Julie Phelan
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Julie Phelan received her Ph.D. in 2010 from Rutgers University, where she studied the processes that contribute to social injustice. Specifically, her research approached this topic from two often overlapping perspectives by (1) examining the mechanisms that allow cultural stereotypes and grouped-based inequities to persist in society, and (2) investigating implicit social cognition, including exploring where implicit beliefs come from, how they can restrict aspirations and achievement, and how best to change them. She won the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for her 2010 paper investigating how backlash contributes to racial stereotype preservation, and her dissertation research investigating the gender gap in science aspirations won the Geis Memorial Award and was funded by the Society for the Psychology of Women and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Phelan is now a research analyst at Langer Research Associates, where she applies her social psychology and statistics background to the world of public opinion polling. Her work at Langer Research includes assessing political attitudes, voting intentions, and policy views in the monthly ABC News / Washington Post poll and analyzing consumer sentiment and economic expectations in the weekly Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. Langer Research Associates also specializes in providing nationally representative samples in hard-to-reach regions and conflict zones, and Phelan has worked on two national polls in Afghanistan and one in Yemen.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Gender Psychology
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Law and Public Policy
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Basow, S. A., Cahill, K. F., Phelan, J. E., Longshore, K., & McGillicuddy-DeLisi, A. (2007). Perceptions of relational and physical aggression among college students: Effects of gender of perpetrator, target, and perceiver. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31, 85-95.
- Basow, S. A., Phelan, J. E., & Capotosto, L. (2006). Gender patterns in college students’ choices of their best and worst professors. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 25-35.
- Moss-Racusin, C. A., Phelan, J. E., & Rudman, L. A. (2010). “I’m not prejudiced, but…”: Compensatory egalitarianism in the 2008 democratic presidential primary. Political Psychology, 31, 543-561.
- Moss-Racusin, C. A., Phelan, J. E., & Rudman, L. A. (2010). When men break the gender rules: Status incongruity and backlash toward modest men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 11, 140-151.
- Phelan, J. E., & Basow, S. A. (2007). Attitudes towards mental illness: An examination of the stigma process. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 2877-2902.
- Phelan, J. E., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Rudman, L. A. (2008). Competent yet out in the cold: Shifting criteria for hiring reflects backlash toward agentic women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32, 406-413.
- Phelan, J. E., & Rudman, L. A. (2010). Reactions to ethnic deviance: The role of backlash in racial stereotype preservation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 265-281.
- Phelan, J. E., Sanchez, D. T., & Broccoli, T. L. (2010). The danger in sexism: The links among fear of crime, benevolent sexism, and well-being. Sex Roles, 62, 35-47.
- Rudman, L. A., & Phelan, J. E. (2007). The interpersonal power of feminism: Is feminism good for romantic relationships? Sex Roles, 57, 787-799.
- Rudman, L. A., Phelan, J. E., & Heppen, J. B. (2007). Developmental sources of implicit attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1700-1713.
Julie Phelan
Langer Research Associates
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New York, New York 08840
United States of America
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