Adrienne R Carter‐Sowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5449337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne R Carter‐Sowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne R |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter‐Sowell |
| SIGNATURE | SOWELL A R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Developing and Testing a Video-Based Intervention to Increase White Bystander Confrontations of Online Racism
Black students attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs) may be at heightened risk of exposure to interpersonal expressions of anti-Black racism, which can be experienced in person and increasingly online. Yet emerging research suggests that some of the harms associated with exposure to online racism may be mitigated when White students confront racist posts. The current manuscript describes the development and evaluation of a video-based…
Goal Derailment and Goal Persistence in Response to Honor Threats
In honor cultures, maintaining a positive moral reputation (e.g., being known as an honest person) is highly important, whereas in dignity cultures, self-respect (e.g., competence and success) is strongly emphasized. Depending on their cultural background, people respond differently to threats to these two dimensions of honor. In two studies, we examined the effects of morality-focused and competence-focused threats on people’s goal pursuit in tw…
An Examination of the Paths of Successful Diverse STEM Faculty: Insight for Programming
Understanding the experiences of successful diverse science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty can facilitate the development of programming that counteracts barriers and weaknesses from multiple angles. The challenges that students and professionals report can be broadly identified as either identity-based or institutional. The lack of diversity in STEM fields in academia can result in narrow viewpoints, limited student diversity,…
Women’s Safety Concerns and Academia: How Safety Concerns Can Create Opportunity Gaps
The present work documents the safety concerns of men and women in academia and how these concerns can create opportunity gaps. Across five samples including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty ( N = 1,812), women reported greater concerns about their safety than did men, and these concerns were associated with reduced work hours in libraries, offices, and/or labs afterhours. Additionally, although we were unabl…
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
Confrontation as an interpersonal response to ostracism
Ostracism—being ignored and excluded by others—has detrimental effects on targets. Confrontation allows targets to express displeasure with mistreatment. Three studies examined confrontation in response to ostracism. In Study 1, participants completed an ostracism manipulation, Cyberball, and were given the opportunity to message their ostracizers. Message coding indicated that one‐third of targets wrote messages expressing unhappiness with how t…
Campus climate comparisons in academic pursuits: How race still matters for African American college students
Perceptions of social estrangement felt by African American college students can account for group-based inequalities evident in a wide range of educational outcomes. Moreover, racial incidents, occurring on and off college campuses, make race more salient for African American students and influence emerging identity development. By recruiting African American students enrolled at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) as well as at historically…
Advance Scholar Program: Enhancing Minoritized Scholars’ Professional Visibility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
Is it always this cold? Chilly interpersonal climates as a barrier to the well-being of early-career women faculty in STEM
Purpose The purpose of this project was to examine the extent to which early-career women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experience working in a chilly interpersonal climate (as indicated by experiences of ostracism and incivility) and how those experiences relate to work and non-work well-being outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Data came from a sample of 96 early-career STEM faculty (Study 1) and a sample of 68 e…
Ostracism Reduces Reliance on Poor Advice from Others during Decision Making
Decision-making is rarely context-free, and often both social information and non-social information are weighed into one's decisions. Incorporating information into a decision can be influenced by previous experiences. Ostracism has extensive effects, including taxing cognitive resources and increasing social monitoring. In decision-making situations, individuals are often faced with both objective and social information and must choose which in…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Locating, Validating, and Advocating the Stigma Experiences of Women of Color
Validation of the Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents.
This study validates a new self-report measure, the Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents (OES-A). Nineteen items were tested on a sample of 876 high school seniors to assess 2 of the most common ostracism experiences: being actively excluded from the peer group and being largely ignored by others. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, bivariate correlations, and hierarchical regression provided support for the construct validity of …
The psychological sting of stigma: The costs of attributing ostracism to racism
I'm Out of the Loop: Ostracism Through Information Exclusion
`Out-of-the-loop' experiences, or situations where people perceive being uninformed of information mutually known by others, pervade people's lives. Two experiments examined the psychological impact of this form of partial ostracism. In Experiment 1, compared to in-the-loop participants, out-of-the-loop participants experienced a variety of deleterious effects (e.g. depleted fundamental needs), even without significant costs for being uninformed.…
Ostracism increases social susceptibility
Ostracism, the act of ignoring and excluding, is a universally applied tactic of social control. Individuals who detect ostracism often change their behaviors to be readmitted into the group, even if it means becoming excessively socially susceptible to influence. We tested whether ostracized individuals are more socially susceptible to a subsequent influence attempt. In this study, 65 undergraduates were randomly assigned to a 2 (Inclusion or Os…
The psychological sting of stigma: The costs of attributing ostracism to racism
Campus climate comparisons in academic pursuits: How race still matters for African American college students
Perceptions of social estrangement felt by African American college students can account for group-based inequalities evident in a wide range of educational outcomes. Moreover, racial incidents, occurring on and off college campuses, make race more salient for African American students and influence emerging identity development. By recruiting African American students enrolled at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) as well as at historically…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Locating, Validating, and Advocating the Stigma Experiences of Women of Color
I'm Out of the Loop: Ostracism Through Information Exclusion
`Out-of-the-loop' experiences, or situations where people perceive being uninformed of information mutually known by others, pervade people's lives. Two experiments examined the psychological impact of this form of partial ostracism. In Experiment 1, compared to in-the-loop participants, out-of-the-loop participants experienced a variety of deleterious effects (e.g. depleted fundamental needs), even without significant costs for being uninformed.…
Is it always this cold? Chilly interpersonal climates as a barrier to the well-being of early-career women faculty in STEM
