Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Julie Spencer-Rodgers
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Dr. Spencer-Rodgers received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) and a Statistician at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).
Dr. Spencer-Rodgers' research interests lie in the areas of culture and the self, social stigma and its mental/physical health consequences, and traumatic stress. In her current research, she is examining variables (e.g., group affirmation, dialectical thinking) that moderate the relationship between perceptions of discrimination and mental and physical health outcomes (e.g., neuroendocrinological and cardiovascular responses). She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics and research methods, as well as health, cultural, and social psychology.
Dr. Spencer-Rodgers' professional honors include the Early Career Award from the International Academy of Intercultural Research (2011) and the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2004).
Journal Articles:
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H. C., Mori, S., Wang, L., & Peng, K. (2009). The dialectical self-concept: Contradiction, change, and holism in East Asian cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 29-44.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H. C., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2009). Cultural differences in self- verification: The role of naïve dialecticism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 860-866.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., & Collins, N. L. (2006). Risk and resilience: Dual effects of perceptions of group disadvantage among Latinos. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 729-737.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, S. J. (2007). The central role of entitativity in stereotypes of social categories and task groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 369-388.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2009). Dialecticism and the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., Wang, L., & Hou, Y. (2004). Dialectical self-esteem and East-West differences in psychological well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1416-1432.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., Hamilton, D. L., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2007). Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 525-542.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., & Peng, K. (2010). Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Phone: (805) 280-8092
Julie Spencer-Rodgers
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
United States