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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Stephanie A. Shields is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on multiple subfields including Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Education, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their scholarly work extensively addresses topics related to Emotions and Moral Behavior, Early Childhood Education and Development, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Educational and Psychological Assessments, and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Frequently collaborating with various researchers, their notable coauthors include Kaitlin McCormick-Huhn, Natalia Van Doren, José A. Soto, Manuel F. Gonzalez, and Eric A. Walle.

Stephanie A. Shields has contributed to research articles in several academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • Emotion Regulation Training in a First-Year Experience Course: A Qualitative Analysis of Students' Experiences, 2020, Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
  • Editorial: Everyday Beliefs About Emotion: Their Role in Subjective Experience, Emotion as an Interpersonal Process, and Emotion Theory, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Favorable Evaluations of Black and White Women's Workplace Anger During the Era of #MeToo, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The emotion storyboard: A method to examine social judgments of emotion, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Book Review: Intersectionality: Foundations and frontiers, 2020, Psychology of Women Quarterly

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychology of Women Quarterly
  • Journal of Health Psychology

In recognition of their contributions to the field of psychology, Stephanie A. Shields was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • The Body Esteem Scale: multidimensional structure and sex differences in a college population.

    Stephen L. Franzoi;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • The Body Awareness Questionnaire: Reliability and Validity

    Stephanie A. Shields;Mary E. Mallory;Angela Simon

  • The Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, and Race: Identity Research at the Crossroads

    Leah R. Warner;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Women, men, and the dilemma of emotion.

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • The politics of emotion in everyday life: Appropriate emotion and claims on identity

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • The Variability Hypothesis: The History of a Biological Model of Sex Differences in Intelligence

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • The Gender Heuristic and the Database: Factors Affecting the Perception of Gender-Related Differences in the Experience and Display of Emotions

    Michael D. Robinson;Joel T. Johnson;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Passionate men, emotional women: Psychology constructs gender difference in the late 19th century.

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • Thinking about gender, thinking about theory: Gender and emotional experience.

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • Gender and Emotion What We Think We Know, What We Need to Know, and Why It Matters

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • Is Mediation of Sweating Cholinergic, Adrenergic, or Both? A Comment on the Literature

    Stephanie A. Shields;Kathleen A. MacDowell;Sarah B. Fairchild;Mary L. Campbell

  • On the Advantages of Modesty The Benefits of a Balanced Self-Presentation

    Michael D. Robinson;Joel T. Johnson;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Confronting and Reducing Sexism: A Call for Research on Intervention

    Julia C. Becker;Matthew J. Zawadzki;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Fear of male homosexuality: cardiac responses of low and high homonegative males.

    Stephanie A. Shields;Robert E. Harriman

  • Reports of bodily change in anxiety, sadness, and anger

    Stephanie A. Shields

  • There’s No Crying in Baseball, or Is There? Male Athletes, Tears, and Masculinity in North America:

    Heather J. MacArthur;Stephanie A. Shields

  • What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants:

    Kaitlin McCormick-Huhn;Leah R. Warner;Isis H. Settles;Stephanie A. Shields

  • Reducing the Endorsement of Sexism Using Experiential Learning: The Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation (WAGES)

    Matthew J. Zawadzki;Stephanie A. Shields;Cinnamon L. Danube;Janet K. Swim

Frequent Co-Authors

Isis H. Settles
Isis H. Settles University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arndt Büssing
Arndt Büssing Witten/Herdecke University
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University
Janet K. Swim
Janet K. Swim Pennsylvania State University

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