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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lisa B. Spanierman is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, with a primary focus on psychology. The main fields of study include social sciences and psychology, while subfields cover sociology and political science, education, social psychology, gender studies, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as critical race theory in education, racial and ethnic identity research, migration, health and trauma, youth development and social support, higher education research studies, teacher professional development and motivation, and teacher education and leadership studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lisa B. Spanierman include D. Anthony Clark, Sara Houshmand, Jackson B. Liguori, Yeeun Kim, and Germán A. Cadenas.

Lisa B. Spanierman has published research in several academic venues. These include:

  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Career Development
  • New Ideas in Psychology
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology

Significant recent papers authored by Spanierman are as follows:

  • "Reviewing Racial Microaggressions Research: Documenting Targets' Experiences, Harmful Sequelae, and Resistance Strategies," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Confronting Whiteness in Developmental Science: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of White Racism," 2022, Journal of Research on Adolescence

Other papers include collaborative works such as "Detrimental Effects of Color-Blind Racial Attitudes in Preparing a Culturally Responsive Teaching Workforce for Immigrants," 2020, Journal of Career Development, and "Mitigating racial microaggressions on campus: Documenting targets' responses," 2021, New Ideas in Psychology.

Lisa B. Spanierman received recognition with the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale (PCRW): Construction and initial validation

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Mary J. Heppner

  • Race, power, and multicultural counseling psychology: Understanding white privilege and color-blind racial attitudes.

    Helen A. Neville;Roger L. Worthington;Lisa B. Spanierman

  • Exploring the association between color-blind racial ideology and multicultural counseling competencies.

    Helen Neville;Lisa Spanierman;Bao Tran Doan

  • Excluded and avoided: racial microaggressions targeting Asian international students in Canada.

    Sara Houshmand;Lisa B. Spanierman;Romin W. Tafarodi

  • The White Privilege Attitudes Scale: Development and initial validation.

    E. Janie Pinterits;V. Paul Poteat;Lisa B. Spanierman

  • The Multicultural Teaching Competency Scale: Development and Initial Validation

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Euna Oh;P. Paul Heppner;Helen A. Neville

  • Psychosocial Costs of Racism to White Counselors: Predicting Various Dimensions of Multicultural Counseling Competence

    Lisa B. Spanierman;V. Paul Poteat;Ying Fen Wang;Euna Oh

  • Counseling psychology trainees' perceptions of training and commitments to social justice.

    Amanda M. Beer;Lisa B. Spanierman;Jennifer C. Greene;Nathan R. Todd

  • Changes in White college students' color-blind racial ideology over 4 years: do diversity experiences make a difference?

    Helen A. Neville;V. Paul Poteat;Jioni A. Lewis;Lisa B. Spanierman

  • Psychosocial costs of racism to whites: Exploring patterns through cluster analysis.

    Lisa B. Spanierman;V. Paul Poteat;Amanda M. Beer;Patrick Ian Armstrong

  • Roles and Responsibilities of White Allies: Implications for Research, Teaching, and Practice:

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Laura Smith

  • "Do You Live in a Teepee?" Aboriginal Students' Experiences with Racial Microaggressions in Canada.

    D. Anthony Clark;Sela Kleiman;Lisa B. Spanierman;Paige Isaac

  • General and culturally specific factors influencing black and white rape survivors' self-esteem

    Helen A. Neville;Euna Oh;Lisa B. Spanierman;Mary J. Heppner

  • Effects of a brief video intervention on White university students' racial attitudes.

    Jason R. Soble;Lisa B. Spanierman;Hsin Ya Liao

  • Participation in Formal and Informal Campus Diversity Experiences: Effects on Students' Racial Democratic Beliefs

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Helen A. Neville;Hsin Ya Liao;Joseph H. Hammer

  • Psychosocial costs of racism to Whites: Understanding patterns among university students.

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Nathan R. Todd;Carolyn J. Anderson

  • Documenting Weblog Expressions of Racial Microaggressions That Target American Indians

    D. Anthony Clark;Lisa B. Spanierman;Tamilia D. Reed;Jason R. Soble

  • Living Learning Communities and Students’ Sense of Community and Belonging

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Jason R. Soble;Jennifer B. Mayfield;Helen A. Neville

  • White men’s fears, White women’s tears: Examining gender differences in racial affect types.

    Lisa B. Spanierman;Jacquelyn C. Beard;Nathan R. Todd

  • Modern racism attitudes among white students: the role of dominance and authoritarianism and the mediating effects of racial color-blindness.

    V. Paul Poteat;Lisa B. Spanierman

  • New directions for racial discrimination research as inspired by the integrative model.

    Eleanor K. Seaton;Gilbert C. Gee;Enrique W Neblett;Lisa Spanierman

Frequent Co-Authors

V. Paul Poteat
V. Paul Poteat Boston College
Helen A. Neville
Helen A. Neville University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Y. Flores
Lisa Y. Flores University of Missouri
Mary J. Heppner
Mary J. Heppner University of Missouri
Meifen Wei
Meifen Wei Iowa State University
Eleanor K. Seaton
Eleanor K. Seaton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P. Paul Heppner
P. Paul Heppner University of Missouri
Enrique W. Neblett
Enrique W. Neblett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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