How Stereotypes Affect Intellectual Performance

Claude Steele is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is a professor of social psychology and director of Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Steele's research interests focus on how group stereotypes, such as racial or gender stereotypes, can influence academic performance. He is the coauthor with Theresa Perry and Asa G. Hilliard III of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students and a participant in the PBS Frontline series Secrets of the SAT. Steele was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2003. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University. A social hour will precede the lecture at 7:00 in the South Ballroom and a reception and book signing will follow the talk.The Annual Fritz Lecture