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Date: February 20, 1997


Stanford Psychologist Claude M. Steele to Lecture on "How Societal Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identities"


PRINCETON, N.J. -- Claude M. Steele, a social psychologist at Stanford University, will give a public lecture, "How Societal Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identities," on Tuesday, February 25, at 8:00 p.m. in McCosh 10.

Professor Steele is engaged in pioneering research on the academic aspirations and achievements of minority students. Among his current research interests are the role of self-evaluation and identification in the school achievement of black Americans and women in the social sciences. He has written extensively on the ways in which the vulnerability to stereotypes affects intellectual test performance.

Steele was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He earned the Dean's Teaching Award at Stanford in 1995.

A professor of psychology at Stanford since 1991, Steele has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Washington at Seattle, and the University of Utah at Salt Lake City.

The lecture is open to the public and free of charge.

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