented in tenure-track positions within the academy. Gender disparities result in part from the accumulation of subtle, typically unintentional biases that pervade workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interactions that inadvertently favor men. However, the subtle nature of gender bias makes it difficult to detect and thus diminishes the likelihood of action to …

  • Intersectionality

    Open AccessStephanie A Shields, Elaine C DiciccoCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Intersectionality, the mutually constitutive relations among social identities, is a central tenet of feminist thinking that has transformed conceptualizations of gender. The historical background of the construct of intersectionality is described, followed by a summary of the impact of intersectionality theory. While the popularization of intersectionality has contributed to increasingly sophisticate analyzes of power, it has also flattened the …

  • Waking Up to Privilege: Intersectionality and Opportunity

    Stephanie A ShieldsCHAPTERPresumed Incompetent2017

  • Revising the Body Esteem Scale with a U.S. College Student Sample: Evaluation, Validation, and Uses for the BES-R

    Open AccessKatherine A Frost, Stephen L Franzoi et al.ARTICLESex Roles2017Cited by: 5References: 9

  • Functionalism, Darwinism, and advances in the psychology of women and gender: From the 19th century to the 21st

    Open AccessStephanie A ShieldsARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2016Cited by: 1References: 13

    Response to commentaries on “Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth” is organized around three themes and a question. The first theme is the importance of knowing the history of the study of women, gender, and sexuality. Second is the importance of what might be called “positive gatekeepers,” those in our field who have some degree of power or who may be better positioned to support our endeavors or be in a …

  • X. Functionalism, Darwinism, and intersectionality: Using an intersectional perspective to reveal the appropriation of science to support the status quo

    Open AccessStephanie A ShieldsARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2016Cited by: 4References: 9

    Why should anyone care about long-dead 19th-century scientists’ thoughts about the differences between women and men? And what does such a paper have to say to our contemporary concerns? I believe that knowledge of this history is invaluable to the health and progress of feminist psychology. This history, when viewed through an intersectional lens, can give us insight into the complex way in which values can constrict research questions and metho…

  • Invited Reflection: Intersectionality as an Epistemological Challenge to Psychology

    Open AccessLeah R Warner, Isis H Settles et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2016Cited by: 18References: 10

  • The Legacy of Transformational Moments in Feminist Psychology

    Open AccessStephanie A ShieldsARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2015Cited by: 4References: 5

    Important turning points in the history of feminist psychology can sometimes be traced to particular moments—specific publications or situations in which an individual or group sparked advancement of the field. Just as there are national milestones (e.g., formation of the American Psychological Association’s Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women and formation of the Association for Women in Psychology), there are also transformatio…

  • Carolyn Wood Sherif (1922–1982): Feminist Social Psychology in the Service of Equality for All Peoples

    Open AccessStephanie A Shields, Margaret L SignorellaARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2014Cited by: 3References: 5

  • Psychology’s Feminist Voices: A Critical Pedagogical Tool

    Open AccessHeather J MacArthur, Stephanie A ShieldsARTICLESex Roles2014Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Using Experiential Learning to Increase the Recognition of Everyday Sexism as Harmful: The Wages Intervention

    Open AccessJessica L Cundiff, Matthew Zawadzki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2014Cited by: 5References: 29

    The harms of subtle sexism tend to be minimized despite negative cumulative effects, thus people may be less motivated to address subtle sexism. We tested the effectiveness of an experiential learning intervention, WAGES‐Academic (Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation‐Academic), to educate about the harms of subtle sexism in the academic workplace. Across two studies, WAGES increased the recognition of everyday sexism as harmful and prom…

  • Confronting and Reducing Sexism: A Call for Research on Intervention

    Open AccessJulia Christina Becker, Matthew Zawadzki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2014Cited by: 8References: 43

    This article presents the current state of research on confronting and reducing sexism. We first provide a systematic overview about prior work on confronting sexism. We identify gaps in the literature by outlining situational and contextual factors that are important in confronting sexism and introduce how these are addressed in the current volume. Second, we review prior work on reducing sexism. Compared to research on reducing other forms of p…