Purpose The purpose of this project was to examine the extent to which early-career women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experience working in a chilly interpersonal climate (as indicated by experiences of ostracism and incivility) and how those experiences relate to work and non-work well-being outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Data came from a sample of 96 early-career STEM faculty (Study 1) and a sample of 68 e…
Goal Derailment and Goal Persistence in Response to Honor Threats
In honor cultures, maintaining a positive moral reputation (e.g., being known as an honest person) is highly important, whereas in dignity cultures, self-respect (e.g., competence and success) is strongly emphasized. Depending on their cultural background, people respond differently to threats to these two dimensions of honor. In two studies, we examined the effects of morality-focused and competence-focused threats on people’s goal pursuit in tw…
Advance Scholar Program: Enhancing Minoritized Scholars’ Professional Visibility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
Ostracism Reduces Reliance on Poor Advice from Others during Decision Making
Decision-making is rarely context-free, and often both social information and non-social information are weighed into one's decisions. Incorporating information into a decision can be influenced by previous experiences. Ostracism has extensive effects, including taxing cognitive resources and increasing social monitoring. In decision-making situations, individuals are often faced with both objective and social information and must choose which in…
Ostracism increases social susceptibility
Ostracism, the act of ignoring and excluding, is a universally applied tactic of social control. Individuals who detect ostracism often change their behaviors to be readmitted into the group, even if it means becoming excessively socially susceptible to influence. We tested whether ostracized individuals are more socially susceptible to a subsequent influence attempt. In this study, 65 undergraduates were randomly assigned to a 2 (Inclusion or Os…
I'm Out of the Loop: Ostracism Through Information Exclusion
`Out-of-the-loop' experiences, or situations where people perceive being uninformed of information mutually known by others, pervade people's lives. Two experiments examined the psychological impact of this form of partial ostracism. In Experiment 1, compared to in-the-loop participants, out-of-the-loop participants experienced a variety of deleterious effects (e.g. depleted fundamental needs), even without significant costs for being uninformed.…
The psychological sting of stigma: The costs of attributing ostracism to racism
Validation of the Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents.
This study validates a new self-report measure, the Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents (OES-A). Nineteen items were tested on a sample of 876 high school seniors to assess 2 of the most common ostracism experiences: being actively excluded from the peer group and being largely ignored by others. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, bivariate correlations, and hierarchical regression provided support for the construct validity of …
Ostracism Reduces Reliance on Poor Advice from Others during Decision Making
Decision-making is rarely context-free, and often both social information and non-social information are weighed into one's decisions. Incorporating information into a decision can be influenced by previous experiences. Ostracism has extensive effects, including taxing cognitive resources and increasing social monitoring. In decision-making situations, individuals are often faced with both objective and social information and must choose which in…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Locating, Validating, and Advocating the Stigma Experiences of Women of Color
Campus climate comparisons in academic pursuits: How race still matters for African American college students
Perceptions of social estrangement felt by African American college students can account for group-based inequalities evident in a wide range of educational outcomes. Moreover, racial incidents, occurring on and off college campuses, make race more salient for African American students and influence emerging identity development. By recruiting African American students enrolled at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) as well as at historically…
Advance Scholar Program: Enhancing Minoritized Scholars’ Professional Visibility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
Is it always this cold? Chilly interpersonal climates as a barrier to the well-being of early-career women faculty in STEM
Purpose The purpose of this project was to examine the extent to which early-career women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experience working in a chilly interpersonal climate (as indicated by experiences of ostracism and incivility) and how those experiences relate to work and non-work well-being outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Data came from a sample of 96 early-career STEM faculty (Study 1) and a sample of 68 e…
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
Confrontation as an interpersonal response to ostracism
Ostracism—being ignored and excluded by others—has detrimental effects on targets. Confrontation allows targets to express displeasure with mistreatment. Three studies examined confrontation in response to ostracism. In Study 1, participants completed an ostracism manipulation, Cyberball, and were given the opportunity to message their ostracizers. Message coding indicated that one‐third of targets wrote messages expressing unhappiness with how t…
An Examination of the Paths of Successful Diverse STEM Faculty: Insight for Programming
Understanding the experiences of successful diverse science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty can facilitate the development of programming that counteracts barriers and weaknesses from multiple angles. The challenges that students and professionals report can be broadly identified as either identity-based or institutional. The lack of diversity in STEM fields in academia can result in narrow viewpoints, limited student diversity,…
Women’s Safety Concerns and Academia: How Safety Concerns Can Create Opportunity Gaps
The present work documents the safety concerns of men and women in academia and how these concerns can create opportunity gaps. Across five samples including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty ( N = 1,812), women reported greater concerns about their safety than did men, and these concerns were associated with reduced work hours in libraries, offices, and/or labs afterhours. Additionally, although we were unabl…
Goal Derailment and Goal Persistence in Response to Honor Threats
In honor cultures, maintaining a positive moral reputation (e.g., being known as an honest person) is highly important, whereas in dignity cultures, self-respect (e.g., competence and success) is strongly emphasized. Depending on their cultural background, people respond differently to threats to these two dimensions of honor. In two studies, we examined the effects of morality-focused and competence-focused threats on people’s goal pursuit in tw…
Developing and Testing a Video-Based Intervention to Increase White Bystander Confrontations of Online Racism
Black students attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs) may be at heightened risk of exposure to interpersonal expressions of anti-Black racism, which can be experienced in person and increasingly online. Yet emerging research suggests that some of the harms associated with exposure to online racism may be mitigated when White students confront racist posts. The current manuscript describes the development and evaluation of a video-based…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (8 works) · Ostracism (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)