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November 19, 2007Stereotype effects on student performance focus of psychology lecture at Iowa State UniversityNational Academy of Sciences member Claude Steele will deliver a lecture on the Iowa State University campus Thursday, Nov. 29. Steele will speak on "How Stereotypes Affect Intellectual Performance" in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union beginning at 8 p.m. A reception will be held prior to the lecture by the internationally renowned psychologist. The event is sponsored by Iowa State's Department of Psychology. The Lucie Stern Professor in the social science at Stanford University, Steele's research interests focus on how group stereotypes, such as racial or gender stereotypes, can influence academic performance. He is the coauthor with Theresa Perry and Asa G. Hilliard III of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students and a participant in the PBS Frontline series Secrets of the SAT. Steele was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2003. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University. Steele's lecture is co-sponsored by the Fritz Lecture series in the Department of Psychology, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) Miller Lecture Fund, MSPAC, the Department of Education and Leadership Policy Studies, Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, LAS Diversity Committee, the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Asian American Studies Program, American Indian Studies Program and the Margaret Sloss Women's Center. |
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