  • Reducing the Endorsement of Sexism Using Experiential Learning: The Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation (Wages)

    Open AccessMatthew Zawadzki, Stephanie A Shields et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2013Cited by: 14References: 19

    In two multipart studies, we tested the effectiveness of an experiential learning-based intervention (Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation–Academic [WAGES-Academic]) to reduce sexism endorsement. We randomly assigned undergraduates to either WAGES ( n = 144) or one of two control conditions ( n = 268): one where participants received the same information as WAGES but without experiential learning or another that included an experiential…

  • Gender and Emotion: What We Think We Know, What We Need to Know, and Why It Matters

    Open AccessStephanie A ShieldsARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2013Cited by: 21References: 24

    I draw on research on emotion and gender to illustrate how an essentialized view of gender as difference persists through the circulation of beliefs about gender from popular culture to scientific writing and back again. I begin by describing the paradoxical nature of beliefs about emotion and then show that emotion’s representations in beliefs and stereotypes have a powerful effect on how we interpret our own and others’ emotional behavior. I co…

  • The Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, and Race: Identity Research at the Crossroads

    Open AccessLeah R Warner, Stephanie A ShieldsARTICLESex Roles2013Cited by: 56References: 23

  • Sadness Is Believed to Signal Competence When Displayed With Passionate Restraint

    Matthew Zawadzki, Matthew J Zawadzki et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology2013Cited by: 3References: 43

    A longstanding Western belief is that emotionality, such as sadness, is the antithesis to rational thinking and leads to ineffective behavior. We propose that people believe that sadness can actually signal competence when it is expressed in a way that demonstrates control and awareness of one's authentic emotion, which we label passionate restraint (PR). In two studies, participants rated protagonists displaying sadness either openly or suppress…

  • How to Talk about Gender Inequity in the Workplace: Using Wages as an Experiential Learning Tool to Reduce Reactance and Promote Self-Efficacy

    Open AccessMatthew Zawadzki, Cinnamon L Danube et al.ARTICLESex Roles2012Cited by: 15References: 9

  • The impact of the Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation in the Academy (Wages–Academic) in demonstrating cumulative effects of gender bias

    Stephanie A Shields, Matthew Zawadzki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2011Cited by: 10References: 11

    We report experimental evaluation of the Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation in the Academy (WAGES-Academic), a brief, experiential simulation of the cumulative effects of unconscious bias in the academic workplace.We predicted that participants who played WAGES-Academic would demonstrate significantly increased knowledge and retention of gender equity issues in the academic workplace compared with participants in a control condition.B…

  • The Social Psychology of Sex and Gender: From Gender Differences to Doing Gender

    Open AccessStephanie A Shields, Elaine C DiciccoARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2011Cited by: 12References: 18

    >> The social psychology of gender is a major, if qualified, success story of contemporary feminist psychology. The breadth and intellectual vigor of the field is reflected in the following six commentaries in the broadly defined area of the Social Psychology of Gender which were commissioned for this third of four 35th anniversary sections to feature brief retrospectives by authors of highly cited PWQ articles. Our goal in this section’s introdu…

  • Darwin on race, gender, and culture

    Stephanie A Shields, Bhatia et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2009

    Darwin's theories of natural selection and sexual selection are significant scientific achievements, although his understanding of race and gender was defined and limited by his own life circumstances and the sociohistorical context within which he worked. This article considers the ways in which race, gender, and culture were represented and explained by Darwin and the ways in which his observations and opinions on gender and race were taken up …

  • Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

    Open AccessStephanie A Shield, Stephanie A ShieldsARTICLESex Roles2008Cited by: 480References: 9

  • Passionate men, emotional women: Psychology constructs gender difference in the late 19th century

    Stephanie A ShieldsARTICLEHistory of Psychology2007Cited by: 14References: 7

    The author examines British and American scientific psychology's portrayal of natural and ideal masculinity and femininity in the late 19th century to show how purported differences in emotion and reason were critical to explaining the evolutionary foundation of existing social hierarchies. Strong emotion was identified with heterosexual manliness and men's purportedly better capacity to harness the power of emotion in the service of reason. "Fem…