Steven Stroessner

Professor of Psychology

Department

Psychology

Office

415D Milbank Hall
W 11-12 & By Appointment

Contact

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Steven Stroessner, Professor of Psychology, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1992. His teaching includes such courses as Social Psychology (BC2136/BC2138), The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice (BC3379), and Humans and Machines (BC3399).

Professor Stroessner's research is in the area of social cognition. He has a particular interest in the roles that cognitive, affective, and motivational factors play in stereotyping processes. Aspects of current research focus on social categorization processes. He also examines the relation between perceived threat and stereotype endorsement. Recent work has examined social cognitive processes implicated in thinking about non-social entities ranging from shapes to robots.

  • B.A., Hope College
  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Social Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • Stereotyping and Prejudice

Lick, D.J., Johnson, K.L., Rule, N.O., & Stroessner, S.J. (in press). Is he gay?  It depends on where he’s from! The effect of social context information on sexual orientation categorization. Social Cognition.

Stroessner, S.J. (in press). On the social perception of robots: Measurement, moderation, and implications. In R. Pak, E. de Visser, & E. Rovira (Eds.) Living with robots: Emerging issues on the psychological and social implications of robots.

Stroessner, S.J., & Benitez, J. (2018). The social perception of humanoid and non-humanoid robots: Effects of gendered and machinelike features. International Journal of Social Robotics, 11, 305-315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-018-0502-7

Benitez, J., Wyman, A.B., Carpinella, C.M., & Stroessner, S.J. (2017). The authority of appearance: How robot features influence trait inferences and evaluative responses. 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Lisbon, Portugal, Aug 28 - Sept 1, 2017, 397-404.

Carpinella, C. M., Wyman, A. B., Perez, M. A., & Stroessner, S. J. (2017). The robotic social attributes scale (RoSAS): Development and validation. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 254-262.

Stroessner, S. J., Scholer, A. A., Marx, D. M., & Weisz, B. M. (2015). When threat matters: Self-regulation, threat salience, and stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59, 77-89.

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